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Amsterdam Museo Nazionale del Cinema photography Until Dec. 8 % “Miyako Ishiuchi—Photographs 39-011-8138-564 1976-2005” exhibits 90 photographs www.museonazionaledelcinema.org by the Japanese photographer (born 1947), exploring themes on the hu- dance “Torino Dance 2008” is a contempo- man body and living spaces. Works rary dance festival featuring “Gamaka” include “Yokosuka Story,” “Apartment,” by and with Indian dancer/choreogra- and “Endless Night.” pher Shantala Shivalingappa, plus per- FOAM formaces by Alain Platel, Les Ballets Until Nov. 16 C. de la B., Emio Greco and more. % 31-20-5516-500 Torino Danza—Festival www.foam.nl Internazionale di Balletto Until Nov. 8 Antwerp % 39-011-8815-557 silverware www.torinodanzafestival.it “Fifties Silver” presents a retrospective of Belgian silverware and silver jewelry Venice from 1958 to 1970. art Zilvermuseum Sterckshof “Italics: Italian Art between Tradition Until Jan. 18 and Revolution, 1968-2008” exhibits % 32-3-3605-252 works by more than 100 Italian artists www.zilvermuseum.be from the past 40 years, including Pino Pascali, Marisa Merz, Alberto Burri, Lu- Basel cio Fontana and Alighiero Boetti. archaeology Palazzo Grassi “Below Us—Archaeology in Basel” Until March 22 shows mammoth teeth, pottery, ar- % 39-041-5231-680 mor, coins and other objects found at www.palazzograssi.it archaeological sites in Basel. Historisches Museum Basel music Until March 1 “Festival Galuppi 2008” is a music fes- % 41-61-2058-600 tival on the island of Burano in the Ve- www.hmb.ch netian lagoon, celebrating the music of native son Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785). Succession Henri Matisse, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Brussels Festival Galuppi art Until Oct. 25 “The Smile of Buddha—1,600 Years of ‘The Reflection,’ 1935, by Henri Matisse, on view in Stuttgart; below, ‘Masque III,’ 1920, by Emil Nolde, in Paris; top, reclining chair, 1928, by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, on view in Liverpool. % 39-041-5221-120 Buddhist Art in Korea” exhibits paint- www.festivalgaluppi.it ings, bronze figures and other master- pieces as part of the museum’s “Made Vienna in Korea” festival. Until Nov. 16, 2009 gay men at sea with photographs, au- umenting more than 400 years of re- art Centre for Fine Arts % 49-69-6060-0 dio clips and mementoes. peated expulsion, persecution and set- “Strindberg, Schönberg, Munch—Nor- Oct. 10-Jan. 18 www.museumsstiftung.de/ Merseyside Maritime Museum tlement prohibition of Jews in Munich. dic Modernism in Schönberg’s Vienna % 32-2-5078-200 frankfurt Until Jan. 18 Jewish Museum Munich around 1900” shows paintings by www.bozar.be % 44-151-4784-499 Until Aug. 30 art www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk % 49-89-233-9609-6 Swedish playwright and painter Au- gust Strindberg (1849-1912) alongside “Peter Doig” presents 50 paintings www.juedisches-museum- opera art by his contemporaries Arnold and a group of works on paper by the London muenchen.de “La Cenerentola” is a costume opera Schönberg and Edvard Munch. Scottish artist (born 1959). by Gioachino Rossini retelling the architecture Arnold Schönberg Center story of Cinderella. Music direction by Schirn Kunsthalle “The Olympic Stadium Project—Le Cor- Paris Until Jan. 18 Marc Minkowski and set design by Oct. 9-Jan. 4 busier and Baghdad” displays specially art % 43-1-7121-888 Joan J. Guillén, with Silvia Tro San- % 49-69-2998-820 commissioned models of a Baghdad “Emil Nolde” presents paintings and www.schoenberg.at tafé, Jennifer Larmore, Javier Cama- www.schirn-kunsthalle.de sports stadium designed by architect watercolors by German expressionist rena and David Alegret performing. Le Corbusier. Although never built, it Emil Nolde (1867-1956). art La Monnaie Liverpool was intended as the basis for Bagh- Galeries Nationales du Grand “Arnulf Rainer—Dieter Roth: Mixing Oct.10-Oct. 22 architecture dad’s bid for the 1960 Olympics. Palais and Separating” shows paintings, pho- % Victoria and Albert Museum 32-7023-3939 “Le Corbusier—The Art of Architec- Until Jan. 19 tographs, video films and sound instal- % www.lamonnaie.be ture” exhibits vintage drawings, origi- Oct. 9-March 29 33-1-4413-1717 lations created by avant-garde artists % nal models, paintings, furniture, photo- 44-20-7942-2000 www.grandpalais.fr Arnulf Rainer (born 1929) and Dieter Copenhagen graphs and reconstructions of interiors www.vam.ac.uk Roth (1930-1998) in a collaboration design from the work of architect, designer art between 1973 and 1980. “Louise Campbell” presents a decora- and writer Le Corbusier (1887-1965). photography “The Netherlandish Renaissance— Belvedere tion of the museum’s room “The Hall” Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral “Shutting Up Shop” exhibits large- Drawings from the Budapest Mu- Until Jan. 11 scale photographs of disappearing, seum” displays works by 16th-century % with furniture and objects by Danish Until Jan. 18 43-1-7955-70 small, old-style London shops from Flemish and Dutch artists. designer Louise Campbell (born 1970). % 44-151-709-9222 www.belvedere.at the 1970s and 1980s taken by John Musée du Louvre Kunstforeningen Gl Strand www.architecture.com/lecorbusier Until Jan. 25 Londei. Oct. 9-Jan. 12 Warsaw Museum of London % 33-1-4020-5050 % 45-3336-0260 history art www.glstrand.dk Until Nov. 23 www.louvre.fr “Yoko Ono: Fly” examines the artistic “Hello Sailor! Gay life on the Ocean % 44-870-444-3852 Wave” illustrates personal stories of work of Yoko Ono with pieces se- art www.museumoflondon.org.uk Stuttgart lected by the artist, including “Blue “Manga! Japanese Images” looks at art Room,” “Ex It,” “Memory Painting” and the history of Japanese manga comic Madrid “Matisse—People, Masks, Models” ex- the film “Fly.” strips. art hibits portrait art by French artist Centre for Contemporary Art Louisiana Museum of Modern Art “1914! The Avant-Garde and the Great Henri Matisse (1869-1954), including Until Oct. 26 Oct. 8-Feb. 8 War” looks at the development of the oil paintings, drawings and sculptures. % 48-22-6281-2713 % 45-4919-0719 art world before and during World Staatsgalerie Stuttgart csw.art.pl www.louisiana.dk War I. Until Jan. 11 North stars % Source: ArtBase Global Arts News Service, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza 49-711-4704-0249 WSJE research. Frankfurt Oct. 7-Jan. 11 www.staatsgalerie.de history % 34-91-3690-151 “In the Beginning There Was…The www.museothyssen.org Turin WSJ.com Ilkka Suppanen and the new wit in Finnish design Form” shows official form documents photography Munich What’s on from six millennia of human history, “International Intrigue: The Cinema of WSJ.com subscribers can see an including ancient clay tablets that are history Roman Polanski” shows photography expanded version of the European thought to be lists of animals and “City without Jews—The Dark Side of exploring the work and collaborators arts-and-culture calendar at foods. Munich’s History” shows 12 exhibits of filmmaker Roman Polanski (born WSJ.com/Europe Museum für Kommunikation Nolde Stiftung-Seebüll supported by video presentations, doc- 1933). Secrets of the Ryder victory The other Hamptons season W28 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL v Music 10-13 | Cover story Design 8-9 | Arts Contents Spike Lee’s ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ Putting a fresh spin on British folk music 3 | Fashion Northern stars Is the Booker list too short? By Jim Fusilli Watersons, as well as more recent my name, a childish game/But I love Finland’s new design generation LAS, I CANNOT Swim” (As- acts like Diane Cluck, Beth Orton to be young.” Laura Marling On Style: The ’80s return in Paris Re-introducing Jennifer Hudson tralwerks), the debut al- and June Tabor—and over the Ms. Marling said her composi- ‘A bum by 18-year-old Laura course of the album that voice un- tion “My Manic and I” was the first Marling, is a smart, contemporary folds with a stateliness tinged by a she created for the disc. It’s a tale of 4 | Sports 16 | Top Picks take on traditional British folk mu- touch of reserve and a gentleness the weight of despair, the struggle sic, and one of the best recordings that can’t be mistaken for weak- for equilibrium and how nature may to come from the U.K. this year. The ness. Her finger-picked or lightly provide a respite—and, as in Golf Journal: Ryder revelations Events in Paris, Munich, people behind the BBC’s Mercury strummed acoustic guitar, which is “Ghosts,” its almost jaunty music Prize seemed to agree. They in- essential to her sound, bears the in- stands in contradiction to its theme. Stockholm and Berlin cluded Ms. Marling’s album on the fluence of Bert Jansch and Neil Writing it, Ms. Marling discovered 5 | Food & Drink short list for the award, which was Young, who studied Mr. Jansch’s that she could turn a broad, impres- presented on Sept. 9. records when he was Ms. Marling’s sionistic story into a four-minute 17 | Taste “Alas, I Cannot Swim” didn’t age. She’s already shared a stage at folk song. Ode to eau-de-vie win, which is no cause for shame: separate festivals with Mr. Young “When it was finished, I thought, Neither did Radiohead’s “In Rain- and Mr. Jansch. The only time she re- ‘Now I can make an album,’ ” she The vision behind ‘Blindness’ bows.” The judges selected Elbow’s vealed that she might be awed by said. “It has all the themes and mo- 6 | Art “The Seldom Seen Kid,” an often- her fast ascent was when I asked her tifs in it, and the storytelling. The al- 27 | Music lovely, occasionally bland recording if she spoke to Mr. Young. “Oh no,” bum was written around it.” of orchestral pop featuring Guy she said quickly. “I couldn’t do Several songs employ open wa- Lehman CEO to sell major works Garvey’s romantic vocals and mod- that.” ter as the setting. “The Captain and A modern English rose ern electronic whizzes, whirls, Ms. Marling’s songs on “Alas, I the Hourglass” chugs along in a mi- beeps and beats. Did Ms. Marling’s Cannot Swim” are discreetly and art- nor key as Ms. Marling sings, “I fell Collecting: Magnum photos tender, sort-of-retro folk stand a fully arranged, but the traditional into the water and now I’m free.” Jenny Lewis’ new CD chance? Maybe not, but at least the guitar-and-voice approach places The country-flavored “Cross Your exposure placed the teenager the emphasis on Ms. Marling and Fingers” suddenly gives way to 7 | Travel among her country’s most popular her compositions. She writes little “Crawled Out of the Sea,” a pub sing- 28 | artists at the very start of her prom- vignettes, pulling back the curtain along consisting only of the phrase Time Off ising professional career. on intimate scenes. “[He] stood at “Oh, you crawled out of the sea The Hamptons’ other season On cover, Finnish designer Ilkka Suppanen with his latest work: Fireplace, an ethanol-burning table-top When we spoke by phone a few the table where she sat/And re- straight into my arms.” In the title flame. Above, designers Antti Hinkula (left) and Teemu Suviala of the firm Kokoro & Moi in their studio. Our arts and culture calendar hours before the event, she was in a moved his hat in respect of her pres- song, which appears in a hidden PHOTOS: ILPO MUSTO van in central London, on her way to ence/And presents her with the pic- track on the CD, she sings, “There’s a WSJ.com the ceremony at the Grosvenor ture and says/‘These are just the house across the river, but alas I can- House hotel. The nomination, she ghosts who broke my heart before I not swim/And a garden of such said, “was lovely. Quite scary, but met you,’ ” she sings in “Ghosts,” beauty…I’ll live my life regretting Max Knight fun.” Since she’s been playing music which opens the album with a that I never jumped in.” Cutting the cord Changing the game Fixer-uppers since was a child—her father, bouncy rhythm that belies the story Ms. Marling stands foursquare Elizabeth Blackshire Editor Charles, began teaching her guitar it tells. In “Old Stone,” a bluesy tune at the core of each performance, Why young people An unusual post-season Hard-hit homeowners Deputy editor Craig Winneker when she was 5—and performing in that feels like it’s been around for- and the appealing confidence in her Art director have stopped paying reflects the new style are getting creative Fahire Kurt public for the past few years, “it ever, she sings: “He chased me delivery adds gravitas to her compo- Kathleen Van Den Broeck Assistant art director doesn’t seem like things have hap- through the rain/‘Honey, I’m going sitions. “Your Only Doll (Dora)” and for cable television. of playing baseball. about remodeling. Matthew Kaminski Taste page editor WSJ.com/Lifestyle WSJ.com/Sports WSJ.com/Lifestyle pened fast. But things are escalating your way’/I don’t think so/You can “Night Terror,” the best moments Questions or comments? Write to [email protected]. DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES &ESTATES rather quickly.” chase me through the rain/Scream on the disc, are quiet, hypnotic per- Please include your full name and address. A native of Eversley, near Read- formances in which she draws in the ing, Ms. Marling couldn’t be more listener so completely that her British if she tried—and neither WSJ.com voice and the story she’s telling seem to engulf us. could “Alas, I Cannot Swim.” Her A modern English rose THE JOURNAL CROSSWORD / Edited by Mike Shenk 80 Seat of New York’s Nassau 11 Japanese 65 Justice Dept. staffer 98 Harry Truman’s voice has a pure folk ring that re- That’s a remarkable achieve- County computer giant nickname for Listen to clips from Laura Marling’s 68 Call in a game of calls several predecessors—British ment for any performer, never mind 81 Sorceress of Aeaea 12 Diamond protector Battleship Bess ‘Alas, I Cannot Swim,’ at Across 25 Screwball 43 Pay what is due 66 Amber, for one folk artists of the ’60s like Pentan- one who wrote and recorded the 13 Sound source 69 Cheap hotels: Abbr. 101 Fife player WSJ.com/Lifestyle 26 Al Capone’s 46 IRT stop 82 Untouched by time gle, Fairport Convention and the work at age 17. 1 It’s no salt shaker 67 Classic Gary Cooper 104 “Do the Right Thing” nemesis 85 Get-go 14 Donnybrook 72 Orthography contest 8 Shelters on the trail 49 Liquid asset for role Oscar nominee what a burglar does ____ 86 Chill 15 Jerry’s partner 73 French student 15 Is indiscreet 27 Noggin 70 II (Gillette 106 Tex-Mex treats 53 Tahiti, par exemple brand) 87 Successor to the Cutlass 16 Bronx-born designer 74 Gastronome’s passion 20 Area of common 29 Wishes undone 107 Praise to the skies 54 Hit list 88 Hypothesis 17 Liquid asset for 76 Area of northwestern interest 30 Zip 71 Waterfall byproduct 109 TV Chihuahua the Baker Street Irregulars Eur. 31 Indifferent 56 Singer’s syllables 72 Liquid asset for New 91 Bitterly hostile 21 Untroubled 18 Eight bits 111 Canadian 35 Had a bite 57 Grant player Orleans visitors 93 Ames hrs. 77 Sends a message to, 22 Gut course 19 Pronounces physician William 59 Astrologer Sydney these days A singer-songwriter tries rocking out 23 Liquid asset for 37 Grist for market 75 Creator of party 94 Liquid asset for 112 Baby berths? 24 Mount St. Helens output 79 God, in Hebrew writings Valentine’s Day researchers 60 Hard to tote animals a tough judge 113 ____ good example (is 28 “SportsCenter” carrier 81 Like Simon Legree ITH HER ZEAL for collabora- shoppers 41 Gung-ho 64 Gallivant 78 Perfectly, after “to” 99 QB stat worth emulating) 32 Monopoly token choice tion and an ease with varied Jenny Lewis 100 Bamboozled 82 What’s more 114 Blows away W 33 “How revolting!” styles, from shiny pop to honky Liquid Assets/ by Myles Callum 102 John’s running mate 83 General address 115 Streamlet 34 Assemble tonk, Jenny Lewis has tran- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011121314 1516171819 103 Festive event 84 Campus org. of 117 Shrink’s comment 36 Bombast the 1960s scended the often insular indie 105 Pen pal? 119 Whodunit hound 20 21 22 38 Chicken Little’s “sky” 87 Don’t just sit there music scene that launched her. 120 They’re picked in Hawaii 108 Rock beater 39 Cigarette pack listing The singer first emerged in the 23 24 25 89 Toronto terminals? 121 Having a valuable coat 110 Markers 40 Breathing problem late 1990s as a lead voice in the 90 “Chop-chop!” 123 Sneaky chuckle 26 27 28 29 114 The Ponte Vecchio spans it 42 ___ Nabisco quartet Rilo Kiley, which has plied 92 Elvis’s record label 125 Last letter of the Hebrew 116 Series set at the Sunshine Cab 44 1997 title role for Peter a slick pop sound. Meanwhile, in 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 95 Med. school subject alphabet Company Fonda her solo career Ms. Lewis has 96 Depression, 126 That ticked feeling 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 118 Classic Gary Cooper role 45 Pricing word played with country harmonies for one 127 Rembrandt 122 Span 46 Squall and other earthy elements. On 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 97 Day break? van ___ 124 Liquid asset for traditional 47 Pesci’s “My Cousin Vinny” her new album, “Acid Tongue,” 54 55 56 57 58 cooks co-star Ms. Lewis says she tried “rocking 128 Top-drawer 48 Liquid asset for E.M. Forster Last week’s solution out more than I ever had.” Re- 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 129 Mrs. ___ cow fans corded with old analog technol- INASENSE GEMS WADERS 66 67 68 69 70 50 Good lookers? ogy and bands of crack players 130 Bank counters? DONTLEAVE ELAN AN IMAL 51 Bit for a bay performing together in full takes, 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 131 URL part OVEREATEN N I CEANDEASY 52 Country on the Med. “Acid Tongue” has echoes of rock Autumn de Wilde 132 Senior Supreme Court justice UNTILFURTHERNOTICE 78 79 80 81 55 Deep-fried treat albums from the 1970s. Below, 133 City near the mouth of the STUDIO AGEE REAR LAS 58 Disney’s Lady, for one COPE GENL BAS MELT three songs from the album, plex,” she says, “which is some- pet singing the song,” she says. 82 83 84 85 86 Columbia River 61 Take ___ view of IWI LLCONT I NUETOHOLD which came out last month. thing one stumbles on in Las Ve- ‘Trying My Best to Love You’ 87 88 89 90 91 92 Down 62 Start of Caesar’s boast AHOY ASA UN I —John Jurgensen gas.” T IMEMANAGEMENTSEMI NAR This ballad, featuring strings, 1 Wiccan congregation 63 Kind of question 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 OMELET AYE PROSE YMA ‘Next Messiah’ ‘Carpetbaggers’ simple piano chords and female 2 Tourist city of Castile KIRK DAZE JOIN FLOG 100 101 102 103 104 WSJ.com Ms. Lewis and her band refer This song about touch-and-go harmonies, was to be cut from the 3 Massenet opera set in Castile ENC SHAME LOL DEBONE to this track as “the medley.” She romances features vocals from album. Ms. Lewis says “the girl 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 4 “The Wind in the Willows” Crossword online DAI LYEMPLOYEEMEET INGS ISM LLM AMMO and co-producer Johnathan Rice Elvis Costello. Several years after group thing” seemed too reminis- squire For an interactive stitched three songs they’d writ- Mr. Costello cold-called Ms. cent of her first solo album with 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 5 Schedule opening UNT I LWEDETERMINEWHY version of The Wall RUNT OAS OGEE AERO ten into nearly nine minutes of Lewis about a Rilo Kiley album he singers Chandra and Leigh Wat- 122 123 124 125 126 127 6 Pull down Street Journal Crossword, INN OATH DANG BORDEN swaggering blues rock. In a Las Ve- admired, she recruited him for son (known as the Watson 7 “...baked in ___” WSJ.com subscribers PRODUCT I V I TY I SDOWN 128 129 130 gas casino, Ms. Lewis grabbed a “Carpetbaggers” via email. “I Twins). But Mr. Costello per- 8 Secures stock? can go to PETITIONERS NEONLIGHT napkin to jot lyrics in the voice of sent him a YouTube video of suaded her to put it back. “He saw 131 132 133 9 “The X-Files” extras, for short WSJ.com/WeekendJournal LEERED ERTE GARDEN I AS someone with a “messiah com- Johnathan and myself and a pup- it as a gospel song,” she says. ELDERS SAYA LASTGASP 10 Brute

W2 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W27 DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES &ESTATES v Fashion On the shoulders of the 1980s AST MONTH, I discovered in make a woman look like an Ameri- slim blazers whose lightly pad- my closet a once treasured can football player. The flouncy yel- ded shoulders extended Llate ’80s blazer, loosely dou- low dress beneath just added to the slightly beyond the shoulder ble-breasted and with padded shoul- shock value. (Don’t be discouraged— bone, hinting at—rather than ders out to here. Fifteen years after off the runway, Dior still makes exaggerating—that relaxed, its last wearing, it was redolent of those perfectly tailored, nip- thrown-on look. His an era that was cringe-worthy on waisted suits that look simulta- slacks were slim and many levels. neously feminine and authorita- cuffed, but at the heel, I tossed out this green blazer, tive.) not above the ankle— only to see variations of it all over Nina Ricci designer Olivier They- creating long, lean the Paris runways this week. The skens showed a slouch-shouldered lines. 1980s are returning in force for chocolate jacket with tails and a se- Jean Paul Gaultier spring, with looks that could bring ries of dresses with poofy shoul- included some ders. An array of metallic mini- blouses with dresses in the midst of Balenciaga’s dropped shoulders On Style collection brought to mind late Stu- and some blazers CHRISTINA BINKLEY dio 54. Antonio Berardi, known for with padded shoul- his sexy but appropriate tailoring, ders, keeping them threw in a whole late-disco series of attractive, tightly tai- back Grace Jones. Big padded or hot pink silk dresses with big lored and modern. droopy shoulders, baggy pleated sleeves and loose, silvery T-shirt Of course, runway looks pants that nip in above the cuffed an- dresses with padded shoulders. are nearly always exagger- kle, disco-y sequined T-shirt It’s ironic that the ’80s are mak- ated to create good the- dresses that blouse all over the ing a comeback right now. The de- ater. Balenciaga’s Nicolas shoulders and then squeeze in with cade had its own share of social and Ghesquière acknowledged a wide band at the hip. It all comes economic upheaval, along with a after his show that few of rushing back. debt crisis, real-estate devaluation the label’s customers are COLORADO RESORT DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY Many women over 40 grimace at and the flow of wealth from west to likely to buy many of his A RARE OFFERING ~ PROFITABLE INVESTMENT PROJECT these ’80s looks. It’s not just the un- east. imaginative and precisely flattering shapes; the clothes also re- The broad shoulders of the 1980s executed runway looks, mind women of the discomfort of en- were supposed to suggest that which ranged from sculpted tering the male-dominated work women, who were entering the jackets to a carefully fringed Getty Images (3) force with no executive style of work force in record numbers, could mini dress. So he showed bags— don’t know if we’re ready to go back their own. It has taken many years be as powerful as men. The disco small, lovely clutches—on the run- there,” she said. to figure out how a woman can look dresses meant women could be su- way for the first time, explaining Ditto for Kelly Golden, co-owner authoritative, feminine and comfort- per-sexy by night. But they also with a cheerful smile, “The collec- of the Neapolitan boutique in Chi- able at the same time—and we’re seemed to suggest women should tion is a bit out there, so I wanted to cago. “Although jumpsuits and lots still learning. work and party like men, rather bring it down to something a of ’80s exaggerated looks were all But now, a whole new generation— than carving out their own feminin- woman would really wear.” over the runways,” she said, “I From left, Dior’s broad-shouldered too young to squirm at the “power ity. Many retailers are skeptical won’t be buying them for spring.” snakeskin coat, a slouchy Nina Ricci suit” associations—is being intro- This time around, while many of about whether women will really Email Christina.Binkley@ jacket with tails and Gaultier’s suit duced to ’80s style. It’s yet to be the looks are outlandish, a few de- want to wear ’80s looks at all. Yuta wsj.com with sharp shoulders. seen how they’ll take to it. Linda signers have managed to reinter- Powell, whose Madison Avenue bou- Fargo, fashion director for Bergdorf pret the ’80s in a more subtle way. tique of the same name avoids too- Goodman in New York, says these Akris’s Albert Kriemler created trendy styles, says she’ll steer away FORMER HOME OF SENATOR JOHN & CINDY McCAIN styles may “stimulate” people to from the big-shoulder look. “I found COLORADO’S FINEST MOUNTAIN RESORT DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY shop. “I don’t think you can play it WSJ.com Offered Exclusively At it not attractive back in the ’80s and ADJACENT TO WORLD RENOWNED SKI RESORT WITH YEAR ROUND safe, ever,” she says. do not believe I would like it any bet- RECREATION IN A BEAUTIFUL ALPINE ENVIRONMENT Rate the looks Possibly the loudest incarnation 1,200+/- ACRE WORKING RANCH THAT HAS MANY AMENITY AND DENSITY OPTIONS AUCTION Vote on runway styles from the Paris ter this time,” she says. 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W26 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W3 v Sports The strategy behind Team USA’s Ryder win

T’S BEEN A COUPLE of weeks now since the Ryder Cup, a diz- Izying three days of Tiger-less but terrific golf. But the inside story of how the American side re- versed its slide and kept from fold- ing as a team (the U.S. had lost five of the six previous matches against Europe) hasn’t been told. The players, particularly the six rookies led by Anthony Kim, played spectacularly well. But most of the credit for the Ameri- cans’ surprising 16µ to 11µ pum-

Golf Journal JOHN PAUL NEWPORT meling of the European squad rightly goes to the nonplaying cap- tain, Paul Azinger. Some Ryder Cup captains take a laissez-faire approach. Jack Nicklaus told me jokingly earlier this month, in an interview posted on WSJ.com, that his job as captain was to de- liver a few speeches and make sure the players had “fresh tow- els, sunscreen and tees.” Some- times that’s enough. But against the heavily favored Europeans, Mr. Azinger pulled out all the stops. First, he completely revamped the way the team was Left to right: chosen. He truncated the period Raymond Floyd, during which players earned most Olin Browne, of their points from two years to Dave Stockton one, and extended the team-selec- and Paul Azinger. tion deadline until just two weeks Getty Images before the competition began, in both cases to secure the hottest and “on message”—a key concept fit into a pod he had in mind. In vate them by asking them to fulfill ter hitting his drive into the haz- players. He persuaded the PGA of in the strategy. this, he relied heavily on Dr. his needs, or the team’s needs, but ard on the final hole in the first America, which sponsors the team, “Working together for the com- Braund. by helping them identify and ful- foursomes match. That may be to allow him four captain’s picks mon good is not normally a func- Dr. Braund has a background in fill their own needs. To do that, one reason Jim performed so instead of the traditional two. tion for us out on the PGA Tour. counseling psychology, but most he had to understand the behav- well.” Most significantly for the Amer- We play as individuals,” Mr. of his recent work has been in cor- ioral style of each player individu- Mr. Furyk won 2µ points and icans’ ultimate success, however, Browne said. “But the pods al- porate team-building and in multi- ally and know how to message clinched the Cup on Sunday with he deployed a novel, multifaceted lowed the players, without any for- generational succession planning him in the best way for him. And his singles win. Mr. Perry also re- team-building strategy that mal training, to feed off each for such family-owned firms as Paul has a real gift for that.” bounded to win 2µ points. worked to perfection—and which other and help each other and to Chik-Fil-A and Hobby Lobby. A In assembling the three pods, During the competition, Dr. might provide an intriguing man- manage all the different things book he co-authored with Ken Mr. Azinger, Dr. Braund and the as- Braund rode in the cart with Mr. agement model for business. that come up in a pressure-cooker Voges in 1995, “Understanding sistant coaches spent hours dis- Azinger and helped him keep on Shortly after the U.S. victory at situation like the Ryder Cup. In How Others Misunderstand You,” cussing various combinations and point with his “messaging” to play- Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, the larger 12-man group, some identifies different behavioral settled on two consisting of play- ers. Ky., I asked Mr. Azinger to de- guys with quieter personalities types and provides insights into ers with generally similar styles “Sometimes, the message was scribe the core concept of his might have been lost in the shuf- understanding and working with and one that was a mixed bag. no message,” Dr. Braund said. plan. “If I tell you, then I can fle. Some of the rookies might each, rather than trying to change The members of one team, Phil “Paul would just drive by, show a never do a book, right?” he said have been too intimidated to them. Mickelson, Justin Leonard, An- smiling face and ask if everything with a laugh. speak out.” Mr. Azinger’s overarching vi- thony Kim and Hunter Mahan, was OK. But that was based on Later, however, Mr. Azinger al- Among the qualities Mr. Az- sion, Dr. Braund said, was “to cre- were aggressive players and were what we’d worked out before- lowed a couple of his closest advis- inger considered in making his ate an environment where each assigned to assistant captain Ray- hand.” Other times, the words ers—Olin Browne, a PGA Tour four captain’s picks was a player’s player could succeed by being mond Floyd, who shared that style were more specific. player who served as an assistant behavioral style and his ability to themselves. He didn’t try to moti- as a player. A second team, under In the opening match, after Mr. captain, and Ron Braund, Mr. Az- Dave Stockton, consisted of steady- Azinger heard that Messrs. Cink inger’s life coach and a corporate eddie, unflappable players: Steve and Campbell had royally botched team-building specialist—to share Stricker, Stewart Cink, Chad Camp- the seventh hole to go three be- with me some details of his so- Arbitrage bell and Ben Curtis. hind, he rushed to their side to as- called secret strategy. Mr. Azinger sometimes re- sure them that now all the pres- The most radical element of ferred to the remaining group as sure was on the other side to keep the plan was dividing the 12-man his “Southern boys,” even though the lead. (The pair came back to squad into three four-man sub- The price of the only veteran in the pod, Jim win.) If, hypothetically, Mr. Kim groups, or pods. Mr. Azinger ap- Furyk, is from Pennsylvania. (“I had been in that position, the mes- parently got this idea several an iRobot Roomba 530 was trying to be as Southern as I sage would been less one of sup- years ago from a documentary could all week,” Mr. Furyk said af- port than of challenge, something about the military’s Special Forces City Local currency Œ terward.) This pod, under Mr. along the lines of “kick them right and their Ryder Cup-size platoons. Browne, included Kenny Perry and back,” because Mr. Kim focuses The Navy Seals, for instance, typi- New York $324 Œ224 J.B. Holmes, Kentuckians playing more in his matches on playing cally operate in 13-man units led for the home crowd and thus feel- “against” his opponent, Dr. Braund by two officers and a chief, and London £199 Œ250 ing extra pressure, and the week’s said. frequently break down into sub- Brussels Œ299 Œ299 break-out personality, good old There was no guarantee all this groups, depending on the mission. boy Boo Weekley, whom Dr. strategizing would work out, of “Each pod was a force unto it- Rome Œ299 Œ299 Braund described as “impervious course. In fact, a final part of Mr. self,” Mr. Browne said of the team. to pressure.” Azinger’s strategy was to shift the Pod members played all their prac- Frankfurt Œ300 Œ300 This group gelled especially emphasis away from the need for tice rounds together and were Paris Œ300 Œ300 well. “Jim Furyk has struggled as a team victory and more toward paired only with other pod mem- a team player to some extent, be- his personal commitment to help bers in the competition. Even in Hong Kong HK$4,588 Œ410 cause he is such an individual,” each player perform at his best. the Sunday singles matches, the Dr. Braund said. “But here he had “This whole week has been pods went off sequentially, four by Tokyo ¥79,800 Œ521 a role to play. He was a steady rud- magical,” Mr. Weekley said when four. Each pod was assigned an as- Note: A vacuum-cleaning robot. Prices, der and tremendously supportive it was all over. “I think we actu- sistant captain to tend to players’ including taxes, as provided by retailers in of the other guys, particularly of ally became a family.” needs and to keep them relaxed each city, averaged and converted into euros. Kenny Perry when he got down af- Email [email protected].

