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Corbu:
Table with Pink Tablecloth, 1964
Caravan:
In 1977, Michael Asher conceived a
nomad artwork for the Skulptur Projekt of Münster : a standard caravan
intented to occupied nineteen places
around the city. Playing symbolically
with dialectical aspects of his object
between
“ …city/periphery, permanence/itinerancy, public/private space… ”
(Afterall), he took the usual form of
public sculpture down to create a
hybrid as well as a now iconic public
sculpture. In July 2007, the caravan
was stolen and finally recovered two
days later. What happened during
these 48 hours is still a subject to
fantaisies and speculations.
“ A house is a machine
for living in. ”
Le Corbusier
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Collyer brothers:
Homer Lusk Collyer (November 6,
1881 – March 1947) and Langley
Wakeman Collyer (October 3, 1885
– March 1947), known as the Collyer
brothers, were two American brothers who became famous because of
their bizarre natures and compulsive
hoarding. For decades, neighborhood rumors swirled around the
rarely seen men and their home at
2078 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of
128th Street), in Manhattan, where
they obsessively collected books,
furniture, musical instruments, and
many other items, with booby traps
set up in corridors and doorways to
ensnare intruders.
Both were eventually found dead
in the Harlem brownstone where
they had lived, surrounded by over
140 tons of collected items that they
had amassed over several decades.
Since the 1960s, the site of the former Collyer house has been a pocket
park, named after the brothers.
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Castaing, Madelaine:
Called the diva of the rue Bonaparte, Madelaine Castaing is a pioneering figure of interior decoration in
the beginning of the 20th century.
Associating a neo-classic style with
Biedermeir furnitures, enhancing
crescent-shaped benches with “Bayadère” strips and Louis Philippe’s
style opaline with faux leopard carpet, Madame Castaing was already
post-modern.