RADAR RADAR Heavyweight feathers First class reception Passengers booked in British Airways First class (as well as Gold Executive Club and oneworld Emerald members) now have a visually slick, logistically seamless path from check-in at Heathrow T5 to the Galleries First lounge and Concorde Room. The First Wing, designed by Universal Design Studio, features oak marquetry based on a BA heritage design. A legend refashioned britishairways.com When the ICA in London staged a retrospective of the stylist Judy Shades of Tokyo Blame’s work last year it could The Pigment showroom in Tokyo’s have been billed as a joint show. Terrada Harbor area is a gem of London-based sculptor Yasemen Hussein makes light work of heavy The work of fashion designer many colours. There are calligra- metals, crafting the most incredible fairy tales out of copper, bronze and Christopher Nemeth was present phy brushes from the minuscule to steel. She has fashioned “Shimada” geisha hairstyles and Rapunzel’s locks in almost every image and display: the signwriter-sized, sheaves upon from copper, created lavish interiors for Candy & Candy, made stage the pair collaborated on the hugely sheaves of handmade paper, and attire for Britney Spears and, most recently, sent one of her vast tandem influential East London retail previously unsuspected different feather pieces to Tokyo for permanent installation in the entrance of experiment The House of Beauty varieties of gold leaf. Most pleas- the bar in the new Four Seasons Marunouchi. While most of her work is and Culture in the 1980s. ingly, one wall is given over to POA, and all of it is entirely bespoke, her copper feathers have become Nemeth died in 2010 but his glass jars containing more than something of a signature piece – priced from £1,000 per foot. label is still managed by his family 4,000 different shades of pow- yasemenhussein.com in Japan. The store in Tokyo was der-paint pigment – the effect not recently refurbished, and is con- unlike an artwork itself. stantly abuzz with people buying Analogue prose pigment.tokyo into his legend. His quirky, incred- Best known as the much-lauded ible cuts fill the racks, including songwriter and vocalist for The More Lyon Housemuseum original 80s one-offs reworked. Mountain Goats, John Darnielle The classic cropped jacket was has recently turned to prose Just as Melbourne’s laneways and originally handmade in a variety fiction. His second novel Universal sidestreets contain secret bars and of herringbone wools, with buttons Harvester (Scribe) is a richly galleries, its already impressive surrounding photoprints on the detailed evocation of the pre- private homes, too, can have a back, and is now available again to digital 1980s, and begins with hidden side. In suburban Kew, to custom order. POA. video-store customers complaining the east of the city centre, husband christophernemeth.co about mysterious and disturbing and wife Corbett and Yueji Lyon images that appear in rented not only have a home to make VHS tapes. Darnielle is good on passing architecture fans slow building tension and weirdness, down and salivate, but a world- but the heart of this unsettling class collection of contemporary novel is a very human story. and pop art by dozens of Aus- tralian artists – which the couple Don the Stetson lets the public view via a number You’ve probably heard Colin Stetson without realising it: the avant garde of guided tours each month. saxophonist has toured and worked with Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, Designed in 2010 by Corbett Sinéad O’Connor, TV On The Radio and many others. In his solo work, Lyon himself, this “housemuseum” installations and works, is slated to 20m x 44m work by Reko Rennie, he draws from the saxophone noises that sound like no musical – thought to be the first of its kind open in 2018. Quite how big the Visible Invisible (above), has been instrument on earth. His new album All This I Do for Glory was recorded in the world – will soon have a new Lyons’ ambitions run is clear from painted on the foundations of what live, capturing the elemental muscularity of his stage performances. neighbour. The Lyons’ new public the fact that their new venture will be the new gallery. colinstetson.com gallery, a space for showing larger is literally founded on art: a new lyonhousemuseum.com.au 10 11