2015 August : EXIT

TYPE 75 DESK LAMP – PAUL SMITH – EDITION TWO

Posted on 2015-08-24

Paul Smith has collaborated with Anglepoise to create the Type 75 Desk Lamp – Paul Smith – Edition Two, testament to this designer’s deftness in instilling modernity and new life into a well-loved design classic. The lamps will be available from September, ready for the start of the festive season.

If Edition One, with its sunny combination of cornflower, fuchsia and lime is evocative of summer, then Edition Two is its alter ego, evoking the deep, rich hues of autumn. Combined with deep slate and cool grey, the striking mix of sumptuous, jewel-like colours is smart, restrained, sophisticated. Add a bold accent of orange – that element of surprise so intrinsic to Paul Smith style – and the colours take on a new intensity.

Seen in tandem, each Edition assumes a distinct and contrasting identity, helped, no doubt, by the anthropomorphic form of the lamps themselves: Edition One the more playful, perhaps more feminine of the two, Edition Two its stunning new counterpart.

www.anglepoise.com
www.paulsmith.co.uk

Z FOR ZACHARIAH

Posted on 2015-08-24

In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation exposure and his desperate search for others. A fragile, imperative strand of trust connects them. But when a stranger enters the valley, their precarious bond begins to unravel. Based on the book of the same name by Robert C. O’Brien.

In theatres August 28th, 2015

www.zikzak.is

RICHARD ESTES – PAINTING NEW YORK CITY

Posted on 2015-08-24

Spanning from the mid-1960s to the present, Richard Estes: Painting New York City presents works by this quintessential New York artist and enduring leader of the Photorealist movement. Providing an unprecedented insight into the artist’s creative process, the exhibition reveals a full range of Estes’ paintings and works on paper, including his photographs, silkscreens and woodcuts and their various proofs, states, and art-making tools.

Opposite – Williamsburg Bridge, 2006

Exhibition runs through to September 20th, 2015

Museum of Arts & Design
2 Columbus Circle
New York
10019

madmuseum.org

ALARIC HAMMOND

Posted on 2015-08-24

The exhibition showcases new works by the British contemporary artist Alaric Hammond. Each artwork has been created in the studio utilising etching and corrosion processes on zinc plates which are then mounted onto wood.

“The etching and corrosion process employed results in works suspended between creation and destruction. The objects represent genuine entropy. There is beauty in decay.” – Alaric Hammond

The exhibition has been curated by Olly Walker, Ollystudio.

Opposite – God I want You So Much It Makes Me Dizzy

Exhibition runs through to November 1st, 2015

Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York’s HQ
King’s Road
London
SW3 4RY

www.saatchigallery.com

SEVEN DAVIS JR – BEAUTIFUL (KRYSTAL KLEAR REMIX)

Posted on 2015-08-24

Seven Davis Jr’s output for Classic (very few labels could suit his silky sound better) continues with this offshoot release where two equally turbo-chic producers take on his material for remixes. First up, Detroit Swindle step up to the pulpit for a spacey acid rework of Friends. Next up, Manchester demigod and Hoya:Hoya mainstay Krystal Klear transforms Beautiful into a fizzy, glistening floor-raider.

theclassicmusiccompany.com

KELPE – THE CURVED LINE

Posted on 2015-08-24

Kel McKeown has been releasing music as Kelpe for over a decade, ranging from shuffling proto-beat scene instrumentals to hardy analogue-kraut grooves. On his fifth album, McKeown strikes a balance between the electronic and the organic, where loose, live sounds gel alongside grubby electro basslines.

The Curved Line is an accomplished record that shows McKeown to be a musician who has a clear mastery of his own sound, but who is also still willing to push that sound in new directions. It’s also an album pays clear attention to sequencing and trajectory, and should be listened to as a body of work rather than as a collection of tracks. ‘Doubles of Everything’ builds slowly before erupting into a deeply satisfying pay-off by its end, while live drummer Chris Walmsley gives ‘Canjealous’ a slack feel. Ambient interlude ‘Morning Two’ provides one of the album’s most exploratory moments, but the driving and percussive ‘Valerian’ injects enough grit and hardness to keep things from getting too indulgent.