Grand Central station in New York has been covered in acres of gaudy floral carpet as an art installation by Rudolf Stingel and produced by Yvonne Force Villereal. 120,000 commuters a day will be able to view it .Titled “Plan B” and installed for the month of July within the Vanderbilt Hall, the work consists of a 2,500-square-meter, stretch of carpet covering the entire floor of the hall and woven with a pattern of bright blue roses on an even brighter pink ground.iht
The forthcoming 416-page coffee table book “Tom Ford” will go on sale on the one-year anniversary of his announcement that he would be stepping down at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. With more than 300 images from Mario Testino, Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts, Terry Richardson,it will feature a foreword from Anna Wintour.WWD
Lafayette Maison is the new homewares store of Galleries Lafayette in Paris, 10,000 sq foot of designer homewares on Blvd Haussman opposite L’Opera.
Australian Architect Sean Godsell’s design work ‘Future Shack’ ( which has park benches designed so the homeless can sleep) can be seen at Cooper Hewitt National design Museum in New York .
Chicago’s Millennial Park has opened with a Frank Gehry designed pavilion and a jelly bean polished steel sculpture by Anish Kapoor.
When in London check out the new shop Atelier in Islington, full of an eclectic collection of ceramics, textiles, art craft and junk! www.atelierbypost.com.
The National Portrait Gallery in London has a new exhibition called “Off the Beaten Track” featuring women travelers over 3 centuries.
Oscar de la Renta is doing a line of furniture with Chatsworth, the seat of The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire who is one of the Mitford sisters and stella Tennants granny!
To inaugurate its new museum of photography in the Jeu de Paume, Paris is shining the spotlight on the erotically charged images of Guy Bourdin which includes everything from his ads for Charles Jourdan to Vogue pictures.WWD.
Check out the new Murano Urban Resort hotel in the Marais in Paris. www.muranoresort.com
To help celebrate Donald Duck’s 75th birthday, Karl Lagerfeld whipped up one of his famous illustrations depicting the character à la Lagerfeld, complete with high collar, ponytail and dark glasses perched on the beak WWD
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