Fashion photographer of the year Elisabeth Toll with Claes Britton at the Elle Awards
Heil to Elisabeth!
I don't need to mention that the crowning of our dear Elisabeth Toll as Fashion Photographer of the Year was the highlight of my evening when I honored the Elle Fashion Awards gala, or whatever they call it, with my exclusive presence for the first tie in many years last Friday. As you who have followed BrittonBritton know, we have worked with Elisabeth on a regular basis, in a number of projects over the past years, so her rare talent and distinctive artistic qualities are least of all novelties to us. She is, however, still unknown to many even in the business in this town, and her expression differs from the run-of-the-mill in our contemporary fashion scene, so regards to the jury for this correct decision. As a bonus, Elisabeth also stole the laurels as the most ravishing appearance of the evening, in stiff competition with a plethora of women, men and everything in between who had at least knocked themselves out in their efforts. As soon as I saw Elisabeth in her Pucci dress I understood that she'd won the prize...
As a reminder of Elisabeth's artistery, I attach a few images from our much acclaimed series for Stockholms Auktionsverk:s Fahion & Lifestyle auction from spring 2011. You will find many more of her images elsewhere on this website and still more is to come, you can be sure of it.
en vogue
Se this simple film which we've edited to market artist Ulrik Samuelson's large installation en vogue/Sista skriket!/Relikt, to be sold at the auction Contemporary at Stockholms Auktionsverk 15 November. This 10x3 meter piece was first shown at the groundbreaking Alternative Suedoise/Svenskt Alternativ exhibition at Stockholm's Moderna Museet in 1970, when the museum was still headed by its legendary founding director Pontus Hultén — an exhibition where Samuelson exhibited together with contemporary colleagues Dick Bengtsson, Ola Billgren, Lars Englund, John-e Frantzén, Lars Hillersberg, Olle Kåks and Einar Röste. The exhibition then traveled to Musée d'Arte Moderne in Paris and Louisiana in Humlebaek in Denmark. The piece were shown again in modified form in Samuelson's retrospective Second Hand at Moderna Museet in 1998, and, most recently, in the exhibiton Drömrummet (The Dream Room) at Liljevalch art hall this past spring and summer, now under the title Relikt.
Like before, you have to click on the link below the image to see the film.
auktionsverket.com
Recently launched — the new auktionsverket.com
And so now it is launched out there all by itself in that big bad black cyberspace, surfing on the towering giant waves of that world wide web, without Steven Jobs to guide and comfort it — auktionsverket.com, the brand new website for our dear client Stockholms Auktionsverk, the world's oldest auction house.
Already in its infancy, it's quite a hefty chunk of a website this little rascal, which will hopefully grow mighty colossal with time and hopefully evolve into an important and attractive both market place and focal point for everyone with an interest in art, beauty and history (and who hasn't..?)
As with most of the many websites we have designed and produced through the years, the new auktionsverket.com is developed in close collaboration with our dear partners at AGoodID — a guarantee for web communication of frontline quality.
The new auktionsverket.com is also the first unit where we have implemented the new modified graphic identity which we have developed for Stockholms Auktionsverk. At first sight, this new identity may appear similar to the previous one, but we have changed the typeface to Indigo, designed by Swedish maestro typeface designer Johan Ström in the nineties. Our ambition is to achieve a more powerful and distinct expression in digital and analog media. The modified monogram is designed exclusively by Johan Ström to harmonize with the typography.
Åke Andreén collection. See the film here
Some rock...
While I'm "on the ball", here's the invitation to the "Åke Andrén collection", a delightful private colection of predominantly "Swedish pop art", to be sold at Stockholms Auktionsverk, our dear client, on 21 September, on view 15-20 September. Again, you have to click on the link below the image, sorry...
Rizzo fall 11
Rizzo fall 11
We're pleased with our fall campaign för our oldest and dearest client Rizzo. The campaign is shot by our dear friend Elisaneth Toll, and styled by Karin Smeds. Do also see the "behind the stage" film which has come to be expected of us. You have to click on the link below the image. When we launch our new website shortly, such functions will be much slicker.
Advertising
The world's oldest auction house goes digital at last!
BrittonBritton has developed the new brand identity, graphic design, web design and marketing concept för Stadsauktion — the new web auction house which is launched today.
Actually, our clients Stockholms Auktionsverk were pioneers when they launched Sweden's first digital auction some eleven years ago. The time was far from ripe back then. It is now over-ripe and today the day has come at last for the launch of the world's oldest auction house (founded in 1674, as you know) to burst out into that ol' cyber space in it's new digital guise — Stadsauktion.se.
BrittonBritton is responsible for the overall branding* of the new digital auction house, its graphic identintity, web interface design and advertising concept. The website is built by Stockholms Auktionsverk's web developer Hans Ljunggren. The advertising images are photographed by Jens Mortensen, with set design by Lotta Agaton.
