Feb 22, 2019
Aesop Opens New Store in Bath, England
As you probably know we love all things Aesop. And so every time a new store opens, we are happy to take a peek inside....
Interior Design Tag
Nov 9, 2017
Shop:Case – Ann Demeulemeester Flagship in Antwerp
It was with great trepidation that I first walked into the Ann Demeulemeester flagship store in Antwerp in 2001. It was on my first trip to Europe. I was twenty-five, and I was backpacking, reclaiming my American right of passage, about seven years too late,...
May 1, 2017
Rick Owens: Furniture Book Signing
On Saturday Rick Owens New York hosted a book signing for the designer and his wife for the recently released Rick Owens: Furniture. Below is our photo reportage from the event. Photography by Wataru Shimosato...
Apr 13, 2017
Vincenzo De Cotiis
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Design, Features/Op-Ed
There is something attractive in polymaths, namely that the way they operate bespeaks a certain unstoppable curiosity on their part, whether intellectual or artistic. ...
Nov 16, 2016
Wonderwall: Case Studies
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Design
Masamichi Katayama, the founder and principal of the Japanese interior design and architecture firm Wonderwall, turned 50 earlier this year. To celebrate his achievements, amongst which are countless retail interiors in Japan and beyond, the german publisher Gestalten released a first comprehensive monograph on Katamaya's...
Oct 19, 2015
Axel Vervoordt’s Universe
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Culture, Features/Op-Ed
I first came across the work of the Belgian art collector-dealer-interior-designer-manufacturer-real-estate-developer Axel Vervoordt when I reviewed his 2011 book, “Wabi Inspirations.” I was struck by how the interiors Vervoordt conceived reflected the beauty of simplicity, decay, and aging that are championed by the Japanese aesthetic...
Oct 14, 2015
Rick Owens Opens Los Angeles Store
The other week Rick Owens opened his first LA store inside a former ribbon factory. The 5,200-square-foot concrete, brutalist space was designed by architect Anna Tumani, a long time collaborator. Main features of the store include a fog emitting wall and a floor to ceiling tank....
May 15, 2015
LMD Studio – Rick Owens, Parts of Four, and more
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Design, Features/Op-Ed
This week at the Collective Design Fair the Polish-born, Chicago-based interior designer Lukas Machnik is presenting an array of furniture and objects from Rick Owens, Parts of Four, Lonney White III, and Phoebe Knapp. ...