Movies Cabinet

Men’s Vogue put together a piece on movies that influenced men’s fashion. I love the list, and I love the clothes, and I really love Steve McQueen. Lights, camera rolling. Action.

Here is a sample...

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

2046 (2004)

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Roman Holiday (1953)

Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

The Graduate (1967)

American Gigolo (1980)

The Deer Hunter (1978)

Luxury Cabinet

After hiring Mikhail Gorbachev, Andres Agassi and other famous people, Louis Vuitton is doing Philosophy! The Luxury goods brand launched its first ever television advertisement, full of questions, thoughts, and blurred images. What's next? maybe a new Meditations on First Philosophy with a LV leather binding?

Improv Cabinet

My friends know I hate "groups" and performances, but this one is the most creative players I've encountered. "Improv Everywhere" is a New York based prank collective who interferes with the public sphere. Their latest gig is an amazing comment on time, space, and - how surprisingly - on New York as well.

Design Cabinet

New Charles Eames commemorative stamp are coming out this summer, and it's exciting. I love the Eames, and since I have two of their red chairs I got for my 30th birthday from Jorge, it does make me proud. Now, I just need a good excuse to send some old fashion letters to my beloved ones.

"In recognition of their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, manufacturing and photographic arts, designers Charles and Ray Eames will be honored next summer with a pane of 16 stamps designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC. If you’ve ever sat in a stackable molded chair, you’ve experienced their creativity. Perhaps best known for their furniture, the Eameses were husband and wife as well as design partners. Their extraordinary body of creative work — which reflected the nation’s youthful and inventive outlook after World War II — also included architecture, films and exhibits. Without abandoning tradition, Charles and Ray Eames used new materials and technology to create high-quality products that addressed everyday problems and made modern design available to the American public" says the USPS.


Read more about the Eames.

Luxury Cabinet

Don't get me wrong, but I do love Ralph Lauren's Polo. I even have my old boyfriend's dad white polo that I took long time ago. The new ones are kind of tacky, but they are still classic... so if you can't get enough of those, you can buy a whole bunch at a special price (just $5,000 !): a special edition leather trunk that contains 40 Polo shirts to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Polo brand. A true limited edition tackiness!

Photography Cabinet

Fan with a Cigarette, 2007

After designing for Dior, the talanted Hedi Slimane continues exploring his artistic side in a new phorography show. In Galerie Alerine Almine Rech he shows "Perfect Strangers", an installation of image and sound, a documentation of the Klaxons’ appearance at indie-rock festival Benicassim, as well as a recent performance by Amy Winehouse.

London Cabinet

Map on a glove. Genius! and it's from 1851. I wonder how long it takes till we see it in Barney's..
Read more about the map/gloves

End of the Year Cabinet

I love end of the year resolutions... although I find it hard to put a definite list of all the things I loved this year.
But still, here it goes:

My favorite song, the one I can listen to all day in repeat on my iPod, is definitely "someone great" by LCD SOUNDSYSTEM:


My favorite movie, although hasn't been shown here, is PTA's "There will be blood"


And last, my favorite book, the one I got from Eran as a birthday gift (and unfortunately is out of stock) is "Living Well is the Best Revenge" (a new year's resolution for us all). New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins re-creates the world of Gerald and Sara Murphy, two American originals who found themselves at the center of a charmed circle of artists and expatriate writers in France in the 1920s. Their home in Antibes, Villa America, served as a gathering place for Picasso and Léger as well as Hemingway and Fitzgerald, who used the glamorous couple as models for Dick and Nicole Diver in Tender Is the Night.

"Person after person - English, French, American, everybody - met them and came away saying that these people really are masters in the art of living".

And on that note, happy new year.

Happy New Year Cabinet

To all my friends...

New York Cabinet

Just for Xmas: a New (York) Year Resolution!
New York Magazine reminds us all why we love the city that never sleeps.Read More

Cabinet of Drugs

Berlin Cabinet

Weimar Berlin is celebrated for its outpouring of creativity, and the Expressionism pioneered here continues to influence artists today. Architects, too, found themselves confronted with tradition's breakdown in the face of war and revolution, with groups such as Bauhaus and The Ring seeking to align a new theory and practice of building with 20th-century realities. As a painter, film designer, and architect, Hans Poelzig was at the center of this creative storm.

A new show at the Academy of German Art takes a look at Hans Poelzig. Poelzig was a painter, film designer, and architect. His Weimar-era projects in Berlin contributed to the city's early reputation as an oasis of modern architecture, and those still standing offer a glimpse of the modernist city before its wartime destruction.

Black Cabinet

She keeps going back to it, and we are going back to black. Keep the good work, Amy.

What Would Jesus Buy Cabinet

Dutch architects Merkx + Girod have won the Lensvelt de Architect Interior Prize 2007 for their Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen in Maastricht - a bookstore inside a former Dominican church. At last the world is ready to confess that shopping is holy.
Hallelujah.

Art Cabinet

Mark Wallinger Wins 2007 Turner Prize. He is famous for his film Sleeper, 2005, 154 minutes of footage of the artist wandering around a deserted German gallery disguised as a bear.

"What are we allowed to dream? The past rises up with all its vivid detail to mock our progress at every turn. The long past of our own fear. Inside the bear’s head I am aware of my own breathing. Looking out of the jaws at my narrow view, my progress from stimulus to distraction gains some kind of animal momentum – to watch and be watched as a foreign, alien, strange, endearing, imprisoned animal."
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