Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

a creative resource to provoke and inspire

Corb's 5 Points
Andrea Stinga

Corb's 5 Points

This is a beautifully clear evocation of  Le Corbusier's ideas about the basis of a new domestic architecture expressed through a graphic deconstruction of his most famous house; Villa Savoye. At a time when information is all its manifest forms regularly descends into mere decoration and indulgent obfuscation the crisp simplicity of this is both instructive and refreshing. Take a look at a few current architectural blogs and wonder at the houses proposed. There are a few firms who could do worse than refer back to these ideas, first proposed in 1926.

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"The sense of smell, and therefore of taste and flavour, also invokes a system of communication. This sense has not been developed in humans to the point of a language, or traduced to writing, it has therefore been more difficult to describe and define."
- Van Toller & Dodd, 1988, Perfumery : The Psychology And Biology Of Fragrance