<i><b>An Evening with Xavier Veilhan's new exhibition "Architectones"</b><br /> </i><br /><br /><i>"I am feeling very warm right now </i><br /><i>Please don't disappear</i><br /><b><i>I am spacing out with you..</i></b><br /><i>Well it's very hard for me to say these things in your presence </i><br /><i>So how does it make you feel? "<a href="http://vimeo.com/7195227"> (here)</a></i><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxULQU5JWOvDuelz7ikWaacZJp8DLyVbihEDIsDCM7YzjXsezb2D59p7MC92MS63Ck4yaWfIs_yT5CXZq917JqT1Koclp7UXndbvjauEYCJ-ELFpF9npedkd93xrFmWQaZzkQB1vaWZBrl/s1600/643+Xavier+Veilhan+Sheats+Goldstein+Lautner+Architectones+Architecture+Los+Angeles+James+Goldstein+Aluminum+Sculpture+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxULQU5JWOvDuelz7ikWaacZJp8DLyVbihEDIsDCM7YzjXsezb2D59p7MC92MS63Ck4yaWfIs_yT5CXZq917JqT1Koclp7UXndbvjauEYCJ-ELFpF9npedkd93xrFmWQaZzkQB1vaWZBrl/s1600/643+Xavier+Veilhan+Sheats+Goldstein+Lautner+Architectones+Architecture+Los+Angeles+James+Goldstein+Aluminum+Sculpture+2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i>all photos by David John</i></span></div><br /><br /><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">L</span>ast night</b>, Xavier Veilhan kindly showed us his latest works from the <span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Architectones" </b></span>series that are currently installed at the Sheats-Goldstein Residence. <a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-afternoon-with-xavier-veilhan-at.html">(Read about his preview work at Neutra's VDL here)</a>.  I arrived early, shuttling up the hill, walking solo down the dense jungle driveway, passing the sci-fi mailbox to the home.  The night was strangely gray and cold. On my last visit to this home, <a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-conversaton-with-duncan-nicholson.html">I spent hours inside the James Turrell skypsace,</a> watching the colors drip from the warm enveloping LA sky as if I was in a melting hologram. (Thank you Duncan!)  </i><br /><br /><i>But tonight, we were here for Xavier Veilhan.</i><br /><br /><i>Two of Veilhan's works are based on photographs that were taken during construction of the home.  He has brought memories of the home to life in a bronze table work (complete with a dog) and a green-painted aluminum sculpture that casually rests, staring into the vastness of a mesmerizing and confusing city that many of us call home, Los Angeles. Many of the works are based on the form of the triangle, an ode to Lautner.</i><br /><br /><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A City of the Future:</b></span> Though Veilhan's works appear to gaze into history's eyes and its famous dweller, James Goldstein,  they also appear to be presenting a gift to the home, and to us onlookers.  Over the pool, white cords are carefully stretching, creating a new triangular form, a further nod to Lautner.  As I left the installation, driving down into manic Beverly Hills, I thought to myself about the positive energy this home has created over the years, drawing "light" visionaries, fueled poets, rocking musicians, and even supermodels to visit and celebrate.</i><br /><br /><i>Veilhan's work are unexpectedly sentimental when you are in their presence, and when you take the time to stand next to them on the edge with the doors opens, the air still, gazing into the grey night speckled with city lights.  You can almost feel John Lautner over your shoulder, whispering about the city below, all that is to become.  </i><br /><br /><i>And you believe. And you feel. And you even know. <span style="color: #999999;">- David John </span></i><br /><br /><i>"Don't be light.