Word in this business says that it is impossible to combine web auctions with attractive and inspiring shows. Stadsauktion has the ambition to prove the opposite. The vast premises in Magasin 5 in Palermogatan in the Frihamnen harbor here in Stockholm have been comprehensively re-designed and revamped, with one showroom for each auction day. Opening hours have been expanded. The café has become a small restaurant, serving wine and simple dishes. The show is now open seven days a week, 13.00-17.00, and Wednesdays evenings until 20.00. Auctions are held seven days a week.
Welcome to the new Stadsauktion!
*It was far from a given that the new digital auction house should even be named Stadsauktion. To us who how always honored simplicity, however, it appeared quite clear that we should keep this supremely simple, utterly extablished and generic brand name rather than launching a new and "jazzier" one.
Mikael Jansson, Julia Robets, Chateau Marmont (2001)
Julia on Sunset Strip...
BrittonBritton is a partner in Stockholms Auktionsverk Fotografi, the first ever major quality auction sale exclusively for photography in the Sweden.
It is to meet a steadily increasing domestic and international interest and demand that our dear friends, clients and partners at Stockholms Auktionsverk, the world's oldest auction house, this season has ventured to launch the first ever major quality auction exclusively for photography in Sweden, with its own catalogue. The show, which is staged together with the show for the auction Contemporary, in the lower floor of the Stockholms Auktionsverk premises on Nybrogatan in the Östermalm district, opens Friday 29 April, with the VIP opening on Thusday night. The auction is held on 4 May.
BrittonBritton has been in from the beginning on this venture, together with two of Sweden's leading experts of photography - Leif Wigh, the longtime Director of the Museum of Photography at the Modern Museum, and Lennart Durehed, the master still-life photographer and Irving Penn's former favorite assistant, who operated the groundbreaking Camera Obscura photography gallery here in Stockholm togerther with our dear friend Lars Hall back in the late seventies and early eighties. We look forward with excitement to the sale and are proud of the catalogue, which includes many of the greatest names from the photographic histrory from antique times up to the present. We didn't excactly object that our dear friend and professional big brother Mikael Jansson's classic portrait of Julia Robert, shot on the roof terrace of hotel Chatau Marmont in Hollywood in 2001, was selected for the magazine cover...
View the catalogue on www.auktionsverket.se (the website which we are currently revamping).
PS. We we’re of course most pleased that "our" cover image, Mikael Jansson’s Julia on Sunset Strip, sold for SEK 180,000, more than double the announced price in yesterday’s historic auction, in a sale involving a number of bidders in various media. DS.
Alaia
Fashion & Lifestyle spring 011 at Stockholms Auktionsverk
Tomorrow night, Thursday 10 February, will see the VIP opening of the show for the Fashion & Lifestyle sale at Stockholms Auktionsverk, our dear new client, the world's oldest and Sweden's leading auction house. The show itself, which kicks off the house's spring season of quality auctions, opens on Saturday. The sale starts 17.00 on Monday 14 February, where you can bid for oufits and accessories from various decades from classic fashion houses such as Alaia, Balenciaga, Pierre Balmain, Celine, Chanel, Christian Dior, Gucci, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Lanvin, Emilio Pucci, Paco Rabanne, NK:s Franska and Yves Saint Laurent, among others.
We're proud of our small and compact but quite pungent campaign for this sale, complete with catalogue, advertising, signs and invitation. The quite wonderful - if we may say so ourselves - images are photographed in unique historic locations in Skansen open air museum here in Stockholm by Elisabeth Toll, and styled by Kari Hirvonen. The models are Nike (Elite), Elsa Crafoord (Mikas) and Dennis (Nisch).
View more images in our portfolio
Nobis Hotel, architecture and design
Nobis Hotel — the book
On Tuesday 8 February the book Nobis Hotel, architecture and design was realsed at a cocktail for international design journalists at the Gold Bar in our dear recently opened Nobis Hotel. As the name indicates, it's a book about the architecture and interiors of Nobis Hotel, and the thoughts behind these expressions. The book also presents our own work with the branding, design and strategic communication for the new hotel, as well as owner and CEO Alessandro Catenacci's original vision for the hotel, and his brother Stefano Catenacci's gastronomic concept. We produced this 208-page, linen-embossed hardback in just one month's time, Christmas and New Year holidays included — a personal record! — in order to have it ready for the ongoing design week here in Stockholm. The book is designed by Stefan Andersson, written by Claes Britton and photographed by Åke E:son Lindman. Those of you who can't wait to get in deep into the thoughts and grand designs behind Stockholm's new contemporary luxury hotel can purchase Nobis Hotel, architecture and design through Nobis Hotel or Konst-ig bookstore. Have a fine read!