W4 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W25 v Food & Drink The secret is in the fruit At Oregon’s Clear Creek Distillery, an exploration of the art of making eau-de-vie

Portland, Ore. TEPHEN MCCARTHY, the founder of Clear Creek Distillery, is up on a lad- Vermouth-Cassis Sder, nosing a tall vat of fermenting 60 ml dry (white) vermouth mirabelle plums, but his attention isn’t en- 15 to 30 ml cassis liqueur (to taste) tirely on the fruit. One of his employees is leading the first tour of the day; they pass 60 ml fizzy water within earshot, and Mr. McCarthy doesn’t Build on ice in a tumbler and stir. like the sound of a question he hears. I’ve come to Clear Creek Distillery be- cause I’ve run into its products time and having an intensely sweet taste, like that of blackberry jam.” But alas, it wasn’t sweet at How’s Your Drink? all, and so “when he came to swallow it, ERIC FELTEN the stuff was distinctly disappointing.” There would have been no way to pre- pare Winston’s tastebuds (especially given again—often at or toward the top of the his steady diet of synthetic gin) for what to pile in a blind tasting. Its main line of busi- expect in wine. And the same goes for ness is fruit brandy—eau-de-vie—clear, un- those being introduced to eau-de-vie. Just aged spirits made from things such as as it takes time and tasting for those new pears, plums, raspberries, or cherries. Noto- to wine to learn to find the blackberry jam riously difficult to make, and without barrel in a pinot noir, it takes experience to dis- aging to oak over any flaws, eau-de-vie is a cover the essence of the fruit that, in an nakedly exposed test of a distiller’s skill. I eau-de-vie, hides in plain sight. wanted to find out how Clear Creek does it, The disappointment of newbies led Mr. and it seems I’m not the only one. McCarthy to add a line of liqueurs, a com- It being the first tour of the day, the fortably delicious fallback for those put off group is small—two shortish, stoutish men by the rigors of eau-de-vie. I particularly with implausibly dark hair and mustaches. like the cherry liqueur (which makes a won- Mr. McCarthy has heard one of them ask a derful substitute for Cherry Heering) and suspiciously technical question about the the cassis, or black-currant, liqueur. workings of the stills. He climbs down from Most crèmes de cassis end up tasting the ladder and goes over to find out what like sweet generically purple syrup. Mr. Mc- the men are up to. Carthy lets his black currants steep in a neu- “I hate it when people who want to get tral grape alcohol for a year before press- into the business sneak around pretending ing, filtering and bottling. With most they are just visitors,” Mr. McCarthy says a batches, no extra sugar is added, making a few moments later, returning to the plums. cassis that is remarkably light and tart for The two men, it turns out, are upstart dis- a liqueur notorious for a heavy, sticky tillers, of which there’s no shortage these sweetness. days. People looking for a groovy second ca- The Clear Creek cassis provides a ter- reer—folks who five or 10 years ago would rific excuse to make the Vermouth-Cassis have opened a boutique winery or a micro- (also known as the Pompier), an elegant brewery—are now entering the spirits Dylan Cross for TheFrench Wall Street Journal cocktail that had a brief fashionabil- realm. The two mustaches want to make laughingly describes as “obscure, expensive how much Mr. McCarthy tries to prepare ity in the States 50 years ago. This cocktail rum; the Clear Creek crew persuades them spirits that no one likes.” the eau-de-vie initiate for the experience at of dry (white) vermouth, cassis and fizzy they’ll learn more by going over to Rogue, a Part of the problem is one of expecta- hand, all too many come away from the water was a favorite of E.B. White, who nearby craft-brewery that jumped into the tions. People don’t expect Scotch to be first taste disappointed, asking where the called it his “French taxi-driver’s drink.” distilling game a few years ago. sweet; they don’t anticipate a burst of lus- fruit taste was. Maria Callas favored the aperitif when din- Mr. McCarthy isn’t exactly Wonkaesque cious fruit from a mouthful of vodka. But Their reaction is not unlike that of Win- ing at the Plaza’s Oak Room. It is a sophisti- in his concern about spies, but he does since eau-de-vie is made from one sugary ston Smith, in George Orwell’s “Nineteen cated drink worthy of Clear Creek’s sophisti- have a wary diffidence learned from the ripe fruit after another, the newcomer has Eighty-Four,” tasting his first sip of wine, cated cassis. crusty Alsatian distillers he himself pes- an inescapable expectation that the spirit “a thing he had read and dreamed about.” Just don’t tell the guys with the mus- tered for advice decades ago. “I would visit will itself be sweet and fruity. No matter Winston “had always thought of wine as taches how to make it—it will be our secret. them repeatedly, and every time I would bring a gift. But I never pumped them for information.” That was the key, he says, to winning their confidence. “Every now and then, perhaps on the third visit or so, they would give me one of their secrets for mak- ing good eau-de-vie.” Finding the right wines for hard times Some of the secrets are obvious: Use the best fruit you can get (a task easier in Ore- gon than in most places) and ferment it at By Dorothy J. Gaiter wines during difficult times. gion of Italy, comforting. In a the peak of its ripeness. Running the stills and John Brecher Ms. Gesse’s recipe for a com- recent tasting of them, we is another task simple in concept but diffi- HAT WINES go well with fort wine is right on the said they reminded us of our cult in execution. The very first stuff to boil Wcrisis mentality? I’m not mark. We generally find red Italian grandmothers even off—“the heads”—contains acetone, esters, sure that it’s just about choos- wines from the Rhône Valley though we don’t have Italian methanol and is decidedly nasty; the last ing less-expensive wines, but of France, like Gigondas, re- grandmothers. These are aro- stuff to come off the still—the tails—is no perhaps about choosing com- laxed and comfortable. Also, matic (think aromatherapy in better. The trick for any distiller is to know fort wines. We all have our fa- if you can find a Portuguese a glass) and they have a cer- what to keep and what to discard. vorite comfort foods; why not red, they’re wonderful com- tain soulfulness that stirs When Mr. McCarthy started his business comfort wines? I guess I’d sug- fort wines, earthy and real, you. 23 years ago, he thought he would be able gest something that wasn’t and great company. Don’t for- Difficult times are espe- to scientifically quantify the exact moment complex, had an honest taste get Nero d’Avola from Sicily. cially good times to remem- for making the perfect “heads cut” and and a calming effect. And like Its soft tannins make it easy ber what’s really important in “tails cut” in any distillation. He bought a comfort foods, if it brought to enjoy and it’s gutsy—what life, so we’d add Cava or gas chromatograph and set out to build the back good memories (like cer- you need to strengthen your Prosecco, two value-priced data he would need. But it never worked tain wines do for all of us) resolve—without being heavy. sparklers that can take you to out. “The only way to do it is by smell.” that would be an added bene- Along with yummy dark fruits a romantic place just when The perfect middle, or “hearts,” cut starts fit. and berries, some have hints AFP you need an embrace and right when the volatile alcohols dissipate —Michelle J. Gesse, of chocolate, and what could we like Muscadet from some calm. Or a Sauternes to and the intense scent of fruit kicks in. But Boulder, Colo. be wrong with that? France’s Loire Valley, which is make you remember that life that’s the closest Mr. McCarthy comes to di- For whites, many people inexpensive and pleasant, but really is sweet, no matter vulging his trade secrets. He’s not about to Because we have been writ- find soft, slightly oaky Ameri- has a mineral grounding that what’s happening around you. lead any would-be distillers by their noses. ing our column for more than can Chardonnay extremely re- feels quite Earth Motherish to Melanie Grayce West con- You can’t blame Mr. McCarthy for his re- a decade, we have, unfortu- laxing, both because it is not us and is therefore comfort- tributed to this column. Our luctance, given how hard he has had to nately, had several opportuni- challenging and because it’s ing. And we really find Ar- email address is wine@wsj. work to build a market for eau-de-vie, a pe- ties to write about comfort like an old friend. Personally, neis, from the Piedmont re- com. culiar set of products that Mr. McCarthy

W24 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W5 v Art Lehman CEO to auction works Fuld and wife consign millions in postwar art to Christie’s for November sale

By Susanne Craig and Kelly Crow TUDY FOR AGONY I” is a jewel- toned drawing made by modern ‘S master Arshile Gorky in 1946. It could also evoke the plight of its Magnum Photos owners, Richard Fuld Jr.—chairman Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe on the set of ‘The and chief executive of Lehman Brothers Misfits,’ 1960, by Cornell Capa. Estimate for lot of Holdings Inc., the bankrupt holding six prints: £1,500-£2,000. company—and his wife, Kathy, a well- known collector of modern art. The Gorky drawing is part of a group of 16 postwar drawings owned Magnum masters by the Fulds that were quietly put up for sale by Christie’s last month, ac- cording to people familiar with the situ- at photo auction ation. The sketches were consigned in early August following a competitive OCUMENTARY IMAGES are the focus of coming bidding process between Christie’s and Dphotography auctions in London and Paris. Lon- Sotheby’s. Christie’s wouldn’t confirm don’s Bloomsbury Auctions will hold a charity sale on the identity of the seller but says the Thursday dedicated to Magnum Photos, the famed co- total presale estimate of the works is operative agency that has chronicled the world’s is- between $15 million and $20 million. sues and people since its founding in 1947 by photogra- The auction phers Robert Capa (Hungarian), Henri Cartier-Bres- house also con- son (French), George Rodger (British) and David firmed the deal “Chim” Seymour (American). included a More than 300 photographs printed especially for guarantee, an the book “Magnum Magnum” (2007) will be offered. undisclosed The book, which was published to celebrate Magnum’s sum promised 60th anniversary, presents images by Magnum agency to the seller whether or not the works sell. Collecting The draw- MARGARET STUDER ings will be shopped to po- tential bidders photographer-members as chosen by another member. in Moscow and Each lot in the auction will include at least six origi- London before nal prints with lot estimates from £1,000-£5,000. In- being offered cluded in the lot of American photographer Eve Arnold Nov. 12 during is an image from 1963 showing Elizabeth Taylor and Ri- the fall auc- chard Burton in an English pub with a packet of sau- tions in New sages on the table. Among the images taken by Hungar- York. ian-born Cornell Capa, brother of Robert Capa, is a look The sale rep- at an affectionate Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable on resents a de- Above, Willem de Kooning’s ‘Woman’ is the set of “The Misfits” in 1960. The lot with images by parture for Ms. estimated to sell for up to $4 million at the British contemporary photographer Martin Parr in- Fuld, a long- Christie’s auction; left, Barnett Newman’s cludes a proud beauty queen posing in Brighton (1985); time collector and Museum of Modern ‘Untitled’ is estimated to sell for up to $2 in that of contemporary Norwegian photo-journalist Jo- Art trustee who has been buying draw- million. Far left, Richard Fuld of Lehman nas Bendiksen, a strangely beautiful, colored shot of Rus- ings at auction for years but isn’t Brothers Holdings and his wife, collector sian villagers collecting scrap from a crashed spacecraft known as a major seller. Art experts Kathy Fuld. surrounded by thousands of white butterflies (2000). say she has a well-trained eye for the The proceeds from the sale go to the Magnum Pho- undervalued masterwork. In November tos Foundation, a new charity that supports emerging 2001, Christie’s sold a Willem de Koon- vigorous blue and peach sketch which photography talent. ing drawing for $2 million; she’s offer- is estimated to sell for up to $4 mil- Documentary photos from the 19th century are im- ing the same work now for $4 million. lion. Other works include Agnes Mar- portant as a record of both the development of photog- The Fulds didn’t respond to re- tin’s royal-blue gridlike drawing “Star- raphy and the cultures depicted. Bonhams will hold an quests for comment. light,” priced to sell for up to auction of the earliest photographs of India and Burma Mr. Fuld’s net worth has suffered as $700,000; and an untitled 1960 ab- on Wednesday. Linnaeus Tripe, an army officer work- Lehman’s stock price plunged. He’d stract from Barnett Newman’s signa- ing for the East India Company, took the first ever im- long encouraged his employees to ture “zip” series, estimated to sell for ages of Burma under extraordinarily hard conditions share in the ownership of the 158-year- up to $2 million. on an expedition in 1885. Some 113 prints from the expe- old firm, which before its downfall was Today’s art market is dominated by dition are estimated in the sale at £100,000-£150,000. approximately 25% owned by employ- newly wealthy buyers from Europe and Early photos of India have always drawn attention ees. That included Mr. Fuld himself; in Asia who prefer to chase trophy paint- from photo buffs; Bonhams photography specialist February 2007, when Lehman shares ings. Ms. Fuld has instead taken her David Park says Indians living at home and abroad peaked at $86.18, his stake was worth Photos: Christie's (artwork); Getty Images place among a small but close-knit have added to their numbers in the past few years. In $993.5 million, according to Insider- group of American drawings collectors the Bonhams sale are star 19th-century photographers Score.com. The shares last traded for He has since rebuilt the home. who seek out artists’ more subtle ren- such as Germany’s Frederick Fieberg, with early views 13 cents on Sept. 17. Mr. Fuld isn’t the only Lehman exec- derings and sketches. A MoMA spokes- of Calcutta (estimates ranging from £500-£2,000); and Over the years, Mr. Fuld has sold utive out selling assets. Former Leh- woman says Ms. Fuld has donated or Britain’s John Murray, who made unforgettable im- some of his holdings. Between Septem- man President Joe Gregory has his helped acquire 42 artworks, including ages of Agra before and after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 ber 2003 through June 2007—around $32.5 million home in New York’s 25 drawings, for the museum’s collec- (£300-£7,000). the beginning of the credit crisis—he Hamptons area up for sale and recently tion. Getting much deserved attention on Oct. 13 in Paris pocketed $139.3 million from stock had his home in Manchester, Vt., up for Beverly Schreiber Jacoby, a New at auctioneers Millon & Associés will be the duo of sales, according to InsiderScore.com. sale. That listing has been withdrawn. York art consultant who once ran Théodore Blanc and Antoine Demilly. Although they Then his sales stopped, only to resume Mr. Gregory also has sold the heli- Christie’s Old Master drawings depart- had a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2000, last month, after the company’s bank- copter that he used to commute to ment, says the works consigned by Ms. their fame has been somewhat restricted to an insider ruptcy filing, when he sold more than work from his home in Huntington, Fuld are by and large “iconic exam- group. “They are an integral part of the history of three million shares for an average N.Y., according to a person familiar ples” of the artists’ best-known series French photography,” says Millon photography special- price of 21 cents apiece, or about with the matter. Rumors that Mr. Gre- and haven’t been given overly inflated ist Christophe Goeury. “They set up the first gallery de- $640,000. gory is in serious financial trouble have price estimates, which may better their voted solely to photography in France.” Mr. Fuld and his wife still have a siz- dogged him for weeks, but a person fa- chances of finding buyers. In the sale will be portraits, street scenes, still lifes, able art collection and a primary resi- miliar with the situation says his fi- On the other hand, American collec- nudes and abstract images, such as the most highly es- dence in Greenwich, Conn., featuring nances are fine. tors have typically been the biggest timated piece in the sale, “Drops of Water” (circa an indoor squash court. They also own The drawings are mostly abstract buyers of American drawings, and their 1950), at Œ6,000-Œ8,000. A superb image of a dancer, a $21 million Park Avenue co-op, a and minimalist examples from the mid- purchasing power has eroded in the “Danseuse” (circa 1933) is estimated at home in Vermont and another one in century New York School of artists, past year because of the weak dollar Œ2,000-Œ3,000, and an equally superb picture of a Sun Valley, Idaho. In addition, Mr. Fuld Christie’s says. The priciest work in the and economic woes. woman with penetrating eyes holding a glass con- in 2004 paid $13.75 million for an group is Willem de Kooning’s 1951 —Randall Smith contributed tainer as if she is looking into the future, “Fantaisie” oceanfront house in Jupiter Island, Fla. drawing of a nude woman, “Woman,” a to this article. (circa 1945-1950), is expected to fetch Œ1,500-Œ2,000.

W6 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W23 v Travel The other season in the Hamptons

By Laura Landro ISITORS TO FAIRVIEW Farm in Bridgehampton, N.Y., can Vget lost in its three-hectare maze cut from three-meter-high cornstalks, and fire cobs into the fields from a compressed-air-pow- ered “corn cannon.” But inside the farm shed is the real treat: Propri- etor Harry Ludlow is shaving off samples of Mecox Bay Dairy artisa- nal cheeses, made from the milk of a small Jersey herd grazing just around the bend. It’s fall in the Hamptons, when the tony summer playground re- verts to a tranquil, bucolic retreat, reclaiming its bearings as a farming community with a family-friendly vibe and a storied history. Gone are the swanky society soirées at han- gar-size mansions, the late-night club crawlers and the cocktail-swill- ing boldface names and wannabes Above, a cove off Mecox Bay. 80 farmstands and farmer’s mar- in the tents at the polo fields. The Right, Sag Harbor’s Main Street. kets in five East End towns. pristine white beaches stretching No visit to the Hamptons would the length of the south fork of east- be complete without a jaunt north ern Long Island empty out. The ing permits after September, and to Sag Harbor, the old whaling vil- standstill traffic vaporizes. Parking the rates at some of the pricier inns lage where the Main Street prome- spaces reappear. And so far, Wall and bed-and-breakfast spots drop nade retains its character through Street’s turmoil doesn’t seem to to affordable levels in October. It’s the circa-1922 variety store, the have dulled the luster of the place still warm enough some days to sit musty Sag Harbor Cinema and the that so many of its players call a sec- on the beach, kayak on Mecox Bay or American Hotel, originally built in ond home. Georgica Pond, and do a little surf- 1846. The newest hot spot: Tutto Il In the off-season, some resort ar- casting. Giorno, an Italian restaurant across eas take on a low-key, even somnam- Activities from the marina. bulant personality—like Palm A base to explore Beach, Fla., where it can get torrid The weather can be spectacular after the winter-spring season, or in autumn, which benefits the pick- Though the Hamptons, about

Nantucket, Mass., which is tough to ings at apple orchards and pumpkin Photos: Laura Landro/The Wall160 Street Journal kilometers from Manhattan, get to when the ferry schedules slow patches and the many hiking, biking technically extend from the area down in the fall. For years, the and kayak tours, wine tastings at positions. the corn maze, are relative newcom- near Westhampton to Montauk, Hamptons, too, kept a fairly low pro- the local vineyards, and art and an- The Hamptons are full of history. ers, having farmed their land since those outer boundaries can be file once summer ended, with many tique shows. (The local free weekly, Numerous villages and hamlets the mid-1800s. The Halsey and Lud- pretty remote if you’re tight on people rushing back for New York Dan’s Papers, has the best listings of within the two main towns of low farms are on opposite sides of time. For longer visits, the area is a City’s busy autumn or heading off to events and local news at Danshamp- Southampton and East Hampton in- Horsemill Lane in Water Mill, just great base from which to explore places like New England for leaf sea- tons.com.) clude relics of some of the earliest west of Bridgehampton. In addition Shelter Island and Long Island’s son. (I’ve been a Hamptons regular Some of the best walks are on the English settlements, dating back to to Art Ludlow’s cheeses (try the north fork, which has considerably since the 1980s.) beaches, where you can ogle ocean- the early 1600s. The original occu- Mecox Sunrise and Atlantic Mist), more wineries and a distinctly un- Visitors from outside the region front mansions like industrialist Ira pants of Southampton, the Shin- you can buy produce and flowers ar- Hampton vibe all year round. used to be scarce, as well. But that’s Rennert’s controversial necocks, still have a small reserva- ranged by Harry’s wife Barbara. Autumn pampering changed as folks from as far away as 6,000-square-meter Sagaponack tion there. In recent years, the tribe Though it often seems as if the re- California have bought homes and home and Calvin Klein’s ivy-covered has been in a legal skirmish with the maining farmland in the Hamptons If you aren’t the outdoors type Europeans have discovered the Southampton castle. But there are town over a proposed casino and a is being swallowed up by develop- and want a little glitz in your week- area. This summer, many stores also miles of hiking trails in and claim for land. ment, the Peconic Land Trust, end, you can spend the day in posted “We Accept Euros” signs. So around East Hampton, as well as Families such as the Halseys of which sponsors walks, hikes and Southampton getting treatments at with more second-home owners guided hikes. Though biking can be Whitecap Farm and the Milk Pail other events, has managed to pro- the La Carezza day spa, then check and weekend visitors, a growing hazardous to your health in the sum- farmstand have been on their land tect almost 3,600 hectares, conserv- out the town’s many shopping op- number of shops, attractions and mer, with Porsche convertibles fly- for 13 generations. The Ludlows, ing a number of working farms. The tions. Both East Hampton and restaurants have adopted year- ing by at 110 kilometers an hour, who operate Mecox Bay Dairy and trust also offers a map of more than Southampton have outposts of round schedules. back roads become less crowded Christopher Fischer cashmere, Ca- The celebrities haven’t all left: when the season ends, and are easy lypso and Ralph Lauren, and Bridge- The Hamptons International Film to navigate with a good local map. hampton has great home-décor and Festival, which runs Oct. 15-19, will Numerous stables offer riding and antique shops. feature films including “Gospel lessons, and if it’s too chilly outside, The most popular eateries are Hill,” starring Julia Stiles and Sam- the kids can take a lesson at the in- Cooler times in a hot spot still crowded on weekends, but it is uel L. Jackson, and “Flash of Ge- door ring at Two Trees Stables in easier to get a table at chic spots like nius” with Greg Kinnear and Alan Bridgehampton. Getting there on weekends; rates drop Oct. 14. East Hampton’s Nick and Toni’s and Hamptonsweb.com and Thehamp- Alda. Frances McDormand, Alec Art and history The Long Island Rail Road has Della Femina. And a recent weekend Baldwin and Jacqueline Bisset are regular service from New York tons.com list other lodgings. suggested the clouds over Wall expected to be there. Year-round galleries offer both City to the Hamptons, as does Dining Street haven’t spread to the autum- Peter Turino, president of real- big-ticket art and more modestly bus service Hampton Jitney, nal Hamptons. Restaurants, shops estate firm Brown Harris Stevens of priced works by local artists. “Many both about 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Or, Mirko’s in Water Mill has and galleries buzzed with activity, the Hamptons, says many of his cli- second-home owners who may drive yourself (about 2 1/2 hours, eclectic Continental fare influ- and it was standing room only at the ents start their vacations after the avoid town during July and August depending on traffic). enced by its Croatian-born chef; Channing Daughters winery’s tast- crowds have gone; a house that re-emerge in the fall when traffic Long Island duck breast with ing room in Bridgehampton. The might have rented for $75,000 in Au- has died down and the social de- Where to stay wild-rice griddle cake, bing Pumpkintown amusement park in a gust could be had for $25,000 for mands of the summer season re- East Hampton’s Baker House, cherry compote and orange- farm field off the Montauk Highway September. Postseason rentals in cede,” says Emily Goldstein, a co- a renovated Colonial-era bed and honey pomegranate sauce ($36), was in full swing, and families less upscale areas north of Montauk owner of The Drawing Room, an breakfast, has the feel of a luxuri- portobello-mushroom cap with a fanned out through apple trees at Highway can be had for consider- East Hampton gallery that’s exhibit- ous private home with a spa in pizza topping ($15.50) and Croat- the Milk Pail U-Pick orchard. ably less. ing the abstract paintings of Caio the basement; $495-$650 nightly ian stuffed cabbage ($18.50). As the holidays approach, the vil- But if you aren’t a homeowner or Fonseca. The gallery opens an ex- weekends through Nov. 30. In East Hampton, the 1770 lages taken on a Currier & Ives renter, you won’t feel shut out: Most hibit of watercolors by landscape Southampton’s 1708 House is House is a romantic spot in a Christmas-card feel, with bright dec- beaches don’t require resident park- painter Jane Wilson Friday. right in town, with antique-filled B&B inn; dishes include mâche, orations, carolers and tree-lighting The most famous artist ever to rooms; $250 to $675 through Oc- endive and Maytag blue-cheese ceremonies. In the middle of the hang his hat in the Hamptons, of tober; rates drop later to $140 to salad with melon and candied East Hampton town pond, a little WSJ.com course, was Jackson Pollock, and $295. The Hampton Maid, in walnuts ($16) and swordfish Christmas tree goes up, lit with blue the house he shared with artist Lee Hampton Bays, is a favorite with with artichoke hearts, arugula lights, appearing to float on the wa- Island tales Krasner is open to the public ter. When there’s a little snow on the See a slideshow and listen to golfers visiting nearby Shin- and butter beans ($37). In through October in the Springs area necock Hills Golf Club and Na- Southampton, Plaza Cafe has ground and the warm lights of the a conversation with Laura Landro of East Hampton, a few miles out- village go on for the evening, the about the Hamptons at tional Golf Links. $247 nightly, hearty fare like lobster and side town; it currently has an exhibi- with a two-night minimum stay shrimp shepherd’s pie ($40). summer crowds seem very far away WSJ.com/Travel tion of Ms. Krasner’s abstract com- indeed.