</i><br /><i>Fabricating a new abandon </i><br /><i>We don't see the master' hand </i><br /><i>We bang on gold tamourines " </i><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSess83feGGhyphenhyphenndWEQACR7BuOI1lLd7-FhjoYekkcHB8bf7xmkKOUVLKFf7VAA__Rn7m46-9PrZj8gTuqeRy3SrICgbhgDaeeX2N0k0pElqI1oEydU-prnwVLvv_hk_fz8r688lhv6ul09/s1600/643+pixels+Xavier+Veilhan+Sheats+Goldstein+Lautner+Architectones+Architecture+Los+Angeles+James+Goldstein+5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSess83feGGhyphenhyphenndWEQACR7BuOI1lLd7-FhjoYekkcHB8bf7xmkKOUVLKFf7VAA__Rn7m46-9PrZj8gTuqeRy3SrICgbhgDaeeX2N0k0pElqI1oEydU-prnwVLvv_hk_fz8r688lhv6ul09/s1600/643+pixels+Xavier+Veilhan+Sheats+Goldstein+Lautner+Architectones+Architecture+Los+Angeles+James+Goldstein+5.jpg" /></a> <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Xavier Veilhan explaining his latest audio work with Nicolas Godin, of AIR, framed.</i><br /><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_GM3ogAcpXHoKgO3aw3Fb2-ckD36a-hT6RwwMFkeQeXfjN2bUekVhLOXgLHb-4yntUMDUHAQeHA94uTPpcMr7nI-4cGAmXu0fClB-uQo76UKE2xTykf5JxKJUvXcosEAG798Yc4Zreb65/s1600/643+Xavier+Veilhan+Sheats+Goldstein+Lautner+Architectones+Architecture+Los+Angeles+James+Goldstein+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_GM3ogAcpXHoKgO3aw3Fb2-ckD36a-hT6RwwMFkeQeXfjN2bUekVhLOXgLHb-4yntUMDUHAQeHA94uTPpcMr7nI-4cGAmXu0fClB-uQo76UKE2xTykf5JxKJUvXcosEAG798Yc4Zreb65/s1600/643+Xavier+Veilhan+Sheats+Goldstein+Lautner+Architectones+Architecture+Los+Angeles+James+Goldstein+3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHP1WZAv19QdK_4EP_A7TH4RoKChM9Pwa9dCT74yT67MgqwCj2392DDBlnfG1xW4cKaceLVvrSifZHr4JM_ue51cqafP1CCemQdfetFlOjVmuZxdJXkXwAcv9ca_vlfH6nmK1-N8RxLFAZ/s1600/643+Xavier+Veilhan+Sheats+Goldstein+Lautner+Architectones+Architecture+Los+Angeles+James+Goldstein+Los+Angeles+Architecture+Light+Space+James+Turrell+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHP1WZAv19QdK_4EP_A7TH4RoKChM9Pwa9dCT74yT67MgqwCj2392DDBlnfG1xW4cKaceLVvrSifZHr4JM_ue51cqafP1CCemQdfetFlOjVmuZxdJXkXwAcv9ca_vlfH6nmK1-N8RxLFAZ/s1600/643+Xavier+Veilhan+Sheats+Goldstein+Lautner+Architectones+Architecture+Los+Angeles+James+Goldstein+Los+Angeles+Architecture+Light+Space+James+Turrell+.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw8sXS9dm415yymBRHk-KnIVptoJF9Duu7OgV7D73AXhJ7wYr02yKnuDLlyANfPuX1D75Tla7jc5l_iGi2Bui09dyh_k3ib7uUEL9rxdsspcJA3DHODQJwvHVlSiwOQ6CV9LYDau06kI01/s1600/643+Xavier+Veilhan+Sheats+Goldstein+Lautner+Architectones+Architecture+Los+Angeles+James+Goldstein+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw8sXS9dm415yymBRHk-KnIVptoJF9Duu7OgV7D73AXhJ7wYr02yKnuDLlyANfPuX1D75Tla7jc5l_iGi2Bui09dyh_k3ib7uUEL9rxdsspcJA3DHODQJwvHVlSiwOQ6CV9LYDau06kI01/s1600/643+Xavier+Veilhan+Sheats+Goldstein+Lautner+Architectones+Architecture+Los+Angeles+James+Goldstein+4.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /><br /><i>If you have a look </i><br /><i>Outside on the sea </i><br /><br /><b><i>Everything is white </i></b><br /><b><i>It's so wonderful</i></b><br /><i>Universal traveler </i><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV34zqD-wH8lnOLBa39rCfWx7oWLG0TjKOndYxglb4_xROlW0ZPybb8WHRgHeYBCEknjHhY9OGDBsSmtvqE90ZPIbRrc5zNObh0DPOUVzIrX6icf23WEKcfYKb0OTYv9FrkNyO-sgWAfi2/s1600/643+Xavier+Veilhan+Sheats+Goldstein+Lautner+Architectones+Architecture+Los+Angeles+James+Goldstein+Francois+Perrin+David+John+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV34zqD-wH8lnOLBa39rCfWx7oWLG0TjKOndYxglb4_xROlW0ZPybb8WHRgHeYBCEknjHhY9OGDBsSmtvqE90ZPIbRrc5zNObh0DPOUVzIrX6icf23WEKcfYKb0OTYv9FrkNyO-sgWAfi2/s1600/643+Xavier+Veilhan+Sheats+Goldstein+Lautner+Architectones+Architecture+Los+Angeles+James+Goldstein+Francois+Perrin+David+John+6.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><i><b>thank you:</b> </i><br /><i>Galerie Perrotin, Xavier Veilhan, Francois Perrin for kindly inviting me to join in. </i><br /><br /><i>all lyrics used in this article by AIR.</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">------------------------</div>

