Kerf Plastic, the stunning design collection by Kuo Duo
The South Korean design studio explores the limits of production and manufacturing with a variety of sustainable materials to design furniture, products and spaces. In just three years of existence, founders Hwachan Lee and Yoomin Maeng have collaborated with a wide range of brands and customers, offering diverse designs in the field of three-dimensional design. […]
PAUL COENEN, MATERIAL REVOLUTIONARY
Whether bent or curved, Paul Coenen’s metal furniture demonstrates that functionality can also be synonymous with simplicity. This young designer, a graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven, is a true researcher in the field. Portrait. Explicit Design During his final year project, “Borders of Assembly”, the designer thought about a new way of shaping metal. […]
GOHAR WORLD, A FANTASTIC WORLD OF TABLEWARE
Gohar World, created in 2020 by sisters and artists Laila and Nadia Gohar, is much more than just a collection of tableware. It’s a family universe that fuses time, tradition and craftsmanship with a touch of humour. Their vision is clear: to bring people back to the table in the modern world. Gohar World’s first […]
ACNE STUDIOS, LE MINIMALISME À L’ÉTAT BRUT PAR LE STUDIO HALLEROED
Design studio Halleroed continues to surprise with its boutiques for ready-to-wear brand Acne Studios. Sometimes brutalist, sometimes futuristic, each space is like a play in several acts. Take a tour. Christian and Ruxandra Halleröd have imagined a new concept of the luxury boutique, where design reigns supreme. The boutique becomes a gallery where everything becomes […]
Hollywood icons under the eye of Douglas Kirkland
The Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles opens the year 2024 with a fine exhibition by Douglas Kirkland (1934 -2022), whose sixty-year career has captured the essence of iconic personalities through his lens. Brigitte Bardot, Charlie Chaplin, Judy Garland, Peter Sellers, Sigourney Weaver… Numerous icons light up the walls of the Californian space. The man who […]
BERTRAND BONELLO, ROMANTIC FILMMAKER
Director-musician, literary filmmaker and painter, Bertrand Bonello has for the past twenty-five years been ploughing a distinctive furrow in the history of French cinema, blending the freedom of the Nouvelle Vague with the style of German painters and English poets. Bertrand Bonello, a romantic filmmaker with the look of a cursed artist, was first discovered […]
FOCUS, SARA-VIDE ERICSON
The Resistance, 2023 All that’s left of the face is the lower profile: a closed mouth and chin hanging from a taut neck adorned with a silver collar on the body, also truncated, all that remains is the bust and groin adorned with a sequined bodice and satin panties. It takes audacity and talent to […]
YOKO ONO, Music of the mind
Artist and activist, pioneer of conceptual and participatory art, performance art and experimental music and film, famous widow of Beatles founder John Lennon and committed campaigner for world peace, Yoko Ono is the subject of a major retrospective at London’s Tate Modern. From her Instructions paintings, which turn the work of art into a work […]
Sarah Brahim, sometimes, we are eternal
Housed in a marvellous neoclassical villa built in the 1930s on the shores of Lake Lugano, surrounded by the Ticino mountains, the Fondation Bally is hosting the first solo exhibition by Saudi-American artist Sarah Brahim. Born in 1992, the artist uses video and sound installations, photographs, performances and sculptures to create a choreography of intimacy […]
LÉONARD MARTIN – SUITE ZABRISKIE
Fixed explosion Inspired by the final explosion scene in Michelangelo Antonioni’s famous film Zabriskie Point, Léonard Martin’s eponymous suite, presented at Galerie Templon’s Brussels space, shows us a world turned upside down, evoking the constant flow of images in our world in the grip of the cloud. Enough to make us want to break free […]