COLVERT, AUTHENTIC AND GENEROUS
Located in the heart of Saint-Germain des Prés, the Colvert restaurant has undergone a complete overhaul, with a brand new team in a totally transformed setting. With its blend of modern auberge, bistronomy and gourmet cuisine, everything has been designed to give pleasure to all epicureans and lovers of good food. Bistro furniture with a […]
L.A.M STUDIO OR THE POWER OF MINIMALISM
For its second edition, Offscreen, the arts event dedicated to image exploration, has enlisted the services of Léonie Alma Mason, set designer, interior architect and head of L.A.M Studio. It’s a happy union, and a good excuse to take a look back at the designer’s career. Behind the old-fashioned but furiously pop facade of the […]
GIGI CHUNG, ARCHITECTURAL ABSTRACTION AT ITS MOST ABSTRACT
The California-based photographer sublimates the forms of architecture and urban spaces in a striking interplay of contrast, colour, light and shadow. Abstract architecture is at the very heart of the concept of sublimating urban spaces. Gigi Chung’s singular style is a blend of culture and architecture, art and design, observation and inventiveness. The photographer lived […]
ARCHITECTURE AND NATURE IN SYMBIOSIS ON THE CARIBBEAN COAST
The work of Co-Lab Design Office, based in Tulum, is inspired by the beauty of the Yucatan and encourages a connection between the landscape and the built environment. Zoom in on three projects. The studio, founded by Joana Gomes and Joshua Beck, has been creating contextual and sustainable designs for thirteen years, working directly with […]
MARIA LAX, BEYOND REALITY
The London-based Finnish photographer transports us into her timeless visual narratives, halfway between reality, fiction and the supernatural. “The truth lies elsewhere,” some might say. And that’s no understatement. Maria Lax is interested in identity, beliefs and modern folklore as she explores parallel worlds. Her series “Some Kind of Heavenly Fire”, which became her first […]
RAPHAEL NAVOT: WHEN DESIGN RHYMES WITH CRAFTSMANSHIP
Raphaël Navot integrates craftsmanship into design, so that the contemporary becomes timeless. A leitmotif in the shape of a signature, for the man who defines himself as a “non-industrial” designer. Some of his designs have an organic feel, like his “Land” rugs for Diurne, reproducing the earth’s satellite landscapes in silk dyed with natural colours, […]
Monstrum Studio or the voluptuous minimalism of Riccardo Villa Fabbiati
A former ballet dancer, the designer has created a body of objects from a unique universe, on the borderline between purity and exuberance. Monstrum. Le nom du studio de design de Riccardo Villa Fabbiati nous vient du latin. Il évoque une créature inquiétante et envoûtante « dotée de caractéristiques qui échappent à l’ordre naturel des choses », […]
“RADICAL”, THE PHLEGM OF THE EIGHTIES AT THE KETABI BOURDET GALLERY
To mark its participation in the first edition of Design Miami/Paris, the Ketabi Bourdet gallery is taking us on a journey back in time to the 1980s with “Radical”. The Ketabi Bourdet gallery has reconstructed a smoking room for the first edition of Design Miami/Paris, the Parisian counterpart of the famous event familiar to design […]
SINOPLE, AT THE CROSSROADS OF CREATIVE WORLDS
Based in the Marais district of Paris for the past five years, Sinople is dedicated to supporting designers and artists who are keen to blur the rigid boundaries between disciplines and creative practices. Both a gallery and a studio specialising in directing artistic projects, SINOPLE was founded in 2018 by Julien Strypsteen and Eric-Sébastien Faure-Lagorce. […]
WHAT NOT TO MISS AT PAD LONDON 2023
The heart of London’s Mayfair district was the place to be on the design scene from 10 to 15 October. And with good reason: the PAD, a fair dedicated to historic and contemporary design, was there to showcase the finest creations in the field. Acumen presents its top four. Galerie Philia Galerie Philia’s “Contrasts” exhibition […]