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| All the Beauty Under One Tent - Wall Street Journal Posted: 07 Oct 2010 05:30 PM PDT By EMMA CRICHTON-MILLER![[pad]](http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/EW-AJ236A_pad_G_20101007171047.jpg) Courtesy of Chahan Gallery, Paris 'Primal Sun' (1974) by Tony Duquette On Wednesday, the fourth edition of the Pavilion of Art and Design opens the flap of its glamorous tent in London's Berkeley Square to all comers. As art collectors, dealers, admirers of fine craft and design and curious passers-by step inside, they will be greeted by stands displaying beautiful objects ranging from outstanding single pieces of furniture by Modern and Contemporary masters and exquisite artist-made jewelry to sensuous ceramic pots and paintings by Cezanne and Egon Schiele. Nearly all these pieces have been created since 1862, the birth date of Italian industrial manufactured furniture, says Patrick Perrin, one of the fair organizers. Since then, Mr. Perrin avers, "there has been fundamentally no break in creativity, style and purpose in design and the decorative arts." So confident is he, moreover, of the particular kind of beautiful object that is the focus of his fair, that since last year's fair, he has extended invitations to galleries specializing in Modern Art. This autumn, he has added those specializing in Tribal Arts. A magnificent Middle-Period Benin bronze head, for instance, will be available from Entwistle Gallery. For visitors, however, the most obvious innovation this year will be a specially created stand, just immediately inside the entrance to the fair, dedicated to the work of this year's graduates from London's Royal College of Art. For many of these students, fresh from that renowned incubator of innovation, this is their first encounter with one of the worlds in which their objects—and the skills and imagination which have created them—might make their way. As Will Shannon, who will be showing small silver models under bell jars—one outcome of an intensive investigation of furniture design, recycling and reindustrialization in the city—expresses it: "This fair sums up what I aspire to—not to be making multiples, but to be showing progressive thought, one-off pieces, and for people to accept that they are buying into an idea, part of my world." Over the four years since the Pavilion's first appearance as "DesignArt London" in 2007, running concurrently with Frieze Art Fair, it has made a name for itself as a showcase for the best available postwar and contemporary design and decorative arts. Last year the organizers, fair directors Mr. Perrin and Stéphane Custot, drawing on 14 years' experience of running sister fair, the Pavillon des Arts et du Design Paris, introduced Modern Art to the mix, convinced a continental approach to the "beaux arts," ncompassing design, fine and applied arts, would also appeal to a London audience. The inspiration for the inclusion of the young designers came from Nigel Coates, maverick architect and designer, and chairman this year of the judging panel of the Moët-Hennessy-PAD London Prize for best piece of design or decorative art, and Janice Blackburn, collector, curator and a judge last year. "I said to them," explains Ms. Blackburn, '"I think you should give me a stand to show new, young, designers."' Messrs. Perrin and Custot agreed. Mr. Coates and Ms. Blackburn have made the selection from this year's RCA graduates on the basis of their "creativity, originality and excellence." Ms. Blackburn says: "The objects have got to be well-made and almost all are one-off pieces—they had to have something to sell, and it had to be unique." Most of the 17 students have participated in one or other of the "platforms" in the Design Products department; Marta Mattsson is a jeweler, however, and, Maria Constantinou, an architect. All are thrilled at this opportunity to meet a new public, to discuss their work and to be introduced to the pick of the world's dealers. As Mr. Coates points out, "It is particularly difficult for young designers to plot a path between design and art. On the one hand design has reached art status, on the other there is very little industry in the U.K. for designers to collaborate with. It is up to the designers to exploit the context they find themselves in." The stand will be hard to miss. Besides Mr. Shannon's bell jars, there will be David Amar's marvelously eccentric table, "Raymond," (named after experimental French writer Raymond Queneau ), Yuya Kurata's ingenious "Stool for Two," Azusa Murakami's sleek porcelain "Implements for Eating Hamburger" and Harry Thaler's witty glass object, "Hang It on the Wall." Ms. Mattsson has made the most extraordinary hand-sized jewelry objects, "Beetlejuice," out of a real beetle, cut in half, lacquer, silver, resin and steel with yellow cubic zirconias spilling out like the imaginary blood. "I wanted to be a biologist when I was younger," she explains, "but I was always also interested in the contrast between something beautiful and something fearful, like squashing a beetle." Ms. Constantinou's poetic piece "Preserved," a cube created from resin and shellac, with the impression inside of an architectural pillar as if preserved in amber, is the magical relic of an extended architectural project to devise a health spa on the Thames that would genetically modify malarial mosquitoes to cure the immune diseases of an ageing population. "All the designs and analysis were about bringing nature back closer to the people—and I used those designs and ideas to create my sculpture." If that seems intellectually almost too rich to digest, Karen Price's exquisite delicate peeling bowls called "Paper Porcelain" offer an extended meditation on the history of porcelain and the quest to create the thinnest possible porcelain. Ms. Price devised an original system of painting layers of liquid porcelain onto a mould, a bit like papier maché. "Post-modernism is about rejecting tradition, but I am interested in traditions and in processes and transformations, whether in materials or in societies, and in questioning why a process exists," she says. Ms. Price is aware that what she and her peers bring to the fair are objects untainted by commercial pressures, created out of the luxury of free thought, and, though thrilled by the opportunity to show, she is anxious about how the design world generally is driven by the scramble for publicity and how it isolates itself from the general public. As a caution to herself, Ms. Price adds, "When I was at Middlesex [University] doing my first degree, integral to the whole course was the question 'Why this object?'" This is a question that might be usefully pinned above this fair for all of us object-lovers to ponder. The exhibition runs Oct. 13-17. