The V&A Museum has paid slightly over £50,000 at auction for the original drawings of the Rolling Stones logo, devised by British designer John Pasche in 1970, it announced last night.
Pasche was studying at London’s Royal College of Art when Stones frontman Mick Jagger, disappointed by the designs put forward by record label Decca, began looking for a design student to help create a logo.
The logo was commissioned for £50, but the Rolling Stones were so pleased with the design they gave Pasche a bonus of £200.
Pasche had already decided to sell the drawing at a US auction house when the V&A enquired about borrowing it for an exhibition. On learning the work was for sale, the museum lodged a winning bid of $92,500 on Saturday, half of which was provided by the Art Fund charity.
The inspiration for the eventual logo, which took Pasche around two weeks of work, has never been in doubt.
I wanted something anti-authority, but I suppose the mouth idea came from when I met Jagger for the first time at the Stones’ offices. I went into this sort of wood-panelled boardroom and there he was. Face to face with him, the first thing you were aware of was the size of his lips and his mouth.
The designer John Pasche.
The Rolling Stones continue to use the logo
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Through March 8th, visitors at the Capitoline Museums may find themselves befuddled when they see a giant pair of porcelain lips pouting below a series of relief sculptures that depict Marcus Aurelius making a triumphal procession.
The incongruous pair of lips is part (the best part, we might add) of a temporary exhibit of several hundred pieces of Sèvres porcelain installed in the galleries of Rome’s oldest museum. The exhibit honors the achievements of the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, a porcelain factory founded in the 18th century and located in the French city of Sèvres. Once endorsed and promoted by the mistresses of Louis XV, Sèvres today manufactures only 4,000 to 5,000 pieces of porcelain every year.
Among more recent works is La Bocca (the Mouth) which bears a strange resemblance to the lip-shaped sofa designed by Salvador Dalì. Designed by Bertrand Lavier, the creation of the porcelain lips required more than 18 months of work in the studios.
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some images about LIPSSSS~~
When a design is that simple, that good and that easily styled with, it gets used multiple times.
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Dalilips - Lips Shaped Sofa Design
Dalilips - Lips Shaped Sofa Design
I’m impressed while first time look this sofa, it’s look like a real lips. It’s made with polyurethane spin-molding technology using special process which gives the piece a slightly delicate feel. Excellent for the girl rooms. Dalilips sofa, the new generation sofa for everyone who like unique interior design and decoration. Dalilips is made in various colors. Two of them are inspired by lipsticks, such as the “Shocking Pink” of the original design.
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