SSENSE MONTREAL : A STEEL GREY FLAGSHIP
SSENSE is an online platform that blends culture, community, and commerce. Based in Montreal, it offers a mix of established luxury brands and more emerging brands. The SSENSE flagship was designed by David Chipperfield Architects. A 1,200-square-meter, 19th-century space, built as a “building within a building” adjacent to the city’s iconic Notre Dame Basilica. The […]
ROBERT WUN OR THE AESTHETICS OF FEAR
Born in Hong Kong, this London designer has cultivated a language of sculptures with futuristic overtones. After a debut at the London College of Fashion in 2012, Robert Wun launched his brand two years later, taking his couture practice into a universe close to science fiction and the natural world. Honored with the ANDAM Fashion […]
NINJA HANNA, PRAISE FOR NOSTALGIA
The Swedish photographer, based in Stockholm, uses her radical and sensual, poetic and humorous eye in her compositions, which are fueled by the whole aesthetic of nostalgia. Voluptuous women, post-punk fashion, muscle cars, collages, cinematographic settings, snapshots, nudity… Everything comes together in a play of light, artistic blur and intense, matte colors. Ninja Hanna’s pictures […]
THE TURMOIL OF AMERICA UNDER THE EYE OF JEAN-PIERRE LAFFONT
The Sous Les Etoiles Gallery in New York is dedicating a new exhibition to this great photojournalist who immortalized the ills and protest movements of mid-twentieth-century American society. He captured the civil rights, women’s rights, and gay rights movements, the youth against the Vietnam War, Nixon’s departure from the White House, the gangs in the […]
INTO THE OTHER WORLDS OF ZHONG LIN
The Malaysian photographer strikes our senses with images that are both mysterious and provocative, sensual and disturbing, opening up new dimensions. Flowers protruding from faces, bodies wrapped in fabric, prickly red lips, eyelashes as long as hair, silhouettes lost in misty water… Welcome to Zhong Lin’s strange, disturbing, and fascinating worlds. Her work reflects the […]
ELENA IV-SKAYA, ODE TO THE MODERN WOMAN
Beauty, elegance, and femininity define the work of this photographer and former model through her very aesthetic, luminous and colorful choices. “The woman is meant to be celebrated; the muse is feminine. I want my models to be beautiful and elegant, no matter what look I’m going for.” Elena Iv-skaya’s strength and energy is evident […]
NADEZDA NIKOLOVA
Elemental Forms Nadezda Nikolova (b. 1978, Serbia) is a Croatian-Bulgarian-American artist based in Oakland, California. She studied 19th-century phototrophic (light energy capturing) printing processes at the University of Kentucky and the George Eastman Museum. Having learned the old photographic techniques so prized and reused today, she produces photograms on wet collodion plates (called tintypes). Imaginary […]
MELISSA X UNDERCOVER THE NEW COLLAB’ OF THE MOMENT, HALFWAY BETWEEN JAPAN AND BRAZIL
Once again, the Brazilian brand Melissa, known for its recycled and recyclable plastic shoes, but also for its remarkable collaborations, strikes a blow. A move made with the UNDERCOVER brand by Japanese designer Jun Takahashi. Available since February 8th, this happy union highlights the strong points of the Japanese designer, which very quickly defined the […]
SUBLIMATING THE VALUE OF ESPACE
South Korean design studio H Office designed the interiors of the Seoul-based fashion brand Nomanual, whose walls are symbols that imply complex narratives. The 125m² flagship shop is the brand’s first physical shop, located in Sangsu-dong, Mapo-gu, in the heart of Seoul. The space is an incredible play of perspective, reflection, distortion, and infinity. It […]
THOMAS DEMAND, THE ART OF TROMPE-L’OEIL
France – Paris The first major retrospective of the German photographer and sculptor is on show at the Jeu de Paume, presenting his photographs of life-size reconstructions. Since the 1990s, Thomas Cyrill Demand has been questioning the viewer’s relationship to the image and to time. His photographs reconstitute places through significant events, media episodes, or […]
1997 FASHION BIG BANG
A decisive year in the history of contemporary fashion, which saw the current fashion scene take shape at the turn of the millennium, 1997 hit the catwalks and left a lasting impression on people’s minds. Whether we remember the shock of Comme des Garçons’ introduction of deformed bodies with the “Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets […]
STEVEN PASSARO, THE DELICATE SENSUALITY
Based in Paris, young fashion designer Steven Passaro was born in France with Portuguese heritage. At the age of 19, he joined an interior design course at the École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré, where he developed a skill and a taste for construction. Today, he draws inspiration from his travels between London and Paris. […]
