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.

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Tapestry Museum - CVBD Architquitectos
Fernando Guerra

Tapestry Museum - CVBD Architquitectos

A Tapestry Museum in the small Portuguese town of Arraiolos. CVBD Architectos feature crisp plaster and expanses of cloudy local marble which wash through the beautiful vaulted rooms as though a mysterious tide had carried surface and pigment into the spaces describing lines at various marks. The serenity of this contrast, between the highly polished marble and pristine plaster, is inspired. There is a tension between the marble surface's geological "ornament" and the somber but exquisite curves of the vaulting which is balanced and mobile. It is easy to imagine this environment as a perfect setting for the scale and complexity of the tapestries it will hold.

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"The modernist surface is treated as an abstracted boundary of volume, and has a conceptual rather than sensory essence. these surfaces tend to remain mute, as shape and volume are given priority; form is vocal, whereas matter remains mute."
- Juhani Pallasmaa, 1999, Hapticity and Time