A wax statue of Yayoi Kusama I came across in Harajuku yesterday
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Gems Studio was originally approached in 2002 to create a custom sculpted wax figure of the American fashion designer Rick Owens for installation at a catwalk presentation in Paris. The bespoke figure was later used to furnish the designer’s Palais Royal store in Paris. After the initial sculpt was completed, both figure and head were produced in tinted wax with each hair inserted individually to produce the most natural hairline achievable. The eyes were custom made to reproduce a perfect colour match. The paint for the face was meticulously matched and blended to numerous images of the designer to ensure that the finished piece was as natural to his colouration as possible. Rick Owens was thrilled with the mannequin and subsequently contacted Gems Studio again in 2008 to produce a wax head likeness as part of the display at his newly opened London store on South Audley Street, Mayfair.
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For the L.A. debut of his mammoth furniture designs, Rick Owens called on his longtime supporter, Maxfield’s Tommy Perse, to collaborate. “We have this strong relationship with Rick where we sell his fashion, we were the first one to sell his fashion when he started, and we were the only one to sell his fashion when he lived in L.A.,” Perse said of the artist, whose inaugural exhibition Turbo-L.A.-Monumental runs through January 7, 2012, at Maxfield’s Gallery space. “So we’ve really been together from the beginning.”
The limited-edition pieces echo 20th-century masters like Le Corbusier, who is also housed in the Maxfield Gallery archive, a space that showcases exhibitions of furniture curated by Perse. “It’s perfect because Rick’s stuff is equal to or above the level that we like to operate on to begin with,” Perse said. “When I first saw some of the furniture he was doing, it kind of slid by me. But it really turned a corner for me.”
Owens describes himself as “Biblical, Brutalist, Bauhaus, and Bakersfield.” That goes for his fashion, too, and even more for his furniture, with solid, seemingly immovable bulk (one bed he created weighs more than a ton) and otherworldly, almost Old Testament materials (carved bone, moose antler). It left Perse, for one, nearly speechless. “I am still completely taken aback,” he said.
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