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Craig Redmen's Limited Edition "Darcel" Vipp Trash Bin and Toilet Brush Doesn't Disappoint.




Parisian retail darling Colette and Danish design manufacturer Vipp once again join forces by inviting regular conspirator Craig Redman and his monocled, egg-shaped alter-ego Darcel to reinterpret a series of classic Vipp products.



The Australian-born designer Craig Redman's cynical and hilarious one-eyed creature (shown above) lives online at ‘Darcel Disappoints’ in a chronicle of the ups and downs of everyday life in New York City.

Now, Darcel is unfolding his colorful cartoonish creativity onto two of Vipp’s iconic products; the Vipp pedal bin created in 1939 and its companion, the toilet brush.




"I think the juxtaposition between Darcel's sense of humor, colette's taste and vibrancy, and Vipp's high quality products make for a great combo. And I really need a new toilet brush." - Craig Redman



The 4 liter Vipp pedal bin and toilet brush are available in a limited edition with a splash of Darcel’s cartoonish universe exclusively in colette and at colette.fr from June.

Price for the set: 400 Euro / $525

You can see much of Craig Redmen's previous Darcel work for Colette here

Vipp


Introducing 'Everything' - The Perfume That Combines 1,400 Fragrance Samples Into One Giant 1.5 Liter Bottle.




Everything is a perfume by directors and artists Lernert & Sander consisting of new fragrances that were launched in 2012.

Over the last year Lernert & Sander collected almost 1,400 samples of newly launched fragrances.






By mixing the content of all of these bottles, they created 1.5 liter of Everything.



This unique (and I'm guessing, odiferous) perfume comes in a specially designed and hand blown bottle, an enlargement of a classic sample bottle.



If you're in Paris between March 1st to 9th, the bottle will be showcased at Colette on 213 Rue St-Honoré where you can have a rare chance to try it.

Credits:
Concept & Design: Lernert & Sander
Producer: Maarten Le Roy (Wrong)
Graphic design: Veronica Ditting
Styling: Ferry van der Nat
Light & technique: Ram van Meel
Carpenter: Hadewig Steenwinkel
Special thanks to Ferry van der Nat, all the people at Wrong and our interns David in den Bosch, Mathijs Kok & Derek van Egmond.

Heineken X Ed Banger Records Glow In The Dark Bottle by So Me.




Keep an eye out for this fun limited edition collaborative bottle design representing the dual anniversary of Heineken (140 years) and Parisian Record Label Ed Banger (10 years).



The bottle has been designed by Ed Banger Record's graphic designer and animator Bertrand Lagros de Langeron who goes by the name of So Me. Although it was posted on High Snobiety, they failed to mention the coolest aspect of the design.... it glows in the dark!



To celebrate 10 years, Ed Banger Records is organizing the party of the century, the 1st of March at the Halle de la Villette. 10 years of music, parties, fun and friendship naturally leads us to lend our support by installing a water-bar on site for the revelers.




For the occasion, Colette will exhibit the 12 most significant SO ME album covers in their water-bar, where you can also find Heineken x Ed Banger 140th anniversary collaborative bottles (available as of March 4) and box set (March 20).

The special boxed set has So Me's graphics, acoustic foam and includes the glow in the dark bottle as well as a Lowdi wireless speaker:


Also coming soon: a book (shown below) celebrating the "Work, Family, Party" spirit, with 400 photos selected by SO ME as well as a compilation.



You can pre-order the Heineken X Ed Banger bottle here at Colette.

images courtesy of Colette and Ed Banger Records



Cookie Kicks!! Nike Air Royalty Rasberry & Pistachio Macaroons.



above: Pistachio Nike Air Royalty Macaroon

Breaking yummy news!
Colette always has the most fun events. The latest being that cooklette No. 6, their cooking workshop, will mark the release of the exclusive pistachio and raspberry colors of the Air Royalty series of macaroons (or as they are spelled in France, macarons) by Nike Sportswear, which will be available at the colette store in Paris from March 13, 2010.

