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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Darkly atmospheric retail.
Alex Dufner

2/05/13

Darkly atmospheric retail.

James Plumb have created a moodily surreal environment for the basement of menswear retailer Hostem. Lurking in the shadows are discretely customized furniture pieces, items from Hostem's eclectic collections and objects rescued from neglect and decay. 

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"The cold, dead, silent, smooth or variegated surface of sculpture or porcelain evokes sensations of touch, warmth, taste and hearing ..."
- Susan Stewart, 1999, Prologue: From The Musem Of Touch [Material Memories: Design And Evocation]