{"id":527588,"date":"2026-04-12T23:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/527588\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T23:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:17:33","slug":"alto-considers-time-through-patination-and-sculpture-with-the-art-01-bernar-venet-live-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/527588\/","title":{"rendered":"Alto Considers Time Through Patination And Sculpture With The Art 01 Bernar Venet (Live Pics)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hear a lot about the convergence of art, fine watchmaking, and design these days, but some brands take the brief more seriously than others.\u00a0Mark first told us to watch out for Paris-based Alto last year and gave us a look at its Art 01 model with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hodinkee.com\/articles\/one-to-watch-alto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a story<\/a> introducing the new design-forward, architecture-inspired, independent brand.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by Thibaud Guittard, a former Audemars Piguet executive and a passionate collector of art, design, and cars, Alto&#8217;s Creative Director is Rapha\u00ebl Abeillon, who was previously a senior designer at Cartier. Offering brutalist architecture vibes, severe angles, and avant-garde 1970s automotive design influences, the Art 01 represents a singular platform through which the French brand is expressing its take on the luxury watch as a time-telling objet d&#8217;art.\u00a0And now, with its latest iteration of the Swiss-made timepiece, Alto has enlisted a true giant of the contemporary art world for inspiration and collaboration, Bernar Venet.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We hear a lot about the convergence of art, fine watchmaking, and design these days, but some brands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-527588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}