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

The Space Between The Void
Sebastian Errazuriz

The Space Between The Void

Sebastian Errazuriz's beguiling kaleidoscope cabinet conceals its dizzying interior beneath a sober rectilinear skin. The gleaming, forest of reflection trapped within calls to mind artist Josiah McElheny's splendid mirror vitrines. The viewing lens on the side enables an un-disrupted view of the infinite reflections within. A lovely conceit as the optical reverie inside is only broken by potential viewers opening the doors. The cabinet has a secret life which depends on the absence of witness.

Design Boom
"The absence of a true olfactory vocabulary in European languages has long preoccupied Western scientists. Although the human nose is capable of recognising thousands of different odours, nearly all of our odour categories - sweet, pungent, bitter and so on - are borrowed from a limited selection of taste terms."
- Classen, Howes & Synnott, 1994, Aroma: The Cultural History Of Smell