Focus on Paris

On April 5th, PAD Paris opens its doors for 5 days of modern and contemporary decorative arts, design, and craft. TLmag previews some of highlights to expect at this esteemed fair.

Musée National des arts asiatiques – Guimet presents ‘Meditation eoom’ at Hôtel d’Heidelbach by French artist Pierre Bonnefille, an installation inviting reflection and contemplation.

Part of the curatorial series ‘Matters of Concern’, this exhibition by Barbara Chase-Riboud is the renowned sculptor, poet and novelist’s first in Europe in a very long time.

Within Louis Carré’s iconic house built by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto in the late 1950s, visitors can now experience the fine artworks of three contemporary Finnish artists: Laura Laine, Kustaa Saksi and Kim Simonsson.

TLmag caught up with collector and interior designer Chahan Minassian to talk about how he invokes personal, lived-in qualities into his impeccable designs as well as his project, which unites Old Masters with modern works within the medieval setting of Venice’s Abbazia di San Gregorio.

Winner of the 2018 Fondation Bettencourt Schueller prize “pour l’intelligence de la main – Talents d’exception”, Julien Vermeulen and his Maison are one of the few feather artisans still practicing in France. Here, Julien shares with us his artistic vision and future hopes for his craft.

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain’s latest exhibition gives voice to figures who, aesthetically or scientifically, reveal the beauty and biological wealth of trees which is currently being threatened by deforestation.

David Giroire and Jérôme Bazzocchi are about to present Theoreme Editions in Paris. TLmag talks to them about its careful selection and process.

TLmag talks to celebrated French designer Patrick Jouin on using wood as an alternative to plastic and how his endless fascination with nature’s efficiency influences his prolific practice.

TLmag talks to this young gallerist and interior designer on her lifetime passion for collecting her “crushes” and her apartment gallery’s latest exhibition.

Two giants of the the twentieth-century art world are put side-by-side to examine their use of ‘the void’ in the current exhibition ‘Calder-Picasso’

Multidisciplinary designer Raphael Navot finds beauty in unexpected places, his series of textiles ‘Land’ at Galerie Diurne is inspired by collected satellite images