Rirkrit TIRAVANIJA Untitled (the future will be chrome)
Pierre JEANNERET Reading light table Jean ROYÈRE Chair
Jean ROYÈRE Chair Jean ROYÈRE Couch
FISCHLI / WEISS Untitled (FW1/27) Untitled (FW1/02) Jean ROYÈRE Couch Verne DAWSON Saturday
Henri MATISSE Print Andreas GURSKY Untitled XI (van Gogh) FISCHLI / WEISS Untitled Untitled
Jean ROYÈRE Bed and table
Pierre JEANNERET Armchair
Valentin CARRON Untitled
Tracey EMIN Meet Me in Heaven
Thomas HIRSCHHORN Twin Cross-Chain (Gold)
Ferruccio LAVIANI for KARTELL Lamps
Kim MACCONNEL Armchair with dots GILBERT & GEORGE Trapped (detail)
Jean PROUVÉ Table Granipoli, Saint-Brevin Loïc LE GROUMELLEC Les Mégalithes
Julian SCHNABEL The Migration of the DuckBilled Platypus to Australia (detail)
Jean PROUVÉ Table
Mathieu MATÉGOT Tea trolley Mathieu MATÉGOT Chair and table “Panama”
Jean PROUVÉ Table
Franz WEST Lamp Loïc LE GROUMELLEC Les Mégalithes
Mathieu MATÉGOT Table and chairs “Copacabana”
Pierre PAULIN Couch
Christopher WOOL Untitled (P442)
Pierre PAULIN Couch
Kim MACCONNEL Chairs
Gaetano PESCE Clock
Jean PROUVÉ Demountable house Jean PROUVÉ Demountable house
Jean PROUVÉ Table
Franz WEST Lamp
Loïc LE GROUMELLEC Les Mégalithes
Thomas HIRSCHHORN & Marcus STEINWEG Nietzsche – Map
Ugo RONDINONE No. 135 – Vierterjunineunzehnhundertneunundneunzig
Wolfgang TILLMANS From the Air Faltenwurf (boxed)
Poul KJÆRHOLM Two chairs
Keith TYSON Studio Wall Drawing: Feb 09/05. The film is over, the credits have begun to roll... Ingo MAURER Lamps “Pierre ou Paul”
Mathieu MATÉGOT Table and chairs “Copacabana”
Thomas HIRSCHHORN & Marcus STEINWEG Nietzsche – Map
Loïc LE GROUMELLEC Les Mégalithes Ingo MAURER Lamps “Pierre ou Paul”
Franz WEST Table Onkelstühle Ugo RONDINONE Sunrise. West. April
Jean
Glenn
Karen
Patricia
Jean
Alighiero
Francesco
Jean
PARKETT editions
PARKETT
PARKETT
Janette
Glenn
George
Charlotte
FUHRIMANN
Tom
John
PARKETT edition by Richard PRINCE Good Revolution BURR Suicide (hara-kiri) ROYÈRE Armchair “Œuf” BROWN The Dead (Parts 1 to 3) NAKASHIMA Coffee table PERRIAND Tripod stool / HÄCHLER editions FUHRIMANN / HÄCHLER Joseph-André MOTTE (Tripod) Chair Raffaella BORTOLUZZI Louvers Federica TONDATO Carpet URQUIOLA for MOROSO Armchair edition by Thomas HIRSCHHORN Swiss Made ROYÈRE Armchair “Œuf” Charlotte PERRIAND Tripod stool BROWN The Dead (Parts 1 to 3) Jean ROYÈRE Armchair “Œuf” KILIMNIK Venice Beach John WATERS No Smoking FUHRIMANN / HÄCHLER Pierre JEANNERET Chair Paco RABANNE Space curtain ROYÈRE Dining suite E BOETTI Mappa FISCHLI / WEISS Untitled Untitled LAVERRIÈRE Nénuphar low table CLEMENTE Autoportrait (Crucifixion) PARKETT edition by Raymond PETTIBON Untitled (Justly Felt and Brilliantly Said) PARKETT editions by Francis ALYS Alexandre NOLL Chair Djordje OZBOLT Decision Time PARKETT edition by Marilyn MINTER Pamela Anderson WATERS Artistically Incorrect PARKETT edition by Katharina FRITSCH Wilhelm Tell Pierre PAULIN Leather couch Izhar PATKIN Israeli lantern Franz WEST Onkelstühle Mira NAKASHIMA Table Izhar PATKIN Israeli lantern Pipilotti RIST The Blue Fairy in the ValleyJean ROYÈRE Floor lamp “Champignon” Couch and armchair “Ours Polaire”
Franz WEST Red Light District
Pierre JEANNERET Lounge chair Sigmar POLKE Wo ist der Hirsch
Jeff KOONS Hole II
Jean PROUVÉ Armchair “Cité”
Jean ROYÈRE Salon “Croisillon”
Olafur ELIASSON Color globe
Olafur ELIASSON Color globe
Franz WEST Zitko (mit Otto Zitko)
Ulla VON BRANDENBURG Chekhov II Woman with hat
Robert ADAMS Ceiling
Cy TWOMBLY Untitled
Andy WARHOL Hand
Pierre PAULIN Lamp “Elysée”
Robert ADAMS
