flowers as a constant challenge of craftsmanship Spend enough time looking at modern craft and a pattern begins to emerge. Glassmakers, ceramicists, textile artists, paper sculptors, beaders and woodcarvers often arrive at the same theme: flowers. Henri Purnell makes delicate…
Apocalypse Day premieres today in the US – DSCENE photo Steven Spielberg returns to sci-fi with Apocalypse Daya film that arrives with all the weight of a cultural event and, at best, earns some of that anticipation. Script by David…
Step through the gate and an entire old neighborhood awaits. Homes from the 1600s to the 1940s line the lanes. Inside, the neighbors in suits live as if nothing has changed. A shopkeeper still asks to see your wartime ration.…
Born and raised in Nicaragua, Lydia Valdivia fondly remembers her childhood home. “It was colorful, textured, imperfect and full of personality,” she says. “Nothing was over-planned, but everything was intentional. I think a lot of my work today still goes…
ocean-driven circular cluster redefines energy production Designed as an entry for the prestigious Jacques Rougerie Foundation competition, the ‘Baobab Waterfall’ project by Ahmad Eghtesad is a conceptual mixed-use infrastructure proposed for its coastline Madagascar. The island is rich in natural…
David Hockney, In the Studio, December 2017, 2017, photographic design printed on 7 sheets of paper, mounted on 7 sheets of Dibond, sheet size: 109-1/2″ x 42-3/4″, each 9′ 1-1/2″ × 1-1/2″ × 1-14×4′. 760.1 cm), overall installation dimensions ©…
Some homes begin with a site visit, while others begin with a passing thought. But this work belongs entirely to serendipity. Months ago Fariz Mamedov of FM Interior Design Office officially approached to design this 150-square-meter apartment in downtown Almaty,…
Japanese interior designers have a term, mamawhich describes empty space not as absence but as active presence. It is not an abstract concept: anyone who has lived in a forty square meter apartment knows exactly what it is, even without…
issey miyake and atelier oï arrive in copenhagen In central Copenhagen during 3daysofdesign, a series of shiny fabric forms fills the white rooms of Gallery 2112. Their silhouettes shift between lamp and object, seeming almost as if gathered fabric suspended…
DJ Booth at the Dom Pérignon Event in New York with speakers from New York based Silence Please. There are product launches and then there are moments. What Dom Pérignon which went up in a private venue in New York…
