![]() What worldy visions they create for the storybooks on our shelves, for wide-eyed children to behold, and for the heirlooms of the future: This is the line-up of artsists that you can discover at The Illustration Cupboard. I often think how lucky I am to have the opportunity to see this original work when so many thousands of others see only the printed page." Founder John Huddy Many of the artists in this exhibition are award-winning illustrators with international reputations, whose books sell throughout the world. ![]() Twelve years on I am pleased to regularly show the finest artwork in this field to a broad audience from our art gallery in St James’s, central London. ![]() "I started The Illustration Cupboard in the spare bedroom of my sister’s flat in 1995 when there was little interest in collecting contemporary book illustration artwork. ![]()
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![]() And Johanna Keimeyer created the chandelier "Treasure 2". It was there that Alexander von Vegesack asked her to create an exclusive light for his private collection. Johanna's work was discovered during a Vitra Design Workshop led by Fernando and Humberto Campana (Brazil). In an elaborate artistic process, she brought to life her remarkable collection of "recycle lights". Inspired by the aesthetics of these throw-away products, she managed to give trash a second life. Her treasure hunt through trash led her across half of Europe, through Slovenia, Spain, France, England and Germany. Up and coming artist Johanna Keimeyer took that second look. Plastic containers are inconspicuous, yet well designed objects which, due to their variety of form, material and color, deserve a second look. We only pay attention to what's inside, not to the wrapping. ![]() ![]() Once they're empty, they go in the trash. Water bottles, jugs of laundry detergent, cosmetics containers. ![]() ![]() But every now and then that reality flashes briefly across the public consciousness, as it did during last year’s news stories about mad cow disease, when television viewers glimpsed a sick cow being dragged along the ground to a slaughterhouse. Even readers of books and articles about conditions in factory farms may not be aware of what happens to animals at slaughter. Most Americans, largely disconnected from their food supply, assume these animals met a painless end, if they think about it at all. TO SATISFY THE PUBLIC’S ever-growing appetite for meat, slaughterhouses in the United States killed ten billion animals last year. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book, Klosterman’s 12 th, has fewer flights of fancy and arch hypotheticals by design, it’s much more straightforward and matter-of-fact. The Nineties is much more high-concept than the typical Klosterman book: It’s his attempt to assess a whole decade from the inside out, focusing more on how the decade was actually experienced than how, 22 years later, we’ve decided we want to remember it. “There are many people who could have done a book like this,” Klosterman says, and there’s an element of truth to that. But one person who absolutely does not think that is Chuck Klosterman. ![]() ![]() It’s tempting to say that The Nineties is the book that Chuck Klosterman, Generation X’s definitive chronicler of culture, music and digressive footnotes for nearly two decades now, was born to write. ![]() |