Cultural Calendar
Current
Casa Mutina
Mutina has opened its first space in the heart of Milan, designed by Patricia Urquiola. With Casa Mutina, the company gets closer to the nerve centres of design and comes into direct […]
Current
Minia Biabiany, Musa Nuit
La Verrière Brussel
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Thomas Demand, “House of Cards”
In the autumn of 2020, M is presenting a major solo exhibition of Thomas Demand’s work, with a focus on his relationship to architecture. Spread across three rooms, M is exhibiting his […]
Current
The Eye of the Storm
Blitz Valletta has launched a new website with a platform called OPEN. “The Eye of the Storm” is Blitz’s first online exhibition featuring videos and films by seven international artists and […]
Current
Sincere Intentions
For the first time Robert Grunenberg Gallery in Berlin is showing the core gallery program with their four artists Stefan Knauf, Brandon Lipchik, Sonja Yakovleva and Jan Zöller all together. Along with […]
Current
Serial Eater, food design stories
Designed by the curator Benjamin Stoz, the exhibition at the CID – centre d’innovation et de design at the Grand-Hornu analyses thirty years of experimentation and reflections around the subject of “food as an object”. […]
Long Reads
Locating Design
KIM1995: staying put
“Do you really need to fly to talk to your colleagues?” According to the Caribbean artist and designer KIM1995, the answer is no. In the era of digital communication, in which information moves quickly, KIM1995 has decided to practice a concept she calls “Sustainable Immobility.” So as not...
REM KOOLHAAS’ RURAL SUBLIME
Or the capitalist industrialization of the countryside
Countryside, The Future at New York’s Guggenheim sees the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas heading out of the cities for new pastures. But in a show that he describes as being about sociology, anthropology and politics, is its meaning or relevance like trying to find a needle in a haystack?
Domestic Chaos
What’s so great about streamlining?
Imagine if Albert Einstein had lived with the queen of decluttering Marie Kondo. A slight tension might have arisen when, in between Kondo organising categories of joyful order, Einstein was wandering around the house muttering his oft-quoted remark, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered...
Research & Realities
Rudbish
A conceptual visualization of waste finding it’s way back onto your place. The project by chef and designer Diedriek Schneemann and photographer Aldwin van Krimpen responds to the Nature/Nurture theme […]
A Labour of Love
Fashion designer Kris Van Assche of Berluti and gallery owner François Laffanour discovered a shared passion for the furniture Pierre Jeanneret designed for Chandigarh. With their joint skills coming together, a limited edition collection has restored and revived the originals.
Domesticated Enclosures
The Great Wall of China. The Garden of Eden. The Berlin Wall. The Maginot Line. The Atlantic Wall. The Walls of Constantinople. The Western Wall. And if he has his way, Trump’s dream of a "big, beautiful wall" between the US and Mexico. All these walls individually present their own division bet...
Productivity
Woods by Fantoni and Metrica
From the partnership between Fantoni and Metrica comes Woods, an innovative, contemporary and versatile design.
Wireflow for Vibia
At La Parisienne Assurances offices in Paris, Studio Razavi Architects devised a playful, adaptive design to meet the versatile needs of the customer.
Knoll and Antenna Design
Knoll’s Antenna Workspaces, designed by Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa, is a composition of floating planes and refined details. Masamichi studied at Cranbrook, the cradle of 20th century modernism, which […]
Claesson Koivisto Rune at Faciem, Tokyo
Presented during the Designart Festival in Tokyo 2017, the exhibition Faciem – In search of the essence of the grid, saw Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune select and interpret what […]