DE FEVE A PLAQ: PASIÓN POR LOS SENTIDOS
Todo comienza con el despertar de los cinco sentidos y la historia de una pasión por el chocolate. Un deseo de poder comerlo en todas partes y a todas horas, subrayado por la sensorialidad para nutrir el cuerpo y la mente. Un gesto preciso desde la recolección, la mezcla y la degustación. Un sonido poético, [...]
LE GONCOURT, A SORPRENDENTE RESTAURANT
En el distrito 11 de París se esconde una pequeña pepita culinaria llamada Le Goncourt. Un restaurante discreto, escondido en una pequeña calle que alberga un lugar que hay que descubrir si se está de paso por el vecindario. A medida que nos acercamos, ya podemos sentir el ambiente acogedor que brilla a través del [...]
HALL HAUS OR THE IMPORTANCE OF DIVERSITY IN DESIGN
France In just two years of existence, this French collective has imposed itself on the French scene, fueled by the ambition to make design accessible to as many people as possible, while maintaining high standards and quality. Abdoulaye Niang, Sammy Bernoussi, Teddy Sanches, and Zakari Boukhari are four names to remember. Since 2020, this new [...]
UN RESTAURANTE LIBANÉS DONDE LA TRADICIÓN SE UNE A LA MODERNIDAD
Kubri es fruto de la asociación de tres mujeres franco-libanesas movidas por su amor a la gastronomía y el deseo de ayudar a los parisinos a descubrirla. A dos pasos del Cirque d'Hiver, nos encontramos en el 108 rue Amelot, un nuevo espacio de diseño imaginado desde cero por Mayfrid e Ingrid Chehlaoui. El espacio [...]
CORALIE BEAUCHAMP, HAUTE COUTURE LIGHTING.
Paris - France Softness, sensuality, and poetry emerge. Rounding off the angles of our interiors. It's been ten years since Coralie Beauchamp launched her collection of "fishnet" lighting fixtures, but the idea was already in the works when she was designing sets for luxury houses, while pursuing her personal research. It took years of experimentation [...]
A HISTORY OF VAGUENESS
En 1951, Otto Steinert tomó, desde lo alto, una fotografía borrosa de un ballet de coches alrededor del Arco del Triunfo; veinticinco años más tarde, Jan Groover tomó una serie de imágenes de coches circulando. La captura del desenfoque resultante del movimiento (el "motion blur") puede parecer anticuada en comparación con los desenfoques de enfoque [...].
SIR DAVID CHIPPERFIELD IN FIVE POINTS
United Kingdom - London The venerable British architect has been honored with the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious award in the discipline. A good opportunity to look back at his career and work. A multitude of typologies In his architectural practice, collaboration has always been fundamental. "The reality is that good buildings come from [...]
ESPLENDOR EN LA COSTA VASCAF
Con su dominio del encuadre, de la luz natural y de la narración rigurosa, Roberto Badin prosigue su exploración de los espacios, magnificados por su ojo que capta su sencillez y su infinitud. El fotógrafo carioca abandona así las contrastadas metrópolis japonesas que inmortalizó en Inside Japan para sumergirnos aquí, en la ciudad de Biarritz, [...]
ANDROIDES, ¿TENÉIS ALMA?
La fotógrafa belga Wanda Tuerlinckx documenta esta revolución tecnológica, que está transformando la sociedad y la relación entre el hombre y la máquina, en su fascinante serie Androïdes. La obra de Wanda Tuerlinckx es impresionante, tanto por su contenido como por su forma. Esta fotógrafa belga de 54 años, afincada en Ámsterdam, aúna los mundos [...]
DELICATE ARCHITECTURAL REVISIT BY STUDIO OKAMI
Belgium - Anvers Back in the 1960s in Antwerp. The green belt of the Belgian port city was a place of architectural experimentation. Among the few interesting villas built, the Beli house, one of the first architectural gems purchased by the clients of Studio Okami Architects. While the building was in a state of disrepair, [...]
THE ROUND HOUSE, PERFECT CIRCULAR GEOMETRY
Nestled in the hills of Los Altos, California, the Round House was built in the 1960s. The current owners - a budding baker and a family with a passion for cooking - fell in love with it and made a few renovations to modernize the design. The Feldman Architecture studio took care of enriching its [...]
