MAC COLLINS’ NARRATIVE DESIGN

Mac Collins

At just 26 years old, Britain’s Mac Collins has made his mark on the spirit of the new Saltzman Prize. This new initiative in partnership with the Design Museum in London celebrates the innovation of emerging designers in recognition of the legacy of designer Ralph Saltzman. It’s no surprise that Mac Collins is the recipient […]

Fomes: when the mushroom is pretending to be a deer 

Fome

Used in the handicrafts of eastern Transylvania, tinder has found a new life in the hands of designer Mari Koppanen. Traditionally used for its resemblance to suede, treated and used in the manufacture of bags and hats, this strange material is now invited into the furniture collection “Fomes.” It consists of two seats with generous […]

Discovering the pop and naive sculptures of Léa Mestres 

Léa Mestres

The style of the young designer, a graduate of the ESAD in Reims and the Design School Academy of Eindhoven, is far removed from the industrial rigidity that has come to characterize 20th-century design. To serve her vision, Léa Mestres has taken everyday objects and turned them into real sculptures with soft and enveloping forms. […]

 Connie-Connie, the Danish café with 25 stools 

Connie-Connie

To design its café, the Danish gallery Copenhagen Contemporary called on the TABLEAU studio. They also utilized other talents to design the seating for Connie-Connie: 25 artists, architects, and designers, both established and emerging, designed their own chair and bench for the establishment. The special thing about these pieces is that they were all made […]

 Luteca. When Mexican design comes to Paris

Luteca

While the focus is on Italian and Scandinavian design, Luteca has fallen in love with the Mexican and Latin American scene. Since its inception in 2015 in New York, the gallery has confirmed the richness of this still-undiscovered artistic sphere. A publisher of furniture designed by great masters of the 20th century, the company surrounds […]

 Gal Gaon’s sculptural design

Gal Gaon

Trained in architecture, it is with the eye of an artist that the Israeli designer, Gal Gaon, imagines his pieces. His tables, desks, and benches subtly navigate between the organic forms of sculpture and the functional structure of furniture. Nature is at the center of his creations. Each piece is unique, carved, and manufactured in […]

 Design in Belgium: three new places to discover in 2022 

Design

From the museum to the coffee shop, design invites itself in Belgium in all spaces. A creative emulation that Acumen magazine reveals to you through three new locations to visit … without delay! The Faina showroom in Antwerp Founded in 2006 by Ukrainian architect Victoria Yakusha, Faina is a multidisciplinary studio rooted in the country’s […]

Discover the Repossi boutique at Place Vendôme

Repossi

The House of Fine Jewelry opened in 1986, the year Gaia Repossi was born. It is nestled at 6 Place Vendôme. In 2016, the artistic director decided to rethink the boutique as a unique piece of high jewelry. She entrusted the design to Rem Koolhaas and the firm OMA. As with her creations, she breaks […]

A history of fashion. Collecting, exhibiting at the Palais Galliera

Veja

In its new exhibition, the Palais Galliera takes us into a waking dream. The visitor marvels at the treasures of the Fashion Museum of the City of Paris. Along the way, you will discover pieces by genius designers such as Alexander McQueen. Each garment has its own era and history. These archive pieces are real […]

Focus on the most desirable capsule of the moment: Veja x Marni

Veja

When the Italian DNA mixes with that of the French label, the result is more than artistic. The Veja brand of ecological sneakers that supports many associations in Brazil and France has collaborated with the Italian luxury house Marni. Ecology and colors are the key words of this capsule. Each shoe has been assembled one […]

 Perfume trends from 1990 to today 

Parfum

The exuberance of the 80s is followed by the ambivalence of the 90s, between pleasure and purity. Marketing and globalization permeate the following decades. A context in the shadow of which emerges the niche perfumery.  Ecology, AIDS… In search of purity, the 90s saw the birth of a serene sensuality, far from the exacerbated sensuality […]

 Sheltersuit: “People Helping People”

Sheltersuit

Vertiginous heels, mini-skirts much too tight, belts that cut off breathing; the idea that a piece of clothing can save a life has never crossed our minds. However, it finally popped into Bas Timmer’s head eight years ago when he learned that the homeless father of one of his friends had frozen to death. While […]

