Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Art / Film
David Lynch Takes Over Department Store Windows in Paris
Posted
by Benjamin Sutton
on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:33 AM
As
previously mentioned, museum studies and display aesthetics only became formalized after department
store windows got people thinking about how we display the objects we covet. So what to make of the purposefully perplexing window displays
David Lynch has designed for the
Galeries Lafayette department store at 40 Boulevard Haussmann in Paris?
Well, for Lynch the displays in the exhibition I see myself (through October 3) are "like jewelery boxes. They'll present scenes with landscapes and characters that evoke the machine, abstraction and woman." Of course, that just about summarizes Lynch's entire oeuvre and, as you'll notice, most of the displays are like diorama versions of his films.
(via Boing Boing)
Tags: David Lynch, Department Stores, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, window displays, public art
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