Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Museum of arts and design see will linger in the air.

October 17, 2010, 10: 01 a.m.

An exhibition in which there is virtually nothing to see, hear or touch? what remains?

Museum of arts and design in Columbus Circle is announced on Monday it intends to show to open next November, in which one senses - a poorly served in the museum - world will be: smell."The art of fragrance: 1889-2011" will present examples of more than a dozen of fragrances that have helped define the industry lucrative ar?me.Les scents will be blown around floor galleries of the Museum by atomizers in space designed by the architect Toshiko Mori, and they will be presented with labels identifying their creators and the years that they were made. "" Packaging and brand names usually in association with them - Chanel No. 5 will be among the greatest hits - is not visible.

"There will be a minimum highly visual environment," said Holly Hotchner, Director of the Museum."It is really going to focus on your nose."

Chandler Burr, the exhibition curator and writer on perfumes to the New York Times Syndicate, said invited would be able to trace the evolution of modern perfume "whenever visitors generally follow the trajectory of modern art, displaying a series of tables."The lesson of design will reach in the 19th century with Jicky, a French perfume was one of the first to use synthetic ingredients, and will include Germaine Cellier from 1948 crash, Mr. Burr described as "one of the defining works of midcentury olfactory Brutalism."Catalogue of the exhibition will include small flasks of the scents of Pioneer 10.

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