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From left, Matteo Sciabordi, Omar Benson Miller, Michael Ealy, Derek Luke and Laz Alonso in ‘Miracle at St. Anna.’ AFP

Is the Booker list too short? By Paul Levy Special to The Wall Street Journal VERY YEAR THE SHORT list of final- Eists for the Man Booker prize is as notable for what it leaves out as for what it includes. In winnowing the “long list” of 13 nominees, they threw out a near-perfect work: Irish-born Jo- seph O’Neill’s “Netherland” (Fourth Es- tate, £14.99), an instant classic of post-9/11 literature about its urbane Dutch-born hero’s unlikely twin pas- sions, New York and cricket. The judges also dumped multiple Booker-winner Salman Rushdie’s eminently readable and entertaining fable, “The Enchant- ress of Florence” (Jonathan Cape, Touchstone Pictures £18.99). Sure, literary prizes often have more to do with horse-trading and political correctness than with merit, but how can any reader justify short-listing Spike Lee’s misdirected war epic Aravind Adiga’s “The White Tiger” (At- lantic Books, £12.99), a wryly attractive PIKE LEE’S “Miracle at St. Anna” is be- ironies of the situation to speak for them- tale of the criminal career of a poor In- ing marketed as a murder mystery in- selves, while Spike Lee keeps hammering dian boy, instead of Mohamed Hanif’s Svolving a priceless Italian artifact, as them home with agitprop fervor and clumsy far better long-listed “A Case of Explod- well as a fictional, inspirational parable about actors playing racist officers as crude car- ing Mangoes” (Jonathan Cape, £12.99), a love that transcends language, race and the toons. The irony of the production as a whole a subversively comic conspiracy theory chaos of war. Yet the real subject is the un- is that an impassioned filmmaker with a about the assassination of President Zia sung heroism of black American soldiers dur- strong tale to tell has managed to lose track of of Pakistan, which makes some scary, ing World War II. Given the importance of it. Instead of staying close to the troops and acutely telling points about religion? that subject, the real mystery of Mr. Lee’s their travails, the film wanders through war- Steve Toltz’s convolutedly plotted movie is why it’s so diffuse, dispirited, emo- time Tuscany like an addled tourist, mesmer- “A Fraction of the Whole” (Hamish tionally distanced and dramatically inert. ized by village life and eager for miracles. Hamilton, £17.99), about an Australian gangster family, is no doubt the short The most obvious clue lies in the punishing ‘Nights in Rodanthe’ running time—more than 160 minutes, plus an list’s anarchic dark horse after the fash- “Nights in Rodanthe” is nothing if not ion of D.B.C. Pierre’s 2003 winner, “Ver- timely—a movie with a hurricane sequence non God Little.” Mr. Toltz is good at nar- Film opening in the hurricane season. It’s also rative, but his annoyingly smart-alecky Warner Bros. timely in the sense that it opens, like scores of dialogue makes you irritated by his pur- posely unlikable characters, and makes JOE MORGENSTERN Richard Gere and Diane Lane in other movies in recent years, with an alarm his 700-pager drag. ‘Nights in Rodanthe.’ clock going off. Among its additional attrac- Linda Grant’s “The Clothes on Their end-title crawl. The screenplay was adapted tions are an elusive band of wild horses that Backs” (Virago, £11.99), though not her by James McBride from his own novel, and he unexceptional, apart from Mr. Miller’s few shows up for a symbolic gallop on a beach, and a bathroom scene that eschews toilet hu- best novel, is readably unified by its and his director must have wanted to mine ev- touching moments and a stylish cameo by Al- careful attention to the clothes worn by— mor—the joke turns on bad plumbing in the ery page in their pursuit of epic sweep. exandra Maria Lara as the Nazi propagandist and what they tell us about—its immi- sink. Yet this sodden romance, which was di- The main story, set in Tuscany in 1944 dur- Axis Sally. grant Hungarian Jewish and West In- rected by George C. Wolfe in his feature debut, ing the Italian campaign, centers on four infan- If the lapses are disappointing, the sense dian characters. is less than the sum of its parts, which were trymen of the all-black 92nd Division Buffalo of missed opportunity is dismaying. In most Sebastian Barry is the only previ- problematic to begin with. Soldiers. After one soldier risks his life to save of the Hollywood war movies made during ously short-listed novelist this year. Its only distinction, as well as its primary a traumatized Italian boy, all of them become and long after World War II, American fight- “The Secret Scriptures” (Faber and source of dashed hopes, is the casting of Rich- trapped behind enemy lines, where their imme- ing men were almost always white. The role Faber, £16.99) is a lusciously written, ard Gere and Diane Lane, reunited at last after diate salvation depends on partisans and vil- that black troops actually played is an impor- carefully plotted, old-fashioned tale re- playing husband and wife six years ago in “Un- lagers of indeterminate loyalties. (And where tant story, and might have been a powerful vealing the secrets of a psychiatrist and faithful,” a quite remarkable romance that the narrative slows to a crawl for tedious, one in Spike Lee’s hands. Indeed, a sense of an old woman in his care in Ireland. mostly subtitled digressions on the intricacies that power can still be gleaned from the DVD promised prosaic formula but delivered genu- For me, though, there are two con- of partisan politics. All that’s missing is a version of Rachid Bouchareb’s “Days of ine passion. In this one they play strangers— tenders that stand out. Amitav Ghosh’s ghostly turn by Anna Magnani or Raf Vallone.) Glory,” a magnificent French-language film she is Adrienne, an unhappily married mom, “Sea of Poppies” (John Murray, £18.99) “Miracle at St. Anna” contains plenty of from 2006 that told essentially the same story and he is Paul, a surgeon struggling with a trag- is the first of a planned trilogy of novels material for a couple of other films—a terrible with different skin shades—four Algerian sol- edy—who become lovers at an otherwise connecting the British opium trade, Chi- massacre of Tuscan civilians by Nazi troops, diers in the French army fighting bravely empty hotel on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. nese and Indian characters via a histori- and the ostensibly mystical but eventually against the Nazis for the nation they love I’m sorry if you think I’m giving away a big plot cal tale of a slaving ship, the Ibis. You’ll mawkish relationship between the little boy while their fellow French soldiers treat them point, but what else would they become with find it thrilling if, like me, you love read- and his G.I. savior, Sam Train, a saintly giant like scum, and their casually despicable racist no one else around and a whole movie to fill? ing about the details of caste, food, of a man played by Omar Benson Miller. officers use them as cannon fodder. The sad truth about “Nights in Rodanthe” poppy cultivation and especially seafar- What’s more, those events of the now-distant But the Bouchareb film allowed the awful is that it never does get filled, even though the ing. It’s exuberant and expansive. past are set off by a plot-heavy framing device running time is only 97 minutes, and some of But Philip Hensher’s 738-page “The that starts with a postal clerk committing a WSJ.com those minutes are taken up by the hurricane, Northern Clemency” (Fourth Estate, seemingly inexplicable murder in Harlem in which sounds like the D-Day invasion. (An- £17.99) probably deserves the £50,000 the early 1980s, and ends in the Bahamas with Opening this week in Europe other chunk of time, when Adrienne and Paul prize. Set in the northern English dulls- a toxic dose of ersatz uplift. are still lovers-to-be, is devoted to them play- ville of Sheffield, in the least fashion- n Burn After Reading Estonia, Spain The surfeit of elements and themes can’t ing kitchen basketball by tossing canned able recent decade, the 1970s, Mr. Hen- n Iceland, U.K. explain the indifferent craftsmanship. Spike Nights in Rodanthe goods in a garbage can.) The movie’s twin prob- sher’s chronicle of the daily lives of two n Greece Lee has made some brilliant films in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars lems, at least until the denouement, are pre- Northern families has the kind of singu- course of his prolific career; he also directed n Step BrothersGreece, Norway, Spain dictability and underpopulation. It’s basically larity and sweep of vision of a 19th-cen- an intricate and terrific commercial thriller, n Tropic Thunder Denmark, Turkey a two-character play, and though the director tury realist novel. However, he also “Inside Man,” that was released only last year. n Vicky Cristina BarcelonaFrance, Italy is celebrated for his groundbreaking work in knows that, conditioned as readers of Yet his storytelling this time is fragmented to n War, Inc. Netherlands live theater, he hasn’t saved his stars from the fiction now are by post-Modernism, we camera’s pitiless gaze. Richard Gere suffers the point of incoherence. The score, by Ter- Source: IMDB like our narrators to be unreliable and a less than Diane Lane. He gets by with a mix- ence Blanchard, is relentlessly elegiac. The WSJ.com subscribers can read reviews of touch less stylish than we feel our- battle scenes are long on explosion and short these films and others at WSJ.com/FilmReview ture of skill and self-irony. She acts up a storm selves to be. on invention. The performances are stolid and in every scene, but you root for the hurricane.

W8 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W21 A singer sheds the characters Jennifer Hudson introduces herself on her debut album Morello on the night shift

ENNIFER HUDSON made her OM MORELLO is a founding Tom breakthrough in music four Tmember of the rock bands Morello Jyears ago as a contestant on Rage Against the Machine and “American Idol,” then went on to Audioslave. Rolling Stone once become known for her film roles, named him one of the “100 Great- especially her Oscar-winning turn est Guitarists of All Time,” and as Effie in the musical “Dream- he appears in digitized form in girls.” But when it came to record- the videogame Guitar Hero III. ing her debut album, Ms. Hudson His second solo album, “The Fa- felt she had to introduce herself. bled City,” recorded under his “Everybody knows the characters stage name The Nightwatchman, I’ve played, but they don’t know came out Tuesday. Joe Fornabaio for The Wall Street Journal Jennifer Hudson as a person,” she —Christopher John Farley says. Q: A lot of your work has a On her self-titled album, out Q: Tell me, what is the main strong political thrust to it. Did this week, she’s chosen to repre- concept behind The Night- you ever think, “Maybe I’ll sent herself with varied styles, watchman? write an album of love songs”? from gospel to romantic R&B and Well, originally I saw it as an I think that area is pretty well the hip-hop rhythms of “Pocket- antidote to my arena rock. It was covered—oversaturated actu- book,” in which she threatens to a way to be a little more Woody ally. The Nightwatchman keeps wallop an overeager suitor with Guthrie and a little less Led Zep- his love life private. her purse. In the coming film “The pelin. When I starting writing Secret Life of Bees,” set in 1960s and playing these songs, I found Q: One of your parents was South Carolina, Ms. Hudson plays a new creative voice as a singer born in Kenya, another in the a fugitive who finds welcome on a and as a lyricist and it was really U.S. You went to Harvard and honey farm. She co-stars with Da- exciting. you’re into politics and promot- kota Fanning, Alicia Keys and ing change. Who does that Queen Latifah. —John Jurgensen Q: What’s the main differ- sound like? ence between being in a band I am the half-Kenyan Harvard Q: Whether it’s covering fa- and going solo? grad from Illinois who’s not run- miliar songs on “American Idol” There’s a huge difference. In a ning for president this year. or performing as characters in band, when it’s good, what you films, you’ve spent a lot of time get is chemistry. As a solo artist, WSJ.com channeling other people. Did what you get is purity. With a Outline/Corbis Rage in the café that make it hard to define your- rock band, you get something Watch an interview with Tom self on the album? From left, Queen Latifah, Jennifer that none of you could create on Morello and see him perform two Hudson and Alicia Keys in ‘The Secret I have a great sense of who I your own. And as a solo artist, songs from his new CD at am and I’ve never been one to du- Life of Bees’; above, Ms. Hudson. you get something that is very WSJ.com/Lifestyle plicate or imitate. What was chal- unique and distilled. lenging was that because of the award for “Dreamgirls” and the at- song in particular because that’s tention from the film, it added where I come from. pressure on me—not in the acting, but in the music. Q: There’s a scene in “The Se- I’ve been singing music from cret Life of Bees” where you’re other artists that came from a dif- singing “Break-A-Way” by Irma ferent time and I’m always com- Thomas in the kitchen. Was that pared to them. So it’s been chal- Sidney Baldwin in the script? lenging to be me and be current, looked at that way. It’s emotion Sometimes I wasn’t even sure. while still connecting to every- more than anything. If I’m acting I We sang lots of songs on the set. I thing I’ve portrayed so far. It want it to come from somewhere said, “If you have me singing an- would make me nervous when I’d real. I have to connect to some- other time, you’re going to have walk the streets. It’s all different thing in reality. It’s the same way me in a musical.” It was [my char- kinds of people approaching me, with music. acter] Rosaleen singing, it wasn’t and I’d think, “What am I offering Jennifer’s voice. all of them?” Q: You grew up singing in the church and there’s some gospel Q: You’re singing in charac- Q: Do you feel like you’re play- on the album. Are there any ter? WHERE THE BOATS ARE. ing a movie role when you’re risks to including a song like Me, I’m very serious about how singing these songs? Or have I “Jesus Promised Me a Home I sing every note. For Rosaleen, The yachting capital of the world proudly just seen too many movie mon- Over There” on the same album it’s all about the joy of the mo- hosts the 49th FORTLAUDERDALE tages? as “Pocketbook”? ment. It was just doodling. But I INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW®, the premiere Sometimes the songs have char- That’s a huge part of what I was glad that more music didn’t venue for Sport fishing Yachts & Power Boats. acters to them and it can be am, the biggest part. I chose that go in. I didn’t want another sing- ing role. I wanted to be a charac- • See the most well-respected builders, ter. designers, manufacturers, gathered together side-by-side. Love and death in Israel Q: Your song from “Dream- • More than 1,500 vessels with 1,200 FORT LAUDERDALE girls,” “And I Am Telling You I’m in water. INTERNATIONAL • Six locations featuring all the top builders. AMILTI and Other Sto- Not Going,” is included on your ® ‘J ries,” released this album. What’s the hardest part • Super yachts, Motor yachts, Megasailers,BOAT SHOW week, is a collection of short about singing that song? Yachts, Sport fishing boats, Inflatables. works by Israeli cartoonist I don’t consider that song to be • See tents full of accessories. 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W20 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W9 Right, Cube chair, designed by Mr. Suppanen in 2005. Produced by Ferlea, price: Œ1,382-Œ1,705.

Above, designer Ilkka Suppanen (right) speaks to a staff member at Marimekko’s flagship store in Helsinki, in front of his Marhaba fabric design, inspired by Arabic patterns. Right, fabric designed by Mr. Suppanen.

Finnish home furnishings retailer Iittala’s ‘Designed to be Combined’ line urges customers to mix and match pieces. Here, the designer with a staff member.

Right, Pascale bracelet, designed by Mr. Suppanen in 2006.

Above, Artek’s flagship store. The company was founded in 1935 by Alvar Aalto. Below, Colors chair, designed by Mr. Suppanen in 2004, produced by Zanotta, price: starting at Œ1,420. Photos: Ilpo Musto for The Wall Street Journal, Studio Suppanen (objects) Last month’s exhibit at the Helsinki Design Museum on young Finnish designers. Here, designs for Marimekko made by Mr. Suppanen, shown with the museum curator, Jukka Savolainen.

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and-cotton fabric, is “the best piece of furni- By J.S. Marcus Designer Ilkka Suppanen at ture that Harri has designed,” says Mr. Sup- Special to The Wall Street Journal Helsinki’s Hernesaari heliport. panen. He calls it “sensitive—for me, it’s su- per comfortable.” We have a quick lunch of open-faced HE HELSINKI STUDIO of Finnish shrimp sandwiches. Taciturn Finns around designer Ilkka Suppanen, us enjoy their lunches in silence—they occa- known for his wit and his inven- sionally rejoice, Mr. Suppanen says, at the tiveness, at first seems daunt- promise of free coffee refills. “Finns are ingly austere. During a recent just not expressive,” he says. visit, the all-white studio, After lunch, we drive down the coast to Thoused in a former bank office just outside one of Mr. Suppanen’s favorite spots, a heli- the city center, takes on the quality of an copter terminal on the Baltic Sea. “I like to overcast sky. But a shock of color bursts walk or ride my bicycle to this weird spot,” from a corner: an orange-and-red lounge he says, describing the transcendent bleak- chair called Colors, as bright as cherry and ness as a “Kaurismäki world,” invoking the tangerine popsicles. films of the two Kaurismäki brothers, The effect is peculiar—at once beautiful known for their harsh vision of Helsinki in and somehow funny. As it turns out, that is its pre-IT days. Mr. Suppanen points out the standard effect in Helsinki, where unpre- the old harbor buildings, the new helicopter dictable combinations of cultures, styles pad, an otherworldly slagheap and the pris- and atmospheres give the city its particular tine coastline with densely forested islands, feel. And it is often the desired effect of the marveling at the incongruity. city’s new wave of industrial designers, If Kaurismäki films represent the old Fin- who, like Mr. Suppanen, are making a name which emphasized unusual materials and the headquarters of Nokia and at the city’s land, then Nokia, down the coastline from for themselves by rebelling against Finnish unpredictable forms. University of Art and Design, where around the terminal, represents the new. Located design’s minimalist traditions. In his studio is a Snowcrash creation 20% of the graduate students in design are in a blue-and-silver office complex, with its Frugality and functionalism have been called Airbag. It is a model of flexibility, du- foreigners. own harbor and wooded island, Nokia’s the cornerstones of Finnish design since rability and hilarity—the constituent parts, Mr. Suppanen agreed to spend the day headquarters is a high-tech paradise sur- the late 1920s, when legendary architect it seems, of so much going on in Finland showing us why Helsinki is celebrated as a rounded by wilderness. Nokia, once known and designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) these days. “This is actually tent material,” contemporary design capital. Our first stop for its rubber products, helped further the brought the clean lines and white walls of he says, holding up a large, lightweight pil- is Marimekko’s flagship store on Helsinki’s telecom revolution by turning cellphones European modernism home to Finland. low filled with small plastic balls, which charming shopping boulevard, the Pohjois- into design objects. The company, which Aalto emphasized the use of wood, the opens up into a chair, which can, in turn, esplanadi. Founded in the early 1950s, Ma- contributes more to Finland’s GDP than any country’s most abundant natural resource, open up into a mattress. At the ceiling is Hi- rimekko won world-wide popularity for its other non-state-owned company, brings in instead of the concrete slabs and steel wave, a large lighting device from 2002, pop-flavored clothes and household fabrics designers regularly to consult—Mr. Sup- tubes favored by other European modern- which uses sail material from a windsurf in the 1960s and ’70s by combining graphic panen is currently working on a project ists. In the process, he created an economi- board, cut into a long, undulating strip. Sus- and textile design. The label fell on hard there (he isn’t allowed to describe it). cal, all-purpose style. pended from the ceiling, the material is a times by the early ’90s amid Finland’s eco- Pekka Himanen, a philosophy professor But now, a generation after Aalto’s high-tech canopy turned funky lampshade. nomic downturn, but new management re- on the faculty at Helsinki’s University of death, Finnish design has reinvented itself. His latest work, launched last week, is vived it in the past decade in part by hiring Art and Design, who has advised both Young designers—who have come of age in Fireplace, a portable glass-and-steel-hearth, a range of young designers, who brought an Nokia and the Finnish government on IT is- a Finland where the high-tech industry, led which burns ethanol and can be perched on updated aesthetic. A good example is Mr. sues, sees a connection between the influ- by telecommunications giant Nokia, has re- a table top or placed on a patio, or even Suppanen’s recent Marimekko textile design ence of Nokia on Finnish life and the rise of placed forestry as the country’s economic serve as an amusing replacement for a real that was inspired by Arabic geometric pat- a new generation of inventive, internation- motor—are putting their spin on the old wood fire in a fireplace. It was designed for terns. Today the label’s main Helsinki store ally minded Finnish designers. Aalto-esque virtues. Iittala, one of Finland’s signature home-fur- is a sea of colors, patterns and shoppers. “The logic that is driving global innova- Contemporary Finnish design is marked nishing companies, known for its glass and Across the street we venture into Artek, tion is the formation of local centers of cre- by bold experimentation with new materi- ceramics, including the bulbous Savoy vase the high altar of Finnish furniture design, ativity,” he says. “Nokia has become that.” als and a multifunctionalism that gives a (1936) by Aalto and the radically simple founded in 1935 by a group led by Alvar He says Nokia’s strategy since the early sense of playfulness. Mr. Suppanen’s Colors glasses and plates by the Finnish designer Aalto. Artek is both a label still producing 1990s of adding value through design gave chair, launched in 2004, comes in a number Kaj Franck (1911-1989). Finnish classics—like Aalto’s curvaceous Pai- Finnish industrial designers a kick-start, of colors and materials, which the buyer Although Mr. Suppanen and his fellow mio chair, first created for a sanatorium in and says other Finnish companies have fol- can combine at whim, placing it a world designers use materials that modernist mas- western Finland—and a shop, selling pieces lowed its lead. For example he says Kone, away from Aalto classics like the 1932 Pai- ters like Aalto would never have recog- by masters such as Danish designers Arne an elevator manufacturer, has used design mio bentwood lounge chair, which still nized, their attention to their objects’ func- Jacobsen and Verner Panton, as well as (it partnered with Marimekko) to differenti- comes in one material and only three colors— tions places them squarely in the main- Americans Charles and Ray Eames, whose ate its elevators from competitors. black, white and natural birch. stream of Finnish design, says Anna Val- own bentwood and fiberglass furniture de- One of the great transitional figures in “In the past, Finnish design was about tonen, head of design research at Nokia, signs of the 1940s and ’50s were influenced Finnish design is Stefan Lindfors, who first continuing traditions and building on local headquartered just outside Helsinki. “It’s by Aalto’s work of the 1930s. became known in 1980s. He brought whimsi- material culture,” says Paola Antonelli, cura- not a style culture,” Ms. Valtonen says of Tom Dixon, the London-based designer cal, organic forms into Finnish design. He tor in the department of architecture and Finland. Rather, she says, “it’s about mak- and current creative director of Artek, says was one of several designers featured at design at New York’s Museum of Modern ing good design for whatever occasion.” Aalto’s use of wood “formed a more human Helsinki’s Design Museum last month in the Art. The new generation has “departed from Mr. Suppanen stresses the cosmopolitan alternative to the metallic German and exhibition “Fennofolk,” which explored con- that line to discover personal expression.” nature of contemporary Finnish design. He French modernists.” He says the design’s es- temporary notions of Finnishness. He was The best of new Finnish design is now on cites local designers like Arihiro Miyake, a sential simplicity has stood the test of time, represented in the show with a clear, donut- display through Oct. 6 at Helsinki’s annual young Japanese-born industrial designer and a key element in his revival of the shaped water bottle and a related multime- Design Week. It features a range of events, who is experimenting with materials like Artek brand has been a rediscovery of previ- dia installation. “He took a completely dif- from product launches and installations to aluminum and felt, and Brian Keaney, a ous decades’ designs. ferent path” from Finnish designers before fashion shows, and is open to the public. “If young Irishman whose company, Tonfisk De- Artek also sells furniture by Woodnotes, him, says Ms. Antonelli. “He really launched you want an introduction to the Finnish de- sign, based in the west of Finland, has cre- a Finnish firm that uses paper-based tex- himself on a global stage.” sign world, it’s a very good event,” says Mr. ated inspired twists on Finnish traditions. tiles for upholstery, and the shop’s current On our way back into town, we pass an Suppanen. “Everyone is there.” Tonfisk’s Warm tea set finds a new use for display saves a prominent place for the K oddity—a low-rise, red-brick building, with Born in Kotka, in the east of Finland, Mr. wood that is both decorative and func- chair (2004), designed by Mr. Suppanen’s a sign that reads “Karaoke Restroom.” Once Suppanen, 40, grew up in suburban Hels- tional: individual cups and teapots are friend and fellow Helsinki designer, Harri an actual public restroom built for the 1952 inki, in what he describes as a “modernist given insulating wooden cuffs. Koskinen. As plush as the Paimio is hard, Helsinki Summer Olympics, the building is apartment building in the middle of the “It’s an interesting moment,” Mr. Sup- the K chair, made of padded grids of paper- now a popular karaoke bar. Mr. Suppanen woods.” He started out studying architec- panen says. “Finnish design will not only be refers to it as a “toilet bar” and says it’s a ture but later switched to furniture design. defined by people who are Finnish, it will good example of the Finnish sense of hu- In 1997, he and three other recent gradu- be defined by people who have other back- For more on Finland’s new design stars, mor. “It’s absurd humor,” he says. “You put ates from Helsinki’s University of Art and grounds.” He points out that in his studio, turn the page. things together that don’t belong together.” Design made a splash at Milan’s furniture where he employs five other designers, he See more images of Ilkka Suppanen’s The approach extends to Finnish design. fair with an exhibition called “Snowcrash,” is actually the only Finn. They speak En- designs at WSJ.com/Lifestyle “We’re not scared of combinations that a preview of Finnish design’s new wave, glish together—the language is also used at shouldn’t [otherwise] fit together,” he says.

