(Daybed, 2010. Alabaster 350 cm x 120 cm x 100 cm)
Pavane For A Dead Princess
May 8 through June 25, 2010
12 East 94th Street, New York, NY 10128
Monday - Friday 11:00 am - 6:00pm
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The Paris-based fashion extraordinaire designer is in the Big Apple staying at the Bowery Hotel to launch his 1st NYC launch of his furniture line produced by Ruth Weissenberg and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn. The show's title borrowed from a Ravel piano solo evokes the added send of high Victorian sub-obssessions with death and sexuality. Alabaster, the stone of the daybed piece, was used widely in funeral pieces from the Egyptians through today for it's semi-lumescence for a hard stone as well as it's white puritanical appearance and softness in finish. The post and lintel arrangement seems to echo the lines of a tomb or tombstone as well as the starkness between the black horiztonals and the moonlike white anchor.
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