LODGE SUI FIANCHI DI UNA SCOGLIERA IN NORVEGIA
Norvegia Lo studio Snøhetta si circonda del marchio di interior design Vipp e dell’imprenditore Tom Bjarte Norland per sviluppare un’esperienza in riva al fiordo Lysefjord, sulla costa occidentale norvegese. Il progetto Bolder è composto da quattro lodge progettati per armonizzarsi con la natura e ridurre i confini tra interno ed esterno. Queste cabine sono sollevate […]
UN PADIGLIONE GALLEGGIANTE IN RIVA AL MARE
Cina – Jiaodong Lo studio Trace Architecture office (TAO) di Pechino vede l’arte di concepire gli spazi come “un organismo in evoluzione, un tutto inseparabile dal suo ambiente, piuttosto che un semplice oggetto formale”. Questo progetto in riva al mare ne è un esempio. Il team di progettazione si è ispirato a una scena poetica: […]
MULTI-SENSORIAL WORKS WHEN THE OLFACTORY ENTERS THE SCENE
Over the past century, the sense of smell has been used in art on several occasions, from Marcel Duchamp’s L’Air de Paris in 1919 to Michel Blazy’s Mur de poils de carotte in 2000, via Rachel Lachowicz’s Lipstick Urinals in 1992. The last decade has seen a number of multidisciplinary collaborations around olfaction flourish on […]
UNA SALA DA TÈ D’ECCEZIONE IN CINA
Cina – Anji Anji è una città nella provincia di Zhejiang rinomata per il bambù. Da diversi anni la Cina sostiene lo sviluppo economico locale dall’elevata qualità ecologica. Hatch Architects, fondato a Londra, ha creato una sala da tè e due padiglioni utilizzando materiali tradizionali della regione. Un tempo magazzino, questo nuovo e raffinato luogo […]
LA STONE HOUSE, BELLEZZA MODERNISTA
Messico – Monterrey Taller ADG firma una superba casa modernista in Messico in un gioco di volumi ispirato agli elementi dell’emblematico architetto Luis Barragán. La Stone House (Casa de Piedra), adagiata su una collina, offre una vista panoramica di Monterrey, in Messico. Volumi di spazi, geometrie e sovrapposizioni di muri, riflessi e suoni di specchi […]
YUNI YOSHIDA, IN WONDERLAND
Her universe virtuously intertwines pop culture and surrealism in a palette of bright colors that leave room for all sorts of details, inviting the viewer to look closely. Even closer. Artist, photographer, and art director Yuni Yoshida has been creating visual works for over fifteen years in a wide range of fields, such as cosmetic […]
UNA CASA CAMOUFLAGE IN INDIA
India – Shoolagiri Lo studio Wallmakers dimostra attraverso la Chuzhi House, situata nella comunità privata di Sanctity Farm nel cuore della pittoresca città di Shoolagiri in India, che è possibile costruire su terreni difficili, insoliti e non sempre favorevoli. Il credo del suo fondatore Vinu Daniel? Architettura camouflage. Qui la struttura dell’edificio rimane nascosta, fondendosi […]
L’ARCHITETTURA IN DIALOGO CON LA NATURA
Messico – Brisas Marqués Questa dimora originale sorge a Brisas Marqués, un quartiere residenziale in una delle penisole che circondano la tradizionale baia di Acapulco e quella di Puerto Marqués nello stato di Guerrero, in Messico. Opera dello studio di architettura di Gabriela Carrillo, la Casa de Piedra si trova su un secolare deposito di […]
JAMES TURRELL AND LALIQUE : LIGHT AS MATERIAL
Seeking to create “an architecture of space” with light, James Turrell conducts his explorations on a large scale. For the first time, he has taken up the game of small dimensions by collaborating with the crystal factory founded by René Lalique, “the sculptor of light.” In homage to the landscapes of the American West, where […]
THE SURREALIST IMAGERY OF MICHAL ZAHORNACKY
The Slovakian photographer explores the multiple possibilities of portraiture and architecture in pictures where conceptual art and surrealism impose themselves between colour and black and white. Michal Zahornacky places his work between reality and fiction. The eclecticism of his images invites us into highly imaginative visual narratives. Originally from Povazska Bystrica in Slovakia, this lifelong […]
PAUL STRAND, THE PURE LINE
What do the poignant face of Blind Woman photographed on a New York street in 1916 have in common with the tightly framed round of bowls taken from above to compose Abstraction in the same year? Between the verticality of the lines traced by the monumental façades and the tiny silhouettes of Wall Street emerging […]