W18 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W11 v v Design Taste A Cultural Conversation with Fernando Meirelles / By Emily Parker 7 Happy Daze Beneath the ‘Thin Cover of Civilization’ New York ence walks out,” he says. “They shot in Brazil. The director’s im- By Steve Salerno man-resources departments every- Fernando Meirelles and I are can’t go through [to] the end. And age began to change with “The where. “No system, tool or meth- chatting over coffee in a posh so I softened the film a bit.” Constant Gardener,” shot in En- A few Augusts ago, University odology . . . can beat the produc- North stars: The new generation Park Avenue hotel room. “We can Mr. Saramago initially op- glish and starring Rachel Weisz of Illinois psychologist Edward Di- tivity boost you get from really, behave like this, drink coffee and posed a film adaptation, and Mr. (who won an Oscar for her role) ener presented the annual meet- really enjoying your work,” de- talk, because we’re not under Meirelles was nervous about the and Ralph Fiennes. “It’s a pity. I ing of the American Psychological clares consultant Alexander Kjer- pressure,” he says. But “if there author’s take on the finished wish I could shoot films always in Association with an impolitic mes- ulf, self-described “Chief Happi- was an earthquake here, or a fire, project. He describes witnessing Portuguese, in Brazil,” Mr. sage for its time. Mr. Diener— ness Officer.” Not content with fa- I don’t know if I would push you Mr. Saramago’s reaction: “The Meirelles says. He says he admires whose bona fides in the scholarly cilitating mere smiles, some com- to run, save my skin. I don’t film finished, the lights came on, Spanish director Pedro Almodó- study of “subjective well-being” panies go for genuine belly-laughs, know how I would react!” and he wouldn’t say anything. I var, who “found a way to shoot Janne Kyttänen (that’s happiness, to you and me) bringing in professional comics. This kind of uneasy question is was so nervous. OK, I under- films in Spanish, in Spain, and at are such that he’s sometimes The broad culture is on board. Janne Kyttänen was awarded Finland’s at the center of the Brazilian direc- stand, he didn’t like the film at the same time be international.” called Dr. Happy—unveiled re- A half century after “The Power tor’s “Blindness,” which opens all . . . and then when I turned to Mr. Meirelles finds, however, “Young Designer of the Year” prize last year search suggesting that unbridled of Positive Thinking” was first across much of Europe this month. say to him, ‘You don’t need to say that “it’s much easier to shoot in by Helsinki’s Design Forum, but the words joy is not without its costs. published, Americans’ taste for The film, based on the 1990s novel anything,’ he was crying.” Mr. English,” as it provides, at least, “Finnish” and “designer” aren’t necessarily Although an upbeat outlook is happy thoughts has not ebbed. by Nobel Prize-winner José Sara- Meirelles says, “That was one of for “a decent budget so I can do words he would use to describe himself. generally correlated This past spring, a mago, describes an inexplicable ep- the best moments, I can maybe what I have in mind.” Born in Finland, educated in Spain and in with longevity, so- reported five million idemic of blindness that plunges say, of my life.” Of course, it’s not the same as the Netherlands, and currently based in Am- cial acceptance and people “attended” a society into chaos. Mr. Meirelles To prepare for the film, the ac- working in your own language. sterdam, Mr. Kyttänen, 34, heads up the firm above-average suc- The pitfalls of 10-week webinar says the film isn’t about a specific tors, extras and crew participated “If I say ‘mango tree’ in Portu- Freedom of Creation, which uses high-tech de- cess, Mr. Diener’s sponsored by Oprah positive country or regime, but about man- guese, it’s my grandfather’s farm sign and production methods to make and dis- studies also show Winfrey and led by kind. “I think we’re still very primi- and there’s the smell, and it’s nos- tribute lighting, accessories and textiles. “Be- that beyond a cer- thinking. best-selling New tive inside . . . with this little, very talgic,” Mr. Meirelles says. “I ing an entrepreneur is more of a challenge,” tain point, happiness Age author Eckhart thin cover of civilization.” don’t have the feeling of the he says, speaking on the telephone from his of- becomes a detri- Tolle. Mr. Tolle is to- “Blindness” is already creat- words in English.” He continues fice in Amsterdam. “Design is more like a walk ment. College students who score day’s foremost exponent of living ing controversy. In a Sept. 30 to do television in Portuguese: He in the park.” super-high in happiness seldom in a permanently rosy state of Nietos armchair by press release, Marc Maurer, bought the rights to the Canadian Often inspired by mathematical represen- have GPAs to match; the very perki- Now, wherein one is not haunted Mikko Paakkanen president of the National series “Slings and Arrows” and is tations of natural forms—part of his design est adults usually are out-earned by the mistakes of the past or the (Œ2,149). Federation of the Blind in currently shooting it in Brazil. process might include translating flower uncertainties of the future. by their more even-keel colleagues. the U.S, said the organiza- “City of God” may be a thor- petal patterns into a mathematical se- At the outer limits of magical Mr. Diener’s work may provide tion “condemns and de- oughly Brazilian movie, but its Monarch stools ries—Mr. Kyttänen uses rapid manufacturing thinking was last year’s best seller some small comfort to firms short plores” the movie, and that content surprised some in Brazil. by Janne Kyttänen techniques, which allow designers to actual- Mikko Paakkanen on glee after recent economic de- “The Secret,” in which author (Œ12,500 for a set of five). ize designs from their computer screens by “blind people in this film “For the first time we were re- velopments. In fact, a little unhap- Rhonda Byrne told disciples that a are portrayed as incompe- vealing the other side of the coun- pushing a button. A former carpenter, Helsinki designer piness may make for better re- beneficent Universe will reward Starting out as a fine Mikko Paakkanen, 32, is a rising star at Av- tent, filthy, vicious, and try,” Mr. Meirelles says of the sults for American business in the their heartfelt beliefs. Her reward? depraved.” The federa- film, which depicts the violence powder, objects are then arte, a Helsinki firm specializing in furniture long run. Of the many factors Some eight million copies of the hardened, or “printed,” for public spaces. Mr. Paakkanen’s designs for tion said that its mem- in the slums, or favelas. “When large and small that conspired to book and DVD have been sold. bers would protest at the- we [talked] about favela at that in layers by a laser, Avarte include a sleek, throne-like armchair produce the current financial mal- I find it intriguing that “The Se- rather than molded or called Nietos (which means “snowdrift”’ in aters in the U.S. when the point we would always talk from aise, the most subtle and ironic cret” came to prominence the film opens there today. the middle-class point of view, it conventionally assem- Finnish), made from laminated birch, and Tai- may be the notion that positive same year that the mortgage melt- bled. The process, which tos (which means “fold”), a series of stackable “I’m very surprised,” was always about violence, and thoughts yield positive results. down reached critical mass: For Mr. Meirelles says of the from the camera outside judging became widespread in birch and plastic chairs with distinctive cut-di- The appeal of the sentiment is what was the subprime lending cri- the 1990s as an inexpen- amond seats and backs. Both come in a wide group’s reaction. “The film is who was inside....SoIthink indisputable. No small portion of sis if not a conspiracy of wishful not about blind people, it’s this was the first time sive way to produce ny- range of colors. the $29 billion that companies in- thinking in which lenders and bor- lon industrial prototypes, allows for tremen- “Alvar Aalto hasn’t been a big name for about human nature, about peo- we put the camera vest in outsourced training, ac- rowers were equal partners? ple who have just gone blind with inside and tried to dous freedom. Mr. Kyttänen’s designs can be me,” he says. “You don’t get a kick using the cording to the American Society But it is from business that we transmitted as digital files and then produced same materials” associated with Aalto, like no time for any adaptation. The tell the story from for Training & Development, goes most expect to hear hardheaded- their point of view.” on demand at six centers around the world, wood and glass. only character who’s really blind for celebrity speakers, off-site sem- ness. Instead, it seems to be a cen- Seeing is not the which he describes as a mixture of “factories He says he worked as (Maury Chaykin) is completely inars and “wilderness camps” de- ter of magical thinking. In a July adapted and so efficient that same as observing, and and copy shops.” a carpenter for years, but signed to instill a positive outlook. 2003 Harvard Business Review arti- he’s able to control all the oth- film can be a powerful The technology can now be applied to a found that creating new In some precincts of the finan- cle, authors Dan Lovallo and Daniel ers. I never even thought that way to remind us of that. range of materials, but Mr. Kyttänen contin- things was easier for him cial sector, the “irrational exuber- Kahneman say American compa- the film could hurt blind peo- “I like to read a lot, and ues to use polyamide nylon, which is low in than building. He studied ance” of which Federal Reserve nies “reward optimism and inter- ple, because that’s not what it sometimes you finish a book cost as well as adaptable. at Helsinki’s University Chairman Alan Greenspan warned pret pessimism as disloyalty.” is about. I know some artists, and you want to go deeper in the Although he has designed everything from of Art and Design, where in 1996 has been institutionalized Hence, frank discussions of risk at scientists or businessmen experience,” he says. (“City of furniture to handbags, he is especially adept he is now a teacher in the as a growth strategy. “The Posi- many companies are interpreted as that are blind and brilliant in God” is also based on a book, as is at lighting designs, which were among his Master’s program. Designers Antti Hinkula (left) and Teemu tive Role of Overconfidence and evidence of negativity; the risk- their jobs. We all know that.” “The Constant Gardener.”) Books first commissions. Dahlia, from 2005, is a His studio, a former Suviala in their studio. Above, their 2006 Optimism in Investment Pol- averse employee may be labeled a Mr. Meirelles, 53, also di- stimulate the imagination, but project for Iittala’s 125th anniversary. flower-like lamp made of overlapping petals shoe-repair shop in a Ismael Roldan Ilpo Musto icy”—written by three leading eco- “gloom-and-doomer” and hear him- rected “The Constant Gar- there’s nothing like cinema for 1960s modernist block (which he calls “maybe that can be mounted on a ceiling or wall; early nomics professors, and published self disparaged as “not a team dener” (2005) and “City of God” in “blind camps.” The director de- bringing certain moments to life. this year he launched the Palm chandelier, the ugliest building in this area”), is domi- by the Wharton School—is among player” during performance re- (2002), which earned him an scribes putting on a blindfold, be- Of course, a movie with Kokoro & Moi which suggests foliage on a palm tree. Even nated by an impressive wall hanging made out several recent white papers that views. And where “delusional opti- Academy Award nomination for ing taken in a car to an unknown mostly blind characters presents so, he sees lighting as “a niche market,” and of sections from his Taitos chairs. essentially make the case for opti- mism” is prized, it becomes a risk best director. He was born in São location, and being left in the mid- challenges: “How am I going to Punavuori, a gentrifying industrial dis- word Mr. Suviala says he noticed on a dis- says his real ambition is to create a whole in- In his latest project, shown last week at the mism grounded in nothing but, factor in its own right. Statistically, Paulo and speaks fluent, softly ac- dle of the street. “There was al- tell a story without seeing, with- trict near Helsinki’s shipyards, is the Finn- tinctive restaurant sign in Norway, where dustry, and control the way a range of objects opening of Helsinki Design Week, Mr. Paak- well, itself. Indeed, in a 2006 work say the authors, positive-thinking cented English. He sculpts the air ways somebody guiding us, but out the eyes?” Looking at the ish capital at its hippest. Here you can find one of the chefs is named Moi. The name are designed, produced and distributed. He kanen uses the polyurethane foam found in air with the numbingly pedantic title managers tend to experience cost as he speaks, and his chair is we couldn’t talk to each other.” world from a character’s point of real-life testimonials to the city’s multi- “really describes the way we work,” he says he imagines that one day private homes filters to make lounge chairs. “I’ve tried to “Reasons for Situated Optimism: overruns and revenue shortfalls. hardly able to contain him. This kind of thing would go on view invites the audience to functionalist design wave, like Karaoke says, summing up the firm’s design philos- will be outfitted with machines to “print” his make [the chairs] look like solid foam pieces,” Intuitions About the Consequences For the record, the more rigor- He studied architecture in col- for hours, and there was always share the experience. So, “once I Restroom, a 1950s public toilet turned ophy as “combining different elements” to- designs. says Mr. Paakkanen. Record producer DJ of Prediction Errors,” a pair of ous studies of the supposed link lege and sees some similarities to someone who broke down. “They couldn’t show what they were Karaoke bar, and Moko Market, a bohe- gether. “The interesting thing is the colli- His firm, which employs eight people, is Slow, one of Finland’s leading music personali- Yale psychologists concluded that between positivity and productiv- his current job. “An architect is would just sit and cry, cry, cry, for seeing, I tried to show what they mian café and retro-furniture emporium, sion,” he says. also noted for its metal and nylon textiles, ties, has created electronic music to play even when managers are aware of ity are inconclusive. Yes, Ameri- somebody who really doesn’t half an hour,” Mr. Meirelles says. would be feeling.” He describes outfitted with conference rooms for busi- “We listen to music in our office all the which can have a knitted or even welded ap- through speakers in the chairs, so “you can the shaky foundations for their op- can workers are both highly pro- know how to build a building,” he For him, it was the opposite. moments when the image is out ness meetings. time,” says Mr. Suviala, over coffee in one pearance, but are actually created with a la- hear the sound through the material,” says timism, they make a “strategic” de- ductive and relatively positive in explains. They need engineers, just He says, “I really recommend you, of focus, or the frame is wrong. And it’s the place to find the studio of of Moko Market’s conference rooms. “And ser. Earlier this year, Mr. Kyttänen’s textile de- Mr. Paakkanen. The installation will be on cision to cling to it anyway. global rankings of each attribute, as directors rely on writers and ac- Sunday morning if you have noth- Yet, there’s no question that Kokoro & Moi, a young, freewheeling de- we sometimes think of ourselves as visual signs were featured in an exhibition at New view in Avarte’s showroom in Helsinki Then there’s the so-called Hap- but one cannot show a causal rela- tors. What both architects and di- ing to do, wake up in the morn- certain scenes are fueled by the sign firm. Founder and creative director composers.” York’s Museum of Modern Art called “Design through Christmas. pyism that has seized hold of hu- tionship without adjusting for the rectors do bring is “a vision.” ing, put [on] a blindfold and stay power of the image. One such Teemu Suviala, 31, and his partner Antti He cites as a major influence the New and the Elastic Mind,” which examined the re- myriad ambient variables that In “Blindness,” one character ’til 4, 5 in the afternoon. It’s really scene features the doctor’s wife Hinkula, 32, along with their staff of five, York hip-hop group De La Soul, known for lationship between contemporary design and make American life fairly pleasant suddenly loses his eyesight. He fantastic!” He explains: “Sound (played by Julianne Moore). She design everything from in-house projects their upbeat message and innovative sam- science. Pepper . . . and Salt to begin with. History’s most fa- infects others, and the govern- and smell is much enhanced, but has somehow retained her vision, for corporate clients like Nokia to Web pling, which come together in a distinc- Family and language have long kept Mr. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL mous studies cast doubt on even ment quarantines the blind in an also your thoughts, because you and this affords her access to sites, logos, T-shirts and promotional post- tive, layered sound. Other influences in- Kyttänen, a former professional squash the basic correlations you’d expect abandoned mental asylum, which can’t read, you can’t be dis- small but priceless pieces of infor- ers and marketing strategies for clients clude comic books, the skateboarding and player, connected to Finland. More recently to see—say, between job satisfac- descends into squalor. It gets tracted, so you’re with yourself.” mation, such as the time of day. like the Finnish ceramics firm Iittala. snowboarding cultures, and artists like he has been accepted and promoted by Finn- tion and low rates of absenteeism. even worse when a blind, self-ap- The film isn’t based on a spe- Then she realizes that she ne- The firm’s poster for Koneisto, a Hels- Marcel Duchamp. ish design circles as one of their own. “It’s Few would argue that attitude pointed “King of Ward Three” cific disaster, but Mr. Meirelles glected to wind her watch. inki electronic-music festival, uses a dizzy- “They’re full of ideas,” says Helsinki in- been quite nice to get to know them,” he says plays no role in success. But the (Gael García Bernal) manages to says images from Hurricane Ka- “She starts crying, she’s des- ing range of images and patterns—Korean dustrial designer Ilkka Suppanen, of of Finnish designers, although he claims to be crusade for all-out positivity, par- take over, demanding various fa- trina helped inspire the set. He perate, and we see the thing com- floral prints, a pair of nudes embracing, a Messrs. Suviala and Hinkula. “They have a “a bit of an oddball in that crowd.” ticularly in business, is a stun- vors in return for food. points to reports of crime follow- ing, I mean her sadness coming . . doodle of a bomb and a runny version of a huge amount of energy and they’re work- ning example of the fraud that The novel may be darker than ing the storm: “It’s not very differ- . she tries to hold it and then she bar code. The various images are brought ing with people all over the world.” America will perpetrate on itself the film, but there’s something ent, and they could see.” The film breaks,” Mr. Meirelles says. “Of together in a gravity-free, mural-like for- Mr. Suviala says the lack of a strong in its desperation to believe that about viewing certain horrors on was shot in Toronto and São course you can describe this in lit- mat. graphic-arts tradition in Finland “gives us life really is just a bowl of cher- screen. Both the film and the book Paulo. “It should be a big city, but erature, in words, but it’s not the Originally known as Syrup Helsinki, the the freedom to experiment.” He also be- Dahlia lamp by Janne Kyttänen ries. Pitless, no doubt. contain sexual violence, and an very generic, that people couldn’t same experience as seeing her.” firm changed its name earlier this year af- lieves that Finland’s weather influences (Œ412-Œ3,024). earlier screening of the movie was recognize . . . and I think São ter their New York partners were acquired their work. “Sometimes we think that the Mr. Salerno is the author of author so upsetting that Mr. Meirelles Paulo is very appropriate for that.” Ms. Parker is an assistant edito- by a larger firm. The new name combines long, dark winters are the reason for us go- of “SHAM: How the Self-Help Move- lost part of the audience. “I can’t Mr. Meirelles’s career-making rial features editor at The Wall kokoro, the Japanese word for soul, with a ing totally nuts with colors and forms.” @FOC2005 “I’m thinking, . . . I”m thinking.” ment Made America Helpless.” do a film where 12% of the audi- “City of God” was in Portuguese, Street Journal.

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Paris n art rative-arts exhibition, the show presents its 400 of Finnish designers Born on an island of the Venetian Republic in objects thematically, even whimsically, rather than 1431, Andrea Mantegna was apprenticed to the chronologically. We actually lose a sense of time, painter Francesco Squarcione in early adoles- and place, when confronted with groves of sturdy cence, and by the time he was 17 he was already Victorian grandfather clocks alongside rococo oddi- making a name for himself for his part in decorat- ties, like a gilded bronze Parisian table clock, from String chaise longue, a prototype ing the Ovitari Chapel of Padua’s Eremitani 1740, with a nymph-covered clock face riding on by Arihiro Miyake, shown below Church. Precocious, and prodigiously talented, top of an elephant. Multimedia displays and skill- Mikko Laakkonen with his Click lamp prototype. Mantegna was also a young man in the right ful lighting add to the installation-like effect. Below right, Latva coatrack by place at the right time. There are rarities here, like a 16th-century as- “That sausage was an accident,” says Hels- Mikko Laakkonen (Œ350-Œ450). Associating with the humanists who were re- tronomical clock, designed by Nuremburg watch- inki designer Mikko Laakkonen. We are sit- discovering the ancient Greeks and Romans, learn- maker Hans Gruber the Elder, and part of the per- ting in the kitchen of his small studio in the ing from Dutch and Flemish artists whose new manent collection at Skoklosters Slott, Sweden’s Töölö section of town, a few streets away techniques in oil painting were filtering into Italy, enormous baroque castle. Both elaborate and pre- from Alvar Aalto’s elegant modernist concert influenced by the sculptural forms of his older col- cise, the clock manages to recall the wonders of a house, Finlandia Hall, built in the 1960s. The league Donatello, marrying into the acclaimed Bell- great Renaissance goldsmith, like Cellini, and yet “sausage” in question refers to another kind ini family of Venetian artists and serving as court possesses the stark grandeur of navigational in- of ’60s modernism, the City-Center building, painter for three generations of the powerful struments from the Age of Exploration. More con- known as “the Sausage House” in honor of a Gonzaga dukes of Mantua—everything converged temporary pieces include throngs of Swatch distinctive concrete balustrade around the to mold Mantegna into one of the greatest mas- watches, displayed in all their tawdry variety, and building’s parking level—which the architects ters of the Italian Renaissance. Arne Jacobsen’s numberless wall clock, designed didn’t anticipate would be so conspicuous. “I “Mantegna,” the big retrospective that just in 1970 for the Danish National Bank. like it,” says Mr. Laakkonen, of the severe opened at the Louvre, brings together the rich As we move around the scattered centuries, building, with a boyish smile. holdings of many French museums with master- the clock faces themselves take on an almost hu- The work of Mr. Laakkonen, 34, is anything works on loan from institutions world-wide for a man quality—we come to think of them as faces— but severe. Instead it’s an ingenious mixture Harri Koskinen spectacular show of nearly 200 paintings, draw- and the show becomes an exhibition of portraits, of diligence and whimsy. His mirthful appreci- ings, prints, sculptures and objets d’art by Mante- of shifting expressions and changing moods. ation of concrete blocks, Designer Harri Koskinen excels at making gna and his contemporaries. Although the most —J.S. Marcus however, isn’t a surprise. the simple seem original. “I have been really impressive of Mantegna’s works is arguably the Until Oct. 19 As his designs demon- comfortable with basic materials,” he says. stunning mural decoration for the Camera degli % 46-8-5195-4300 strate, he can find humor “Even a wooden chair can be a really new Sposi, the “newlyweds bedroom” in Mantua’s du- www.nationalmuseum.se in the least likely of places. thing.” cal Palazzo di San Giorgio, most of the rest of his His witty Latva His first success, the Block Lamp, turned a considerable body of work is at least partially rep- Berlin n photography coatrack, produced by the light bulb and a clear block of glass into a must- Italian firm Covo, uses pow- have item. Designed in 1996, while he was still resented in this show. There are three dramati- The year is 1931, and German photographer Erich der-coated steel to create a student at Helsinki’s University of Art and cally detailed panels of the altarpiece predella of Salomon is lying in wait behind a curtain at the something like a minimal- Design, the lamp has sold more than 50,000 San Zeno in Verona (1456-59); the big, elegant fig- French Foreign Ministry. Suddenly, he is discov- ist sapling grove (in Finnish, latva means tree- world-wide and is a well-known example of ure-filled allegoric panels “Parnassus” and “Min- ered by a group of his potential subjects, led by top), which can stand alone, or can be lined up cutting-edge Scandinavian design. By suggest- erva Chasing the Vices from the Garden of Virtue” French statesman Aristide Briand. Salomon like a forest to create a prankish room divider. ing fire and ice, points out Helsinki designer (circa 1496-1502), painted for Isabella d’Este’s pri- (1886-1944)—who pioneered the art of surrepti- vate study in the San Giorgio palace; and the He has also created a humorous cast-iron grill Ilkka Suppanen, Mr. Koskinen came across “a tiously photographing closed settings, like court- pan, called Vege, which gives food the out- combination that is iconic.” equally large “The Porters of Vases” from the “Tri- rooms, by, among other techniques, hiding a cam- umphs of Caesar” cycle (circa 1490-1500), on loan lines of leaves instead of traditional grill Since then Mr. Koski- era in his hat—seizes the opportunity and takes a marks, an effect Mr. Laakkonen refers to as nen, 38, whose Helsinki from the English Royal Collections for the first picture of Briand pointing at him and laughing. time since the entire nine-panel series was ac- “steak and veggies.” studio, Friends of Indus- The photo captures a group of celebrity diplomats Born in nearby Espoo, 20 kilometers west try, employs five other de- quired by King Charles I in the 1620s. in white tie, but with their guard down. It’s a long As court painter Mantegna was not permitted of Helsinki, and a graduate of Helsinki’s Uni- signers, has designed ev-

Photos: Institut deroad France/Musée Jacquemart André; Bodil Karlsson/Nationalmuseum from Aristide Briand to Paris Hilton, but a to sell his paintings, although his Gonzaga pa- versity of Art and Design, Mr. Laakkonen erything from tables, straight one if you visit “Pigozzi and Paparazzi,” trons sometimes gave them away as diplomatic shares his studio with a small group of fellow chairs and packaging to the Berlin exhibition chronicling a near century of gifts. But he was among the first Italian artists to designers who exhibit together at the Milan T-shirts and speakers. In candid celebrity snapshots at the Helmut Newton Ilpo Musto practice the new technique of copper engraving, Above, ‘Ecce Homo,’ circa 1500, by Andrea Mantegna, on show in Paris; below, ‘Wunderwerk’ pocket Furniture Fair under the name Rehti (the 2004, he won the Com- Foundation. As it turns out, paparazzi are not just which allowed prints of his works to be widely dif- watch, circa 1910, on show in Stockholm. word means “honest”). passo d’Oro award, one of craven, publicity-mad defilers of innocent celebri- Arihiro Miyake fused, among them the small but action-packed Mr. Laakkonen regularly uses materials the design world’s most ties’ private lives (though they’re that too); they “Battle of the Sea Gods,” a fantasy frieze of mor- that have been outside the mainstream of prestigious, for his oak Muu chair, which com- “People here were good at using wood,” are also, just when you least expect it, great art- tal combat among mermen and monsters. tury later, she became the subject of her artistic subversively critical vision of it. Finnish furniture design. He first attracted at- bines Finnish forms with Italian craftsman- says Japanese-born, Helsinki-based designer By the turn of the century, Mantegna’s aus- oeuvre. Pipilotti Rist’s “Ever is Over All” video installa- ists. tention in 2003, when he joined other young ship. Arihiro Miyake, “But I thought I should try tere and precise, almost illusionist style and his Although the actual photographer was Pierre- tion shows an Alice-in-Wonderland image of a The term “paparazzi” comes from Federico Fell- Finnish designers who drove from Helsinki to Mr. Koskinen has close relationships with something else.” He used aluminum for his cab- subtle, grainy colors were slowly superceded by Louis Pierson, the countess staged all of the pho- beautiful young woman in a blue dress and spar- ini’s film “La Dolce Vita” (1960), which features a the Milan Furniture Fair in a mobile exhibi- the three big names of Finnish design—Iittala, inet called 1789 and for a set of disposable cut- the more “modern” Raphael and Leonardo de tos. The beautiful sepia-toned albumin prints are kling red shoes. She virtually dances toward the character called Paparazzo, based on the real-life tion space called Saunabus—a bus outfitted makers of glass and ceramics; Artek, the furni- lery called Do!, scheduled for a launch next Vinci, but the aging artist remained true to his a study in 19th-century narcissism, depicting the viewer along an urban Italian street holding what celebrity photographer Tazio Secchiaroli with a real sauna and a range of witty proto- ture label founded by Alvar Aalto; and Ma- year. Both pieces are marked by expert crafts- own vision, capping his long career with the mag- Italian beauty as a kind of silver screen goddess appears to be a flower. In reality the oversize posy (1925-1998). Secchiaroli—one of six photogra- types. Kolee, Mr. Laakkonen’s design for an il- rimekko, the textile and clothing company. “I manship and flexibility. nificent “Ecce Homo,” a bust-length Christ figure, with props. She allows herself to appear in the disguises a lethal weapon with which she system- phers in this show—is represented by shots that luminated bed, had a polyester mattress that don’t need fancy new materials or new tech- The 1789 cabinet, produced by Top-Mou- hands bound and a rope around his neck, held on roles of prostitute, alcoholic and grieving widow atically smashes auto windshields. seem to come straight out of a Fellini movie, like included a luminescent film used in cell- nology,” he says, “but I am eager to play with ton, the Belgian interior-design and home-fur- either side by jailers whose evil faces are por- but never lets the viewer doubt they are in reality The “trouble” in the title of this startlingly origi- the 1966 photograph of Sophia Loren, in a sea of phones—you could turn it on and off with a those as well.” nishings firm, features a system of puzzle-like trayed with exquisite finesse. looking at the Comtesse de Castiglione. nal exhibition is a double entendre. It is not the fans and photographers, dutifully signing auto- switch. A good example of that is his relationship adjustable doors that allow the customer to Among the many paintings by Mantegna’s con- There are strong thematic similarities be- women who are suffering it; it’s the women art- graphs using the roof of a car as a makeshift In a short period of time, Mr. Laakkonen with Genelec, a leading producer of profes- change the cabinet’s colors and aesthetic ef- temporaries on show are standout works by his tween these early photographs and the works of ists who are making trouble by questioning the desk. The Pigozzi of the title is Jean Pigozzi (born “has gone from being a student to being able sional studio speakers located in the center of fect, depending on its function or the custom- brother-in-law Giovanni Bellini, Corregio and the important 20th-century artists like Cindy Sher- stereotypes in which society has cast them. 1952), the Italian businessman and art collector, to work well” with manufacturers, says Hels- Finland, a few hours by car from the farm er’s mood. Do! cutlery comes flat in a single, Flemish Rogier van der Weyden. man. Among the photographs in this exhibi- —Mariana Schroeder whose obsessive photographs of his famous inki designer Ilkka Suppanen. “He is one of where Mr. Koskinen grew up. Genelec founder pre-cut aluminum sheet and pops out for use. —Judy Fayard tion are her Untitled Film Stills, created Until Oct. 26 friends, often with himself in the shots, turn the those guys who will stay around.” Ilpo Martikainen says one of the company’s They are durable enough to reuse, and economi- Until Jan. 5 between 1977 and 1980. The women in % 49-89-2380-5360 celebrity photo into a kind of weird art installa- product ranges needed an updated look. “Not cal enough to throw away after one use. % 33-1-40-20-53-17 the black-and-white silver gelatin www.pinakothek.de tion. The plain-faced Mr. Pigozzi appears as a high- a facelift, but a total redesign,” he says. “Har- Mr. Miyake, 33, says that his motto is “keep www.louvre.fr prints take on roles from 1950s B mov- society Zelig alongside the likes of Mel Brooks, ri’s asset is that he can make engineering beau- space for the user,” saying the flexibility of his ies, made familiar by endless reruns on Stockholm n decorative arts Clint Eastwood and Andy Warhol. tiful.” designs allows his customers to become like Munich n photography late night American television. But the The decorative arts have an equal place As both celebrity and celebrity portraitist, the collaborators in their ability to shape and re- Ever since the invention of photography more scenes are from films that were never alongside the fine arts at Stockholm’s Berlin-born fashion photographer Helmut Newton shape the look and function of his pieces. than 170 years ago, women have experimented made, telling stories that exist only Nationalmuseum. Known for its (1920-2004) worked both sides of the paparazzi Mr. Miyake, who grew up in Kobe, first with the medium as a means of self-expression. in the photographer’s mind. 18th-century French collections, camera. His contributions to the genre mirror his came to Finland in 1999 to study, and he later Putting themselves center stage and playing fanci- Ms. Sherman’s History as well as its comprehensive other work, which is on ample view in the muse- graduated from the master’s program at Helsin- ful roles and masquerades, they have created im- Portraits, which look like overview of modern Scandi- um’s permanent collection—the dark humor and ki’s University of Art and Design, where he now ages that often differ greatly from those made by postmodern, feminist paro- navian design, the mu- harsh sexuality that made him a star in his own Block lamp teaches part-time. He currently lives and their male contemporaries. dies of Old Masters, chal- seum relies on its vast right. Newton, who cited Salomon as an influence, by Harri Koskinen (£112). works in the Arabianranta section of Helsinki, “Female Trouble,” an exhibition at the Pina- lenge the viewer by invit- holdings to mount “Faces often choreographed paparazzi-like episodes, like where he often collaborates on interiors with kothek der Moderne, documents more than a cen- ing closer scrutiny of the of Time, ” an enormous his 1967 spread for British Vogue, which features his girlfriend, the Italian-born, Helsinki-based tury of women as the subjects and the authors of visual clichés by which show documenting five a model playing a diffident celebrity, who in turn industrial designer Valentina Folli. works that often question the societal roles they women have traditionally centuries of clock and is being tailed by her own private press hound. In- Mr. Miyake’s level of ambition is so high, have been forced to play. been portrayed by artists. watch design. Comple- creasingly the models and stars, real and/or says Helsinki designer Ilkka Suppanen, who in- The show’s earliest photographs are by two “Untitled #216” shows a Ma- mented with loans from the staged, fade into the background, until his 1996 cluded Mr. Miyake’s designs in “Hardcore,” an aristocrats. Lady Clementina Hawarden began donna with a fake breast and Swedish king, the Danish photo from the Cannes Film Festival, which fea- exhibition of contemporary Finnish design photographing in 1857 and used her daughters as a doll-like baby Jesus. The royal collection and the Cartier tures just paparazzi, hard at work, with cameras held earlier this year in New York. Nick Top, models. She produced a series of works showing chromogenic color print does Collection, this is a fascinat- for faces. managing director of Top-Mouton, agrees. Mr. young women caught within the social strictures for Renaissance religious art ing exploration into the —J.S. Marcus Miyake “doesn’t want to make any conces- of the 19th century. Her contemporary, Virginia what her film stills do for art of telling time. Until Nov. 16 sions,” he says, adding he “has a sense of de- Oldoini, Comtesse de Castiglione, turned the cam- the movies: evoke a familiar Arranged more like an % 49-30-3186-4856 tail, and I’m talking millimeters,” uncommon era on herself. Much like Frida Kahlo half a cen- image but distort it, creating a art installation than a deco- www.helmutnewton.com in a designer.

