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"Patrick Jouin: Design and Gesture" at the Museum of arts and design MAD New York, November 9 - February 6, 2011

In the latest edition of MADProjects, which explores emerging trends and innovations in the design world, the Museum of Arts and Design presents Patrick Jouin: Design and Gesture. This exhibition incorporates the Paris-based designer's landmark objects in a multimedia installation, with a panoramic movie conceived by him and directed by the Belgian movie director Jérôme de Gerlache, that explores the relationship between object and gesture. In keeping with this theme, Jouin has also created a light feature for MAD's Lobby with the Italian lighting company Leucos.

Born in Nantes, France in 1967, Patrick Jouin graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle-Les Ateliers in 1992. The following year he joined Thomson Multimedia, and from 1995 he worked for Philippe Starck in Paris. In 1999, Jouin established his own product design and interior architecture studio. He has received numerous design awards and important public commissions. His most recent solo exhibition was presented at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in spring 2010

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"The Book of Fine Linen" by F. de Bonneville, Flammarion.

The Book of Fine Linen invites us to enter the elegant world of heirloom household fabrics, their use and manufacture, their embellishment and care. In her lively thematic treatment, Françoise de Bonneville presents countless fibers and materials as both quintessential examples of the weaver's art and unusually revealing testaments of the history of daily life.

Making extensive use of household inventories, diaries, and colorful details and anecdotes describing domestic arrangements, the author has examined centuries of textile history. She discusses the origins and symbolism of the trousseau, lovingly assembled over the course of many years by young women and their mothers and ceremoniously handed over to the young couple on their wedding day. Traditions of caring for linens, which occupied incredible amounts of women's time and expertise before the invention of the washing machine, are explored, as are methods of growing and weaving natural fibers such as cotton, linen and silk. Fabulous embroidery techniques and designs from Europe and America are also superbly illustrated and carefully explained.

A fascinating text is supplemented by a rich array of visual material drawn from archival photographs, vintage advertisements, old department store catalogues, and splendid paintings, as well as original photography commissioned especially for this volume in extraordinary textile collections, private homes, and the weaving and embroidery workshops of great contemporary manufacturers.

This sumptuously designed book, with its comprehensive glossary of technical terms, bibliography, and index, will make an exquisite and cherished gift for the bride-to-be as well as a stunning visual treat for textile collectors, decorators, and anyone interested in discovering the history of fine household fabrics, delightfully told, from the white linen cloth of ancient Egypt to the rainbow-hued coverlets of today.

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