Inspirations.  

Carreaux

Turn of the century tile and mosaic samples from the Societe Generale de Carrelages in Paris.

The end of history - La fin de l´histoire

"Belief in progress is irresistible. In flattering the eye it blinds us. Standing in the middle of t...

Raymundo Colares

Raymundo Colares (1944 in Grão Mogol, Minas Gerais - 1986 in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais) was a Bra...

Tamara

Tamara de Lempicka (1898 – 1980) was a Polish Art Deco painter. She was the most fashionable portr...

Royère

Jean Royère (1902-1981) worked in the import-export business before working for cabinetmaker Pierr...

Conformity

“Modern man has become a cog in a very complex society. We live in a society that praises individu...

Alain Georges Frank Jacquet

Alain Georges Frank Jacquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1939. After studying drama at the Unive...

Télémaque

Hervé Télémaque naît à Port-au-Prince, le 5 novembre 1937. En 1957, il quitte Haïti pour New Y...

Impressionist Gardens

“Many of Monet’s colleagues shared his passion for gardening and were inspired to paint gardens ...

A+A Cooren

A+A Cooren is a Paris-based French-Japanese design studio founded in 1999 and run by husband and wif...

Still Life Monkeys

The inclusion of a monkey with other still-life elements imitates earlier Flemish still-life painter...

Serge Mouille

Serge Mouille (1922-1988) studied under Gilbert Lacroix at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris. ...

Pascal Häusermann

Pascal Häusermann was born 19th of November 1936 in Biel, Switzerland. He studied at the School of...

Opie

Julian Opie studied at Goldsmiths´ College (1979-82) under Michael Craig-Martin, for whom he briefl...

German Painting after the 1960s

What is so 'German' about the art made by German painters and sculptors after the 1960s to now? The ...

Orange mecanique

Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, was born in 1982 in France. He graduated from ECAL ...

André Bloc - Sculptures Habitacles

From 1962 to 1966, André Bloc created his habitable sculptures. This work marks the evolution of th...

Eleni Karpatsi & Julio Calvo = (fos)

Eleni Karpatsi and Julio Calvo are (fos), working in the fields of architecture and interior design ...

Life Is Electric. Philippe Weisbecker

Born in 1942, Weisbecker studied interior design in Paris. By 1968 he moved to New York. First worki...

Domestique

Face à une appropriation sous contrôle et une perte progressive des mécanismes d'interaction entr...

Voiture

C´est un travail sur l´expérience et l´émotion du passager dans une voiture d´un futur proche,...

The 2015 best of penccil

This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...

France 1661

Views of Renaissance France by Kasper Merian, 1655-1661

The Slave Ship

But, I think, the noblest sea that Turner has ever painted, and, if so, the noblest certainly ever p...

The Sea by Emil Nolde

Born in the village of Nolde in 1902, Emil Hansen came from a family of peasants. Nolde completed an...

Forward Retreat

Mark Tansey was born in California. He attended art classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and s...

Technological Exaptation

Images by photographer and set designer Maxime Guyon, currently living and working between Lyon (Fra...

Faces of the 21st century

Images by Thomas Mailaender. « Mailaender’s forum and sphere of operations is less the art worl...

Volkswagen Jetta

Herla King,2010-2012. Mirror and colored vinyls & spray-paint on 1984 Volkswagen Jetta. Etienne Bard...

Pavel Tchelitchew: Spiral head

Pavel Tchelitchew (Па́вел Фёдорович Чели́щев) (1898 - 1957) was a surrealist ...

Naturoscopie

Habité par un héritage de l’art nouveau, Noé Duchaufour Lawrance s’appuie non seulement sur l...

Fernando Botero

Who doesn´t like Botero? Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero (born 1932 in Medellín) is...

Zigzag Castle

Felice Varini was born 1952 in Locarno. He lives in Paris.

Football and architecture

In Brazil, a country of 200 million people, the lack of housing is estimated at 5.2 million homes, 1...

Passage

The crossing of the Mediterranean Sea is a particularly deadly stage of the path of migrants to Euro...

Sebastian Stoskopff the Painter of Vessels

Sebastian (or Sébastien) Stoskopff (Strasbourg, July 13, 1597 – Idstein February 10, 1657) was an...

