In fashion, there are designers’ designers. In architecture, there are architects’ architects – those people whose names hardly sound familiar to the general public, but whom the industry follows closely.
This spring Ann Demeulemeester will release her third collaboration with the Belgian houseware company Serax.
It is my humble opinion, that as far as the brand-building exercise goes, the skincare brand Aesop should be in every marketing textbook, though marketing is the last thing Aesop stands for.
Since the publication of his first book Vincent Van Duysen: Complete Works in 2010, the prodigious Belgian architect has been busy.
When you talk to the Canadian architect Philipp Beesley, a long time collaborator of the designer Iris van Herpen, you must rewire yourself. Beesley talks in abstractions – instead of walls and floors and ceilings, you get planes, and motion, and thermodynamics. This isn’t because he’s trying to obfuscate anything, it’s just the way his mind works. In a way it’s a requirement for Beesley, because he has moved on past the traditional architecture of making buildings, which he has done exceedingly well in his career. Instead he creates spaces and environments that operate on a level above the basic requirements of architecture, such as protection from the elements. It’s not that it’s not his concern, but these problems have been thoroughly solved. Instead, he’s more concerned how space interacts with human beings on a philosophical level – freedom, community, interaction. Abstraction is the language that’s required.
Chances are you have not heard of Studio KO unless you keep a very close ear to the ground when it comes to architecture.
Norlan, co-founded by designer Sruli Recht, is releasing their third product, Norlan Glass VAILD, a matte black whiskey glass.
For those who have established a certain aesthetic direction of taste the world becomes smaller and more intimate.
Up on the 2nd floor of a Wooster Street loft building The New York Earth Room by Walter De Maria bides its time, with hardly a building placard to announce its presence among the retail shops of Soho.
Interviewing the founder of a grooming brand, now that’s something I would have never thought I would do.