Brass Menagerie
By Stephanie Murg I would like to make a very big gorilla—very big—who eats dirty shirts,” François-Xavier Lalanne told a reporter in October 1966, on the eve of his show at Galerie Alexandre Iolas in Paris. A primate-cum-clothes-hamper would have been in good company in François-Xavier’s home. The modest apartment he inhabited at the time, [...]