LAS ALEGORÍAS VISUALES DE IOANNA NATSIKOU
La fotógrafa griega trastoca la realidad en misteriosos y coloridos relatos visuales que indagan en la exploración del yo, la identidad y la feminidad. Sus fotografías cuestionan el cuerpo y la representación de la mujer en su intimidad. Ioanna Natsikou empezó con la fotografía en 2017, cuando decidió reinventarse haciendo un curso en la Escuela [...]
PLAY OF LINES
Mexico With La Piedad, the studio Cotaparedes Arquitectos designs a minimalist house that is articulated around three patios, emerging from the basement. The plot is 10 meters wide and 35 meters deep, with a 3-meter drop. Its name refers to the city of the same name, located in the Mexican state of Michoacán, and to [...]
A FORT REVISITED BY ODILE DECQ
France Well established in the French and international landscape since the 1980s, Odile Decq's architecture is the opposite of today's monumentalism, on a human scale. A way of designing the building that she translates today in a new project, very singular, where she combines accuracy and elegance, all in delicacy. The French architect has taken [...]
GUY BOURDIN HOMENAJEADO EN ARMANI/SILOS
Para la Semana de la Moda de Milán, Giorgio Armani celebra en su espacio milanés la creatividad del fotógrafo visionario que supo crear en sus imágenes un diálogo entre lo misterioso, lo extraño y lo sublime. Sus temas incluyen la extrañeza surrealista, el glamour de la moda, el humor provocador y las misteriosas intrigas del [...]
ELLEN VON UNWERTH, REINA DE LA SENSUALIDAD FEMENINA
La Fahey/Klein Gallery de Los Ángeles vuelve a sacar a la luz el trabajo vibrante, cándido e increíblemente sexy de esta legendaria fotógrafa que ha dejado su huella en el mundo del arte, la moda, el cine y los medios de comunicación. Esta artista definió la estética de las décadas de 1990 y 2000, creando [...]
TWO SUPERB VILLAS IN CLAY
Central America - Costa Rica The Formafatal studio has pulled off another tour de force with the "Achioté" project, two twin villas available for rent, nestled on a steep hill near the town of Uvita. They seem to float above the jungle. This is the first earthen project in Costa Rica. Both were designed with [...]
FAMOUS COFFEE IN BRAZILIAN ARCHITECTURE
Brazil Coffee growing has been a key issue in the Brazilian economy since the mid-18th century. Minas Gerais, located north of São Paulo and Rio, is the main coffee-producing region. The studio GPA&A, founded by Gustavo Penna, worked on this premises, and looked for the right location to make it an emblem, respecting quality and [...]
ICONS
Italy - Venice At the origins of the quarrel of the icons (the famous battle between the iconoclasts and the iconodules, having torn the Eastern Church in the 8th century), was the belief in the power of incarnation of the religious image and, consequently, the duty of veneration attached to the "holy images". This "status [...]
ROMAN HEAD IN MARBLE OF ZEUS-SERAPIS
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) ascended the throne at the age of twenty. He began a military campaign very early on that would take him from Greece to Egypt, from Central Asia to northern India, and give birth to one of the greatest empires in history. In 332 BC, he invaded Egypt, where the oracle [...]
NICOLAS DELPRAT, THE AMERICAN NIGHT
Paris - France Given in reference to the technique of filtering light used in the cinema to obtain a nocturnal atmosphere in scenes shot in broad daylight, the title of the new exhibition that the Maubert Gallery is devoting to Nicolas Delprat immediately plunges us into the very cinematographic atmosphere of this pictorial work focused [...].
BASQUIAT x WARHOL
Paris - France After the success of the "Jean-Michel Basquiat" exhibition, seen by nearly 700,000 visitors in 2018, here is the shock duo - "Basquiat x Warhol" presented at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. A blockbuster bringing together some eighty of the one hundred and sixty canvases painted "four hands," as well as individual works completed [...].
DUNE VARELA, THE SCARS OF THE IMAGE
Torn, crumpled, sanded, lacerated, stitched images... Fragments, relics, vestiges... Intertwining the times of making the image, from its destruction to its metamorphosis, and merging the background (the subject) and the form in a process of surprising metonymic contamination (the content becoming a container), Dune Varela's photographs create a perceptive disorder. Details of ancient statues printed [...]
FULL THROTTLE
Lyon - France You had to be called Marcel Duchamp to dare to put the Air of Paris in a light bulb and offer it as a ready-made to his rich collector... More than a century later (it was in 1919), it is the Bullukian Foundation that invites us to "breathe" - A pleins poumons. [...]