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Paris n art rative-arts exhibition, the show presents its 400 of Finnish designers Born on an island of the Venetian Republic in objects thematically, even whimsically, rather than 1431, Andrea Mantegna was apprenticed to the chronologically. We actually lose a sense of time, painter Francesco Squarcione in early adoles- and place, when confronted with groves of sturdy cence, and by the time he was 17 he was already Victorian grandfather clocks alongside rococo oddi- making a name for himself for his part in decorat- ties, like a gilded bronze Parisian table clock, from String chaise longue, a prototype ing the Ovitari Chapel of Padua’s Eremitani 1740, with a nymph-covered clock face riding on by Arihiro Miyake, shown below Church. Precocious, and prodigiously talented, top of an elephant. Multimedia displays and skill- Mikko Laakkonen with his Click lamp prototype. Mantegna was also a young man in the right ful lighting add to the installation-like effect. Below right, Latva coatrack by place at the right time. There are rarities here, like a 16th-century as- “That sausage was an accident,” says Hels- Mikko Laakkonen (Œ350-Œ450). Associating with the humanists who were re- tronomical clock, designed by Nuremburg watch- inki designer Mikko Laakkonen. We are sit- discovering the ancient Greeks and Romans, learn- maker Hans Gruber the Elder, and part of the per- ting in the kitchen of his small studio in the ing from Dutch and Flemish artists whose new manent collection at Skoklosters Slott, Sweden’s Töölö section of town, a few streets away techniques in oil painting were filtering into Italy, enormous baroque castle. Both elaborate and pre- from Alvar Aalto’s elegant modernist concert influenced by the sculptural forms of his older col- cise, the clock manages to recall the wonders of a house, Finlandia Hall, built in the 1960s. The league Donatello, marrying into the acclaimed Bell- great Renaissance goldsmith, like Cellini, and yet “sausage” in question refers to another kind ini family of Venetian artists and serving as court possesses the stark grandeur of navigational in- of ’60s modernism, the City-Center building, painter for three generations of the powerful struments from the Age of Exploration. More con- known as “the Sausage House” in honor of a Gonzaga dukes of Mantua—everything converged temporary pieces include throngs of Swatch distinctive concrete balustrade around the to mold Mantegna into one of the greatest mas- watches, displayed in all their tawdry variety, and building’s parking level—which the architects ters of the Italian Renaissance. Arne Jacobsen’s numberless wall clock, designed didn’t anticipate would be so conspicuous. “I “Mantegna,” the big retrospective that just in 1970 for the Danish National Bank. like it,” says Mr. Laakkonen, of the severe opened at the Louvre, brings together the rich As we move around the scattered centuries, building, with a boyish smile. holdings of many French museums with master- the clock faces themselves take on an almost hu- The work of Mr. Laakkonen, 34, is anything works on loan from institutions world-wide for a man quality—we come to think of them as faces— but severe. Instead it’s an ingenious mixture Harri Koskinen spectacular show of nearly 200 paintings, draw- and the show becomes an exhibition of portraits, of diligence and whimsy. His mirthful appreci- ings, prints, sculptures and objets d’art by Mante- of shifting expressions and changing moods. ation of concrete blocks, Designer Harri Koskinen excels at making gna and his contemporaries. Although the most —J.S. Marcus however, isn’t a surprise. the simple seem original. “I have been really impressive of Mantegna’s works is arguably the Until Oct. 19 As his designs demon- comfortable with basic materials,” he says. stunning mural decoration for the Camera degli % 46-8-5195-4300 strate, he can find humor “Even a wooden chair can be a really new Sposi, the “newlyweds bedroom” in Mantua’s du- www.nationalmuseum.se in the least likely of places. thing.” cal Palazzo di San Giorgio, most of the rest of his His witty Latva His first success, the Block Lamp, turned a considerable body of work is at least partially rep- Berlin n photography coatrack, produced by the light bulb and a clear block of glass into a must- Italian firm Covo, uses pow- have item. Designed in 1996, while he was still resented in this show. There are three dramati- The year is 1931, and German photographer Erich der-coated steel to create a student at Helsinki’s University of Art and cally detailed panels of the altarpiece predella of Salomon is lying in wait behind a curtain at the something like a minimal- Design, the lamp has sold more than 50,000 San Zeno in Verona (1456-59); the big, elegant fig- French Foreign Ministry. Suddenly, he is discov- ist sapling grove (in Finnish, latva means tree- world-wide and is a well-known example of ure-filled allegoric panels “Parnassus” and “Min- ered by a group of his potential subjects, led by top), which can stand alone, or can be lined up cutting-edge Scandinavian design. By suggest- erva Chasing the Vices from the Garden of Virtue” French statesman Aristide Briand. Salomon like a forest to create a prankish room divider. ing fire and ice, points out Helsinki designer (circa 1496-1502), painted for Isabella d’Este’s pri- (1886-1944)—who pioneered the art of surrepti- vate study in the San Giorgio palace; and the He has also created a humorous cast-iron grill Ilkka Suppanen, Mr. Koskinen came across “a tiously photographing closed settings, like court- pan, called Vege, which gives food the out- combination that is iconic.” equally large “The Porters of Vases” from the “Tri- rooms, by, among other techniques, hiding a cam- umphs of Caesar” cycle (circa 1490-1500), on loan lines of leaves instead of traditional grill Since then Mr. Koski- era in his hat—seizes the opportunity and takes a marks, an effect Mr. Laakkonen refers to as nen, 38, whose Helsinki from the English Royal Collections for the first picture of Briand pointing at him and laughing. time since the entire nine-panel series was ac- “steak and veggies.” studio, Friends of Indus- The photo captures a group of celebrity diplomats Born in nearby Espoo, 20 kilometers west try, employs five other de- quired by King Charles I in the 1620s. in white tie, but with their guard down. It’s a long As court painter Mantegna was not permitted of Helsinki, and a graduate of Helsinki’s Uni- signers, has designed ev-

Photos: Institut deroad France/Musée Jacquemart André; Bodil Karlsson/Nationalmuseum from Aristide Briand to Paris Hilton, but a to sell his paintings, although his Gonzaga pa- versity of Art and Design, Mr. Laakkonen erything from tables, straight one if you visit “Pigozzi and Paparazzi,” trons sometimes gave them away as diplomatic shares his studio with a small group of fellow chairs and packaging to the Berlin exhibition chronicling a near century of gifts. But he was among the first Italian artists to designers who exhibit together at the Milan T-shirts and speakers. In candid celebrity snapshots at the Helmut Newton Ilpo Musto practice the new technique of copper engraving, Above, ‘Ecce Homo,’ circa 1500, by Andrea Mantegna, on show in Paris; below, ‘Wunderwerk’ pocket Furniture Fair under the name Rehti (the 2004, he won the Com- Foundation. As it turns out, paparazzi are not just which allowed prints of his works to be widely dif- watch, circa 1910, on show in Stockholm. word means “honest”). passo d’Oro award, one of craven, publicity-mad defilers of innocent celebri- Arihiro Miyake fused, among them the small but action-packed Mr. Laakkonen regularly uses materials the design world’s most ties’ private lives (though they’re that too); they “Battle of the Sea Gods,” a fantasy frieze of mor- that have been outside the mainstream of prestigious, for his oak Muu chair, which com- “People here were good at using wood,” are also, just when you least expect it, great art- tal combat among mermen and monsters. tury later, she became the subject of her artistic subversively critical vision of it. Finnish furniture design. He first attracted at- bines Finnish forms with Italian craftsman- says Japanese-born, Helsinki-based designer By the turn of the century, Mantegna’s aus- oeuvre. Pipilotti Rist’s “Ever is Over All” video installa- ists. tention in 2003, when he joined other young ship. Arihiro Miyake, “But I thought I should try tere and precise, almost illusionist style and his Although the actual photographer was Pierre- tion shows an Alice-in-Wonderland image of a The term “paparazzi” comes from Federico Fell- Finnish designers who drove from Helsinki to Mr. Koskinen has close relationships with something else.” He used aluminum for his cab- subtle, grainy colors were slowly superceded by Louis Pierson, the countess staged all of the pho- beautiful young woman in a blue dress and spar- ini’s film “La Dolce Vita” (1960), which features a the Milan Furniture Fair in a mobile exhibi- the three big names of Finnish design—Iittala, inet called 1789 and for a set of disposable cut- the more “modern” Raphael and Leonardo de tos. The beautiful sepia-toned albumin prints are kling red shoes. She virtually dances toward the character called Paparazzo, based on the real-life tion space called Saunabus—a bus outfitted makers of glass and ceramics; Artek, the furni- lery called Do!, scheduled for a launch next Vinci, but the aging artist remained true to his a study in 19th-century narcissism, depicting the viewer along an urban Italian street holding what celebrity photographer Tazio Secchiaroli with a real sauna and a range of witty proto- ture label founded by Alvar Aalto; and Ma- year. Both pieces are marked by expert crafts- own vision, capping his long career with the mag- Italian beauty as a kind of silver screen goddess appears to be a flower. In reality the oversize posy (1925-1998). Secchiaroli—one of six photogra- types. Kolee, Mr. Laakkonen’s design for an il- rimekko, the textile and clothing company. “I manship and flexibility. nificent “Ecce Homo,” a bust-length Christ figure, with props. She allows herself to appear in the disguises a lethal weapon with which she system- phers in this show—is represented by shots that luminated bed, had a polyester mattress that don’t need fancy new materials or new tech- The 1789 cabinet, produced by Top-Mou- hands bound and a rope around his neck, held on roles of prostitute, alcoholic and grieving widow atically smashes auto windshields. seem to come straight out of a Fellini movie, like included a luminescent film used in cell- nology,” he says, “but I am eager to play with ton, the Belgian interior-design and home-fur- either side by jailers whose evil faces are por- but never lets the viewer doubt they are in reality The “trouble” in the title of this startlingly origi- the 1966 photograph of Sophia Loren, in a sea of phones—you could turn it on and off with a those as well.” nishings firm, features a system of puzzle-like trayed with exquisite finesse. looking at the Comtesse de Castiglione. nal exhibition is a double entendre. It is not the fans and photographers, dutifully signing auto- switch. A good example of that is his relationship adjustable doors that allow the customer to Among the many paintings by Mantegna’s con- There are strong thematic similarities be- women who are suffering it; it’s the women art- graphs using the roof of a car as a makeshift In a short period of time, Mr. Laakkonen with Genelec, a leading producer of profes- change the cabinet’s colors and aesthetic ef- temporaries on show are standout works by his tween these early photographs and the works of ists who are making trouble by questioning the desk. The Pigozzi of the title is Jean Pigozzi (born “has gone from being a student to being able sional studio speakers located in the center of fect, depending on its function or the custom- brother-in-law Giovanni Bellini, Corregio and the important 20th-century artists like Cindy Sher- stereotypes in which society has cast them. 1952), the Italian businessman and art collector, to work well” with manufacturers, says Hels- Finland, a few hours by car from the farm er’s mood. Do! cutlery comes flat in a single, Flemish Rogier van der Weyden. man. Among the photographs in this exhibi- —Mariana Schroeder whose obsessive photographs of his famous inki designer Ilkka Suppanen. “He is one of where Mr. Koskinen grew up. Genelec founder pre-cut aluminum sheet and pops out for use. —Judy Fayard tion are her Untitled Film Stills, created Until Oct. 26 friends, often with himself in the shots, turn the those guys who will stay around.” Ilpo Martikainen says one of the company’s They are durable enough to reuse, and economi- Until Jan. 5 between 1977 and 1980. The women in % 49-89-2380-5360 celebrity photo into a kind of weird art installa- product ranges needed an updated look. “Not cal enough to throw away after one use. % 33-1-40-20-53-17 the black-and-white silver gelatin www.pinakothek.de tion. The plain-faced Mr. Pigozzi appears as a high- a facelift, but a total redesign,” he says. “Har- Mr. Miyake, 33, says that his motto is “keep www.louvre.fr prints take on roles from 1950s B mov- society Zelig alongside the likes of Mel Brooks, ri’s asset is that he can make engineering beau- space for the user,” saying the flexibility of his ies, made familiar by endless reruns on Stockholm n decorative arts Clint Eastwood and Andy Warhol. tiful.” designs allows his customers to become like Munich n photography late night American television. But the The decorative arts have an equal place As both celebrity and celebrity portraitist, the collaborators in their ability to shape and re- Ever since the invention of photography more scenes are from films that were never alongside the fine arts at Stockholm’s Berlin-born fashion photographer Helmut Newton shape the look and function of his pieces. than 170 years ago, women have experimented made, telling stories that exist only Nationalmuseum. Known for its (1920-2004) worked both sides of the paparazzi Mr. Miyake, who grew up in Kobe, first with the medium as a means of self-expression. in the photographer’s mind. 18th-century French collections, camera. His contributions to the genre mirror his came to Finland in 1999 to study, and he later Putting themselves center stage and playing fanci- Ms. Sherman’s History as well as its comprehensive other work, which is on ample view in the muse- graduated from the master’s program at Helsin- ful roles and masquerades, they have created im- Portraits, which look like overview of modern Scandi- um’s permanent collection—the dark humor and ki’s University of Art and Design, where he now ages that often differ greatly from those made by postmodern, feminist paro- navian design, the mu- harsh sexuality that made him a star in his own Block lamp teaches part-time. He currently lives and their male contemporaries. dies of Old Masters, chal- seum relies on its vast right. Newton, who cited Salomon as an influence, by Harri Koskinen (£112). works in the Arabianranta section of Helsinki, “Female Trouble,” an exhibition at the Pina- lenge the viewer by invit- holdings to mount “Faces often choreographed paparazzi-like episodes, like where he often collaborates on interiors with kothek der Moderne, documents more than a cen- ing closer scrutiny of the of Time, ” an enormous his 1967 spread for British Vogue, which features his girlfriend, the Italian-born, Helsinki-based tury of women as the subjects and the authors of visual clichés by which show documenting five a model playing a diffident celebrity, who in turn industrial designer Valentina Folli. works that often question the societal roles they women have traditionally centuries of clock and is being tailed by her own private press hound. In- Mr. Miyake’s level of ambition is so high, have been forced to play. been portrayed by artists. watch design. Comple- creasingly the models and stars, real and/or says Helsinki designer Ilkka Suppanen, who in- The show’s earliest photographs are by two “Untitled #216” shows a Ma- mented with loans from the staged, fade into the background, until his 1996 cluded Mr. Miyake’s designs in “Hardcore,” an aristocrats. Lady Clementina Hawarden began donna with a fake breast and Swedish king, the Danish photo from the Cannes Film Festival, which fea- exhibition of contemporary Finnish design photographing in 1857 and used her daughters as a doll-like baby Jesus. The royal collection and the Cartier tures just paparazzi, hard at work, with cameras held earlier this year in New York. Nick Top, models. She produced a series of works showing chromogenic color print does Collection, this is a fascinat- for faces. managing director of Top-Mouton, agrees. Mr. young women caught within the social strictures for Renaissance religious art ing exploration into the —J.S. Marcus Miyake “doesn’t want to make any conces- of the 19th century. Her contemporary, Virginia what her film stills do for art of telling time. Until Nov. 16 sions,” he says, adding he “has a sense of de- Oldoini, Comtesse de Castiglione, turned the cam- the movies: evoke a familiar Arranged more like an % 49-30-3186-4856 tail, and I’m talking millimeters,” uncommon era on herself. Much like Frida Kahlo half a cen- image but distort it, creating a art installation than a deco- www.helmutnewton.com in a designer.

W16 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W13 v v Design Taste A Cultural Conversation with Fernando Meirelles / By Emily Parker 7 Happy Daze Beneath the ‘Thin Cover of Civilization’ New York ence walks out,” he says. “They shot in Brazil. The director’s im- By Steve Salerno man-resources departments every- Fernando Meirelles and I are can’t go through [to] the end. And age began to change with “The where. “No system, tool or meth- chatting over coffee in a posh so I softened the film a bit.” Constant Gardener,” shot in En- A few Augusts ago, University odology . . . can beat the produc- North stars: The new generation Park Avenue hotel room. “We can Mr. Saramago initially op- glish and starring Rachel Weisz of Illinois psychologist Edward Di- tivity boost you get from really, behave like this, drink coffee and posed a film adaptation, and Mr. (who won an Oscar for her role) ener presented the annual meet- really enjoying your work,” de- talk, because we’re not under Meirelles was nervous about the and Ralph Fiennes. “It’s a pity. I ing of the American Psychological clares consultant Alexander Kjer- pressure,” he says. But “if there author’s take on the finished wish I could shoot films always in Association with an impolitic mes- ulf, self-described “Chief Happi- was an earthquake here, or a fire, project. He describes witnessing Portuguese, in Brazil,” Mr. sage for its time. Mr. Diener— ness Officer.” Not content with fa- I don’t know if I would push you Mr. Saramago’s reaction: “The Meirelles says. He says he admires whose bona fides in the scholarly cilitating mere smiles, some com- to run, save my skin. I don’t film finished, the lights came on, Spanish director Pedro Almodó- study of “subjective well-being” panies go for genuine belly-laughs, know how I would react!” and he wouldn’t say anything. I var, who “found a way to shoot Janne Kyttänen (that’s happiness, to you and me) bringing in professional comics. This kind of uneasy question is was so nervous. OK, I under- films in Spanish, in Spain, and at are such that he’s sometimes The broad culture is on board. Janne Kyttänen was awarded Finland’s at the center of the Brazilian direc- stand, he didn’t like the film at the same time be international.” called Dr. Happy—unveiled re- A half century after “The Power tor’s “Blindness,” which opens all . . . and then when I turned to Mr. Meirelles finds, however, “Young Designer of the Year” prize last year search suggesting that unbridled of Positive Thinking” was first across much of Europe this month. say to him, ‘You don’t need to say that “it’s much easier to shoot in by Helsinki’s Design Forum, but the words joy is not without its costs. published, Americans’ taste for The film, based on the 1990s novel anything,’ he was crying.” Mr. English,” as it provides, at least, “Finnish” and “designer” aren’t necessarily Although an upbeat outlook is happy thoughts has not ebbed. by Nobel Prize-winner José Sara- Meirelles says, “That was one of for “a decent budget so I can do words he would use to describe himself. generally correlated This past spring, a mago, describes an inexplicable ep- the best moments, I can maybe what I have in mind.” Born in Finland, educated in Spain and in with longevity, so- reported five million idemic of blindness that plunges say, of my life.” Of course, it’s not the same as the Netherlands, and currently based in Am- cial acceptance and people “attended” a society into chaos. Mr. Meirelles To prepare for the film, the ac- working in your own language. sterdam, Mr. Kyttänen, 34, heads up the firm above-average suc- The pitfalls of 10-week webinar says the film isn’t about a specific tors, extras and crew participated “If I say ‘mango tree’ in Portu- Freedom of Creation, which uses high-tech de- cess, Mr. Diener’s sponsored by Oprah positive country or regime, but about man- guese, it’s my grandfather’s farm sign and production methods to make and dis- studies also show Winfrey and led by kind. “I think we’re still very primi- and there’s the smell, and it’s nos- tribute lighting, accessories and textiles. “Be- that beyond a cer- thinking. best-selling New tive inside . . . with this little, very talgic,” Mr. Meirelles says. “I ing an entrepreneur is more of a challenge,” tain point, happiness Age author Eckhart thin cover of civilization.” don’t have the feeling of the he says, speaking on the telephone from his of- becomes a detri- Tolle. Mr. Tolle is to- “Blindness” is already creat- words in English.” He continues fice in Amsterdam. “Design is more like a walk ment. College students who score day’s foremost exponent of living ing controversy. In a Sept. 30 to do television in Portuguese: He in the park.” super-high in happiness seldom in a permanently rosy state of Nietos armchair by press release, Marc Maurer, bought the rights to the Canadian Often inspired by mathematical represen- have GPAs to match; the very perki- Now, wherein one is not haunted Mikko Paakkanen president of the National series “Slings and Arrows” and is tations of natural forms—part of his design est adults usually are out-earned by the mistakes of the past or the (Œ2,149). Federation of the Blind in currently shooting it in Brazil. process might include translating flower uncertainties of the future. by their more even-keel colleagues. the U.S, said the organiza- “City of God” may be a thor- petal patterns into a mathematical se- At the outer limits of magical Mr. Diener’s work may provide tion “condemns and de- oughly Brazilian movie, but its Monarch stools ries—Mr. Kyttänen uses rapid manufacturing thinking was last year’s best seller some small comfort to firms short plores” the movie, and that content surprised some in Brazil. by Janne Kyttänen techniques, which allow designers to actual- Mikko Paakkanen on glee after recent economic de- “The Secret,” in which author (Œ12,500 for a set of five). ize designs from their computer screens by “blind people in this film “For the first time we were re- velopments. In fact, a little unhap- Rhonda Byrne told disciples that a are portrayed as incompe- vealing the other side of the coun- pushing a button. A former carpenter, Helsinki designer piness may make for better re- beneficent Universe will reward Starting out as a fine Mikko Paakkanen, 32, is a rising star at Av- tent, filthy, vicious, and try,” Mr. Meirelles says of the sults for American business in the their heartfelt beliefs. Her reward? depraved.” The federa- film, which depicts the violence powder, objects are then arte, a Helsinki firm specializing in furniture long run. Of the many factors Some eight million copies of the hardened, or “printed,” for public spaces. Mr. Paakkanen’s designs for tion said that its mem- in the slums, or favelas. “When large and small that conspired to book and DVD have been sold. bers would protest at the- we [talked] about favela at that in layers by a laser, Avarte include a sleek, throne-like armchair produce the current financial mal- I find it intriguing that “The Se- rather than molded or called Nietos (which means “snowdrift”’ in aters in the U.S. when the point we would always talk from aise, the most subtle and ironic cret” came to prominence the film opens there today. the middle-class point of view, it conventionally assem- Finnish), made from laminated birch, and Tai- may be the notion that positive same year that the mortgage melt- bled. The process, which tos (which means “fold”), a series of stackable “I’m very surprised,” was always about violence, and thoughts yield positive results. down reached critical mass: For Mr. Meirelles says of the from the camera outside judging became widespread in birch and plastic chairs with distinctive cut-di- The appeal of the sentiment is what was the subprime lending cri- the 1990s as an inexpen- amond seats and backs. Both come in a wide group’s reaction. “The film is who was inside....SoIthink indisputable. No small portion of sis if not a conspiracy of wishful not about blind people, it’s this was the first time sive way to produce ny- range of colors. the $29 billion that companies in- thinking in which lenders and bor- lon industrial prototypes, allows for tremen- “Alvar Aalto hasn’t been a big name for about human nature, about peo- we put the camera vest in outsourced training, ac- rowers were equal partners? ple who have just gone blind with inside and tried to dous freedom. Mr. Kyttänen’s designs can be me,” he says. “You don’t get a kick using the cording to the American Society But it is from business that we transmitted as digital files and then produced same materials” associated with Aalto, like no time for any adaptation. The tell the story from for Training & Development, goes most expect to hear hardheaded- their point of view.” on demand at six centers around the world, wood and glass. only character who’s really blind for celebrity speakers, off-site sem- ness. Instead, it seems to be a cen- Seeing is not the which he describes as a mixture of “factories He says he worked as (Maury Chaykin) is completely inars and “wilderness camps” de- ter of magical thinking. In a July adapted and so efficient that same as observing, and and copy shops.” a carpenter for years, but signed to instill a positive outlook. 2003 Harvard Business Review arti- he’s able to control all the oth- film can be a powerful The technology can now be applied to a found that creating new In some precincts of the finan- cle, authors Dan Lovallo and Daniel ers. I never even thought that way to remind us of that. range of materials, but Mr. Kyttänen contin- things was easier for him cial sector, the “irrational exuber- Kahneman say American compa- the film could hurt blind peo- “I like to read a lot, and ues to use polyamide nylon, which is low in than building. He studied ance” of which Federal Reserve nies “reward optimism and inter- ple, because that’s not what it sometimes you finish a book cost as well as adaptable. at Helsinki’s University Chairman Alan Greenspan warned pret pessimism as disloyalty.” is about. I know some artists, and you want to go deeper in the Although he has designed everything from of Art and Design, where in 1996 has been institutionalized Hence, frank discussions of risk at scientists or businessmen experience,” he says. (“City of furniture to handbags, he is especially adept he is now a teacher in the as a growth strategy. “The Posi- many companies are interpreted as that are blind and brilliant in God” is also based on a book, as is at lighting designs, which were among his Master’s program. Designers Antti Hinkula (left) and Teemu tive Role of Overconfidence and evidence of negativity; the risk- their jobs. We all know that.” “The Constant Gardener.”) Books first commissions. Dahlia, from 2005, is a His studio, a former Suviala in their studio. Above, their 2006 Optimism in Investment Pol- averse employee may be labeled a Mr. Meirelles, 53, also di- stimulate the imagination, but project for Iittala’s 125th anniversary. flower-like lamp made of overlapping petals shoe-repair shop in a Ismael Roldan Ilpo Musto icy”—written by three leading eco- “gloom-and-doomer” and hear him- rected “The Constant Gar- there’s nothing like cinema for 1960s modernist block (which he calls “maybe that can be mounted on a ceiling or wall; early nomics professors, and published self disparaged as “not a team dener” (2005) and “City of God” in “blind camps.” The director de- bringing certain moments to life. this year he launched the Palm chandelier, the ugliest building in this area”), is domi- by the Wharton School—is among player” during performance re- (2002), which earned him an scribes putting on a blindfold, be- Of course, a movie with Kokoro & Moi which suggests foliage on a palm tree. Even nated by an impressive wall hanging made out several recent white papers that views. And where “delusional opti- Academy Award nomination for ing taken in a car to an unknown mostly blind characters presents so, he sees lighting as “a niche market,” and of sections from his Taitos chairs. essentially make the case for opti- mism” is prized, it becomes a risk best director. He was born in São location, and being left in the mid- challenges: “How am I going to Punavuori, a gentrifying industrial dis- word Mr. Suviala says he noticed on a dis- says his real ambition is to create a whole in- In his latest project, shown last week at the mism grounded in nothing but, factor in its own right. Statistically, Paulo and speaks fluent, softly ac- dle of the street. “There was al- tell a story without seeing, with- trict near Helsinki’s shipyards, is the Finn- tinctive restaurant sign in Norway, where dustry, and control the way a range of objects opening of Helsinki Design Week, Mr. Paak- well, itself. Indeed, in a 2006 work say the authors, positive-thinking cented English. He sculpts the air ways somebody guiding us, but out the eyes?” Looking at the ish capital at its hippest. Here you can find one of the chefs is named Moi. The name are designed, produced and distributed. He kanen uses the polyurethane foam found in air with the numbingly pedantic title managers tend to experience cost as he speaks, and his chair is we couldn’t talk to each other.” world from a character’s point of real-life testimonials to the city’s multi- “really describes the way we work,” he says he imagines that one day private homes filters to make lounge chairs. “I’ve tried to “Reasons for Situated Optimism: overruns and revenue shortfalls. hardly able to contain him. This kind of thing would go on view invites the audience to functionalist design wave, like Karaoke says, summing up the firm’s design philos- will be outfitted with machines to “print” his make [the chairs] look like solid foam pieces,” Intuitions About the Consequences For the record, the more rigor- He studied architecture in col- for hours, and there was always share the experience. So, “once I Restroom, a 1950s public toilet turned ophy as “combining different elements” to- designs. says Mr. Paakkanen. Record producer DJ of Prediction Errors,” a pair of ous studies of the supposed link lege and sees some similarities to someone who broke down. “They couldn’t show what they were Karaoke bar, and Moko Market, a bohe- gether. “The interesting thing is the colli- His firm, which employs eight people, is Slow, one of Finland’s leading music personali- Yale psychologists concluded that between positivity and productiv- his current job. “An architect is would just sit and cry, cry, cry, for seeing, I tried to show what they mian café and retro-furniture emporium, sion,” he says. also noted for its metal and nylon textiles, ties, has created electronic music to play even when managers are aware of ity are inconclusive. Yes, Ameri- somebody who really doesn’t half an hour,” Mr. Meirelles says. would be feeling.” He describes outfitted with conference rooms for busi- “We listen to music in our office all the which can have a knitted or even welded ap- through speakers in the chairs, so “you can the shaky foundations for their op- can workers are both highly pro- know how to build a building,” he For him, it was the opposite. moments when the image is out ness meetings. time,” says Mr. Suviala, over coffee in one pearance, but are actually created with a la- hear the sound through the material,” says timism, they make a “strategic” de- ductive and relatively positive in explains. They need engineers, just He says, “I really recommend you, of focus, or the frame is wrong. And it’s the place to find the studio of of Moko Market’s conference rooms. “And ser. Earlier this year, Mr. Kyttänen’s textile de- Mr. Paakkanen. The installation will be on cision to cling to it anyway. global rankings of each attribute, as directors rely on writers and ac- Sunday morning if you have noth- Yet, there’s no question that Kokoro & Moi, a young, freewheeling de- we sometimes think of ourselves as visual signs were featured in an exhibition at New view in Avarte’s showroom in Helsinki Then there’s the so-called Hap- but one cannot show a causal rela- tors. What both architects and di- ing to do, wake up in the morn- certain scenes are fueled by the sign firm. Founder and creative director composers.” York’s Museum of Modern Art called “Design through Christmas. pyism that has seized hold of hu- tionship without adjusting for the rectors do bring is “a vision.” ing, put [on] a blindfold and stay power of the image. One such Teemu Suviala, 31, and his partner Antti He cites as a major influence the New and the Elastic Mind,” which examined the re- myriad ambient variables that In “Blindness,” one character ’til 4, 5 in the afternoon. It’s really scene features the doctor’s wife Hinkula, 32, along with their staff of five, York hip-hop group De La Soul, known for lationship between contemporary design and make American life fairly pleasant suddenly loses his eyesight. He fantastic!” He explains: “Sound (played by Julianne Moore). She design everything from in-house projects their upbeat message and innovative sam- science. Pepper . . . and Salt to begin with. History’s most fa- infects others, and the govern- and smell is much enhanced, but has somehow retained her vision, for corporate clients like Nokia to Web pling, which come together in a distinc- Family and language have long kept Mr. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL mous studies cast doubt on even ment quarantines the blind in an also your thoughts, because you and this affords her access to sites, logos, T-shirts and promotional post- tive, layered sound. Other influences in- Kyttänen, a former professional squash the basic correlations you’d expect abandoned mental asylum, which can’t read, you can’t be dis- small but priceless pieces of infor- ers and marketing strategies for clients clude comic books, the skateboarding and player, connected to Finland. More recently to see—say, between job satisfac- descends into squalor. It gets tracted, so you’re with yourself.” mation, such as the time of day. like the Finnish ceramics firm Iittala. snowboarding cultures, and artists like he has been accepted and promoted by Finn- tion and low rates of absenteeism. even worse when a blind, self-ap- The film isn’t based on a spe- Then she realizes that she ne- The firm’s poster for Koneisto, a Hels- Marcel Duchamp. ish design circles as one of their own. “It’s Few would argue that attitude pointed “King of Ward Three” cific disaster, but Mr. Meirelles glected to wind her watch. inki electronic-music festival, uses a dizzy- “They’re full of ideas,” says Helsinki in- been quite nice to get to know them,” he says plays no role in success. But the (Gael García Bernal) manages to says images from Hurricane Ka- “She starts crying, she’s des- ing range of images and patterns—Korean dustrial designer Ilkka Suppanen, of of Finnish designers, although he claims to be crusade for all-out positivity, par- take over, demanding various fa- trina helped inspire the set. He perate, and we see the thing com- floral prints, a pair of nudes embracing, a Messrs. Suviala and Hinkula. “They have a “a bit of an oddball in that crowd.” ticularly in business, is a stun- vors in return for food. points to reports of crime follow- ing, I mean her sadness coming . . doodle of a bomb and a runny version of a huge amount of energy and they’re work- ning example of the fraud that The novel may be darker than ing the storm: “It’s not very differ- . she tries to hold it and then she bar code. The various images are brought ing with people all over the world.” America will perpetrate on itself the film, but there’s something ent, and they could see.” The film breaks,” Mr. Meirelles says. “Of together in a gravity-free, mural-like for- Mr. Suviala says the lack of a strong in its desperation to believe that about viewing certain horrors on was shot in Toronto and São course you can describe this in lit- mat. graphic-arts tradition in Finland “gives us life really is just a bowl of cher- screen. Both the film and the book Paulo. “It should be a big city, but erature, in words, but it’s not the Originally known as Syrup Helsinki, the the freedom to experiment.” He also be- Dahlia lamp by Janne Kyttänen ries. Pitless, no doubt. contain sexual violence, and an very generic, that people couldn’t same experience as seeing her.” firm changed its name earlier this year af- lieves that Finland’s weather influences (Œ412-Œ3,024). earlier screening of the movie was recognize . . . and I think São ter their New York partners were acquired their work. “Sometimes we think that the Mr. Salerno is the author of author so upsetting that Mr. Meirelles Paulo is very appropriate for that.” Ms. Parker is an assistant edito- by a larger firm. The new name combines long, dark winters are the reason for us go- of “SHAM: How the Self-Help Move- lost part of the audience. “I can’t Mr. Meirelles’s career-making rial features editor at The Wall kokoro, the Japanese word for soul, with a ing totally nuts with colors and forms.” @FOC2005 “I’m thinking, . . . I”m thinking.” ment Made America Helpless.” do a film where 12% of the audi- “City of God” was in Portuguese, Street Journal.

