Vol. 29 - Just a Taste
Our Monthly Newsletter
What’s New
Announcing Le Marché: DTLA!
As ever, Dear Reader, we strive to bring you curated experiences. In our spaces, in this newsletter, and on our site. Which is why we are so excited to present the latest branch of our ever growing design tree; Le Marché: DTLA.
Modeled from our first Marché page, Le Marché: DTLA offers the same immersive experience for our Los Angeles atelier. Here you can see all of our original designs, and collected art, sculpture and vintage pieces available at our DTLA location in their gorgeous context. Sunsplashed bronze patina-ing in the afternoon light. Vintage designer pillows accenting chic lounges. Modern sculptures atop vintage credenzas. Pieces old and new, found and founded, designed and divined, all in rapturous dialogue with one another. Oh the alchemy of it all! Like its NYC cousin, this page will remain in constant flux as pieces come and go, so check back often!
Of course, we'd much rather see you in person, but we understand that sometimes you just don't have time for the whole thing. Once in while, you take the tasting menu. Here and there, all you need are the highlights. With this in mind, we present this month's Communiqué.
FEATURED PIECE: Ares Ottoman
Ares was a uniquely striking piece from our original collection. Sharp angles and gentle curves, muscular with a sense of elegance. Our new Ares Ottoman features everything we love about the original, in a more compact, adaptable form. This versatile piece functions as an extension or partner to the original, or a stand alone piece.
For inquiries, reach us here.
What We’re LOVING
On the PAGE
Why Read Moby Dick?
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Moby Dick is undoubtedly among the greatest American novels. Exciting and deeply atmospheric. Transportive and introspective. Resonate and perpetually timely. Herman Melville's epic tome has as much insight to offer us on authoritarianism and human obsession today as it did when it was first published, a decade before the Civil War.
But, if we're being honest, it is a bit long. And, at times, glacially slow. The story's principal antagonist and most famous character doesn't even appear until about page 150, and the whale himself shows up well after that. And those chapters dedicated exclusively to whale anatomy... what a slog.
That's why this month we're recommending Nathaniel Philbrick's charming, insightful, and blessedly brief book, Why Read Moby Dick? Whether your just looking looking for the highlight reel, or need a little help ginning up the motivation to make it all the way through the real thing, or want to relive the experience of reading it, without reinvesting all the time, this book helps make Melville's classic into slightly less of a white whale.
Available from our local independent bookstore here.
On the sCREEN
The Fall of the House of Usher
On Netflix
And if it's the length of the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe that has you saying "Nevermore!" then Netflix's new limited series, The Fall of the House of Usher, has just what you need to fly through them.
While it's named after one of Poe's most famous short stories, this is actually an adaptation of all of them (well, most), and many of his poems. Reset in modern times, amid a crumbling big Pharma empire, the chief delight of this series is how seamlessly in weaves so many disparate stories into one larger, socially relevant narrative. We catch glimpses of The Tell Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, The Mask of the Red Death and verses from the Raven, Annabell Lee, and The City by the Sea, in a way feels natural, interesting, and surprising.
The show's star however is Carla Gugino, who steals every scene she is in, playing an enigmatic, ravenesque, everywoman who always seems to be right place at the right time to see that Poe's ironic sense of justice is meted out with suitable literary flare. Not for the faint of heart, but likewise not to missed for any fan of Poe's gothic fiction.
Featured Artist: Sebastian Leon at Ralph Pucci
We've raved about him here before, but friend and fave multi-disciplinary artist Sebastian Leon had a fabulous opening at Ralph Pucci international in Los Angeles last week and Laurent was lucky enough to attend. While it's not quite of "The Complete Works of Sebastian Leon," (that would be a global expedition) there is something marvelous about seeing a body of work assembled like this. The evolutionary lines become a clear and you learn something new, and wonderful, about work you thought you new so well.
It's fantastic primer, or review, for one of the most exciting artists we know working today.
TL;DR
Quoth the Raven:
"Stay Chic,"
KD + LR