Salonnière Paper 02
In the spirit of Salonnières, the hostesses of meaningful gatherings, we use the salon structure in both IRL and URL formats, to extend conversations around nature and culture, to give context for a more beautiful life.
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Salonnière Paper 02: Time Made Visible is a 40-page, full-color broadsheet that investigates time as a material condition that is shaped through process and exposure rather than linear progression. The issue centers on practices that register duration: lumen photography as an index of light; sculpture understood through erosion; spolia as the recontextualization of architectural remnants; salt as the slow accumulation of minerals. Together, these materials frame time as something embodied and accrued, not measured.
Through essays, visual studies, and a material-based salon, Paper 02 examines the table as landscape and the salon as a site of the continuous present. Drawing from historic craft traditions and Gertrude Stein’s theory of ongoingness, the issue positions the Salonnière as a curator of conditions holding space for dialogue and perception. Maison Bodega emerges as both subject and site: a place where material renders time visible.
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For international shipping, please reach out to info@maisonbodega.com
In the spirit of Salonnières, the hostesses of meaningful gatherings, we use the salon structure in both IRL and URL formats, to extend conversations around nature and culture, to give context for a more beautiful life.
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Salonnière Paper 02: Time Made Visible is a 40-page, full-color broadsheet that investigates time as a material condition that is shaped through process and exposure rather than linear progression. The issue centers on practices that register duration: lumen photography as an index of light; sculpture understood through erosion; spolia as the recontextualization of architectural remnants; salt as the slow accumulation of minerals. Together, these materials frame time as something embodied and accrued, not measured.
Through essays, visual studies, and a material-based salon, Paper 02 examines the table as landscape and the salon as a site of the continuous present. Drawing from historic craft traditions and Gertrude Stein’s theory of ongoingness, the issue positions the Salonnière as a curator of conditions holding space for dialogue and perception. Maison Bodega emerges as both subject and site: a place where material renders time visible.
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For international shipping, please reach out to info@maisonbodega.com