Evol

Tableware "Evol" by Patrick Jouin. Many of his creations are in the permanent collections of museums...

Jean Arp: Randomness

Randomness was a key part of Jean Arp’s work right from the creation of the first dadaist group in...

Heaven & Hell

Details from paintings by Hieronymus Bosch.

Hell & Heaven

John Martin was born near Hexham, Northumberland. He was apprenticed first to an heraldic coach pain...

Parc de la Villette, Paris

The participants in the 1982 architecture competition for the Parc de la Villette in Paris saw submi...

Édouard Vuillard: Turn of the Century Paris

A painter of interiors and park landscapes, Vuillard created his first lithograph series in black-an...

Ben Weiner: Post-Psychedelic Dreams

Ben Weiner lives and works in Queens, New York.

Palais Bulles and Antti Lovag

Antti Lovag, born in Hungary 1920, arrived in France in 1947 and gained his initial experience with ...

Sonia Delaunay: Fashion

Fashion sketches and watercolors by Sonia Delaunay.

More cats in art

Cats throughout the centuries.

Deutschland

Design of painted wall texts by Rasmus Koch studio for artist Jens Haaning. In 2004, Jens Haaning wr...

Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and Anton Raederscheidt

Paintings by Heinrich Hoerle, born 1895, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, born 1894, and Anton Räderscheidt, ...

The apartment of Pierre Charpin

Pierre Charpin´s apartment at Le Corbusier´s Cité Radieuse, and a selection of Charpin´s other w...

Alexis Jamet

Graphic designer Alexis Jamet, born 1990, lives and works in Nantes, France. Clients include: A La B...

Ghost: Kader Attia and Ventimiglia

The striking similarities between the installation of Kader Attia and the current situation in Venti...

The EU Game

A French board game from the nineteen-fifties including hazards and a pan-european currency.

Fresh White

Four major arcana here: Fresh White is at a turning point, and a very positive one. The Sun and the ...

Monsters

"Monster" is a term designating this pile of objects abandoned in the street waiting to be taken awa...

Pigeonner / Public Pigeon Sculptures

Public bronze sculptures of pigeons thought as "plus-products" or as "classical post-production", de...

La Concentration des Services / Simplification de Paysage

All the services found in a city corner assembled in a unique object (bus-stop, streetlight, surveil...

American Modern Paintings at Sotheby´s

Sotheby's New York sale on Wednesday, May 20th totaled $38,301,625 reflecting the continuous health ...

A Mirror Darkly

Nick Ross was born in Scotland in 1986. He studied at Gray´s School of Art in Aberdeen on the Indus...

Modigliani: Your real duty is to save your dream

"What I am searching for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the subconscious, the mystery of wh...

Samuel Bradley Photography

Samuel is based in London. He received his BA in photography from UCA Farnham in 2012 where he speci...

Amir Zaki: Southern California

Amir Zaki is a practicing artist living in Southern California. He received his MFA from UCLA in 199...

A Book

Unpublished book project. This book contains photographs of the exhibition catalog section of a libr...

Simon Starling T H E R E H E R E T H E N T H E R E

A central work in the artist’s conception of the two exhibitions, “Les Maquettes en blanc (1995-...

Ed Fella Documents

“I was an illustrator, so you see endless styles popping in and out of the books. The drawings are...

Frank Stella: Radical Abstraction

In 1959, a newcomer in his early twenties takes New York’s art scene by storm: the American Frank ...

François Azambourg: Lighting

Born in Angoulême in 1963, François Azambourg studied at the Institut Lemonnier at Caen and at th...

We imagine more objects to make less objects

GGSV Studio was founded in 2011 by Gaëlle Gabillet and Stéphane Villard. « Our work ranges from c...

Désormeaux/Carrette

Désormeaux/Carrette was established in 2014 by French designers Nathanaël Désormeaux and Damien C...

The New Social

From April 1st to Mary 31st 2015, twelve outstanding young European photographers will be presenting...

Etienne Meneau

Etienne Meneau is best known for his "strange carafes". In addition to be an eye-catcher in every ho...