New, book is sealed #2492

Curated by Hedi Slimane, former design director of Dior Homme, 34 PARIS is in many ways a reaction to our tendency toward the baroque – one that we had just fully indulged in the previous issue, 33 TOUCH. The issue is a testament to Hedi’s reductionist aesthetic and an exploration of a burgeoning new movement: art that has its base in architecture. To this end, architect Greg Lynn designed a lacquered gray monolith with an interior topography engineered to hold the bound book as though suspended in space. Contributors include architects Neil Denari, Andreas Angelidakis, and Dominique Perrault; video artist Chris Cunningham; artists Thomas Demand, Elisabeth Ballet, James Casebere, and Craig Kalpakjian; graphic designers H5 and John Maeda; and the French band Air.

Visionaire 34 Paris: Dior Homme Solitaire by Stephen Gan & Hedi Slimane. Brand new, unopened shrink-wrapped Hardcover in silver enameled two part steel box with plastic ribbed inside. This copy is 2492 of a Limited Run of Only 6,000 copies. Hardcover, 19" x 14" x 2", 10.53 pounds. Curated by Hedi Slimane, the design director of Dior Homme, PARIS was in many ways a reaction to our tendency toward the baroque - one that we had just fully indulged in the previous issue, Touch. For Paris, leading architects, artists, and designers portrayed the City of Light as the City of Tomorrow, with clean, spare lines and a strict white, gray, and black color palette. The issue was a testament to Hedi’s reductionist aesthetic and an exploration of a burgeoning new movement: art that has its base in architecture. To this end, architect Greg Lynn designed a lacquered gray monolith with an interior topography engineered to hold the bound book as though suspended in space.