W12 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W17 v Design North stars: Ilkka Suppanen and the new wit in Finnish design

and-cotton fabric, is “the best piece of furni- By J.S. Marcus Designer Ilkka Suppanen at ture that Harri has designed,” says Mr. Sup- Special to The Wall Street Journal Helsinki’s Hernesaari heliport. panen. He calls it “sensitive—for me, it’s su- per comfortable.” We have a quick lunch of open-faced HE HELSINKI STUDIO of Finnish shrimp sandwiches. Taciturn Finns around designer Ilkka Suppanen, us enjoy their lunches in silence—they occa- known for his wit and his inven- sionally rejoice, Mr. Suppanen says, at the tiveness, at first seems daunt- promise of free coffee refills. “Finns are ingly austere. During a recent just not expressive,” he says. visit, the all-white studio, After lunch, we drive down the coast to Thoused in a former bank office just outside one of Mr. Suppanen’s favorite spots, a heli- the city center, takes on the quality of an copter terminal on the Baltic Sea. “I like to overcast sky. But a shock of color bursts walk or ride my bicycle to this weird spot,” from a corner: an orange-and-red lounge he says, describing the transcendent bleak- chair called Colors, as bright as cherry and ness as a “Kaurismäki world,” invoking the tangerine popsicles. films of the two Kaurismäki brothers, The effect is peculiar—at once beautiful known for their harsh vision of Helsinki in and somehow funny. As it turns out, that is its pre-IT days. Mr. Suppanen points out the standard effect in Helsinki, where unpre- the old harbor buildings, the new helicopter dictable combinations of cultures, styles pad, an otherworldly slagheap and the pris- and atmospheres give the city its particular tine coastline with densely forested islands, feel. And it is often the desired effect of the marveling at the incongruity. city’s new wave of industrial designers, If Kaurismäki films represent the old Fin- who, like Mr. Suppanen, are making a name which emphasized unusual materials and the headquarters of Nokia and at the city’s land, then Nokia, down the coastline from for themselves by rebelling against Finnish unpredictable forms. University of Art and Design, where around the terminal, represents the new. Located design’s minimalist traditions. In his studio is a Snowcrash creation 20% of the graduate students in design are in a blue-and-silver office complex, with its Frugality and functionalism have been called Airbag. It is a model of flexibility, du- foreigners. own harbor and wooded island, Nokia’s the cornerstones of Finnish design since rability and hilarity—the constituent parts, Mr. Suppanen agreed to spend the day headquarters is a high-tech paradise sur- the late 1920s, when legendary architect it seems, of so much going on in Finland showing us why Helsinki is celebrated as a rounded by wilderness. Nokia, once known and designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) these days. “This is actually tent material,” contemporary design capital. Our first stop for its rubber products, helped further the brought the clean lines and white walls of he says, holding up a large, lightweight pil- is Marimekko’s flagship store on Helsinki’s telecom revolution by turning cellphones European modernism home to Finland. low filled with small plastic balls, which charming shopping boulevard, the Pohjois- into design objects. The company, which Aalto emphasized the use of wood, the opens up into a chair, which can, in turn, esplanadi. Founded in the early 1950s, Ma- contributes more to Finland’s GDP than any country’s most abundant natural resource, open up into a mattress. At the ceiling is Hi- rimekko won world-wide popularity for its other non-state-owned company, brings in instead of the concrete slabs and steel wave, a large lighting device from 2002, pop-flavored clothes and household fabrics designers regularly to consult—Mr. Sup- tubes favored by other European modern- which uses sail material from a windsurf in the 1960s and ’70s by combining graphic panen is currently working on a project ists. In the process, he created an economi- board, cut into a long, undulating strip. Sus- and textile design. The label fell on hard there (he isn’t allowed to describe it). cal, all-purpose style. pended from the ceiling, the material is a times by the early ’90s amid Finland’s eco- Pekka Himanen, a philosophy professor But now, a generation after Aalto’s high-tech canopy turned funky lampshade. nomic downturn, but new management re- on the faculty at Helsinki’s University of death, Finnish design has reinvented itself. His latest work, launched last week, is vived it in the past decade in part by hiring Art and Design, who has advised both Young designers—who have come of age in Fireplace, a portable glass-and-steel-hearth, a range of young designers, who brought an Nokia and the Finnish government on IT is- a Finland where the high-tech industry, led which burns ethanol and can be perched on updated aesthetic. A good example is Mr. sues, sees a connection between the influ- by telecommunications giant Nokia, has re- a table top or placed on a patio, or even Suppanen’s recent Marimekko textile design ence of Nokia on Finnish life and the rise of placed forestry as the country’s economic serve as an amusing replacement for a real that was inspired by Arabic geometric pat- a new generation of inventive, internation- motor—are putting their spin on the old wood fire in a fireplace. It was designed for terns. Today the label’s main Helsinki store ally minded Finnish designers. Aalto-esque virtues. Iittala, one of Finland’s signature home-fur- is a sea of colors, patterns and shoppers. “The logic that is driving global innova- Contemporary Finnish design is marked nishing companies, known for its glass and Across the street we venture into Artek, tion is the formation of local centers of cre- by bold experimentation with new materi- ceramics, including the bulbous Savoy vase the high altar of Finnish furniture design, ativity,” he says. “Nokia has become that.” als and a multifunctionalism that gives a (1936) by Aalto and the radically simple founded in 1935 by a group led by Alvar He says Nokia’s strategy since the early sense of playfulness. Mr. Suppanen’s Colors glasses and plates by the Finnish designer Aalto. Artek is both a label still producing 1990s of adding value through design gave chair, launched in 2004, comes in a number Kaj Franck (1911-1989). Finnish classics—like Aalto’s curvaceous Pai- Finnish industrial designers a kick-start, of colors and materials, which the buyer Although Mr. Suppanen and his fellow mio chair, first created for a sanatorium in and says other Finnish companies have fol- can combine at whim, placing it a world designers use materials that modernist mas- western Finland—and a shop, selling pieces lowed its lead. For example he says Kone, away from Aalto classics like the 1932 Pai- ters like Aalto would never have recog- by masters such as Danish designers Arne an elevator manufacturer, has used design mio bentwood lounge chair, which still nized, their attention to their objects’ func- Jacobsen and Verner Panton, as well as (it partnered with Marimekko) to differenti- comes in one material and only three colors— tions places them squarely in the main- Americans Charles and Ray Eames, whose ate its elevators from competitors. black, white and natural birch. stream of Finnish design, says Anna Val- own bentwood and fiberglass furniture de- One of the great transitional figures in “In the past, Finnish design was about tonen, head of design research at Nokia, signs of the 1940s and ’50s were influenced Finnish design is Stefan Lindfors, who first continuing traditions and building on local headquartered just outside Helsinki. “It’s by Aalto’s work of the 1930s. became known in 1980s. He brought whimsi- material culture,” says Paola Antonelli, cura- not a style culture,” Ms. Valtonen says of Tom Dixon, the London-based designer cal, organic forms into Finnish design. He tor in the department of architecture and Finland. Rather, she says, “it’s about mak- and current creative director of Artek, says was one of several designers featured at design at New York’s Museum of Modern ing good design for whatever occasion.” Aalto’s use of wood “formed a more human Helsinki’s Design Museum last month in the Art. The new generation has “departed from Mr. Suppanen stresses the cosmopolitan alternative to the metallic German and exhibition “Fennofolk,” which explored con- that line to discover personal expression.” nature of contemporary Finnish design. He French modernists.” He says the design’s es- temporary notions of Finnishness. He was The best of new Finnish design is now on cites local designers like Arihiro Miyake, a sential simplicity has stood the test of time, represented in the show with a clear, donut- display through Oct. 6 at Helsinki’s annual young Japanese-born industrial designer and a key element in his revival of the shaped water bottle and a related multime- Design Week. It features a range of events, who is experimenting with materials like Artek brand has been a rediscovery of previ- dia installation. “He took a completely dif- from product launches and installations to aluminum and felt, and Brian Keaney, a ous decades’ designs. ferent path” from Finnish designers before fashion shows, and is open to the public. “If young Irishman whose company, Tonfisk De- Artek also sells furniture by Woodnotes, him, says Ms. Antonelli. “He really launched you want an introduction to the Finnish de- sign, based in the west of Finland, has cre- a Finnish firm that uses paper-based tex- himself on a global stage.” sign world, it’s a very good event,” says Mr. ated inspired twists on Finnish traditions. tiles for upholstery, and the shop’s current On our way back into town, we pass an Suppanen. “Everyone is there.” Tonfisk’s Warm tea set finds a new use for display saves a prominent place for the K oddity—a low-rise, red-brick building, with Born in Kotka, in the east of Finland, Mr. wood that is both decorative and func- chair (2004), designed by Mr. Suppanen’s a sign that reads “Karaoke Restroom.” Once Suppanen, 40, grew up in suburban Hels- tional: individual cups and teapots are friend and fellow Helsinki designer, Harri an actual public restroom built for the 1952 inki, in what he describes as a “modernist given insulating wooden cuffs. Koskinen. As plush as the Paimio is hard, Helsinki Summer Olympics, the building is apartment building in the middle of the “It’s an interesting moment,” Mr. Sup- the K chair, made of padded grids of paper- now a popular karaoke bar. Mr. Suppanen woods.” He started out studying architec- panen says. “Finnish design will not only be refers to it as a “toilet bar” and says it’s a ture but later switched to furniture design. defined by people who are Finnish, it will good example of the Finnish sense of hu- In 1997, he and three other recent gradu- be defined by people who have other back- For more on Finland’s new design stars, mor. “It’s absurd humor,” he says. “You put ates from Helsinki’s University of Art and grounds.” He points out that in his studio, turn the page. things together that don’t belong together.” Design made a splash at Milan’s furniture where he employs five other designers, he See more images of Ilkka Suppanen’s The approach extends to Finnish design. fair with an exhibition called “Snowcrash,” is actually the only Finn. They speak En- designs at WSJ.com/Lifestyle “We’re not scared of combinations that a preview of Finnish design’s new wave, glish together—the language is also used at shouldn’t [otherwise] fit together,” he says.

W18 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W11 Right, Cube chair, designed by Mr. Suppanen in 2005. Produced by Ferlea, price: Œ1,382-Œ1,705.

Above, designer Ilkka Suppanen (right) speaks to a staff member at Marimekko’s flagship store in Helsinki, in front of his Marhaba fabric design, inspired by Arabic patterns. Right, fabric designed by Mr. Suppanen.

Finnish home furnishings retailer Iittala’s ‘Designed to be Combined’ line urges customers to mix and match pieces. Here, the designer with a staff member.

Right, Pascale bracelet, designed by Mr. Suppanen in 2006.

Above, Artek’s flagship store. The company was founded in 1935 by Alvar Aalto. Below, Colors chair, designed by Mr. Suppanen in 2004, produced by Zanotta, price: starting at Œ1,420. Photos: Ilpo Musto for The Wall Street Journal, Studio Suppanen (objects) Last month’s exhibit at the Helsinki Design Museum on young Finnish designers. Here, designs for Marimekko made by Mr. Suppanen, shown with the museum curator, Jukka Savolainen.

W10 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W19 A singer sheds the characters Jennifer Hudson introduces herself on her debut album Morello on the night shift

ENNIFER HUDSON made her OM MORELLO is a founding Tom breakthrough in music four Tmember of the rock bands Morello Jyears ago as a contestant on Rage Against the Machine and “American Idol,” then went on to Audioslave. Rolling Stone once become known for her film roles, named him one of the “100 Great- especially her Oscar-winning turn est Guitarists of All Time,” and as Effie in the musical “Dream- he appears in digitized form in girls.” But when it came to record- the videogame Guitar Hero III. ing her debut album, Ms. Hudson His second solo album, “The Fa- felt she had to introduce herself. bled City,” recorded under his “Everybody knows the characters stage name The Nightwatchman, I’ve played, but they don’t know came out Tuesday. Joe Fornabaio for The Wall Street Journal Jennifer Hudson as a person,” she —Christopher John Farley says. Q: A lot of your work has a On her self-titled album, out Q: Tell me, what is the main strong political thrust to it. Did this week, she’s chosen to repre- concept behind The Night- you ever think, “Maybe I’ll sent herself with varied styles, watchman? write an album of love songs”? from gospel to romantic R&B and Well, originally I saw it as an I think that area is pretty well the hip-hop rhythms of “Pocket- antidote to my arena rock. It was covered—oversaturated actu- book,” in which she threatens to a way to be a little more Woody ally. The Nightwatchman keeps wallop an overeager suitor with Guthrie and a little less Led Zep- his love life private. her purse. In the coming film “The pelin. When I starting writing Secret Life of Bees,” set in 1960s and playing these songs, I found Q: One of your parents was South Carolina, Ms. Hudson plays a new creative voice as a singer born in Kenya, another in the a fugitive who finds welcome on a and as a lyricist and it was really U.S. You went to Harvard and honey farm. She co-stars with Da- exciting. you’re into politics and promot- kota Fanning, Alicia Keys and ing change. Who does that Queen Latifah. —John Jurgensen Q: What’s the main differ- sound like? ence between being in a band I am the half-Kenyan Harvard Q: Whether it’s covering fa- and going solo? grad from Illinois who’s not run- miliar songs on “American Idol” There’s a huge difference. In a ning for president this year. or performing as characters in band, when it’s good, what you films, you’ve spent a lot of time get is chemistry. As a solo artist, WSJ.com channeling other people. Did what you get is purity. With a Outline/Corbis Rage in the café that make it hard to define your- rock band, you get something Watch an interview with Tom self on the album? From left, Queen Latifah, Jennifer that none of you could create on Morello and see him perform two Hudson and Alicia Keys in ‘The Secret I have a great sense of who I your own. And as a solo artist, songs from his new CD at am and I’ve never been one to du- Life of Bees’; above, Ms. Hudson. you get something that is very WSJ.com/Lifestyle plicate or imitate. What was chal- unique and distilled. lenging was that because of the award for “Dreamgirls” and the at- song in particular because that’s tention from the film, it added where I come from. pressure on me—not in the acting, but in the music. Q: There’s a scene in “The Se- I’ve been singing music from cret Life of Bees” where you’re other artists that came from a dif- singing “Break-A-Way” by Irma ferent time and I’m always com- Thomas in the kitchen. Was that pared to them. So it’s been chal- Sidney Baldwin in the script? lenging to be me and be current, looked at that way. It’s emotion Sometimes I wasn’t even sure. while still connecting to every- more than anything. If I’m acting I We sang lots of songs on the set. I thing I’ve portrayed so far. It want it to come from somewhere said, “If you have me singing an- would make me nervous when I’d real. I have to connect to some- other time, you’re going to have walk the streets. It’s all different thing in reality. It’s the same way me in a musical.” It was [my char- kinds of people approaching me, with music. acter] Rosaleen singing, it wasn’t and I’d think, “What am I offering Jennifer’s voice. all of them?” Q: You grew up singing in the church and there’s some gospel Q: You’re singing in charac- Q: Do you feel like you’re play- on the album. Are there any ter? WHERE THE BOATS ARE. ing a movie role when you’re risks to including a song like Me, I’m very serious about how singing these songs? Or have I “Jesus Promised Me a Home I sing every note. For Rosaleen, The yachting capital of the world proudly just seen too many movie mon- Over There” on the same album it’s all about the joy of the mo- hosts the 49th FORTLAUDERDALE tages? as “Pocketbook”? ment. It was just doodling. 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From left, Matteo Sciabordi, Omar Benson Miller, Michael Ealy, Derek Luke and Laz Alonso in ‘Miracle at St. Anna.’ AFP

Is the Booker list too short? By Paul Levy Special to The Wall Street Journal VERY YEAR THE SHORT list of final- Eists for the Man Booker prize is as notable for what it leaves out as for what it includes. In winnowing the “long list” of 13 nominees, they threw out a near-perfect work: Irish-born Jo- seph O’Neill’s “Netherland” (Fourth Es- tate, £14.99), an instant classic of post-9/11 literature about its urbane Dutch-born hero’s unlikely twin pas- sions, New York and cricket. The judges also dumped multiple Booker-winner Salman Rushdie’s eminently readable and entertaining fable, “The Enchant- ress of Florence” (Jonathan Cape, Touchstone Pictures £18.99). Sure, literary prizes often have more to do with horse-trading and political correctness than with merit, but how can any reader justify short-listing Spike Lee’s misdirected war epic Aravind Adiga’s “The White Tiger” (At- lantic Books, £12.99), a wryly attractive PIKE LEE’S “Miracle at St. Anna” is be- ironies of the situation to speak for them- tale of the criminal career of a poor In- ing marketed as a murder mystery in- selves, while Spike Lee keeps hammering dian boy, instead of Mohamed Hanif’s Svolving a priceless Italian artifact, as them home with agitprop fervor and clumsy far better long-listed “A Case of Explod- well as a fictional, inspirational parable about actors playing racist officers as crude car- ing Mangoes” (Jonathan Cape, £12.99), a love that transcends language, race and the toons. The irony of the production as a whole a subversively comic conspiracy theory chaos of war. Yet the real subject is the un- is that an impassioned filmmaker with a about the assassination of President Zia sung heroism of black American soldiers dur- strong tale to tell has managed to lose track of of Pakistan, which makes some scary, ing World War II. Given the importance of it. Instead of staying close to the troops and acutely telling points about religion? that subject, the real mystery of Mr. Lee’s their travails, the film wanders through war- Steve Toltz’s convolutedly plotted movie is why it’s so diffuse, dispirited, emo- time Tuscany like an addled tourist, mesmer- “A Fraction of the Whole” (Hamish tionally distanced and dramatically inert. ized by village life and eager for miracles. Hamilton, £17.99), about an Australian gangster family, is no doubt the short The most obvious clue lies in the punishing ‘Nights in Rodanthe’ running time—more than 160 minutes, plus an list’s anarchic dark horse after the fash- “Nights in Rodanthe” is nothing if not ion of D.B.C. Pierre’s 2003 winner, “Ver- timely—a movie with a hurricane sequence non God Little.” Mr. Toltz is good at nar- Film opening in the hurricane season. It’s also rative, but his annoyingly smart-alecky Warner Bros. timely in the sense that it opens, like scores of dialogue makes you irritated by his pur- posely unlikable characters, and makes JOE MORGENSTERN Richard Gere and Diane Lane in other movies in recent years, with an alarm his 700-pager drag. ‘Nights in Rodanthe.’ clock going off. Among its additional attrac- Linda Grant’s “The Clothes on Their end-title crawl. The screenplay was adapted tions are an elusive band of wild horses that Backs” (Virago, £11.99), though not her by James McBride from his own novel, and he unexceptional, apart from Mr. Miller’s few shows up for a symbolic gallop on a beach, and a bathroom scene that eschews toilet hu- best novel, is readably unified by its and his director must have wanted to mine ev- touching moments and a stylish cameo by Al- careful attention to the clothes worn by— mor—the joke turns on bad plumbing in the ery page in their pursuit of epic sweep. exandra Maria Lara as the Nazi propagandist and what they tell us about—its immi- sink. Yet this sodden romance, which was di- The main story, set in Tuscany in 1944 dur- Axis Sally. grant Hungarian Jewish and West In- rected by George C. Wolfe in his feature debut, ing the Italian campaign, centers on four infan- If the lapses are disappointing, the sense dian characters. is less than the sum of its parts, which were trymen of the all-black 92nd Division Buffalo of missed opportunity is dismaying. In most Sebastian Barry is the only previ- problematic to begin with. Soldiers. After one soldier risks his life to save of the Hollywood war movies made during ously short-listed novelist this year. Its only distinction, as well as its primary a traumatized Italian boy, all of them become and long after World War II, American fight- “The Secret Scriptures” (Faber and source of dashed hopes, is the casting of Rich- trapped behind enemy lines, where their imme- ing men were almost always white. The role Faber, £16.99) is a lusciously written, ard Gere and Diane Lane, reunited at last after diate salvation depends on partisans and vil- that black troops actually played is an impor- carefully plotted, old-fashioned tale re- playing husband and wife six years ago in “Un- lagers of indeterminate loyalties. (And where tant story, and might have been a powerful vealing the secrets of a psychiatrist and faithful,” a quite remarkable romance that the narrative slows to a crawl for tedious, one in Spike Lee’s hands. Indeed, a sense of an old woman in his care in Ireland. mostly subtitled digressions on the intricacies that power can still be gleaned from the DVD promised prosaic formula but delivered genu- For me, though, there are two con- of partisan politics. All that’s missing is a version of Rachid Bouchareb’s “Days of ine passion. In this one they play strangers— tenders that stand out. Amitav Ghosh’s ghostly turn by Anna Magnani or Raf Vallone.) Glory,” a magnificent French-language film she is Adrienne, an unhappily married mom, “Sea of Poppies” (John Murray, £18.99) “Miracle at St. Anna” contains plenty of from 2006 that told essentially the same story and he is Paul, a surgeon struggling with a trag- is the first of a planned trilogy of novels material for a couple of other films—a terrible with different skin shades—four Algerian sol- edy—who become lovers at an otherwise connecting the British opium trade, Chi- massacre of Tuscan civilians by Nazi troops, diers in the French army fighting bravely empty hotel on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. nese and Indian characters via a histori- and the ostensibly mystical but eventually against the Nazis for the nation they love I’m sorry if you think I’m giving away a big plot cal tale of a slaving ship, the Ibis. You’ll mawkish relationship between the little boy while their fellow French soldiers treat them point, but what else would they become with find it thrilling if, like me, you love read- and his G.I. savior, Sam Train, a saintly giant like scum, and their casually despicable racist no one else around and a whole movie to fill? ing about the details of caste, food, of a man played by Omar Benson Miller. officers use them as cannon fodder. The sad truth about “Nights in Rodanthe” poppy cultivation and especially seafar- What’s more, those events of the now-distant But the Bouchareb film allowed the awful is that it never does get filled, even though the ing. It’s exuberant and expansive. past are set off by a plot-heavy framing device running time is only 97 minutes, and some of But Philip Hensher’s 738-page “The that starts with a postal clerk committing a WSJ.com those minutes are taken up by the hurricane, Northern Clemency” (Fourth Estate, seemingly inexplicable murder in Harlem in which sounds like the D-Day invasion. (An- £17.99) probably deserves the £50,000 the early 1980s, and ends in the Bahamas with Opening this week in Europe other chunk of time, when Adrienne and Paul prize. Set in the northern English dulls- a toxic dose of ersatz uplift. are still lovers-to-be, is devoted to them play- ville of Sheffield, in the least fashion- n Burn After Reading Estonia, Spain The surfeit of elements and themes can’t ing kitchen basketball by tossing canned able recent decade, the 1970s, Mr. Hen- n Iceland, U.K. explain the indifferent craftsmanship. Spike Nights in Rodanthe goods in a garbage can.) The movie’s twin prob- sher’s chronicle of the daily lives of two n Greece Lee has made some brilliant films in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars lems, at least until the denouement, are pre- Northern families has the kind of singu- course of his prolific career; he also directed n Step BrothersGreece, Norway, Spain dictability and underpopulation. It’s basically larity and sweep of vision of a 19th-cen- an intricate and terrific commercial thriller, n Tropic Thunder Denmark, Turkey a two-character play, and though the director tury realist novel. However, he also “Inside Man,” that was released only last year. n Vicky Cristina BarcelonaFrance, Italy is celebrated for his groundbreaking work in knows that, conditioned as readers of Yet his storytelling this time is fragmented to n War, Inc. Netherlands live theater, he hasn’t saved his stars from the fiction now are by post-Modernism, we camera’s pitiless gaze. Richard Gere suffers the point of incoherence. The score, by Ter- Source: IMDB like our narrators to be unreliable and a less than Diane Lane. He gets by with a mix- ence Blanchard, is relentlessly elegiac. The WSJ.com subscribers can read reviews of touch less stylish than we feel our- battle scenes are long on explosion and short these films and others at WSJ.com/FilmReview ture of skill and self-irony. She acts up a storm selves to be. on invention. The performances are stolid and in every scene, but you root for the hurricane.