Cy TWOMBLY Untitled
India MAHDAVI
Jean PROUVÉ Potence / Swing Jib Lamp
Jean ROYÈRE Three bar stools Ecusson
Jean PROUVÉ Conference table Chair
GILBERT & GEORGE A Drinking Sculpture
Jorge PARDO Untitled (Lamps) Pool table
Pierre PAULIN Sofa Multimo Pair of armchairs “Croissants”
Damien HIRST Ivy
Jean ROYÈRE Salon “Croisillon”
Charlotte PERRIAND Bahut
Jean PROUVÉ Armchair “Cité”
Maurizio CATTELAN Untitled
Jean ROYÈRE Lamp “Sphère” Three bar stools Ecusson
Jean ROYÈRE Three bar stools Ecusson
Pierre PAULIN Lamp “Elysée”
Cy TWOMBLY Untitled
Jim HODGES end of knowing India MAHDAVI Couch
Gabriel OROZCO Corporal Coordinates Jean PROUVÉ Side light lamp, Sécurité Sociale du Mans
John BALDESSARI
Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads: People (Upside Down)
Rirkrit TIRAVANIJA Untitled (no fish in the water no rice in the fields)
GILBERT & GEORGE Gink
Carlo MOLLINO “Centrale” Cité de l’Université d’Antony Side chairs
Andy WARHOL Hand
Jean PROUVÉ Potence / Swing Jib Lamp
Pierre PAULIN Lamp “Elysée”
John BALDESSARI
Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Four): Head (Section) with Nose and Ear, No 2
Jean PROUVÉ Chairs
Charlotte PERRIAND Long table
John BALDESSARI Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Four): Head (Section) with Nose and Ear, No 2
Jean PROUVÉ Chairs
Charlotte PERRIAND Long table
Jorge PARDO Untitled (Floor)
Franz WEST Onkelstühle Work table in aspic
Ronan & Erwan BOUROULLEC Twin hanging lamps “Noire”
Franz WEST Onkelstühle Work table in aspic
Franz WEST Onkelstühle Work table in aspic
Franz WEST Biblisches Motiv
Olafur ELIASSON Eye see you
Pierre JEANNERET Bamboo armchair
Peter DOIG Untitled (Jungle Painting) Brice MARDEN Hydra Rock
Maurizio CATTELAN Good versus Evil
Peter DOIG Untitled (Jungle Painting)
Marcel BREUER Fireplace
Pierre JEANNERET Bamboo armchair
Brice MARDEN Hydra Rock
Marcel BREUER Couch
Pierre JEANNERET Bamboo armchair
Brice MARDEN Hydra Rock
Marcel BREUER Couch
Paul MCCARTHY Black Dog 1, Guggenheim Crown
Jean ROYÈRE Armchair “Sculptures”
George NAKASHIMA Conoid bench with back Jean ROYÈRE Armchair “Sculptures” Rosemarie TROCKEL Night Owl
Gary HUME The End of Fun Jean PROUVÉ Swing
George NAKASHIMA Conoid bench with back Gary HUME The End of Fun
Richard PRINCE Untitled (Cowboy) Augusta WOOD The Chaos of Warm Things Jean PROUVÉ Chair Compas
Marcel BREUER Villa
Wolfgang TILLMANS Freischwimmer 85 Piotr UKLANSKI Untitled
Hiroshi SUGIMOTO California Condor Alaskan Wolves
Jacques ADNET Buffet
Marcel BREUER Staircase Karen KILIMNIK A Shepardess
Ugo RONDINONE No. 107 – Vierundzwanzigstermaineunzehnhundertachtundneunzig
Karen KILIMNIK ship in a storm smugglers cove
Willem DE KOONING Standing Figure
Katharina FRITSCH St. Katharina Paul MCCARTHY Michael Jackson (Fucked Up, Big Head, Bronze)
FOR LUCAS, MARINA & STANLEY
For the past 18 years, I saw the world as being one extended “house”, a place for hope and storytelling, a place to raise a family, exchange ideas with artists and thinkers, and build an ever evolving art and design collection.
As I now open a new and more public chapter of my life emphasizing collaborations and production with the construction of our Frank Gehry-designed nonprofit LUMA Foundation Center in Arles (France), I feel encouraged by friends to share private fragments of my collection, shown within the intimate context of my homes, in this publication suggesting that living with art and nature and evolving amongst artists can be a dynamic, exciting and straightforward experience, as well as a harbor for dreams.
