Natalie Weinburger Small Black Sand Bowl

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Brooklyn-based retailer, The Primary Essentials, had several ceramic items by Natalie Weinburger which made striking use of black volcanic sand. Both of the bud vases are now sold out, but you can still get your hands on this useful and attractive narrow footed bowl, featuring the same uniquely textured exterior.

—The Primary Essentials

Between Life and Death: Robert Motherwell's Elegies in Bay Area Collections

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Golden Gate Park 
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
September 5, 2015 – March 6, 2016

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The de Young Museum in San Francisco is hosting a celebration of the centennial of Robert Motherwell's birth. The small one-room show opens today and features works from the artist's Elegies to the Spanish Republic series, assembled from local public and private collections. These pieces make use of large, heavily-applied fields of black paint, utilizing gestural techniques and a formalist reduction that sets him apart from most of his contemporaries. This is both a concise exhibition of one of the 20th century’s most preeminent abstract expressionists, and a wonderful chance to celebrate a significant milestone with other admirers of Motherwell’s work. 

—de Young Museum

Saturdays Surf NYC Fall ’15 Lookbook

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The latest Saturdays lookbook is now up on their website, featuring a selection of Fall '15 items, many of which are already available online and in-store. Shot against a neutral backdrop with simple styling throughout, the brand's modern take on wearable staples does all the talking.

—Saturdays Surf NYC

Visvim Iris Liner Jacket

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Visvim's fall collection is probably one of their best to date. Featuring a series of understated new styles alongside some of their most loved items, there's a lot to choose from. The Iris Liner Jacket is something I can't remember seeing from the brand before, but it's beautifully constructed and very functional, whether you use it as outerwear, layered under something else, or attached to another Visvim piece.

—Available at Haven

Willy Vanderperre – Raf Simons 1995-2015

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"032c Workshop/Joerg Koch is pleased to present an anti-retrospective by photographer Willy Vanderperre that activates 20 years of Raf Simons collections. Using archival pieces from across all of the label’s collections, Vanderperre channels the energy of Simons’ design practice through a series of archetypes drawn from youth subcultures. Organized to appear as a schoolhouse locker, the installation unravels a collaboration between designer and photographer that feeds from the iconography and dissonance of adolescence in provincial Belgium."

—032c

Beams at Home 2

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After a successful first edition, Beams at Home 2 was recently published by the Japanese company. Continuing where the previous book left off, it features the homes of over 100 staff members and creators, offering insight and inspiration with a particular focus on close quarters and how to make the most of them.

—Available from Beams

Albam: From Brewery to Studio; How We Wear Our Denim

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Albam recently released an online feature which looks at the connection between their jeans, the people who wear them and the jobs they do. Shot by photographer John Spinks, the simple, well-presented piece profiles six individuals, speaking to each of them about their careers, style rules and what they like about the brand's denim.

—Albam

Gagosian Paris presents Chris Burden

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26 Avenue de l'Europe
93350 Le Bourget, Paris
April 25 – September 19, 2015

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Having been closed for the whole of August, the Gagosian's Chris Burden show has now reopened at their gallery on the outskirts of Paris, until its extended run comes to an end on September 19th. Anyone who lives in the area or expects to be close by should really make a trip to the suburb of Le Bourget to witness a number of the conceptual artist's thought-provoking sculptures. The exhibition, which includes the massive Porsche with Meteorite, represents something of a late career retrospective, with the three most recent pieces acting as an overview of Burden’s final years, prior to his death in May.

—Gagosian Gallery