“Simplicity works well in the Caribbean and especially in St.Barth; it’s an island for lazing about”

–Christian Liaigre

Thomas Lavin recently spent a week in St.Barth where he visited the Christian Liaigre Boutique. He found 200 Meters of beautiful white-sand beaches accompanied by coconut trees and an unbelievable barrier reef.

“The furnishing followed in the philosophy. The Materials utilized are very basic: Woods that will withstand the heat and textiles that are easy to clean, everything is designed to minimize maintenance and upkeep. The furniture created for this hotel remains a collection destined for the tropics, these pieces don’t integrate well into an urban universe…”

– Christian Liaigre

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According to Dries Van Noten, he didn’t start out with the notion of creating a collection that drew inspiration from horse racing and the equestrian arts; that’s just where he ended up. “We were doing all these technical things — garment bonding and taping — to these light silks and satins and I started thinking about circumstances in which a man might find them appropriate to wear, which lead to the idea of jockey’s silks.”  That result was a collection that included skinny-legged trousers with an extra-narrow ankle, Color-blocked blousons with deep V-shapes angling in from shoulders to navel, and barley-colored tweed jackets with leather detailing.  ( Los Angeles Times by Adam Tschorn )

Around the very end of World War Two a revolution occurred in the world of design. Architects began to design homes that were not only much more functional but completely different from anything that had been designed in the past. They’re work was influenced much by the natural surroundings and was considered an independent art form. The Exhibit includes much more than just architectural work; you will find Art, Furniture, Ceramics, Fashion and much more.

- The exhibition examines the state’s role in shaping the material culture of the entire country. Organized into four thematic areas, the exhibition aims to elucidate the 1951 quote from émigré Greta Magnusson Grossman that is incorporated into the exhibition’s title: California design “is not a superimposed style, but an answer to present conditions…It has developed out of our own preferences for living in a modern way.”

The 175 works in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s tradition-bucking single-sex exhibition “In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States” present the work of 47 female surrealists—some marginalized, some muses, and all extraordinary.The exhibition includes works in a variety of media dating from 1931 to 1968, and some later examples that demonstrate Surrealism’s influence on the feminist movement. Iconic figures such as Louise Bourgeois, Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Lee Miller, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning, and Remedios Varo are represented, along with lesser known or newly discovered practitioners.