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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Etat Libre d'Orange in London
Adam Luszniak

30/07/13

Etat Libre d'Orange in London

Indomitable maverick perfumers Etat Libre d' Orange have opened a store in London. Shed design have invoked the tiled grids of French artist Jean-Pierre Raynaud with fittings suggesting laboratory systems to perfectly house the excitable exuberance of ELDO's catalog of olfactory outlaws.

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"Vision provides a presence, sound does not. Sight distances us, music touches us, noise besieges us. Absent, ubiquitous, omnipresent sound envelopes bodies. "
- Michel Serres, 1986, The Five Senses