Looks like Magic: Textile Clay by Jorge Penadés.Madrid-based designer and materials-alchemist-extraordinaire Jorge Penadés is back with a new material made out of textile waste and starch. His new research-driven project, dubbed Looks like Magic, utilises industrial textile “fluff”...
Finding Beauty in Decay: Unnatural Practice by Marcin Rusak.Making his Milan debut with a bang, Unnatural Practice showcased Marcin Rusak’s most recent works together with archival and “in progress” pieces that inform the studio’s ongoing research. Expertly curated by Federica Sala, this...
Boxen, New Gallery Space at ArkDes in Stockholm by Dehlin BrattgĂĄrd Arkitekter.Boxen is a studio gallery at ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm, completed in 2018 by locals Dehlin BrattgĂĄrd Arkitekter. The space is contained within a steel box structure set in the middle of one of two...
Suzanne Jongmans Uses Waste Materials to Recreate Dutch Renaissance.Suzanne Jongmans takes her inspiration from the old Dutch masters, the painters of the past, specifically focusing on the 15th, 16th and 17th century. Rembrandt, Holbein the Younger and Rogier van der Weyden - you’ll find references to...
3-8 Installation by Leopold Banchini & Laure Jaffuel at Centre Pompidou in Paris.Earlier this year, Swiss architect Leopold Banchini installed a permanent educational space in one of the Centre Pompidou’s exhibition rooms in Paris. Dubbed 3-8, the installation is designed to host dialogues between art and industries,...
Martin Jonsson’s Surreal & Enigmatic Oil Paintings.Stockholm-born Ă…kersberga-based artist Martin Jonsson has taken a nebulous theme and applied it to his subjects, putting a whole new spin on having your head in the clouds. Cumulus engulfs his solitary subjects, their puffy, cotton-like...
Door Frames Reimagined Into Furniture Pieces by Femme Atelier.Traditional door and window frames seem like a fairly humdrum source of creativity, but with a dreamy gelato colour palette, clean lines, and iridescent panes layered with gradient colour, Femme Atelier's Framemust series is anything but...
Antoni Clavé Archives in Paris by Kengo Kuma.Paper is perhaps the very last material one would think of when approaching a project of architecture, but this is precisely the material Kengo Kuma and Associates have turned to when designing a private museum in Paris to house the...
Rust Harvest: Experimental Materials Project by Yuma Kano.Rust Harvest by Japanese designer Yuma Kano is a fascinating experimental materials project that really caught my attention during our visit to Salone Satellite 2018. Young Japanese designer Yuma Kano highlights that the prevention of...