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Posted: 04 Oct 2010 08:08 AM PDT 2010-10-04 17:07:46 - Research and Markets ( www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c4157a/drug_stores_and_he : The retail databooks are based on key market value data for eight major product sectors, 16 core retail distribution channels and 62 countries. This profile focuses on and provides data on channel size. It also offers information on main markets sold through the channel, and includes growth forecasts upto 2013.Scope. - An overview of total retail value in this country segmented by retail channel Highlights of this title Drug Stores and Health and Beauty Stores (including Pharmacies) in Japan : Food and Grocery market sales accounted for an 16.8% share of the Drug Stores and Health and Beauty Stores (including Pharmacies) format in 2008. Key reasons to purchase this title. - Discover which retail channels have been growing and declining in popularity within this country Key Topics Covered: DATAMONITOR VIEW - Catalyst DRUG STORES AND HEALTH AND BEAUTY STORES (INCLUDING PHARMACIES) IN JAPAN - Market definitions APPENDIX - Methodology For more information visit www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c4157a/drug_stores_and_he : Source: Datamonitor Research and MarketsLaura Wood, Senior Manager, press@researchandmarkets.com : mailto:press@researchandmarkets.com U.S. Fax: 646-607-1907Fax (outside U.S.): +353-1-481-1716 This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Stealing beauty: Cosmetics top list of swiped goods - msnbc.com Posted: 30 Sep 2010 05:28 AM PDT When magazine headlines shout "steal this look!" — some women are taking that literally. Turns out, cosmetics top the nation's list of shoplifted items. "Health and beauty care items" accounted for 20 percent of all items stolen from supermarkets in 2008, according to the most recent survey from the Food Marketing Institute.
Are vain people more likely to be criminals? Or do criminals just want to look hot in their mug shots? More likely, it's that slipping beauty products into a purse is more doable — and worthwhile —than, say, ripping off a 12-pack of toilet paper. Just last month, Caroline Giuliani — the 21-year-old daughter of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani — was caught swiping $100 worth of beauty products from a Manhattan Sephora . The Harvard senior must complete one day of community service to pay for her beauty-stealing binge. And although we don't know what Giuliani stole from the high-end beauty shop, experts say shoplifters are just as discerning as consumers when it comes to what they take. Story: 5 skin mistakes that age you "Consumers gravitate toward certain items, and so do the criminals," says Joseph LaRocca, a senior advisor for the National Retail Federation. Among the top shoplifted items are pricey hair care brands like Pureology and Bumble and Bumble, according to the group. Also among the most stolen items: Oil of Olay's Regenerist line of anti-aging products, LaRocca says. "We hear that over and over again; it's one of the top targeted items," LaRocca says. That's surely in part because of the attention the Regenerist line received after an American Consumer Union review of the drugstore line found that it outperformed much more expensive brands such as La Prairie Cellular, which sells a 1.7-oz. anti-aging cream for nearly $580. Highly shoplifted items like the Oil of Olay skin care line are increasingly being stashed under locked display cases — an annoyance for the customer who must track down an employee to unlock the $24 wrinkle serum. Most stolen health and beauty products
The padlocks may be making a dent, however. Bucking the economic downturn, overall shoplifting rates dipped in 2009; still, retailers still lost $11.7 billion from shoplifting last year. Story: Prick and run? Botox bandits rip off wrinkle shots Rhett Asher, the vice president of industry relations for the Food Marketing Institute, says the group is working on a report looking into why amateur shoplifters swipe what they do. In terms of beauty products — why pocket a $15 lip gloss and risk serious legal consequences? "You have to look at it as a specifically self-destructive kind of behavior, a statement of rebellion — it's more about that kind of statement than it is about mascara," says Dr. Gail Saltz, a New York City psychiatrist and regular TODAY contributor. "I think that if you're stealing stuff, then probably you aren't happy and you may feel it's about the way you look." But for teen girls, pocketing nail polish from a drugstore can almost be a rite of passage — even actress Megan Fox went through a sticky-fingers phase as a teenager, and was reportedly banned from a Florida Wal-Mart after stealing a $7 tube of lip gloss. (Keep in mind that's according to tabloid reports, and Fox's reps have refused to comment on the claim.) "For young girls, it often is these makeup items they're taking, because ... it's not about beauty — it's about doing something wrong," Saltz says. Another theory: Maybe some petty thefts steal the stuff they're too embarrassed to bring to the register. Among the top shoplifted items according to the NRF are Alli weight loss drugs, pregnancy tests, Nicorette products — and Rogaine. © 2010 msnbc.com Reprints This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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