Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 10 i White Paper by - English

THE DAMN LETTER This issue is dedicated to gardens, and we wanted it to be a great beginning of spring, where we could walk across the photographs and interviews through different spaces that I have always liked, where I have often found a balance for my restless mind, where touch, sight, smell, and sound give me peace. But then came turbulent times, where despite all the efforts, no matter how many gardens there were, revolutionized all of our senses once again. I live in a fortunate country, where at this time the war is only seen through images and sounds, but everything that happens around us muddies this nonsense called WAR. Not that there are no other wars, but this one is closer to us and we are more aware…

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Michael Putnam’s success story begins like almost any other story: with a job that didn’t make him entirely happy. Although he was part of Kravitz Design, the prestigious interior design studio founded by rock star Lenny Kravitz, the designer wanted to pursue a trade where he could use his hands. “I’m an incredibly tactile person, so I decided to try my hand at floral design as a hobby. And it was instant love,” he confesses to White Paper By who, in 2014, would lean on his partner and now also business associate, photographer Taylor Putnam, to bring ‘Putnam & Putnam’ to life. From their Brooklyn studio, the duo has not only become the most sought-after florists by celebrities like Beyoncé or Gwyneth Paltrow, but also a global reference in the…

Caroline de Maigret is just as precious inside as she is outside. Before being approached by a booker during one of her walks through Paris, this French native with striking features and a lanky body relished her vocation for philosophy and existentialist literature at the Sorbonne. The sudden switch to the catwalks of New York in the mid-1990s was a necessity—her desire for independence was overwhelming. As a bridge between two generations (that of supermodels and that of heroin chic led by Kate Moss), Maigret was smart enough to take advantage of all that fashion could give her (for example, posing for photographers such as Steven Meisel, Mert & Marcus or Inez & Vinoodh and being the face of brands such as Prada, Louis Vuitton, or Lancôme) without being consumed…

She sees art as a tool for change and believes it can heal the soul. Rebecca Lamarche, director of Lafayette Anticipations for the past three years, has worked to turn the foundation into not only a place of experimenting, gathering, and creating for artists, but also a space for relaxation and reflection (with completely democratic access, meaning at no cost and without the need for a prior reservation) for young people, seniors, families, and children. Based on the axiom that all artistic creation is a reflection of the ideas and sensibilities of its time, the foundation gives carte blanche to its artists (with four selected each year) who mold at will this huge nineteenthcentury industrial building, renovated by the architect Rem Koolhaas, whose hybrid structure based on movable plates allows…

The year is 1688. The quartermaster of the navy of Rochefort, Michel Bégon, departs from the French coast towards the Caribbean wearing a military uniform full of stripes and braids. Upon landing, the expedition he was sponsoring came across an unknown plant with fleshy stems and large leaves, whose small pink calyx flowers were given the name of Bégonia. Although over time the vocation for the craftsmanship that decorated Bégon’s costume has faded, there is still a prodigious mastery among the select group of experts who still practice the meticulous technique of gold embroidery in the atelier of Le Bégonia d’Or (The Golden Begonia).Since 1995, this non-profit organization has been keeping the Rochefort tradition alive. It is there that it opened the first of the three small workshops in which…

His passion began when he was just a child, entranced by the Gothic style of La Lonja in Palma de Mallorca, the city where he was born in 1956. “The development of those pillars without bases or capitals, ending in such ramifications, generating a whole forest of palm trees, always fascinated me,” he says of the building designed by Guillem Sagrera in the 15th century. Antonio Obrador embraced his passion for architecture, defying family pressures that pointed in other directions and ratifying his feeling that “vocation is something innate that one carries inside.” After more than four decades in the trade, that vocation translates into an essential legacy for understanding the urban and landscape identity of the Mallorca of this era. He has also signed some of the most applauded…

What role does time play in your life, on and off stage? We joke sometimes that, for a rock band, we are and always have been exceptionally punctual, even on our craziest days. During off periods, when we’re writing or recording an album, the schedule is a little more flexible, but on tour we keep it strict. With such a big piece of machinery in motion, it’s necessary to stay on track to make things work. After 40 years in the business, do you have a different view of time? I’m a different artist now than I was 30 years ago, or even 5 years ago. But I understand myself better now and I’m a more confident and relaxed performer. As for my perception of time, it sounds cliché, but…

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Answering the question ‘Who is Carlos Souza?’ is a complex task, almost utopian considering the magnitude of the subject. We could say that he embodies the famous saying of “bigger than life” better than anyone else; a multifaceted figure who has lived as much as he could, who has been everything he has set out to be, and who has seen what almost no one else has seen. This Brazilian has marked the last four decades of the fashion industry since, at the age of just 18, designer Valentino Garavani suggested he try his luck as a model. He would later reinvent himself as a photographer, stylist, editor, entrepreneur and public relations, becoming the best ambassador of the Italian house in recent years. His life around the world was immortalized…

Jimena Blázquez, with a proven academic and professional career, has directed the NMAC Foundation (Montenmedio Art Contemporáneo) in Cádiz since its creation in 2001. She studied Art History at the American University of Paris, has a PhD in contemporary art, has been a curator at PS1-MoMA, member of the scientific committee of MUDAM in Luxembourg and in 2009 was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, in recognition of her commitment to cultural awareness. This year she has been awarded the “A” Prize for Collecting by the ARCO Foundation. The NMAC Foundation, located in Vejer de la Frontera, Cadiz, is an open-air art museum in the middle of nature, comprising more than forty large-format site-specific works by national and international artists, especially those who analyze the social, geographical,…

It’s hard to know where in the world to look for Marie Hartig (1977, Tokyo). Although the mural artist’s studio is located in Vienna, on the day of our interview she says she will be connecting from her cell phone on Cancun time. Taking the laptop to the pool would be risky, as well as uncomfortable, especially if you are going to chat from a hammock surrounded by palm trees. The image that emerges from the front camera—a close shot of her washed—out face, partially covered by her blonde hair, which is tousled from time to time by the tropical breeze–suggests a more so vacational rather than a professional atmosphere, but few things in Hartig’s life are conventional. Raised by a couple of Austrian diplomats, the muralist is both from…

Who speaks with these powerful, distinct, suggestive words? Is it the mysterious Jorn de Précy, whose hands shaped the missing garden Greystone in the 19th century and wrote The Lost Garden in 1912? Is it the poet Teodor Ceric, who cultivates prose in Gardens in Times of War? How much does the name, the person, matter when the phrases are left echoing in our heads forever changing our step, our point of view and the ideas we had about something? These two authors, De Précy and Ceric, serve as an introduction and mask for Marco Martella. Born in Rome in 1962, Martella is a landscaper, a gardener, runs the magazine Jardins and—unlike the men above—exists. He has published under his own name in the Elba publishing house—something he shares with…

“Planting a seed, and caring for that plant until it flowers, bears fruit, and dies, is an unparalleled sensory and emotional journey.” The author of El jardín del Prado (The Garden in the Prado), the gardener, landscaper, and informative Eduardo Barba, explains in this interview why it is important to be interested in plants, to know them, and to learn how to take care of them from a young age. Spoiler alert: “They will be happier as adults.” Eduardo Barba has been a landscaper and gardener since he was a child, when he used to accompany his mother to the market and was distracted by the balconies of the houses, looking up at those with plants and those without. Sometimes, instead of looking up, he would look down to discover…