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#17 Serendipity
ENSAD - 31, rue d’Ulm 75240 Paris Cedex 06 France - tel: 01 42 34 97 00 - www.ensad.fr communication: Nathalie Battais
Ensad traces its history back to the Royal School of Design established in 1766. The School, which was free, afforded crafts people the opportunity of becoming creative artists.
Emphasis was placed on draughtsmanship, and s...
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Jan 10, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: artist, design, ensad, france, paris, school, students, university | Leave A Comment »
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#13 Conscious project
You were involved in the "50th Biennale" in Venice; in your opinion, what relevance and meaning do such events have in developing a new awareness/sensibility in the audience?
I think that it is essential that events like this exist; they give some kind of overview on what is happening in art at the moment. We might like one biennale better than t...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: art, artworks, biennale, coca cola, conscience, conteporary, contexts, contradictions, design, elite, entertainment, female, france, global artist, homogenized | Leave A Comment »
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#12 Waiting for China
Vittorio's family-given name is Qun, but his love for and knowledge of Italy have led him to adopt this very Italian sounding name.
Our meeting with Vittorio is at his interior design atelier in Beijing, where he has been working for eight years now, especially for nouveau rich Chinese families whom he furnishes with many Made in Italy products.
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: after sales, american, business, capitalism, casa international, cofucius, commodity, communism, consumer, cuisine, ex store, experience, fast food, food, france | Leave A Comment »
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#24 Self Portrait
Creativity is not a continuum. There are times it waxes and times it wanes. One has to learn the art of stopping to look, enjoy and listen, and unravel those hesitant interludes. Like in prosody, when the stressed follows the unstressed, or in music, in that hardly perceptible pause when the downbeat heralds the upbeat. That’s where the essence o...
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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Authors | Tags: athens, barcelona, castello di rivoli, click, continuum, creativity, culinary, davide scabin, del pescatore, enjoy, essence, experience, florence, france, french cuisine | Leave A Comment »
