Cool Hunting
| 29 May 2007view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Maurice Lacroix Pontos Décentrique GMT
by Watchismo
Originally offered as a limited edition — 999 in titanium — the Maurice Lacroix Pontos Décentrique GMT is now available in stainless steel (click on image for detail).
Recognized for its timeless design and attention to detail, the watch won a Red Dot Award for its unique time display. It features an off-center dual time-zone with polished and unpolished sapphire crystal to reveal and obscure the day/night display as well as highlight, blur and focus the date feature. Known for their moon phase displays, retrograde displays and chronographs, Maurice Lacroix develop and build components in their own workshops.
For more images of this and other Maurice Lacroix watches, click here. Purchasing details available at Maurice Lacroix.
Sarah Anne Johnson at Stephen Bulger Gallery
by Jonah Samson
Sarah Anne Johnson’s second extended project, The Galapagos Project, is based on ecological volunteer tourism in the Galapagos Islands. Like her first highly acclaimed project Tree Planting, she continues to explore the themes of idealism and nature. What has made her projects particularly unique is that although she predominantly uses photography, she also blends in sculpting and painting.
Johnson's photographs were taken over two separate trips while living and working with other volunteers in an agricultural rehabilitation mission on the Galapagos Islands. In some situations she did not have her camera but was able to remember these moments visually or emotionally. In these instances she recreates the scenes with clay figures and dioramas, which were then photographed or included as part of her exhibition. Her show mixes photographs of both real (above left) and constructed (above right) scenes.
See more images of her work here. The Galapagos Project runs until June 9th at Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.
Stephen Bulger Gallery
1026 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1H6, Canada map
tel. +1 416 504 0575
Tord Boontje
by m ss ng p eces
Our latest video spotlights Dutch-born designer Tord Boontje, looking at his relationship with nature, his dislike of furniture fairs and the new retrospective book of his work. Tord takes us on a tour of the NYC's ICFF, sits down for an exclusive interview and has a quick chat with Tom Dixon about their shared profession. Go here to purchase the book.
FlyTower by Ackroyd & Harvey
by Jacob Resneck
Earlier this month, British artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey began seeding the National Theatre's Lyttelton Flytower. Working with as many as 16 helpers, the artists schlepped two and a half tons of clay up scaffolding to be slathered across the entire surface area of the 10-story tower. Once that was done, the fun began. Rather than roll ready-made sod, each artist seeded nine square yards to cover the entire tower.
Ackroyd & Harvey have worked with grass before: In 2003, they redecorated the interior of a former church in London by covering every square inch with grass; a year later they covered a mausoleum in the Baltic state of Latvia to create a green shrink-wrapped effect. Toward the end of the exhibit's life (the piece comes down 17 June 2007), the grass will yellow and wilt as all living things some day die. “It's never easy to see a piece degrade,” Ackroyd told the London Daily Telegraph. “It's always slightly disturbing.”
Check out National Theatre's website to watch a short documentary about the project.
