BØRGE MOGENSEN - DESIGNS FOR LIFE

DK | 2015 | 58’ | HD | Danish, English (sub.), Portuguese (sub.), Spanish (sub.), Arabic (sub.), Chinese (sub.), Japanese (sub.) | By Casper Høyberg,Thomas Mogensen & Malene Vilstrup | Copenhagen Film Company | Broadcasters: DR TV, SVT

 

The story of the man behind the Danish design classics is the story of the designer, the craftsman, the private person and of post WWII. The unprecedented economic recovery reflected in culture & lifestyle. Børge Mogensen's furniture is now internationally recognised as an artform with refined and timeless details and continues to inspire. 

ARCHITECTONES, BY XAVIER VEILHAN

FR | 2015 | 68' | HD | French (sub.), English (sub.) | By François Combin | Urubu Films

 

Xavier Veilhan,  one of the most internationally renowned French visual artistl represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2017. In this documentary, he invests seven emblematic modernist houses in the USA, Russia, Spain & France with striking elegant installations & performances (sculptures, music, lighting effects etc.) where visitors can interact.

 

Locations: the VDL Research House by Richard Neutra, the Case Study House n°21 by Pierre Koenig and The Sheats-Goldstein Residence by John Lautner (Los Angeles), the Cité Radieuse by Le Corbusier (Marseille), The  Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay by Paul Virilio and Claude Parent (Nevers), the Melnikov House (Moscow) and the Pavillon Mies van der Rohe (Barcelone).

ECLECTIC COLLECTIONS: THE MANTIN HOUSE

FR | 2014 | 52' | HD | French, English (sub.), Spanish (sub.), Italian (sub.) | By Marie-Christine Duchalet et Pierre Gadrey | Z'images Productions

 

Prominent French restaurateurs bring a new and sparkling perspective on their professions. Between exigency and passion, they renovate the furniture, paintings, tapestries, polychrome gilded leathers, taxidermy and stuffed animals of the renowned Maison Mantin, revealing their mysteries and the bourgeois lifestyle of the late nineteenth century.