Eli Ping

Moody sculptural paintings by an emerging NYC artist

Stark yet colorful works that fall somewhere between painting and sculpture, NYC-based artist Eli Ping’s practice is a study of unexpected tension in form, subject and tone. Ping says he’s “ultimately interested in materials and process, and accomplishing a form that conveys energetic resonance to the viewer,” a feat accomplished by keeping spontaneity alive in otherwise highly-considered compositions. This ruminative approach to art-making shows up …

Perrier-Jouët Bicentennial

A 200-year-old champagne house celebrates their birthday with a gift that keeps on giving

Perrier-Jouët invited us to celebrate their 200th birthday with a gala in Paris and a visit to their vineyards and caves in Épernay. To commemorate their anniversary, they explored the concept of legacy, commissioning American artist and architect Daniel Arsham to bring the concept to life, complimenting a history of design collaborations in the process. In 1902, Perrier-Jouët hired Art Nouveau glass artist Émile Gallé …

Terada Mokei

Paper pop-ups shrink everyday life into adorably tiny scenarios

A slice of life shrinks even smaller with the miniature design line, Terada Mokei. Architect-turned-modeler Naoki Terada’s Architectural Model Accessories Series is a monochrome microcosmic representation of everyday life. Terada adopted a 1/100 scale ratio for the series, promoting a metric-based “global standard” that adorably scales down the largeness of reality to one-hundredth the size. Populating the paper environments, Terada’s version of the modern man …