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

Subterranean History Museum
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Subterranean History Museum

An utterly jaw-dropping space, "designed" by the very process it now celebrates, this immense salt mine has been brilliantly repurposed as a museum. The elements of design are beautifully delicate and amplify the colossal scale of the space. The video is for once essential viewing and even the bombastic music fails to over-sell the staggering proportions involved. Quite why the awestruck visitor might wish to play a few rounds of mini-golf in response to this spectacle is not clear...

Design BoomBoom
"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