The fourth edition of the very recently begun but now famous cooklette, on March 12, will be organized as a culinary design workshop. Their guests will compete to see who can make the most successful and creative macaroon sculpture.


above: Rasberry Nike Air Royalty macaroon


Sign up at: cooklette@colette.fr
location: colette 213 rue saint honoré 75001 Paris

Killer Shoes. Crystal Bullet Ballet Flats By Zanotti X Colette




Giuseppe Zanotti has collaborated with french fashion, design and art boutique, Colette to bring us ballet flats complete with Swarovski crystal encrusted bullets.



The black canvas ballet flats have two bullets, one silver, one gold.. both encrusted with Swarovski crystals, adhered to the outside of either heel of the flats with a leather strap.





Part of Guiseppe Zanotti's Spring/summer cruise collection 2010, exclusively designed for Colette. Price is $447.70 (VAT included) or $374.33 (VAT excluded). Buy them here.

If Ammo is your thing, check out this jewelry line, made from spent bullets and crystals:


Unearthen Jewelry

Admir Jahic & Comenius Roethlisberger Immortalize YouTube Videos As Art.





In an attempt to disrupt the haphazard collection of archived videos that YouTube has become, artist duo Comenius Roethlisberger and Admir Jahic transformed the visual (and virtual) language of “broadcasting” into a physical medium by producing illustrations and recreating virtual references by allowing elemental art materials to do what they do best.

The two artists literally captured hundreds of individual frames from popular and bizarre YouTube videos and rendered them in colored pencil on handmade paper.


close-up:

More examples (cropped for better visibility):





Drawings from the project were recently on exhibit at Colette where you can still find some available for purchase:



and here's part of the installation at Miami Basel:
as well as an installation in Kuwait:


Many of the captured frames are from some of the most popular and well-known YouTube videos. Several of these have already sold. I'm sure you'll recognize a few of these. Again, the following images are cropped so you can get a better look at the drawings.














Each drawing measures 21 inches x 31 inches (56cm x 76cm) and is based on a rendered freeze-frame, complete with video title, user ratings and number of views.

Each is available for purchase. Cost is 400 euro for the unframed drawings and 500 euro for the framed drawings.

Size: 21” X 30”/ 56 CM X 76 CM)
Medium: Colored Pencils (CARAN D’ACHE / LUMINANCE) on handmade paper

If you’d like a commission of your favorite YouTube moment, please send the artists the link of the video (send it to ado@invisibleheroes.net). If they like the video, they will select a second to render and draw for you.


Part of the project, WITHOUT YOU BABY, THERE AIN’T NO US, shown below at the Scope Art Fair, Basel, featured 605 framed drawings of frames from the YouTube video "The Star Wars Kid":




A review of the project, WITHOUT YOU BABY, THERE AIN’T NO US by Harlan Levey (Modart Magazine):

When Swiss artists COMENIUS ROETHLISBERGER AND ADMIR JAHIC, showed the first selection of their time intensive project Without You Baby, There Ain’t No Us, visitors to the Scope Art Fair in Miami found the same sort of fascination browsing their unique drawings as they likely do surfing through YouTube channels.

Attracted to pieces for personal and diverse reasons, depending who you spoke with people were drawn to an image itself (the colors of the Dramatic Chipmunk come to mind), as often as they were to the amazing amount of interest in a particular video (more than 12 million viewers have checked out the ‘evolution of dance’ already), or for the sake of nostalgia (I couldn’t resist the image of Little Man vs Big Machine or the making of Thriller, both of which have become historical markers in my life).

There are a number of intriguing and relevant aspects of this project, but that is part of the fun labor of viewing in it and won’t be polluted here. Seeing the work in the context of an art fair, one nearly crass point is revealed and this is that the output of what is actually an extensive and complex research, is succinctly translated into a new medium to produce art, which is affordable, desirable and potentially relevant to us all for various personal reasons.

If there were something like a message shining through, it would not be a direct comment on the phenomenon, but rather on the artists’ view that subjective (often absurd) personal experiences provide as much food for thought as any mediated information can. It is a work that is from people, for people and accessible to all people. In a time of diverse crisis, this democratic idealism and strict work ethic is not misplaced.

The artists amongst their work at the Scope Art Fair in New York:


For more information about the project and the artists visit these sites:
Without You baby
Invisible Heroes
Comenius Roethlisberger

Check out Comenius Roethlisberger's Sweetest Invitation exhibit of famous luxury brand logos made of sugar powder and cocaine here
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