Tree Huts, Tree Houses by Tadashi Kawamata

The Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata is well known for his architectural installations made from simple materials, recycled items such as chairs, cardboard boxes..... Selected item becomes the basic module of a huge construction. One of his newest creations are wooden huts hanging like wasp's nests between the beams and pillars of the structural facade of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Quite unique...

Tree Hut inside and outside, Centre Pompidou, 2010

Carton Worshop

Since his first exhibition in 1979, Kawamata has produced a large amount of public installations, sculpture and other showpiece for exhibitions and projects all over the world. Here are pictures from his early work.

Tree Huts, Madison Square Park, New York, 2008

Tree Hut, Miami, 2008

Somewhere in Paris

Art Basel, 2007

Images, courtesy of Herve Veronese for Centre Pompidou and Tadashi Kawamata

See also previous posts on Treehouses part 2 and Treehouses part 1

Louis Vuitton: Out of Africa

Another beautiful ad campaign..... Ready to go on a safari with the latest Louis Vuitton campaign that was shot in Africa with model Dree Hemingway (Ernest's great-granddaughter). The catalogue made for Louis Vuitton 2010 Travel Collection is simply superb with a lovely setting, tents, lion cubs, campfires and sunset..... It has it all !!

See previous post on interesting Ad Campaigns

The Chinese Temple Kitchen by Jan-Peter Westermann

The Chinese Temple Kitchen from international food photographer Jan-Peter Westermann is a beautiful book, a food inspired travelog of Westermann's journey to Buddhist monasteries throughout China. The book came out this past May from German publisher AT Verlag and includes over 100 centuries of recipes, accompanied by delightful pictures of dishes and monasteries.
In the Buddhist tradition, the dishes Westermann cites are all vegetarian, and although they may look complex, the recipes all use easily-acquired ingredients and are simply prepared.

A culinary journey through Buddhist cooking

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Photographs courtesy of Westermann studios
Source Planet Magazine

The Black Magic Art of Mariana Monteagudo

 Mariana Monteagudo is a thirty-something artist from Venezuela who has been working her series of doll sculptures over the last decade. Her ceramic and mixed-media dolls are intriguing and fascinating. Her artwork shows her interest in pre-Columbian aesthetics, related to magic and taken as an important graphic expression of Latin American Culture. Her work also shows her attraction to Japanese manga and mass-market toys.
Munecas (Dolls) is the generic term Monteagudo uses to describe her creations since 1998. With them, the artist has received important awards in Venezuela, and her pieces have been featured in group shows at home and abroad. Her unusual characters have attracted the attention of many critics, and they have been linked to Tibetan Buddhism's.

Double Redhead

Buffalo

Vampire

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Images courtesy of the artist