An Evening with Xavier Veilhan's new exhibition "Architectones" "I am feeling very warm right now  Please don't disa...

Read more »

<b><i>Zachary Leener  </i><i>vs  </i><i>Josef Frank</i></b><br /><i>"when the modernist yearns for color"</i><br /><i>aka</i><br /><i>"a response to the light</i><b><i>"</i></b><br /><i>"He told me that he liked the idea of things living on the sun, assuming that it is of course a sunny, but also joyful place. But everyone, including Zach, knows that it’s super hot up there and totally unlivable and this is where the paradox that’s close to this body of work resides."  - Tif, on Zach's work</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ywt1IOiO3vnDdlfwSmkGeNwx5syH970qNkuDccv8SzPTYYliYPJwugVyj70LsG32bdFB3IpHKCpGqQWlA23kxTX7BA-R_gR598nekPKHoe0BohnDITOX0WdYLc6jIYsdTq7wElruKz82/s1600/ZL12_01b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ywt1IOiO3vnDdlfwSmkGeNwx5syH970qNkuDccv8SzPTYYliYPJwugVyj70LsG32bdFB3IpHKCpGqQWlA23kxTX7BA-R_gR598nekPKHoe0BohnDITOX0WdYLc6jIYsdTq7wElruKz82/s640/ZL12_01b.jpg" width="502" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOi48WpHYwsKL-czHC0rMyjwilyjGSnMjT8H89TpsQbxlTfcVRVkHfyoL1FsV5StjfWDL6CcOaqEXniKgTLIGFojBEGHZ-3nEraYy5oOXaupRNGOBQc_KloSiNRZ7L-iG5JcS3HDJZa0Fz/s1600/josef+frank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOi48WpHYwsKL-czHC0rMyjwilyjGSnMjT8H89TpsQbxlTfcVRVkHfyoL1FsV5StjfWDL6CcOaqEXniKgTLIGFojBEGHZ-3nEraYy5oOXaupRNGOBQc_KloSiNRZ7L-iG5JcS3HDJZa0Fz/s640/josef+frank.jpg" width="576" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Initially, Josef Frank’s work in Sweden was very similar to earlier Viennese designs. But within a year or two his work became more colourful and more varied. His interest in an even brighter color palette was probably the result of the influence of Swedish folk art, but it was also undoubtedly a reaction to the dark Swedish winters. <b>Frank hoped a lighter look would help counteract the bleak winter days.</b> His work also became more eclectic, a result of working with Estrid Ericson, the owner of Svenskt Tenn, who pushed him to explore new design possibilities. " <a href="http://www.meublepeint.com/josef_frank_english_version.htm">- taken from here </a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Since I have a lot of different interests, high and low, I try to exploit that. A sculpture that reads as potentially crude can coexist with one that's more sweet, or fragile. - Zachary Leener</span><br /><br /><br />1. <b><a href="http://www.thomassolomongallery.com/exhibitions/">Zachary Leener's latest work @ Tif's Desk</a> </b>till April 27. Run- Skip-Hop!  A couple weeks ago I attended the opening of Zachary's latest works in clay: hand-built forms, awkward textural complexities.  His recent Dr. Seussian sculptural pursuits are taking pride in their ability to grow and activate the space & air.  Bold color-seeking modern California forms feeling nostalgic of utopian 60's craft and "of the sun."  Some call it noodling, others call it doodling.  Tif's Desk is in the back of Thomas Solomon Gallery, and it is actually the desk of Tif.  Ask her for a tour, and some conversation. The above work is from the flat files.<br /><br /><a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2011/04/yhbhs-interview-with-zachary-leener.html"><i>Read a past conversation here with Zachary Leener.</i></a><br /><br /><br />2.<i><b> A Josef Frank Cabinet.- "Heartbreakingly beautiful modernism"</b></i><br /><i>"Throughout his career as a designer, Josef Frank sought to forge a modernism that was responsive to people’s needs, both physical and psychological. His furniture was comfortable—he typically used soft, upholstered seating, rounded edges, and pieces that allowed their users to relax. He rejected the then common practice of employing tubular steel, which Frank thought was cold to the touch and unyielding. But his designs also sought to respond to our need for the familiar. He did not reject older, historical forms. Like Loos, <b>he believed that many things and ideas from the past still had validity. And he often relied on color and pattern to make his rooms and individual pieces appealing.</b>"<a href="http://www.meublepeint.com/josef_frank_english_version.htm"> (taken from here) </a></i><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>----------------- </i></div><br />

Zachary Leener  vs  Josef Frank "when the modernist yearns for color" aka "a response to the light " "He told me th...

Read more »

<i>Upcoming : <a href="http://www.phillips.com/auctions/auction/UK050113"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Design </b></span></a></i><br /><i>@Phillips, April 25th, 2013</i><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtDqbXsVq0k0AZU3m1L8_U63IWc_Te2vPeqa67a8EQMAGPIYuXBAkPUxEZZHWU5x5aSQYXck4AykxdgZwoaa4au2cn0OI1rn10Um2tSeDmDN5HT39TNJZM1CMXRARXT0ob8JTDW77-GkCq/s1600/gino+sarfatti.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtDqbXsVq0k0AZU3m1L8_U63IWc_Te2vPeqa67a8EQMAGPIYuXBAkPUxEZZHWU5x5aSQYXck4AykxdgZwoaa4au2cn0OI1rn10Um2tSeDmDN5HT39TNJZM1CMXRARXT0ob8JTDW77-GkCq/s640/gino+sarfatti.jpg" width="511" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gino Sarfatti</b></span></i><br /><br /><i>"Pair of rare and early table lamps" circa 1938-1941 </i><br /><i> Brass, tubular brass, painted tubular metal. </i><br /><i> Manufactured by Arteluce, Italy </i><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">------------</div>

Upcoming : Design  @Phillips, April 25th, 2013 Gino Sarfatti "Pair of rare and early table lamps" circa 1938-1941   Brass, tubular...

Read more »