Synopses & Reviews
Hedi Slimane, the Design Director for Dior Homme, curates Visionaire 34 Paris. For this issue, Visionaire and Hedi Slimane invite leading architects, artists, and designers to portray the City of Light in an unprecedented way; not by referring to the past with familiar nostalgia and romanticism, but instead by depicting the city of tomorrow.
Architect Greg Lynn has designed an innovative sculptural piece to contain a large-format hardbound book of these original works. Constructed of powder-coated metal, this monolithic case opens to reveal an interior topography specifically engineered to hold the book as though suspended in space. Contributors to this edition include architects Neil Denari, Andreas Angelidakis, and Dominique Perrault; video artist Chris Cunningham; artists Thomas Demand, Elisabeth Ballet, James Casebere, and Craig Kalpakjian; graphic designers H5 and John Maeda; and special text by the French band Air.