The Stone House, a modernist beauty
Taller ADG has designed a superb modernist house in Mexico with a play of volumes inspired by the elements of the iconic architect Luis Barragán. The Stone House (Casa de Piedra), nestled on a hill, offers a panoramic view of Monter-rey in Mexico. The volumes of the spaces, the geometry and overlapping of the walls, […]
THE GATES OF POSSIBILITY, Art & Science Fiction
“Science fiction is the subversive agent of doubt […] Under the guise of anticipation, it sheds light on current societal and scientific developments and trends, holds out the hope of a world re-enchanted by the power of our imagination and makes us dream of transforming utopia into reality.”1 From Sandy Skoglund’s fluorescent green Radioactive […]
PA.TE.OS, A FUSION OF THE ANCIENT AND THE CONTEMPORARY
The outdoors, travel, architecture. Three disciplines that led Sofia and Miguel Charters to launch Pa.te.os, a hotel located on the south coast of Portugal, not far from the village of Melides, on an 80-hectare property, populated by cork oaks, pines, olive trees, arbutus, aromatic herbs, but also vines. In addition to its incredible views of […]
CLIFFSIDE LODGES IN NORWAY
Here, Snøhetta Studio is teaming up with interior design brand Vipp and entrepreneur Tom Bjarte Norland to develop an experience on the edge of the Lysefjord on the Norwegian west coast. The Bolder project consists of four lodges designed to harmonize with nature and blur the boundaries between inside and outside. The cabins are raised […]
AN EXCEPTIONAL TEA HOUSE IN CHINA
Anji is a city in the province of Zhejiang, famous for its bamboo. For some years now, China has been supporting local economic development of high ecological quality. Hatch Architects, based in London, has created a tea house and two pavilions using traditional materials from the region. Formerly a storage room, this sophisticated new hospitality […]
A FLOATING PAVILION BY THE SEA
The Trace Architecture office (TAO) in Beijing sees the art of designing spaces as “an evolving organism, a whole inseparable from its environment, rather than a simple formal object.” This seaside project is an example of this. The design team was inspired by a poetic scene: “An abandoned fishing boat has run aground in a […]
ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN REALISM AND IDEALISM
Badie Architects makes a difference with this house in Giza, Egypt, which looks like a giant sculpture without any parallel lines. Mohamed Badie, founder of Cairo-based Badie Architects, ignores established conventions in favor of a direct connection with the natural world. Timeless, organic, complex… These are the keywords of this design in Giza, devoid of […]
YUNI YOSHIDA, AU PAYS DES MERVEILLES
Son univers entremêle avec virtuosité culture pop et surréalisme dans une palette de couleurs vives qui laissent place à toutes sortes de détails, invitant le spectateur à regarder de près. Plus près encore. Artiste, photographe et directrice artistique, Yuni Yoshida crée depuis plus de quinze ans des œuvres visuelles dans un large éventail de domaines, […]
CAMOUFLAGED HOUSE IN INDIA
With Chuzhi House, located in the private community of Sanctity Farm in the heart of the picturesque town of Shoolagiri in India, the Wallmakers studio demonstrates that it is possible to build on difficult, strange, and not always favorable terrain. The credo of its founder Vinu Daniel? Camouflage architecture. Here, the structure of the building […]
ŒUVRES MULTISENSORIELLES, QUAND L’OLFACTIF ENTRE EN SCÈNE
Depuis un siècle, l’odorat s’est immiscé à plusieurs reprises dans l’art, de l’Air de Paris capturé par Marcel Duchamp en 1919 jusqu’au Mur de poils de carotte de Michel Blazy en 2000, en passant par les Lipstick Urinals de Rachel Lachowicz en 1992. Cette dernière décennie a vu fleurir bon nombre de collaborations pluridisciplinaires autour […]
THE COLOUR JOURNAL, EXPLORATION ARTISTIQUE
The Colour Journal est une collection de six volumes, chacun ayant pour point de départ une couleur : bleu, rouge, jaune, vert, blanc et noir. Benjamin Grillon, directeur artistique, qui a collaboré avec des marques comme Gucci, Hermès ou encore Louis Vuitton, a souhaité, au travers de ces ouvrages, mettre en lumière des archives oubliées, des […]
MADEIRA, AN ISLAND AS SWEET AS WILD
Born from the meeting of America and Africa, this volcanic land, a paradise for hikers, is also the land of eternal spring, where life is good. The island rises like a pyramid of black rocks above the ocean and leaves little room for human development. To access it, the landing strip overflows the water, resting […]