"I have always wanted to defend what is indefensible."
- Yves Gastou

images from Gastou's home on the Right Bank from book, Metropolitan Places

"As owner of one the most renowned art gallery in France, Gastou is respected in all circles of art and design. His art gallery is noted for the recognition of architect and designer Ettore Sottsass in 1985.

It was within his art gallery that many famous architects and designers including Ettore Sottsass were first exhibited. Other famous architects and designers exhibited at the gallery of Gastou are Shiro Kuramata and Ron Arad. His art gallery also featured the artworks of artist such as Jacques Adnet, Maxime Old, Marc du Plantier et Paul Dupre-Lafon, Chale and Jean Claude Farhi, Paul Evans and Maria Pergay.

If you were an artist in the 40's, 50's and 70's the likelihood of being featured at the gallery of Gastou was almost guaranteed. Gastou's love of historical design led him to becoming one of the most extensive antique art collectors of his time. Antique furniture became a very important aspect to the Gastou artist pursuit both personally and professionally. His gallery became a showcase for furniture dating back to the 1940's to 1970's. For some of history's most poignant antique and eclectic furniture pieces, the gallery of Gastou would most certain be the venue to seek out the unusual in furniture designer pieces."

more about Galerie Yves Gastou
images taken from Metropolitan Places
text taken from here

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"We were determined not to make the house into something it was never intended to be."
aka
"Memories floating out of the wall plane"

- Alison Sky, SITE Architecture, from Metropolitan Places











"As a way to further link the past of the house with that of its current owner, SITE decided to install actual objects that somehow relate to her distant or recent past in some of the walls. In SITE's conception, the walls act as a skin, a delicate membrane that separates and links the past and the present."



taken from Metropolitan Places, by Elizabeth Heyert
inspired and reminded by the 2thewalls.




thinking of Rachel Whiteread sculptures today, go here..

Rachel Whiteread: "For me, Apartment has a lot to do with figuring out how to cast a many-roomed apartment and show the space where the walls were between the rooms. When I made House [1993], we had to leave the actual walls and floors in place. We could not knock them out. But with Apartment, everything was cast around the architectural elements and the casts were removed in sections. So when you look at the piece, there is a space between the rooms where the wall once was. We did an awful lot of casting for six months in order to make this space. The engineering and crazy gymnastic backward thinking that was needed to be able to make the piece was remarkable. That's really how I think about it. "












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