Tag: design

In midtown Manhattan, where the urban landscape is rapidly densifying with ever-more luxury high rises, a narrow, 20-foot-wide lot on East 58th Street houses a slice of preserved, late-modernist spatial artistry. Nestled snugly between neighbourhood retail shops and traditional brick...

If you look carefully and very closely at Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, you will notice that the concrete exterior is not completely white.  ㅤ ㅤ The ground floor of the iconic modernist mansion in Poissy, France is indeed a beautiful saturated...

Lawrence Van Hagen has been collecting since a young age. He lives with a rotating display of his paintings, photographs and sculptures. ㅤ ㅤ The apartment is also where he runs LVH Art – an advisory service that combines his...

Whether coaxing new life from abandoned structures in expansive landscapes or drawing attention to modest urban elements, Steve Messam provokes shifts in perspective and new ways of seeing our surroundings. The County Durham-based artist creates site-specific, inflatable installations that recontextualize ruins, statues, or stately...

How many of us from an early age, in the absence of social media and the search speed we have today, enjoyed cutting and pasting images of what we liked best? So did the creative director of Bottega Veneta, Matthieu Blazy, a...

Rome, New York, Tokyo, London and Paris and are the five cities chosen by the digital artist Andrés Reisinger for his colossal artwork “Take Over”. It is a series of digital installations that go beyond time and space, invading these...

Unfinished, rupture of matter, imperfection is a stylistic hallmark launched at Milan Design Week 2023. If Daniel Arsham with Snarkitecture has been practicing it for some time and reinforces it with two new collaborations, Gufram and Nendo – creating unfinished furnishings with an impact...

The mirror is a suggestive element, often ambiguous but of great charm.  The work of Shirin Abedinirad, Iranian artist, painter and performer is infinitely exciting. Who experiences the effect of reflective surfaces. Given his origins, the artist prefers to work in...

At the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, acclaimed British architect David Adjaye has unveiled a striking triangular pavilion crafted exclusively from timber. Positioned just outside of the Arsenale Central Pavilion, the eye-catching structure is aptly titled “The Kwaee” taking its name after the word “forest” in Twi,...

After resting on the back burner for decades, Hyundai Motor Company has finally materialized its Pony Coupe concept vehicle that originated in 1974. Dreams do come true for Giorgetto Giugiaro of GFG Style – the original designer of Hyundai’s Pony Coupe who is now...