BUNCHES Paris is inspiring. That’s one thing I’ve learned by visiting the city. I walked around the city and visited a couple of shops. They all had to do with interior decoration and design. Interior decoration has always interested me and I like to see new things in this field of expertise. One shop in Paris that displays interior design is Merci. It combines clothing, a café and library and interior décor. It was in this store where I first noticed ‘bunches’. In this case, lamps combined and hung together. Mostly, they were the same lights but in different colours or materials and hung in different heights to create texture and dimension. After spotting this in the Merci store, I began to notice lights styled and hung up this way all over Paris. Especially when the materials are similar but slightly different. This creates texture but peace at the same time . Single things working together to become one.
Next to this inspiring find of lamps clustered together to form one, it triggered me to do some research whether this clustering was only active in interior design, or whether it was something that could be traced in different fields of expertise. And that was exactly
the case. The more I
began to think of ‘being together’ and ‘working together’ the more it dawned on me that there were a lot of examples where this took place.
The first thing I’ve found, which can still be related to interior dÊcor, was the 100 colour exhibition in Japan. Separate sheets of coloured paper
were hung together to create a ceiling
which looks similar to a rainbow. Again, these separate sheets of paper, just like the lamps, are working together to become one.
After discovering this exhibition, I thought of a magazine I had purchased a few days ago. This magazine focusses on fashion and there are a lot of photos in it too. Something I remembered looking through the magazine was that a couple of brands were presenting their collection in groups. Groups of people on the photograph who were individuals, but working together at the same time to create a balanced yet capturing image. Again, this is exactly the same as the lampshades: working together to become one.
The last element that fits in with these findings, is bands. A lot of new artists, who are breaking through with their music , are bands or duo’s. A few examples, which you might know, are: The Lumineers, Imagine Dragons and Bastille. These bands aren’t newly formed, but the fact that they’re popular right now is interesting to me. Apparently, people like to work together at the moment. Helping each other to become stronger and helping each other to become better. To learn from each other.
The Lumineers
Bastille After finding al this information, I can say that clustering, or simply being together, is something that’s happening in a lot of different worlds. Probably lots more than I’ve discussed here. But it is still interesting. I wonder if it has anything to do with the economic crisis in Europe. Do we have to stick together to make things work, or do we simply need each other to ensure ourselves and find comfort? It’s probably a combination and makes us cluster together anything and everything. I’m wondering what will be next… Love,
Evi
Sources 100 colours coming artists
D&G
Tommy Hilfiger
The Lumineers
Bastille
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