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PARIS LA 16 — THE FASHION AND WRITING ISSUE — OUT NOW

The new print issue of PARIS LA—a tenth-anniversary special devoted to fashion and writing—is now available.

PARIS LA 16 includes interviews with Hilton Als, Chris Kraus, Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss of Bless, Tisa Bryant, Florence Müller, Malik Gaines, Q.M. Zhang, Commes des Garçons’ Adrian Joffe, Anelise Chen, and Bice Curiger and Jacqueline Burckhardt of Parkett.

Massimiliano Mocchia di Coggiola contributed an essay with artwork on dandyism, Ramon Hungerbühler and Fabian Marti talk about skate brands, there are pieces on Setsuko Klossowska de Rola, and Pierre Davis and No Sesso, Anne Dressen has written about contemporary jewelry…

… and portfolios and portraits by Cédric Rivrain, Cassi Namoda, David Benjamin Sherry, Wyatt Kahn, Tobias Madison, Item Idem, Jean-François Lepage, Todd Cole, Marie Angeletti, Will Benedict, and Katerina Jebb—who created the Michèle Lamy cover and a poster of Marisa Berenson—grace the issue.

Also: a reprint of Iris Marion Young’s landmark essay “Women Recovering Our Clothes.”

PARIS LA 16, published by DoPe Press.

Above: Inside covers, production PDF.

Below: Front and back covers, production PDF.

BLESS AT NEUTRA HOUSE

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“The Neutra House project is some sort of a dream project. Not only does it contribute to architecture in general, but a great deal to our well being. In this specific case the house matches in shape, size, style, and configuration our personal needs quite well.

“[The house] absorbs and reflects its environment, and is simultaneously woven into and through nature, embracing naturally its surroundings. It is very present in so many nice details, tempting permanently to open new perspectives. Yet, at the same time, it’s almost invisible as you immediately feel part of it when you are in it. What more can you expect from good design?

“Whatever we will do there, we aim to add ourselves and what we currently relate to in the same airy and generous balance.” — Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag, Bless*

Bless has moved into the great Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, and there are five more Saturdays to catch their Bless no. 63 Neutra Dasein project, curated by Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath.

BLESS NO. 63 NEUTRA DASEIN

Saturday, August 11, 18, 25, September 1, and 8,

from 11 am to 3 pm.

NEUTRA VDL STUDIO AND RESIDENCES, 2300 Silver Lake Boulevard, Los Angeles.

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*“Bless, Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss in conversation with Helena Papadopoulos,” PARIS LA 16 (2018): 171–173.

Special thanks to Neutra VDL director Sarah Lorenzen.

Photographs of Bless no. 63 Neutra Dasein at Neutra VDL Studio and Residences by Sandy Miller for

PARIS LA.

BLESS NO. 60 LOBBY CONQUERORS

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Originally commissioned for the 2017 Chicago Architectural Biennial, BLESS NO. 60 LOBBY CONQUERORS—in dialog with the 1960 Artek furniture line Kiki, designed by Ilmari Tapiovaara—is on view through the weekend at Mathew Gallery in New York.

BLESS NO. 60 LOBBY CONQUERORS, through March 4.

MATHEW GALLERY, 46 Canal Street, New York City.

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See: artek.fi/en

and: pinupmagazine.org/bless-lobby-conquerors-new-york

Bless, No. 60 Lobby Conquerors, in dialog with Artek. Image credit: Bless, Pin-Up, and Mathew Gallery.

BLESS IN LOS ANGELES

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The Hammer Museum and curator Aram Moshayedi invite you to AN EVENING WITH BLESS, a conversation and presentation with Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss, founders of BLESS, the Paris- and Berlin-based house of conceptual fashion and domestic design.

INES KAAG and DESIREE HEISS—

AN EVENING WITH BLESS

Wednesday, January 10, at 7:30 pm.

Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

Above: Bless hammock and rug.

Below: Bless, 2017. Swimmingtogether postcard. Images courtesy Bless.

SUR AND ESTHER McCOY

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The third volume of SUR—an annual arts and culture journal out of Mexico City—takes a look at “the life and work of writer and architectural critic Esther McCoy (1904–1989)….In 1945, the writer and her husband [left Los Angeles and] took up residence in the city of Cuernavaca for eight months, during which they found an interest in popular crafts and pre-Columbian architecture. Yet little has been written and researched about McCoy’s relationship with Mexico. SUR 3 takes as its starting point the connections between McCoy and Mexico: moments from her personal life, her political and artistic acquaintances, her writings while in Mexico, and the relationships the writer started with some of the most emblematic figures of modern Mexican history.”*

(Included in the issue: BLESS N°56 Worker’s Delight and N°57 Daycation Lookbook; concept and graphic design by Studio Manuel Raeder; photography by Ludger Paffrath and Bert Houbrechts, BLESS.)

SUR, Volume 3, ESTHER McCOY: THE MEXICAN YEARS is available at:

OOGA BOOGA, 943 North Broadway, Chinatown, Los Angeles.

OOGA TWOOGA, 356 South Mission Road, Los Angeles.

Also see:

PIECING TOGETHER LOS ANGELES: AN ESTHER McCOY READER, Susan Morgan, ed. (Los Angeles: East of Borneo, 2012).

tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/mother-modern/

*bomdiabooks.de/product/sur-volume-iii/

Image courtesy Ooga Booga.