 AESOP: SENSORY PLEASURES

aesop

Aésop was founded to create a complete range of skin, hair, and body-care products based on laboratory-developed botanical ingredients with proven effectiveness. An Australian brand born in 1987, the company has built its reputation on the manufacturing excellence of its products and the pleasure they bring to their users. Present throughout the world, Aésop seduces […]

Fromental dresses the walls

fromental

Founded in 2005 by Tim Butcher and Lizzie Deshayes, the London-based company creates wallpaper using traditional techniques that have been preserved in China’s Wuxi region, the heart of the silk industry. It is there that their designs are painted and embroidered by hand. In addition to the traditional 18th-century chinoiseries, which have earned them the […]

Air Yacht: who has never wanted to travel in a flying boat? 

Air Yatch

The future is sometimes unpredictable… What if the yacht of tomorrow was in the air? A businessman living in Germany and Italian designer Pierpaolo Lazzarini want to combine the DNA of an airship and a luxury boat to make the most unique private transportation of all time. Equipped with solar panels and eight counter-rotating electric […]

 IRO : Japanese design through the prism of colors

IRO

In the Land of the Rising Sun, colors (iro) have been used to mark rank and social hierarchy since the 7th century. Since then, these chromatic meanings have evolved and have been extended to several types of objects. This book, written by Rossella Menegazzo, a specialist in photography, graphic design, and Japanese art, published by […]

James Tralie, director of nostalgia 

James Tralie

Marseille, nature, and nostalgia. These are the three elements that animate the work of American James Tralie. The young artist’s digital worlds have been noticed on Instagram, invaded by water and vegetation. His creativity is inspired by his stay in the Phocaean city during his studies and catalyzed by the confinement imposed by Covid-19, during […]

 Mès Lesne. The cry of the horn

Mès Lesne

It is with dance, this body language, that Mès Lesne frees his spirit. Inspired by flamenco and urban dance, he has developed a unique style, with powerful energy and an unidentifiable identity, which he brings to its peak in his first choreographic film “Cor.” Rencontre. Who are you? I am a dancer and choreographer. At […]

 LE FRESNOY / COLLECTION PINAULT : So far

Jusque-là

“Do works of art have the power to modify, by displacing them, our points of view on the contemporary world?” Such is the problematic, eminently political question posed by this exhibition, exploring the impact (visual and environmental, ecological and ethical) of images made by artists to allow us to see the world, such as they […]

NATHALIE DU PASQUIER  

NATHALIE DU PASQUIER

Elementary colors, elementary forms, flattened spaces, confusion between form and substance, space and object, base and work, art and design… It is to a clever mixture of genres and a joyful mishmash of forms that Nathalie Du Pasquier, since the 1980s, likes to confront us in upside down spaces. For the French artist and designer, […]

 CAT LORAY / CLÉMENT BORDERIE : Between two

CLEMENT BORDERIE

“Making the invisible visible”, showing the imprint of time by capturing on blank canvases stretched over matrices installed in nature the micro-organisms deposited by the wind and rain by leaves, dust, insects… Resulting from a slow process based on the concept of “laissez-faire”, Clément Borderie ‘s canvas-pieces give abstraction the density of life. In her […]

 LORIS CECCHINI : Non-elementary particles

LORIS CECCHINI

Loris Cecchini, a leading artist born in 1969 in Milan, explores in a playful and highly decorative way “a reconfiguration of our sense of space and our contact with the environment”. A “reconfiguration” which, on the first floor of the iconic sailboat-shaped tower rising above the artificial sands of Dubai, in the Pop-Up exhibition space […]

MICHAEL HEIZER : The lyricism of the masses

With an assertive anti-academism, replacing the elaborate, polished, finely sculpted work with earth or raw stone, and the grace and lightness required since Antiquity with the mass and chaos of voids, the vertigo and dichotomy of spaces, Michael Heizer shows us the clash of the Titans, that of stone against steel, in Rock/Steel, a series […]

 YAZUAKI ONISHI : Hidden Landscapes

YASUAKI ONISHI

To “capture the void,” “to seize the reverse side of the matter,” such are the stakes of the spectacular work of the Japanese artist Yasuaki Onishi, born in 1979 in Osaka, where he lives and works to reverse our vision of the world, to allow us to “look at it from a different point of […]