W8 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W21 v Travel The other season in the Hamptons

By Laura Landro ISITORS TO FAIRVIEW Farm in Bridgehampton, N.Y., can Vget lost in its three-hectare maze cut from three-meter-high cornstalks, and fire cobs into the fields from a compressed-air-pow- ered “corn cannon.” But inside the farm shed is the real treat: Propri- etor Harry Ludlow is shaving off samples of Mecox Bay Dairy artisa- nal cheeses, made from the milk of a small Jersey herd grazing just around the bend. It’s fall in the Hamptons, when the tony summer playground re- verts to a tranquil, bucolic retreat, reclaiming its bearings as a farming community with a family-friendly vibe and a storied history. Gone are the swanky society soirées at han- gar-size mansions, the late-night club crawlers and the cocktail-swill- ing boldface names and wannabes Above, a cove off Mecox Bay. 80 farmstands and farmer’s mar- in the tents at the polo fields. The Right, Sag Harbor’s Main Street. kets in five East End towns. pristine white beaches stretching No visit to the Hamptons would the length of the south fork of east- be complete without a jaunt north ern Long Island empty out. The ing permits after September, and to Sag Harbor, the old whaling vil- standstill traffic vaporizes. Parking the rates at some of the pricier inns lage where the Main Street prome- spaces reappear. And so far, Wall and bed-and-breakfast spots drop nade retains its character through Street’s turmoil doesn’t seem to to affordable levels in October. It’s the circa-1922 variety store, the have dulled the luster of the place still warm enough some days to sit musty Sag Harbor Cinema and the that so many of its players call a sec- on the beach, kayak on Mecox Bay or American Hotel, originally built in ond home. Georgica Pond, and do a little surf- 1846. The newest hot spot: Tutto Il In the off-season, some resort ar- casting. Giorno, an Italian restaurant across eas take on a low-key, even somnam- Activities from the marina. bulant personality—like Palm A base to explore Beach, Fla., where it can get torrid The weather can be spectacular after the winter-spring season, or in autumn, which benefits the pick- Though the Hamptons, about

Nantucket, Mass., which is tough to ings at apple orchards and pumpkin Photos: Laura Landro/The Wall160 Street Journal kilometers from Manhattan, get to when the ferry schedules slow patches and the many hiking, biking technically extend from the area down in the fall. For years, the and kayak tours, wine tastings at positions. the corn maze, are relative newcom- near Westhampton to Montauk, Hamptons, too, kept a fairly low pro- the local vineyards, and art and an- The Hamptons are full of history. ers, having farmed their land since those outer boundaries can be file once summer ended, with many tique shows. (The local free weekly, Numerous villages and hamlets the mid-1800s. The Halsey and Lud- pretty remote if you’re tight on people rushing back for New York Dan’s Papers, has the best listings of within the two main towns of low farms are on opposite sides of time. For longer visits, the area is a City’s busy autumn or heading off to events and local news at Danshamp- Southampton and East Hampton in- Horsemill Lane in Water Mill, just great base from which to explore places like New England for leaf sea- tons.com.) clude relics of some of the earliest west of Bridgehampton. In addition Shelter Island and Long Island’s son. (I’ve been a Hamptons regular Some of the best walks are on the English settlements, dating back to to Art Ludlow’s cheeses (try the north fork, which has considerably since the 1980s.) beaches, where you can ogle ocean- the early 1600s. The original occu- Mecox Sunrise and Atlantic Mist), more wineries and a distinctly un- Visitors from outside the region front mansions like industrialist Ira pants of Southampton, the Shin- you can buy produce and flowers ar- Hampton vibe all year round. used to be scarce, as well. But that’s Rennert’s controversial necocks, still have a small reserva- ranged by Harry’s wife Barbara. Autumn pampering changed as folks from as far away as 6,000-square-meter Sagaponack tion there. In recent years, the tribe Though it often seems as if the re- California have bought homes and home and Calvin Klein’s ivy-covered has been in a legal skirmish with the maining farmland in the Hamptons If you aren’t the outdoors type Europeans have discovered the Southampton castle. But there are town over a proposed casino and a is being swallowed up by develop- and want a little glitz in your week- area. This summer, many stores also miles of hiking trails in and claim for land. ment, the Peconic Land Trust, end, you can spend the day in posted “We Accept Euros” signs. So around East Hampton, as well as Families such as the Halseys of which sponsors walks, hikes and Southampton getting treatments at with more second-home owners guided hikes. Though biking can be Whitecap Farm and the Milk Pail other events, has managed to pro- the La Carezza day spa, then check and weekend visitors, a growing hazardous to your health in the sum- farmstand have been on their land tect almost 3,600 hectares, conserv- out the town’s many shopping op- number of shops, attractions and mer, with Porsche convertibles fly- for 13 generations. The Ludlows, ing a number of working farms. The tions. Both East Hampton and restaurants have adopted year- ing by at 110 kilometers an hour, who operate Mecox Bay Dairy and trust also offers a map of more than Southampton have outposts of round schedules. back roads become less crowded Christopher Fischer cashmere, Ca- The celebrities haven’t all left: when the season ends, and are easy lypso and Ralph Lauren, and Bridge- The Hamptons International Film to navigate with a good local map. hampton has great home-décor and Festival, which runs Oct. 15-19, will Numerous stables offer riding and antique shops. feature films including “Gospel lessons, and if it’s too chilly outside, The most popular eateries are Hill,” starring Julia Stiles and Sam- the kids can take a lesson at the in- Cooler times in a hot spot still crowded on weekends, but it is uel L. Jackson, and “Flash of Ge- door ring at Two Trees Stables in easier to get a table at chic spots like nius” with Greg Kinnear and Alan Bridgehampton. Getting there on weekends; rates drop Oct. 14. East Hampton’s Nick and Toni’s and Hamptonsweb.com and Thehamp- Alda. Frances McDormand, Alec Art and history The Long Island Rail Road has Della Femina. And a recent weekend Baldwin and Jacqueline Bisset are regular service from New York tons.com list other lodgings. suggested the clouds over Wall expected to be there. Year-round galleries offer both City to the Hamptons, as does Dining Street haven’t spread to the autum- Peter Turino, president of real- big-ticket art and more modestly bus service Hampton Jitney, nal Hamptons. Restaurants, shops estate firm Brown Harris Stevens of priced works by local artists. “Many both about 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Or, Mirko’s in Water Mill has and galleries buzzed with activity, the Hamptons, says many of his cli- second-home owners who may drive yourself (about 2 1/2 hours, eclectic Continental fare influ- and it was standing room only at the ents start their vacations after the avoid town during July and August depending on traffic). enced by its Croatian-born chef; Channing Daughters winery’s tast- crowds have gone; a house that re-emerge in the fall when traffic Long Island duck breast with ing room in Bridgehampton. The might have rented for $75,000 in Au- has died down and the social de- Where to stay wild-rice griddle cake, bing Pumpkintown amusement park in a gust could be had for $25,000 for mands of the summer season re- East Hampton’s Baker House, cherry compote and orange- farm field off the Montauk Highway September. Postseason rentals in cede,” says Emily Goldstein, a co- a renovated Colonial-era bed and honey pomegranate sauce ($36), was in full swing, and families less upscale areas north of Montauk owner of The Drawing Room, an breakfast, has the feel of a luxuri- portobello-mushroom cap with a fanned out through apple trees at Highway can be had for consider- East Hampton gallery that’s exhibit- ous private home with a spa in pizza topping ($15.50) and Croat- the Milk Pail U-Pick orchard. ably less. ing the abstract paintings of Caio the basement; $495-$650 nightly ian stuffed cabbage ($18.50). As the holidays approach, the vil- But if you aren’t a homeowner or Fonseca. The gallery opens an ex- weekends through Nov. 30. In East Hampton, the 1770 lages taken on a Currier & Ives renter, you won’t feel shut out: Most hibit of watercolors by landscape Southampton’s 1708 House is House is a romantic spot in a Christmas-card feel, with bright dec- beaches don’t require resident park- painter Jane Wilson Friday. right in town, with antique-filled B&B inn; dishes include mâche, orations, carolers and tree-lighting The most famous artist ever to rooms; $250 to $675 through Oc- endive and Maytag blue-cheese ceremonies. In the middle of the hang his hat in the Hamptons, of tober; rates drop later to $140 to salad with melon and candied East Hampton town pond, a little WSJ.com course, was Jackson Pollock, and $295. The Hampton Maid, in walnuts ($16) and swordfish Christmas tree goes up, lit with blue the house he shared with artist Lee Hampton Bays, is a favorite with with artichoke hearts, arugula lights, appearing to float on the wa- Island tales Krasner is open to the public ter. When there’s a little snow on the See a slideshow and listen to golfers visiting nearby Shin- and butter beans ($37). In through October in the Springs area necock Hills Golf Club and Na- Southampton, Plaza Cafe has ground and the warm lights of the a conversation with Laura Landro of East Hampton, a few miles out- village go on for the evening, the about the Hamptons at tional Golf Links. $247 nightly, hearty fare like lobster and side town; it currently has an exhibi- with a two-night minimum stay shrimp shepherd’s pie ($40). summer crowds seem very far away WSJ.com/Travel tion of Ms. Krasner’s abstract com- indeed.

W22 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W7 v Art Lehman CEO to auction works Fuld and wife consign millions in postwar art to Christie’s for November sale

By Susanne Craig and Kelly Crow TUDY FOR AGONY I” is a jewel- toned drawing made by modern ‘S master Arshile Gorky in 1946. It could also evoke the plight of its Magnum Photos owners, Richard Fuld Jr.—chairman Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe on the set of ‘The and chief executive of Lehman Brothers Misfits,’ 1960, by Cornell Capa. Estimate for lot of Holdings Inc., the bankrupt holding six prints: £1,500-£2,000. company—and his wife, Kathy, a well- known collector of modern art. The Gorky drawing is part of a group of 16 postwar drawings owned Magnum masters by the Fulds that were quietly put up for sale by Christie’s last month, ac- cording to people familiar with the situ- at photo auction ation. The sketches were consigned in early August following a competitive OCUMENTARY IMAGES are the focus of coming bidding process between Christie’s and Dphotography auctions in London and Paris. Lon- Sotheby’s. Christie’s wouldn’t confirm don’s Bloomsbury Auctions will hold a charity sale on the identity of the seller but says the Thursday dedicated to Magnum Photos, the famed co- total presale estimate of the works is operative agency that has chronicled the world’s is- between $15 million and $20 million. sues and people since its founding in 1947 by photogra- The auction phers Robert Capa (Hungarian), Henri Cartier-Bres- house also con- son (French), George Rodger (British) and David firmed the deal “Chim” Seymour (American). included a More than 300 photographs printed especially for guarantee, an the book “Magnum Magnum” (2007) will be offered. undisclosed The book, which was published to celebrate Magnum’s sum promised 60th anniversary, presents images by Magnum agency to the seller whether or not the works sell. Collecting The draw- MARGARET STUDER ings will be shopped to po- tential bidders photographer-members as chosen by another member. in Moscow and Each lot in the auction will include at least six origi- London before nal prints with lot estimates from £1,000-£5,000. In- being offered cluded in the lot of American photographer Eve Arnold Nov. 12 during is an image from 1963 showing Elizabeth Taylor and Ri- the fall auc- chard Burton in an English pub with a packet of sau- tions in New sages on the table. Among the images taken by Hungar- York. ian-born Cornell Capa, brother of Robert Capa, is a look The sale rep- at an affectionate Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable on resents a de- Above, Willem de Kooning’s ‘Woman’ is the set of “The Misfits” in 1960. The lot with images by parture for Ms. estimated to sell for up to $4 million at the British contemporary photographer Martin Parr in- Fuld, a long- Christie’s auction; left, Barnett Newman’s cludes a proud beauty queen posing in Brighton (1985); time collector and Museum of Modern ‘Untitled’ is estimated to sell for up to $2 in that of contemporary Norwegian photo-journalist Jo- Art trustee who has been buying draw- million. Far left, Richard Fuld of Lehman nas Bendiksen, a strangely beautiful, colored shot of Rus- ings at auction for years but isn’t Brothers Holdings and his wife, collector sian villagers collecting scrap from a crashed spacecraft known as a major seller. Art experts Kathy Fuld. surrounded by thousands of white butterflies (2000). say she has a well-trained eye for the The proceeds from the sale go to the Magnum Pho- undervalued masterwork. In November tos Foundation, a new charity that supports emerging 2001, Christie’s sold a Willem de Koon- vigorous blue and peach sketch which photography talent. ing drawing for $2 million; she’s offer- is estimated to sell for up to $4 mil- Documentary photos from the 19th century are im- ing the same work now for $4 million. lion. Other works include Agnes Mar- portant as a record of both the development of photog- The Fulds didn’t respond to re- tin’s royal-blue gridlike drawing “Star- raphy and the cultures depicted. Bonhams will hold an quests for comment. light,” priced to sell for up to auction of the earliest photographs of India and Burma Mr. Fuld’s net worth has suffered as $700,000; and an untitled 1960 ab- on Wednesday. Linnaeus Tripe, an army officer work- Lehman’s stock price plunged. He’d stract from Barnett Newman’s signa- ing for the East India Company, took the first ever im- long encouraged his employees to ture “zip” series, estimated to sell for ages of Burma under extraordinarily hard conditions share in the ownership of the 158-year- up to $2 million. on an expedition in 1885. Some 113 prints from the expe- old firm, which before its downfall was Today’s art market is dominated by dition are estimated in the sale at £100,000-£150,000. approximately 25% owned by employ- newly wealthy buyers from Europe and Early photos of India have always drawn attention ees. That included Mr. Fuld himself; in Asia who prefer to chase trophy paint- from photo buffs; Bonhams photography specialist February 2007, when Lehman shares ings. Ms. Fuld has instead taken her David Park says Indians living at home and abroad peaked at $86.18, his stake was worth Photos: Christie's (artwork); Getty Images place among a small but close-knit have added to their numbers in the past few years. In $993.5 million, according to Insider- group of American drawings collectors the Bonhams sale are star 19th-century photographers Score.com. The shares last traded for He has since rebuilt the home. who seek out artists’ more subtle ren- such as Germany’s Frederick Fieberg, with early views 13 cents on Sept. 17. Mr. Fuld isn’t the only Lehman exec- derings and sketches. A MoMA spokes- of Calcutta (estimates ranging from £500-£2,000); and Over the years, Mr. Fuld has sold utive out selling assets. Former Leh- woman says Ms. Fuld has donated or Britain’s John Murray, who made unforgettable im- some of his holdings. Between Septem- man President Joe Gregory has his helped acquire 42 artworks, including ages of Agra before and after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 ber 2003 through June 2007—around $32.5 million home in New York’s 25 drawings, for the museum’s collec- (£300-£7,000). the beginning of the credit crisis—he Hamptons area up for sale and recently tion. Getting much deserved attention on Oct. 13 in Paris pocketed $139.3 million from stock had his home in Manchester, Vt., up for Beverly Schreiber Jacoby, a New at auctioneers Millon & Associés will be the duo of sales, according to InsiderScore.com. sale. That listing has been withdrawn. York art consultant who once ran Théodore Blanc and Antoine Demilly. Although they Then his sales stopped, only to resume Mr. Gregory also has sold the heli- Christie’s Old Master drawings depart- had a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2000, last month, after the company’s bank- copter that he used to commute to ment, says the works consigned by Ms. their fame has been somewhat restricted to an insider ruptcy filing, when he sold more than work from his home in Huntington, Fuld are by and large “iconic exam- group. “They are an integral part of the history of three million shares for an average N.Y., according to a person familiar ples” of the artists’ best-known series French photography,” says Millon photography special- price of 21 cents apiece, or about with the matter. Rumors that Mr. Gre- and haven’t been given overly inflated ist Christophe Goeury. “They set up the first gallery de- $640,000. gory is in serious financial trouble have price estimates, which may better their voted solely to photography in France.” Mr. Fuld and his wife still have a siz- dogged him for weeks, but a person fa- chances of finding buyers. In the sale will be portraits, street scenes, still lifes, able art collection and a primary resi- miliar with the situation says his fi- On the other hand, American collec- nudes and abstract images, such as the most highly es- dence in Greenwich, Conn., featuring nances are fine. tors have typically been the biggest timated piece in the sale, “Drops of Water” (circa an indoor squash court. They also own The drawings are mostly abstract buyers of American drawings, and their 1950), at Œ6,000-Œ8,000. A superb image of a dancer, a $21 million Park Avenue co-op, a and minimalist examples from the mid- purchasing power has eroded in the “Danseuse” (circa 1933) is estimated at home in Vermont and another one in century New York School of artists, past year because of the weak dollar Œ2,000-Œ3,000, and an equally superb picture of a Sun Valley, Idaho. In addition, Mr. Fuld Christie’s says. The priciest work in the and economic woes. woman with penetrating eyes holding a glass con- in 2004 paid $13.75 million for an group is Willem de Kooning’s 1951 —Randall Smith contributed tainer as if she is looking into the future, “Fantaisie” oceanfront house in Jupiter Island, Fla. drawing of a nude woman, “Woman,” a to this article. (circa 1945-1950), is expected to fetch Œ1,500-Œ2,000.

W6 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W23 v Food & Drink The secret is in the fruit At Oregon’s Clear Creek Distillery, an exploration of the art of making eau-de-vie

Portland, Ore. TEPHEN MCCARTHY, the founder of Clear Creek Distillery, is up on a lad- Vermouth-Cassis Sder, nosing a tall vat of fermenting 60 ml dry (white) vermouth mirabelle plums, but his attention isn’t en- 15 to 30 ml cassis liqueur (to taste) tirely on the fruit. One of his employees is leading the first tour of the day; they pass 60 ml fizzy water within earshot, and Mr. McCarthy doesn’t Build on ice in a tumbler and stir. like the sound of a question he hears. I’ve come to Clear Creek Distillery be- cause I’ve run into its products time and having an intensely sweet taste, like that of blackberry jam.” But alas, it wasn’t sweet at How’s Your Drink? all, and so “when he came to swallow it, ERIC FELTEN the stuff was distinctly disappointing.” There would have been no way to pre- pare Winston’s tastebuds (especially given again—often at or toward the top of the his steady diet of synthetic gin) for what to pile in a blind tasting. Its main line of busi- expect in wine. And the same goes for ness is fruit brandy—eau-de-vie—clear, un- those being introduced to eau-de-vie. Just aged spirits made from things such as as it takes time and tasting for those new pears, plums, raspberries, or cherries. Noto- to wine to learn to find the blackberry jam riously difficult to make, and without barrel in a pinot noir, it takes experience to dis- aging to oak over any flaws, eau-de-vie is a cover the essence of the fruit that, in an nakedly exposed test of a distiller’s skill. I eau-de-vie, hides in plain sight. wanted to find out how Clear Creek does it, The disappointment of newbies led Mr. and it seems I’m not the only one. McCarthy to add a line of liqueurs, a com- It being the first tour of the day, the fortably delicious fallback for those put off group is small—two shortish, stoutish men by the rigors of eau-de-vie. I particularly with implausibly dark hair and mustaches. like the cherry liqueur (which makes a won- Mr. McCarthy has heard one of them ask a derful substitute for Cherry Heering) and suspiciously technical question about the the cassis, or black-currant, liqueur. workings of the stills. He climbs down from Most crèmes de cassis end up tasting the ladder and goes over to find out what like sweet generically purple syrup. Mr. Mc- the men are up to. Carthy lets his black currants steep in a neu- “I hate it when people who want to get tral grape alcohol for a year before press- into the business sneak around pretending ing, filtering and bottling. With most they are just visitors,” Mr. McCarthy says a batches, no extra sugar is added, making a few moments later, returning to the plums. cassis that is remarkably light and tart for The two men, it turns out, are upstart dis- a liqueur notorious for a heavy, sticky tillers, of which there’s no shortage these sweetness. days. People looking for a groovy second ca- The Clear Creek cassis provides a ter- reer—folks who five or 10 years ago would rific excuse to make the Vermouth-Cassis have opened a boutique winery or a micro- (also known as the Pompier), an elegant brewery—are now entering the spirits Dylan Cross for TheFrench Wall Street Journal cocktail that had a brief fashionabil- realm. The two mustaches want to make laughingly describes as “obscure, expensive how much Mr. McCarthy tries to prepare ity in the States 50 years ago. This cocktail rum; the Clear Creek crew persuades them spirits that no one likes.” the eau-de-vie initiate for the experience at of dry (white) vermouth, cassis and fizzy they’ll learn more by going over to Rogue, a Part of the problem is one of expecta- hand, all too many come away from the water was a favorite of E.B. White, who nearby craft-brewery that jumped into the tions. People don’t expect Scotch to be first taste disappointed, asking where the called it his “French taxi-driver’s drink.” distilling game a few years ago. sweet; they don’t anticipate a burst of lus- fruit taste was. Maria Callas favored the aperitif when din- Mr. McCarthy isn’t exactly Wonkaesque cious fruit from a mouthful of vodka. But Their reaction is not unlike that of Win- ing at the Plaza’s Oak Room. It is a sophisti- in his concern about spies, but he does since eau-de-vie is made from one sugary ston Smith, in George Orwell’s “Nineteen cated drink worthy of Clear Creek’s sophisti- have a wary diffidence learned from the ripe fruit after another, the newcomer has Eighty-Four,” tasting his first sip of wine, cated cassis. crusty Alsatian distillers he himself pes- an inescapable expectation that the spirit “a thing he had read and dreamed about.” Just don’t tell the guys with the mus- tered for advice decades ago. “I would visit will itself be sweet and fruity. No matter Winston “had always thought of wine as taches how to make it—it will be our secret. them repeatedly, and every time I would bring a gift. But I never pumped them for information.” That was the key, he says, to winning their confidence. “Every now and then, perhaps on the third visit or so, they would give me one of their secrets for mak- ing good eau-de-vie.” Finding the right wines for hard times Some of the secrets are obvious: Use the best fruit you can get (a task easier in Ore- gon than in most places) and ferment it at By Dorothy J. Gaiter wines during difficult times. gion of Italy, comforting. In a the peak of its ripeness. Running the stills and John Brecher Ms. Gesse’s recipe for a com- recent tasting of them, we is another task simple in concept but diffi- HAT WINES go well with fort wine is right on the said they reminded us of our cult in execution. The very first stuff to boil Wcrisis mentality? I’m not mark. We generally find red Italian grandmothers even off—“the heads”—contains acetone, esters, sure that it’s just about choos- wines from the Rhône Valley though we don’t have Italian methanol and is decidedly nasty; the last ing less-expensive wines, but of France, like Gigondas, re- grandmothers. These are aro- stuff to come off the still—the tails—is no perhaps about choosing com- laxed and comfortable. Also, matic (think aromatherapy in better. The trick for any distiller is to know fort wines. We all have our fa- if you can find a Portuguese a glass) and they have a cer- what to keep and what to discard. vorite comfort foods; why not red, they’re wonderful com- tain soulfulness that stirs When Mr. McCarthy started his business comfort wines? I guess I’d sug- fort wines, earthy and real, you. 23 years ago, he thought he would be able gest something that wasn’t and great company. Don’t for- Difficult times are espe- to scientifically quantify the exact moment complex, had an honest taste get Nero d’Avola from Sicily. cially good times to remem- for making the perfect “heads cut” and and a calming effect. And like Its soft tannins make it easy ber what’s really important in “tails cut” in any distillation. He bought a comfort foods, if it brought to enjoy and it’s gutsy—what life, so we’d add Cava or gas chromatograph and set out to build the back good memories (like cer- you need to strengthen your Prosecco, two value-priced data he would need. But it never worked tain wines do for all of us) resolve—without being heavy. sparklers that can take you to out. “The only way to do it is by smell.” that would be an added bene- Along with yummy dark fruits a romantic place just when The perfect middle, or “hearts,” cut starts fit. and berries, some have hints AFP you need an embrace and right when the volatile alcohols dissipate —Michelle J. Gesse, of chocolate, and what could we like Muscadet from some calm. Or a Sauternes to and the intense scent of fruit kicks in. But Boulder, Colo. be wrong with that? France’s Loire Valley, which is make you remember that life that’s the closest Mr. McCarthy comes to di- For whites, many people inexpensive and pleasant, but really is sweet, no matter vulging his trade secrets. He’s not about to Because we have been writ- find soft, slightly oaky Ameri- has a mineral grounding that what’s happening around you. lead any would-be distillers by their noses. ing our column for more than can Chardonnay extremely re- feels quite Earth Motherish to Melanie Grayce West con- You can’t blame Mr. McCarthy for his re- a decade, we have, unfortu- laxing, both because it is not us and is therefore comfort- tributed to this column. Our luctance, given how hard he has had to nately, had several opportuni- challenging and because it’s ing. And we really find Ar- email address is wine@wsj. work to build a market for eau-de-vie, a pe- ties to write about comfort like an old friend. Personally, neis, from the Piedmont re- com. culiar set of products that Mr. McCarthy

W24 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W5 v Sports The strategy behind Team USA’s Ryder win

T’S BEEN A COUPLE of weeks now since the Ryder Cup, a diz- Izying three days of Tiger-less but terrific golf. But the inside story of how the American side re- versed its slide and kept from fold- ing as a team (the U.S. had lost five of the six previous matches against Europe) hasn’t been told. The players, particularly the six rookies led by Anthony Kim, played spectacularly well. But most of the credit for the Ameri- cans’ surprising 16µ to 11µ pum-

Golf Journal JOHN PAUL NEWPORT meling of the European squad rightly goes to the nonplaying cap- tain, Paul Azinger. Some Ryder Cup captains take a laissez-faire approach. Jack Nicklaus told me jokingly earlier this month, in an interview posted on WSJ.com, that his job as captain was to de- liver a few speeches and make sure the players had “fresh tow- els, sunscreen and tees.” Some- times that’s enough. But against the heavily favored Europeans, Mr. Azinger pulled out all the stops. First, he completely revamped the way the team was Left to right: chosen. He truncated the period Raymond Floyd, during which players earned most Olin Browne, of their points from two years to Dave Stockton one, and extended the team-selec- and Paul Azinger. tion deadline until just two weeks Getty Images before the competition began, in both cases to secure the hottest and “on message”—a key concept fit into a pod he had in mind. In vate them by asking them to fulfill ter hitting his drive into the haz- players. He persuaded the PGA of in the strategy. this, he relied heavily on Dr. his needs, or the team’s needs, but ard on the final hole in the first America, which sponsors the team, “Working together for the com- Braund. by helping them identify and ful- foursomes match. That may be to allow him four captain’s picks mon good is not normally a func- Dr. Braund has a background in fill their own needs. To do that, one reason Jim performed so instead of the traditional two. tion for us out on the PGA Tour. counseling psychology, but most he had to understand the behav- well.” Most significantly for the Amer- We play as individuals,” Mr. of his recent work has been in cor- ioral style of each player individu- Mr. Furyk won 2µ points and icans’ ultimate success, however, Browne said. “But the pods al- porate team-building and in multi- ally and know how to message clinched the Cup on Sunday with he deployed a novel, multifaceted lowed the players, without any for- generational succession planning him in the best way for him. And his singles win. Mr. Perry also re- team-building strategy that mal training, to feed off each for such family-owned firms as Paul has a real gift for that.” bounded to win 2µ points. worked to perfection—and which other and help each other and to Chik-Fil-A and Hobby Lobby. A In assembling the three pods, During the competition, Dr. might provide an intriguing man- manage all the different things book he co-authored with Ken Mr. Azinger, Dr. Braund and the as- Braund rode in the cart with Mr. agement model for business. that come up in a pressure-cooker Voges in 1995, “Understanding sistant coaches spent hours dis- Azinger and helped him keep on Shortly after the U.S. victory at situation like the Ryder Cup. In How Others Misunderstand You,” cussing various combinations and point with his “messaging” to play- Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, the larger 12-man group, some identifies different behavioral settled on two consisting of play- ers. Ky., I asked Mr. Azinger to de- guys with quieter personalities types and provides insights into ers with generally similar styles “Sometimes, the message was scribe the core concept of his might have been lost in the shuf- understanding and working with and one that was a mixed bag. no message,” Dr. Braund said. plan. “If I tell you, then I can fle. Some of the rookies might each, rather than trying to change The members of one team, Phil “Paul would just drive by, show a never do a book, right?” he said have been too intimidated to them. Mickelson, Justin Leonard, An- smiling face and ask if everything with a laugh. speak out.” Mr. Azinger’s overarching vi- thony Kim and Hunter Mahan, was OK. But that was based on Later, however, Mr. Azinger al- Among the qualities Mr. Az- sion, Dr. Braund said, was “to cre- were aggressive players and were what we’d worked out before- lowed a couple of his closest advis- inger considered in making his ate an environment where each assigned to assistant captain Ray- hand.” Other times, the words ers—Olin Browne, a PGA Tour four captain’s picks was a player’s player could succeed by being mond Floyd, who shared that style were more specific. player who served as an assistant behavioral style and his ability to themselves. He didn’t try to moti- as a player. A second team, under In the opening match, after Mr. captain, and Ron Braund, Mr. Az- Dave Stockton, consisted of steady- Azinger heard that Messrs. Cink inger’s life coach and a corporate eddie, unflappable players: Steve and Campbell had royally botched team-building specialist—to share Stricker, Stewart Cink, Chad Camp- the seventh hole to go three be- with me some details of his so- Arbitrage bell and Ben Curtis. hind, he rushed to their side to as- called secret strategy. Mr. Azinger sometimes re- sure them that now all the pres- The most radical element of ferred to the remaining group as sure was on the other side to keep the plan was dividing the 12-man his “Southern boys,” even though the lead. (The pair came back to squad into three four-man sub- The price of the only veteran in the pod, Jim win.) If, hypothetically, Mr. Kim groups, or pods. Mr. Azinger ap- Furyk, is from Pennsylvania. (“I had been in that position, the mes- parently got this idea several an iRobot Roomba 530 was trying to be as Southern as I sage would been less one of sup- years ago from a documentary could all week,” Mr. Furyk said af- port than of challenge, something about the military’s Special Forces City Local currency Œ terward.) This pod, under Mr. along the lines of “kick them right and their Ryder Cup-size platoons. Browne, included Kenny Perry and back,” because Mr. Kim focuses The Navy Seals, for instance, typi- New York $324 Œ224 J.B. Holmes, Kentuckians playing more in his matches on playing cally operate in 13-man units led for the home crowd and thus feel- “against” his opponent, Dr. Braund by two officers and a chief, and London £199 Œ250 ing extra pressure, and the week’s said. frequently break down into sub- Brussels Œ299 Œ299 break-out personality, good old There was no guarantee all this groups, depending on the mission. boy Boo Weekley, whom Dr. strategizing would work out, of “Each pod was a force unto it- Rome Œ299 Œ299 Braund described as “impervious course. In fact, a final part of Mr. self,” Mr. Browne said of the team. to pressure.” Azinger’s strategy was to shift the Pod members played all their prac- Frankfurt Œ300 Œ300 This group gelled especially emphasis away from the need for tice rounds together and were Paris Œ300 Œ300 well. “Jim Furyk has struggled as a team victory and more toward paired only with other pod mem- a team player to some extent, be- his personal commitment to help bers in the competition. Even in Hong Kong HK$4,588 Œ410 cause he is such an individual,” each player perform at his best. the Sunday singles matches, the Dr. Braund said. “But here he had “This whole week has been pods went off sequentially, four by Tokyo ¥79,800 Œ521 a role to play. He was a steady rud- magical,” Mr. Weekley said when four. Each pod was assigned an as- Note: A vacuum-cleaning robot. Prices, der and tremendously supportive it was all over. “I think we actu- sistant captain to tend to players’ including taxes, as provided by retailers in of the other guys, particularly of ally became a family.” needs and to keep them relaxed each city, averaged and converted into euros. Kenny Perry when he got down af- Email [email protected].

