FROM BEAN TO PLAQ: PASIÓN FOR LOS SENTIDOS
Everything comes from the desperation of the five feelings and the history of a passion for chocolate. A desire to be able to come in all parts and all hours, subrayed by the sensoriality to nourish the body and the mind. A precise gesture from the collection, the mix and the tasting. A poetic sound, […]
LE GONCOURT, A SURPRISING RESTAURANT
In district 11 of Paris there is a small culinary gem from Le Goncourt. A discreet restaurant, located on a small street that hosts a place that you would like to discover if it happened to you. As we know, we can feel the surrounding environment that shines through […]
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 […]
A LEBANESE RESTAURANT DONDE LA TRADICIÓN SE ONE A MODERNIDAD
Kubri is the fruit of the association of three French-Lebanese women who love gastronomy and the desire to discover Parisians. On our way to the Cirque d'Hiver, we encountered 108 rue Amelot, a new design space imagined by Mayfrid and Ingrid Chehlaoui. The space […]
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 VAGUARIES
In 1951, Otto Steinert shot, from the viola, a borrosa photograph of a ballet of coaches alrededor of the Arco del Triunfo; Veinticinco años más later, Jan Groover came up with a series of images of circulating carriages. The resulting motion blur capture (the “motion blur”) may appear old in comparison with the motion blurs […]
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 […]
SPLENDOR ON THE VASCA COAST
With his dominion of the frame, of the natural light and of the rigorous narration, Roberto Badin explores his spaces, magnified by his eye that captures its light and its infinity. The photographer left behind the contrasting Japanese metropolises that were immortalized in Inside Japan to survive there, in the city of Biarritz, […]
ANDROIDS, ¿TENÉIS ALMA?
Belgian photographer Wanda Tuerlinckx documents this technological revolution, which transformed society and the relationship between man and machine, into its fascinating Android series. Wanda Tuerlinckx's work is impressive, both in its content and in its format. This Belgian photo of 54 years old, recently in Amsterdam, was born in the world […]
DELICATE ARCHITECTURAL REVISIT BY STUDIO OKAMI
Belgium – Antwerp 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 […]
VISUAL ALEGORIES BY IOANNA NATSIKOU
The gray photograph translates reality into misteriosos and colors of visual relationships that inspire the exploration of woman, identity and femininity. Our photos show the body and the representation of the woman who is intimidated. Ioanna Natsikou started with photography in 2017, when she decided to reinvent herself to take a course at the 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 IN ARMANI/SILOS
During the Milan Fashion Week, Giorgio Armani celebrated in his space in Milan the creativity of the visionary photograph that was able to create in his images a dialogue between the misterioso, the extraño and the sublime. Our themes include the surrealist extravaganza, the glamor of fashion, the provocative humor and the mysterious intrigues of […]
ELLEN VON UNWERTH, REINA OF SENSUALITY FEMENINA
La Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles has seen the vibrant, candid and incredibly sexy work of this legendary photograph that has already been published in the world of art, fashion, cinema and the means of communication. This artist defined the aesthetic of the decades of 1990 and 2000, creating […]
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 […]
AT FULL LUNGS
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 full lungs. […]