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 […]
DANIEL ARSHAM’S TIME TRAVELS ON DISPLAY AT THE PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM IN LOS ANGELES
A true darling of contemporary art, the American artist Daniel Arsham has forged an inimitable language: that of erosion, ruin, the passing of time and history. A great lover of cars, but also of archaeology, this native of Cleveland invites himself for an exhibition in the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. On the program? […]
THE ILLUSTRATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL BOUM
France – Paris Behind Emmanuel Boum’s lens, there is a great sensitivity nourished by stories from his childhood and references to art that invite the viewer to discover poetic and amusing photographs playing between black and white, pop colors, and vintage for a journey through time. Painter, athlete, producer, art director, and photographer, […]
WILLIAM EGGLESTON, AND COLOUR WAS
C/O Berlin presents “Mystery of the Ordinary,” a major retrospective of William Eggleston, one of the American masters of color photography. “At dusk, the shadows of plants grow mysteriously along the wall of the house. In front of this shadow theatre stands a metallic lilac Cadillac, on the glossy paintwork where the last rays of […]
THE FREE APPROACH OF MISHA KAHN
Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Misha Kahn likes to tell stories through the shapes and colors of his designs. From his current New York studio, this young designer, who received a BFA in furniture design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011, thinks and imagines pieces that are close to modern sculpture. Using a […]
THE SURREALIST IMAGERY OF MICHAL ZAHORNACKY
Slovakia – Povazska Bystrica The Slovakian photographer explores the multiple possibilities of portraiture and architecture in pictures where conceptual art and surrealism impose themselves between colour and black and white. Michal Zahornacky places his work between reality and fiction. The eclecticism of his images invites us into highly imaginative visual narratives. Originally […]
SHAPE FOR COMFORT
First produced in 2009 by Big Game for the French publisher Moustache, the Bold chair has become an icon of contemporary furniture over the years, thanks to a clever collaboration between the Swiss creative studio, a Belgian company, and a sock manufacturer, making these steel tubes a key design element. The chair, made of […]
SAEROM YOON, OR THE PRAISE OF THE CELESTIAL VAULT
As an artist based in Seoul in South Korea, it is in nature that Saerom Yoon draws his inspiration. Thus, he says he is particularly hypnotized by the appearance of the ice of a glacier, the bark of a tree, but also the surface of the water or the interaction of clouds. Aesthetics and sensations […]
GIUSEPPE VERDI’S OPERA RIGOLETTO REVISITED BY PIERRE YOVANOVITCH
Residential, hotel, and commercial projects, ranging from the Coucou in Méribel, to a penthouse in Tel Aviv, to a 17th-century castle in Provence. The only thing missing from Pierre Yovanovitch’s portfolio was a trophy for the performing arts. The French interior architect, who is passionate about opera, has just designed his very first collaboration with […]
ANNELISE MICHELSON PUTS WOMEN IN THE SPOTLIGHT
In the 8th arrondissement of Paris, Annelise Michelson invites passers-by to discover a world full of curves through sculptures and pieces developed in collaboration with the “Esprit du Patrimoine Vivant” workshop in Vanves. She proposes a journey through femininity, curves, and the nervousness of taut lines as a poetic break in the frenzy of the […]
MARC NEWSON RETURNS TO HIS ROOTS
The Australian avant-garde designer based in the United Kingdom is inviting himself to the French capital for an exhibition at the Gagosian gallery until 18 March, at 9 rue de Castiglione in Paris, presenting a collection of limited-edition furniture. Among the works presented, the curious will discover “Cloisonné White and Blue Lounge” and “Cloisonné White […]
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 […]