W4 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W25 DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES &ESTATES v Fashion On the shoulders of the 1980s AST MONTH, I discovered in make a woman look like an Ameri- slim blazers whose lightly pad- my closet a once treasured can football player. The flouncy yel- ded shoulders extended Llate ’80s blazer, loosely dou- low dress beneath just added to the slightly beyond the shoulder ble-breasted and with padded shoul- shock value. (Don’t be discouraged— bone, hinting at—rather than ders out to here. Fifteen years after off the runway, Dior still makes exaggerating—that relaxed, its last wearing, it was redolent of those perfectly tailored, nip- thrown-on look. His an era that was cringe-worthy on waisted suits that look simulta- slacks were slim and many levels. neously feminine and authorita- cuffed, but at the heel, I tossed out this green blazer, tive.) not above the ankle— only to see variations of it all over Nina Ricci designer Olivier They- creating long, lean the Paris runways this week. The skens showed a slouch-shouldered lines. 1980s are returning in force for chocolate jacket with tails and a se- Jean Paul Gaultier spring, with looks that could bring ries of dresses with poofy shoul- included some ders. An array of metallic mini- blouses with dresses in the midst of Balenciaga’s dropped shoulders On Style collection brought to mind late Stu- and some blazers CHRISTINA BINKLEY dio 54. Antonio Berardi, known for with padded shoul- his sexy but appropriate tailoring, ders, keeping them threw in a whole late-disco series of attractive, tightly tai- back Grace Jones. Big padded or hot pink silk dresses with big lored and modern. droopy shoulders, baggy pleated sleeves and loose, silvery T-shirt Of course, runway looks pants that nip in above the cuffed an- dresses with padded shoulders. are nearly always exagger- kle, disco-y sequined T-shirt It’s ironic that the ’80s are mak- ated to create good the- dresses that blouse all over the ing a comeback right now. The de- ater. Balenciaga’s Nicolas shoulders and then squeeze in with cade had its own share of social and Ghesquière acknowledged a wide band at the hip. It all comes economic upheaval, along with a after his show that few of rushing back. debt crisis, real-estate devaluation the label’s customers are COLORADO RESORT DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY Many women over 40 grimace at and the flow of wealth from west to likely to buy many of his A RARE OFFERING ~ PROFITABLE INVESTMENT PROJECT these ’80s looks. It’s not just the un- east. imaginative and precisely flattering shapes; the clothes also re- The broad shoulders of the 1980s executed runway looks, mind women of the discomfort of en- were supposed to suggest that which ranged from sculpted tering the male-dominated work women, who were entering the jackets to a carefully fringed Getty Images (3) force with no executive style of work force in record numbers, could mini dress. So he showed bags— don’t know if we’re ready to go back their own. It has taken many years be as powerful as men. The disco small, lovely clutches—on the run- there,” she said. to figure out how a woman can look dresses meant women could be su- way for the first time, explaining Ditto for Kelly Golden, co-owner authoritative, feminine and comfort- per-sexy by night. But they also with a cheerful smile, “The collec- of the Neapolitan boutique in Chi- able at the same time—and we’re seemed to suggest women should tion is a bit out there, so I wanted to cago. “Although jumpsuits and lots still learning. work and party like men, rather bring it down to something a of ’80s exaggerated looks were all But now, a whole new generation— than carving out their own feminin- woman would really wear.” over the runways,” she said, “I From left, Dior’s broad-shouldered too young to squirm at the “power ity. Many retailers are skeptical won’t be buying them for spring.” snakeskin coat, a slouchy Nina Ricci suit” associations—is being intro- This time around, while many of about whether women will really Email Christina.Binkley@ jacket with tails and Gaultier’s suit duced to ’80s style. It’s yet to be the looks are outlandish, a few de- want to wear ’80s looks at all. Yuta wsj.com with sharp shoulders. seen how they’ll take to it. Linda signers have managed to reinter- Powell, whose Madison Avenue bou- Fargo, fashion director for Bergdorf pret the ’80s in a more subtle way. tique of the same name avoids too- Goodman in New York, says these Akris’s Albert Kriemler created trendy styles, says she’ll steer away FORMER HOME OF SENATOR JOHN & CINDY McCAIN styles may “stimulate” people to from the big-shoulder look. “I found COLORADO’S FINEST MOUNTAIN RESORT DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY shop. “I don’t think you can play it WSJ.com Offered Exclusively At it not attractive back in the ’80s and ADJACENT TO WORLD RENOWNED SKI RESORT WITH YEAR ROUND safe, ever,” she says. do not believe I would like it any bet- RECREATION IN A BEAUTIFUL ALPINE ENVIRONMENT Rate the looks Possibly the loudest incarnation 1,200+/- ACRE WORKING RANCH THAT HAS MANY AMENITY AND DENSITY OPTIONS AUCTION Vote on runway styles from the Paris ter this time,” she says. INCLUDING GOLF, EQUESTRIAN, SINGLE FAMILY AND/OR MULTI-FAMILY HOMESITES of ’80s styles in Paris this week was Ann Stordahl, executive vice Saturday, October 25 at 1:00P.M. in Phoenix, Arizona shows, plus read more fashion news PROTECTED BOUNDARIES ADJACENT TO NATIONAL FOREST AND PUBLIC LANDS an orange snakeskin coat from Dior, in the Heard on the Runway blog, at president for women’s apparel at Ne- MOMENTS FROM CITY’S AIRPORT SERVING PRIVATE AIRCRAFT/JET OWNERS designed by John Galliano. Huge iman Marcus, seemed unimpressed Claus Riedel’s legendaRy design fRom1958. WSJ.com/Runway and broad-shouldered, it could with the trend toward the 1980s. “I Brent Romick or Joan Ryan, a fish Bowl? 970-879-3618 [email protected] www.romick.com Givenchy’s new confidence

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W26 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 | WEEKEND JOURNAL WEEKEND JOURNAL | FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2008 W3 v Music 10-13 | Cover story Design 8-9 | Arts Contents Spike Lee’s ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ Putting a fresh spin on British folk music 3 | Fashion Northern stars Is the Booker list too short? By Jim Fusilli Watersons, as well as more recent my name, a childish game/But I love Finland’s new design generation LAS, I CANNOT Swim” (As- acts like Diane Cluck, Beth Orton to be young.” Laura Marling On Style: The ’80s return in Paris Re-introducing Jennifer Hudson tralwerks), the debut al- and June Tabor—and over the Ms. Marling said her composi- ‘A bum by 18-year-old Laura course of the album that voice un- tion “My Manic and I” was the first Marling, is a smart, contemporary folds with a stateliness tinged by a she created for the disc. It’s a tale of 4 | Sports 16 | Top Picks take on traditional British folk mu- touch of reserve and a gentleness the weight of despair, the struggle sic, and one of the best recordings that can’t be mistaken for weak- for equilibrium and how nature may to come from the U.K. this year. The ness. Her finger-picked or lightly provide a respite—and, as in Golf Journal: Ryder revelations Events in Paris, Munich, people behind the BBC’s Mercury strummed acoustic guitar, which is “Ghosts,” its almost jaunty music Prize seemed to agree. They in- essential to her sound, bears the in- stands in contradiction to its theme. Stockholm and Berlin cluded Ms. Marling’s album on the fluence of Bert Jansch and Neil Writing it, Ms. Marling discovered 5 | Food & Drink short list for the award, which was Young, who studied Mr. Jansch’s that she could turn a broad, impres- presented on Sept. 9. records when he was Ms. Marling’s sionistic story into a four-minute 17 | Taste “Alas, I Cannot Swim” didn’t age. She’s already shared a stage at folk song. Ode to eau-de-vie win, which is no cause for shame: separate festivals with Mr. Young “When it was finished, I thought, Neither did Radiohead’s “In Rain- and Mr. Jansch. The only time she re- ‘Now I can make an album,’ ” she The vision behind ‘Blindness’ bows.” The judges selected Elbow’s vealed that she might be awed by said. “It has all the themes and mo- 6 | Art “The Seldom Seen Kid,” an often- her fast ascent was when I asked her tifs in it, and the storytelling. The al- 27 | Music lovely, occasionally bland recording if she spoke to Mr. Young. “Oh no,” bum was written around it.” of orchestral pop featuring Guy she said quickly. “I couldn’t do Several songs employ open wa- Lehman CEO to sell major works Garvey’s romantic vocals and mod- that.” ter as the setting. “The Captain and A modern English rose ern electronic whizzes, whirls, Ms. Marling’s songs on “Alas, I the Hourglass” chugs along in a mi- beeps and beats. Did Ms. Marling’s Cannot Swim” are discreetly and art- nor key as Ms. Marling sings, “I fell Collecting: Magnum photos tender, sort-of-retro folk stand a fully arranged, but the traditional into the water and now I’m free.” Jenny Lewis’ new CD chance? Maybe not, but at least the guitar-and-voice approach places The country-flavored “Cross Your exposure placed the teenager the emphasis on Ms. Marling and Fingers” suddenly gives way to 7 | Travel among her country’s most popular her compositions. She writes little “Crawled Out of the Sea,” a pub sing- 28 | artists at the very start of her prom- vignettes, pulling back the curtain along consisting only of the phrase Time Off ising professional career. on intimate scenes. “[He] stood at “Oh, you crawled out of the sea The Hamptons’ other season On cover, Finnish designer Ilkka Suppanen with his latest work: Fireplace, an ethanol-burning table-top When we spoke by phone a few the table where she sat/And re- straight into my arms.” In the title flame. Above, designers Antti Hinkula (left) and Teemu Suviala of the firm Kokoro & Moi in their studio. Our arts and culture calendar hours before the event, she was in a moved his hat in respect of her pres- song, which appears in a hidden PHOTOS: ILPO MUSTO van in central London, on her way to ence/And presents her with the pic- track on the CD, she sings, “There’s a WSJ.com the ceremony at the Grosvenor ture and says/‘These are just the house across the river, but alas I can- House hotel. The nomination, she ghosts who broke my heart before I not swim/And a garden of such said, “was lovely. Quite scary, but met you,’ ” she sings in “Ghosts,” beauty…I’ll live my life regretting Max Knight fun.” Since she’s been playing music which opens the album with a that I never jumped in.” Cutting the cord Changing the game Fixer-uppers since was a child—her father, bouncy rhythm that belies the story Ms. Marling stands foursquare Elizabeth Blackshire Editor Charles, began teaching her guitar it tells. In “Old Stone,” a bluesy tune at the core of each performance, Why young people An unusual post-season Hard-hit homeowners Deputy editor Craig Winneker when she was 5—and performing in that feels like it’s been around for- and the appealing confidence in her Art director have stopped paying reflects the new style are getting creative Fahire Kurt public for the past few years, “it ever, she sings: “He chased me delivery adds gravitas to her compo- Kathleen Van Den Broeck Assistant art director doesn’t seem like things have hap- through the rain/‘Honey, I’m going sitions. “Your Only Doll (Dora)” and for cable television. of playing baseball. about remodeling. Matthew Kaminski Taste page editor WSJ.com/Lifestyle WSJ.com/Sports WSJ.com/Lifestyle pened fast. But things are escalating your way’/I don’t think so/You can “Night Terror,” the best moments Questions or comments? Write to [email protected]. DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES &ESTATES rather quickly.” chase me through the rain/Scream on the disc, are quiet, hypnotic per- Please include your full name and address. A native of Eversley, near Read- formances in which she draws in the ing, Ms. Marling couldn’t be more listener so completely that her British if she tried—and neither WSJ.com voice and the story she’s telling seem to engulf us. could “Alas, I Cannot Swim.” Her A modern English rose THE JOURNAL CROSSWORD / Edited by Mike Shenk 80 Seat of New York’s Nassau 11 Japanese 65 Justice Dept. staffer 98 Harry Truman’s voice has a pure folk ring that re- That’s a remarkable achieve- County computer giant nickname for Listen to clips from Laura Marling’s 68 Call in a game of calls several predecessors—British ment for any performer, never mind 81 Sorceress of Aeaea 12 Diamond protector Battleship Bess ‘Alas, I Cannot Swim,’ at Across 25 Screwball 43 Pay what is due 66 Amber, for one folk artists of the ’60s like Pentan- one who wrote and recorded the 13 Sound source 69 Cheap hotels: Abbr. 101 Fife player WSJ.com/Lifestyle 26 Al Capone’s 46 IRT stop 82 Untouched by time gle, Fairport Convention and the work at age 17. 1 It’s no salt shaker 67 Classic Gary Cooper 104 “Do the Right Thing” nemesis 85 Get-go 14 Donnybrook 72 Orthography contest 8 Shelters on the trail 49 Liquid asset for role Oscar nominee what a burglar does ____ 86 Chill 15 Jerry’s partner 73 French student 15 Is indiscreet 27 Noggin 70 II (Gillette 106 Tex-Mex treats 53 Tahiti, par exemple brand) 87 Successor to the Cutlass 16 Bronx-born designer 74 Gastronome’s passion 20 Area of common 29 Wishes undone 107 Praise to the skies 54 Hit list 88 Hypothesis 17 Liquid asset for 76 Area of northwestern interest 30 Zip 71 Waterfall byproduct 109 TV Chihuahua the Baker Street Irregulars Eur. 31 Indifferent 56 Singer’s syllables 72 Liquid asset for New 91 Bitterly hostile 21 Untroubled 18 Eight bits 111 Canadian 35 Had a bite 57 Grant player Orleans visitors 93 Ames hrs. 77 Sends a message to, 22 Gut course 19 Pronounces physician William 59 Astrologer Sydney these days A singer-songwriter tries rocking out 23 Liquid asset for 37 Grist for market 75 Creator of party 94 Liquid asset for 112 Baby berths? 24 Mount St. Helens output 79 God, in Hebrew writings Valentine’s Day researchers 60 Hard to tote animals a tough judge 113 ____ good example (is 28 “SportsCenter” carrier 81 Like Simon Legree ITH HER ZEAL for collabora- shoppers 41 Gung-ho 64 Gallivant 78 Perfectly, after “to” 99 QB stat worth emulating) 32 Monopoly token choice tion and an ease with varied Jenny Lewis 100 Bamboozled 82 What’s more 114 Blows away W 33 “How revolting!” styles, from shiny pop to honky Liquid Assets/ by Myles Callum 102 John’s running mate 83 General address 115 Streamlet 34 Assemble tonk, Jenny Lewis has tran- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011121314 1516171819 103 Festive event 84 Campus org. of 117 Shrink’s comment 36 Bombast the 1960s scended the often insular indie 105 Pen pal? 119 Whodunit hound 20 21 22 38 Chicken Little’s “sky” 87 Don’t just sit there music scene that launched her. 120 They’re picked in Hawaii 108 Rock beater 39 Cigarette pack listing The singer first emerged in the 23 24 25 89 Toronto terminals? 121 Having a valuable coat 110 Markers 40 Breathing problem late 1990s as a lead voice in the 90 “Chop-chop!” 123 Sneaky chuckle 26 27 28 29 114 The Ponte Vecchio spans it 42 ___ Nabisco quartet Rilo Kiley, which has plied 92 Elvis’s record label 125 Last letter of the Hebrew 116 Series set at the Sunshine Cab 44 1997 title role for Peter a slick pop sound. Meanwhile, in 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 95 Med. school subject alphabet Company Fonda her solo career Ms. Lewis has 96 Depression, 126 That ticked feeling 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 118 Classic Gary Cooper role 45 Pricing word played with country harmonies for one 127 Rembrandt 122 Span 46 Squall and other earthy elements. On 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 97 Day break? van ___ 124 Liquid asset for traditional 47 Pesci’s “My Cousin Vinny” her new album, “Acid Tongue,” 54 55 56 57 58 cooks co-star Ms. Lewis says she tried “rocking 128 Top-drawer 48 Liquid asset for E.M. Forster Last week’s solution out more than I ever had.” Re- 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 129 Mrs. ___ cow fans corded with old analog technol- INASENSE GEMS WADERS 66 67 68 69 70 50 Good lookers? ogy and bands of crack players 130 Bank counters? DONTLEAVE ELAN AN IMAL 51 Bit for a bay performing together in full takes, 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 131 URL part OVEREATEN N I CEANDEASY 52 Country on the Med. “Acid Tongue” has echoes of rock Autumn de Wilde 132 Senior Supreme Court justice UNTILFURTHERNOTICE 78 79 80 81 55 Deep-fried treat albums from the 1970s. Below, 133 City near the mouth of the STUDIO AGEE REAR LAS 58 Disney’s Lady, for one COPE GENL BAS MELT three songs from the album, plex,” she says, “which is some- pet singing the song,” she says. 82 83 84 85 86 Columbia River 61 Take ___ view of IWI LLCONT I NUETOHOLD which came out last month. thing one stumbles on in Las Ve- ‘Trying My Best to Love You’ 87 88 89 90 91 92 Down 62 Start of Caesar’s boast AHOY ASA UN I —John Jurgensen gas.” T IMEMANAGEMENTSEMI NAR This ballad, featuring strings, 1 Wiccan congregation 63 Kind of question 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 OMELET AYE PROSE YMA ‘Next Messiah’ ‘Carpetbaggers’ simple piano chords and female 2 Tourist city of Castile KIRK DAZE JOIN FLOG 100 101 102 103 104 WSJ.com Ms. Lewis and her band refer This song about touch-and-go harmonies, was to be cut from the 3 Massenet opera set in Castile ENC SHAME LOL DEBONE to this track as “the medley.” She romances features vocals from album. Ms. Lewis says “the girl 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 4 “The Wind in the Willows” Crossword online DAI LYEMPLOYEEMEET INGS ISM LLM AMMO and co-producer Johnathan Rice Elvis Costello. Several years after group thing” seemed too reminis- squire For an interactive stitched three songs they’d writ- Mr. Costello cold-called Ms. cent of her first solo album with 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 5 Schedule opening UNT I LWEDETERMINEWHY version of The Wall RUNT OAS OGEE AERO ten into nearly nine minutes of Lewis about a Rilo Kiley album he singers Chandra and Leigh Wat- 122 123 124 125 126 127 6 Pull down Street Journal Crossword, INN OATH DANG BORDEN swaggering blues rock. In a Las Ve- admired, she recruited him for son (known as the Watson 7 “...baked in ___” WSJ.com subscribers PRODUCT I V I TY I SDOWN 128 129 130 gas casino, Ms. Lewis grabbed a “Carpetbaggers” via email. “I Twins). But Mr. Costello per- 8 Secures stock? can go to PETITIONERS NEONLIGHT napkin to jot lyrics in the voice of sent him a YouTube video of suaded her to put it back. “He saw 131 132 133 9 “The X-Files” extras, for short WSJ.com/WeekendJournal LEERED ERTE GARDEN I AS someone with a “messiah com- Johnathan and myself and a pup- it as a gospel song,” she says. ELDERS SAYA LASTGASP 10 Brute

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Amsterdam Museo Nazionale del Cinema photography Until Dec. 8 % “Miyako Ishiuchi—Photographs 39-011-8138-564 1976-2005” exhibits 90 photographs www.museonazionaledelcinema.org by the Japanese photographer (born 1947), exploring themes on the hu- dance “Torino Dance 2008” is a contempo- man body and living spaces. Works rary dance festival featuring “Gamaka” include “Yokosuka Story,” “Apartment,” by and with Indian dancer/choreogra- and “Endless Night.” pher Shantala Shivalingappa, plus per- FOAM formaces by Alain Platel, Les Ballets Until Nov. 16 C. de la B., Emio Greco and more. % 31-20-5516-500 Torino Danza—Festival www.foam.nl Internazionale di Balletto Until Nov. 8 Antwerp % 39-011-8815-557 silverware www.torinodanzafestival.it “Fifties Silver” presents a retrospective of Belgian silverware and silver jewelry Venice from 1958 to 1970. art Zilvermuseum Sterckshof “Italics: Italian Art between Tradition Until Jan. 18 and Revolution, 1968-2008” exhibits % 32-3-3605-252 works by more than 100 Italian artists www.zilvermuseum.be from the past 40 years, including Pino Pascali, Marisa Merz, Alberto Burri, Lu- Basel cio Fontana and Alighiero Boetti. archaeology Palazzo Grassi “Below Us—Archaeology in Basel” Until March 22 shows mammoth teeth, pottery, ar- % 39-041-5231-680 mor, coins and other objects found at www.palazzograssi.it archaeological sites in Basel. Historisches Museum Basel music Until March 1 “Festival Galuppi 2008” is a music fes- % 41-61-2058-600 tival on the island of Burano in the Ve- www.hmb.ch netian lagoon, celebrating the music of native son Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785). Succession Henri Matisse, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Brussels Festival Galuppi art Until Oct. 25 “The Smile of Buddha—1,600 Years of ‘The Reflection,’ 1935, by Henri Matisse, on view in Stuttgart; below, ‘Masque III,’ 1920, by Emil Nolde, in Paris; top, reclining chair, 1928, by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, on view in Liverpool. % 39-041-5221-120 Buddhist Art in Korea” exhibits paint- www.festivalgaluppi.it ings, bronze figures and other master- pieces as part of the museum’s “Made Vienna in Korea” festival. Until Nov. 16, 2009 gay men at sea with photographs, au- umenting more than 400 years of re- art Centre for Fine Arts % 49-69-6060-0 dio clips and mementoes. peated expulsion, persecution and set- “Strindberg, Schönberg, Munch—Nor- Oct. 10-Jan. 18 www.museumsstiftung.de/ Merseyside Maritime Museum tlement prohibition of Jews in Munich. dic Modernism in Schönberg’s Vienna % 32-2-5078-200 frankfurt Until Jan. 18 Jewish Museum Munich around 1900” shows paintings by www.bozar.be % 44-151-4784-499 Until Aug. 30 art www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk % 49-89-233-9609-6 Swedish playwright and painter Au- gust Strindberg (1849-1912) alongside “Peter Doig” presents 50 paintings www.juedisches-museum- opera art by his contemporaries Arnold and a group of works on paper by the London muenchen.de “La Cenerentola” is a costume opera Schönberg and Edvard Munch. Scottish artist (born 1959). by Gioachino Rossini retelling the architecture Arnold Schönberg Center story of Cinderella. Music direction by Schirn Kunsthalle “The Olympic Stadium Project—Le Cor- Paris Until Jan. 18 Marc Minkowski and set design by Oct. 9-Jan. 4 busier and Baghdad” displays specially art % 43-1-7121-888 Joan J. Guillén, with Silvia Tro San- % 49-69-2998-820 commissioned models of a Baghdad “Emil Nolde” presents paintings and www.schoenberg.at tafé, Jennifer Larmore, Javier Cama- www.schirn-kunsthalle.de sports stadium designed by architect watercolors by German expressionist rena and David Alegret performing. Le Corbusier. Although never built, it Emil Nolde (1867-1956). art La Monnaie Liverpool was intended as the basis for Bagh- Galeries Nationales du Grand “Arnulf Rainer—Dieter Roth: Mixing Oct.10-Oct. 22 architecture dad’s bid for the 1960 Olympics. Palais and Separating” shows paintings, pho- % Victoria and Albert Museum 32-7023-3939 “Le Corbusier—The Art of Architec- Until Jan. 19 tographs, video films and sound instal- % www.lamonnaie.be ture” exhibits vintage drawings, origi- Oct. 9-March 29 33-1-4413-1717 lations created by avant-garde artists % nal models, paintings, furniture, photo- 44-20-7942-2000 www.grandpalais.fr Arnulf Rainer (born 1929) and Dieter Copenhagen graphs and reconstructions of interiors www.vam.ac.uk Roth (1930-1998) in a collaboration design from the work of architect, designer art between 1973 and 1980. “Louise Campbell” presents a decora- and writer Le Corbusier (1887-1965). photography “The Netherlandish Renaissance— Belvedere tion of the museum’s room “The Hall” Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral “Shutting Up Shop” exhibits large- Drawings from the Budapest Mu- Until Jan. 11 scale photographs of disappearing, seum” displays works by 16th-century % with furniture and objects by Danish Until Jan. 18 43-1-7955-70 small, old-style London shops from Flemish and Dutch artists. designer Louise Campbell (born 1970). % 44-151-709-9222 www.belvedere.at the 1970s and 1980s taken by John Musée du Louvre Kunstforeningen Gl Strand www.architecture.com/lecorbusier Until Jan. 25 Londei. Oct. 9-Jan. 12 Warsaw Museum of London % 33-1-4020-5050 % 45-3336-0260 history art www.glstrand.dk Until Nov. 23 www.louvre.fr “Yoko Ono: Fly” examines the artistic “Hello Sailor! Gay life on the Ocean % 44-870-444-3852 Wave” illustrates personal stories of work of Yoko Ono with pieces se- art www.museumoflondon.org.uk Stuttgart lected by the artist, including “Blue “Manga! Japanese Images” looks at art Room,” “Ex It,” “Memory Painting” and the history of Japanese manga comic Madrid “Matisse—People, Masks, Models” ex- the film “Fly.” strips. art hibits portrait art by French artist Centre for Contemporary Art Louisiana Museum of Modern Art “1914! The Avant-Garde and the Great Henri Matisse (1869-1954), including Until Oct. 26 Oct. 8-Feb. 8 War” looks at the development of the oil paintings, drawings and sculptures. % 48-22-6281-2713 % 45-4919-0719 art world before and during World Staatsgalerie Stuttgart csw.art.pl www.louisiana.dk War I. Until Jan. 11 North stars % Source: ArtBase Global Arts News Service, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza 49-711-4704-0249 WSJE research. Frankfurt Oct. 7-Jan. 11 www.staatsgalerie.de history % 34-91-3690-151 “In the Beginning There Was…The www.museothyssen.org Turin WSJ.com Ilkka Suppanen and the new wit in Finnish design Form” shows official form documents photography Munich What’s on from six millennia of human history, “International Intrigue: The Cinema of WSJ.com subscribers can see an including ancient clay tablets that are history Roman Polanski” shows photography expanded version of the European thought to be lists of animals and “City without Jews—The Dark Side of exploring the work and collaborators arts-and-culture calendar at foods. Munich’s History” shows 12 exhibits of filmmaker Roman Polanski (born WSJ.com/Europe Museum für Kommunikation Nolde Stiftung-Seebüll supported by video presentations, doc- 1933). 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