Photographer François Halard is the author of the sensitive photography joined by art director Beda Achermann who created a poetical layout of flowing images. Both are contemporary art lovers and we sat together and talked extensively about how to portray a very human environment, without ever showing the people in it, but letting their presence be palpable.
In the end, this project only came together after I brought it to Rirkrit Tiravanija. He chose the British Nursery Rhyme “This is the house that Jack built” and designed in his custom-designed font what constitutes the perfect title and text for the book and the tipping point for me to finish the project: slightly obsessive but with a good dose of humor, it indicates the plentiful discoveries made along the way. Rirkrit manages to remove all traces of vanity that a book showcasing one’s collection could entail. Instead it shows relentless work and vision in progress while leaving the door wide open for interpretation and imagination.
Maja Hoffmann, November 2014
MAJA HOFFMANN
THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.
Concept: MAJA HOFFMANN, RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA, BEDA ACHERMANN
Photographs: FRANçOIS HALARD
Text choice and design: RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA
Typesetting: HECTOR MADERA
Book design: STUDIO ACHERMANN
MAJA HOFFMANN is a Swiss-born contemporary art collector and a producer who for over two decades has supported innovative cultural projects including art production, publications, film, as well as social and environmental activities. Hoffmann is inspired in her mission by a long-standing family tradition of active philanthropy.
FRANçOIS HALARD lives and works between New York, Paris and Arles. François studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and soon after began working for Décoration Internationale. In 1984, he moved to New York City where he began to work regularly for American Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, AD, Wall Street Journal and The New York Times magazine.
His work for these publications established him as one of the most prolific and best-known interior and architectural photographers of our time. François is fascinated by artists and their creative dwellings, and has brought this to fruition in his photographs of the studios of Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel, etc.
RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA was born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His practice defies media-based description, combining traditional object-making, public and private performances, teaching, and other forms of public service and social action. He has exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. Major solo retrospectives were presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1999); Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo (2002); Chiang Mai University Art Museum (2004); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2004); MuséE de la Ville de Paris (2005), and Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2010).
His work has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards including the Benesse Prize by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan and the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lucelia Artist Award, the Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2004) and the 2010 Absolut Art Award.
THANKS TO
the ARTISTS and DESIGNERS featured in the book:
Jacques Adnet, Francis Alys, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, JeanCharles Blais, Alighiero e Boetti, Raffaella Bortoluzzi, Ronan & Erwan
Bouroullec, Marcel Breuer, Galenn Brown, Tom Burr, Valentin Carron, Maurizio Cattelan, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Verne Dawson, Willem de Kooning, Peter Doig, Olafur Eliasson, Tracey Emin, Fischli/ Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Andreas Fuhrimann and Gabrielle Hächler, Gilbert & George, Andreas Gursky, François Halard, Thomas Hirschhorn, Damien Hirst, Jim Hodges, Gary Hume, Pierre Jeanneret, Karen
Kilimnik, Poul Kjærholm, Jeff Koons, Jannette Laverrière, Ferruccio
Laviani, Loïc le Groumellec, Kim MacConnel, India Mahdavi, Brice
Marden, Mathieu Matégot, Henri Matisse, Ingo Maurer, Paul McCarthy, Marylin Minter, Carlo Mollino, Joseph-André Motte, George and Mira
Nakashima, Alexandre Noll, Gabriel Orozco, Djordje Ozbolt, Jorge
Pardo, Izhar Patkin, Pierre Paulin, Charlotte Perriand, Gaetano Pesce, Raymond Pettibon, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Jean Prouvé, Paco
Rabanne, Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Jean Royère, Julian Schnabel, Bas
Smets, Marcus Steinweg, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans, Federica Tondato, Rosemarie Trockel, Cy Twombly, Keith Tyson, Piotr
Uklanski, Patricia Urquiola, Ulla von Brandenburg, Andy Warhol, John
Waters, Franz West, Augusta Wood, Christopher Wool,
the ARCHITECTS Robert Adams, Sir Edwin Luytens and Marcel Breuer whose presence you may recognize in the book,
the ARCHITECTS and INTERIOR DESIGNERS
Bernard Paul and Marco Lillet, Franz Staffelbach, Gabrielle Hächler and Andreas Fuhrimann (Fuhrimann/Hächler), Raffaella Bortoluzzi (LABO design) and India Mahdavi (IMD),
the GALLERISTS Eva Presenhuber, Gavin Brown and Laurence and Patrick Seguin among many others
and all the ARTISTS of the collection who are not represented in these pages. It is a constant joy and a privilege to know you all.