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The Colorful Canvases of Stanley Whitney
By Chantal McStay
For the past 25 years, the painter Stanley Whitney , a veteran of New York’s abstract school, has mined the formal, political and emotional power of color, covering canvases with grids of rich, saturated hues. In keeping with the recent spate of shows dedicated to the work of Black abstract painters , last week saw the opening of the artist’s first major solo exhibition in Los Angeles, “Stanley Whitney: How Black Is That Blue,” which comprises a suite of 11 works he created last year and is spread across Matthew Marks’s two galleries there. The 8-by-8-foot title painting is punctuated with a small black square, highlighted with cerulean and midnight edges, that sits atop a block of lush, opaque azure in the upper left-hand corner of the canvas — a microcosm of the many alluring blues and blacks, along with striking golds, reds, pinks and greens, that echo throughout the show. In “Twenty Twenty” — the largest work on view, at 12 feet wide by 8 feet high — a thin blue line careens off the lower portion of the canvas, tracked by another, in black, that runs parallel to it. The titles of Whitney’s paintings are often plucked from his favorite lines in songs or books. “How Black Is That Blue” “Stanley Whitney: How Black Is That Blue” is on view through April 10 at Matthew Marks Gallery, 1062 North Orange Grove and 7818 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, matthewmarks.com .
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Bucolic Chalets Perched Among the Alps
By Michaela Trimble
Nestled in the pristine alpine hamlet of Les Giettes, in Switzerland’s Valais region, the eco-friendly Whitepod resort offers a resplendent way to experience the Alps. Designed in 2004, it includes Montalba Architects to resemble a mountain village. Each comprises multiple bedrooms, a living room and a dining room, and, in keeping with the hotel’s mission Durame and raw fiber bed frames by the Swiss sleep company Elite . Guests awaken to expansive views of the surrounding forest and Lake Geneva, and are greeted with a breakfast of local specialties — including buttery croissants and levain bread served with apricot and raspberry jams — delivered to their door via an electric food truck. The generous spread is necessary sustenance for a day spent on the property’s 15 miles of hiking routes and slopes for skiing, snowboarding and snowshoeing. Chalets start at around $730 a night, whitepod.com .
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Loose-Leaf Tea Inspired by the Ritual of Gong Fu
By Nikki Shaner-Bradford
Whenever Diana Zheng, who moved to the United States as a child, returned to the Chaoshan region of China, she would reunite with family over endless rounds of gong fu tea. Three Gems Tea , a line of loose-leaf infusions and tea ware, in 2019. The brand currently offers six oolong varieties, all of which are sourced from family farms in China and Taiwan that use biodynamic and organic growing practices. Eunbi Cho . Further down the road, Zheng and Takahashi envision a series of offerings from Japan, where Takahashi currently lives, a continuation of From $6, threegemstea.com .
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A Gardener Reimagines Sustainable Fashion
By Thessaly La Force
“My aesthetics in design come from me as a kid, clothed, realizing nothing fit me. It’s like the education system: standardized. And we’re all custom,” said Ron Finley , the Los Angeles-based activist and fashion designer, who recently teamed up with the biodegradable, recycled cotton and gender-neutral clothing brand Everybody.World on a new line of basics: master class ). Finley is philosophical and holistic about his work — “This is another form of design,” he said on our Zoom call, waving an arm at the lush greenery behind him. Gardening to him is more than just an activity; it’s a way of life. He added: “Just get back to what truly has value and realize that those new phones, that new car — nothing you can buy gives you value. The only thing that gives you value is you and your integrity.” The campaign, which was inspired by the palette of nature (pomegranate red pants, lemon yellow sweaters), also features two of Finley’s three talented sons, Azzedine and Kohshin (an artist), who helped with the collection’s designs. Sometimes, it just runs — or grows — in the family. The Everybody.World by Ron Finley collection starts at $20, everybody.world .
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Housewares From a New Online Boutique
By Natalia Torija Nieto
Though Shinichiro Ogata’s portfolio is wide-ranging — he is a chef and restaurateur, a designer and an architect — everything he does is in pursuit of saho , or the Japanese art of being. Nowhere is that plainer to see than at Ogata Paris , which opened in a former hôtel particulier in the Marais in December of 2019. Inside the impeccably renovated space, visitors can sit in the bar, restaurant or tea salon, or they can browse art, tea blends, sweets and a whole host of housewares to take with them when they go. Now — and rather conveniently, given current travel restrictions — many of those same items can be purchased via Ogata Paris’s new online boutique. There, too, the breadth of Ogata’s creative vision is on display, but to my mind a hammered-pewter chirori , or onlinestore.ogata.com .
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In Mexico, Homes That Encourage Introspection
Seen from its suburban street in Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco State in western central Mexico, Casa Padilla looks less like a house than like a monastery: a blank white wall marked with a broad crescent downspout and a plain cedar door. Barely seven feet high, the door opens into a small, shaded vestibule that ends in another door, this one leading to a bright, sunlit courtyard hemmed in by ecclesiastical walls. Designed in 1989 by the now 63-year-old architect Hugo Gonzalez — who is revered in Guadalajara’s tight-knit design community but little known outside it — the 8,600-square-foot house is not so much a structure as it is a narrative, never legible in its entirety. If the fragile glass jewel boxes of high Modernism and concrete bunkers of Brutalism embrace radical transparency, then Casa Padilla is rooted in an older, liturgical logic of mystery and awe. In fact, it is one of many designs in and around Guadalajara that build on the legacy of Luis Barragán and others in their privileging of introspection. For more, visit tmagazine.com — and follow us on Instagram .
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