Stories On Design // Hospitality & Event Pop-Ups. Gone are the days when Event Pop-Ups were simply clever PR stunts or an excuse for mediocre premises that have been knocked up by someone’s handy uncle who can cunningly transform Bunning’s chipboard into bench seats. Add a coupla...
‘Plastic Ocean’ by Thirza Schaap. Dutch artist Thirza Schaap has an altruistic purpose behind her fragile and beautiful art pieces. She wants to draw attention to the pollution in the world’s oceans. More specifically, she wants to draw attention to the phenomenal levels...
Design Food: Culinary Architecture. Food is a real catalyst for imagination and creativity. As such, it has always had a fundamental relationship with design and the arts. It’s something I’ve personally drawn inspiration from for various reasons. Along with design, food...
Memphis Design Meets Ornate 18th-Century Parisian Apartment. The home of French designer and architect Charles Zana is teaming with art and furniture from the Memphis Movement and in particular work by its founder Ettore Sottsass. Charles Zana has a deep admiration for the radical Italian...
‘Slow Graffiti’ Installation by Alex Da Corte at Vienna Secession. American artist Alex Da Corte creates videos, sculptures, paintings, and immersive installations with a striking cinematic quality. Exploring the formal potential of artefacts of consumer culture, Da Corte twists their immediate...
Fetish Light & Terracotta Furniture by Chris Wolston. If you’ve been hankering for a hand-thumbed, terracotta seat with built in pot plant, look no further - Chris Wolston is your man. Wolston's work comes from the Colombian hand made methods of the local artisans. He was exposed to the...
Contemporary Irish Artist & Light Sculptor Niamh Barry. These incredible interlocking bronze forms are the work of renowned contemporary artist and light sculptor Niamh Barry. Her work, which often incorporates light, centres on ‘the line’ – its balance, movement and dynamism....
Semi Precious Stone Sculptures by Nevine Mahmoud. It is an art to take a material that is cold and inflexible, hard and uncompromising and make it bend to your will. Michelangelo managed to tame marble and stone but mostly mere mortals end up submitting to the will of the material. Think...
Nobu Downtown, New York City by David Rockwell. After 23 years, Nobu Tribeca closed to make way for a new flagship – Nobu Downtown – set in a landmark building in New York City's Financial...
