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Diandra Donecker: Female role models in art

Aimee Shirley — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:00:45 +0000

“You would think that there are many females in the arts to look up to, but when you get higher up the ladder, you find out that most people in leadership positions are men.” For Donecker, art has always been a family affair. With her mother being an art historian, and her father studying as

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Daniel Hug, director of Art Cologne, on the Cologne art scene and the Germans’ passion for collecting

root — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 05:31:22 +0000

Daniel Hug is restless. Homeless. He’d be the first to suggest that of himself. The American with Swiss roots has moved at least seventeen times in his life, though exactly how many times he couldn’t say for sure. He grew up in Zurich. After his parents divorced, he moved to the United States with his

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Maison Kitsuné’s Gildas Loaëc

root — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 02:11:11 +0000

While some artists may be content to produce their work in isolation, leaving matters of audience and exposure to posterity, most struggle with such prosaic issues at various stages in their career. “If you have an idea and execute it, that’s still only half the work,” says Gildas Loaëc, autodidact and talent hunter. Gildas acted

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Capturing the Essence of the Individual

root — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 01:21:18 +0000

When it comes to snapshots, the highest compliment we can give to the snapper is, “You’ve really captured her.” What has been captured, exactly? Not the likeness of image, we take it for granted that the camera will do this, but the likeness of personality. This seems to us to be a somewhat magical process;

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Marc & Paola Sadler’s house of love

root — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 05:07:33 +0000

When asked when they met, Marc answers immediately “yesterday,” before jovially correcting himself, “no, twenty years ago.” An award-winning designer, Marc has sought to create technology that revolutionizes lifestyles, be it through sport, food or interiors. He realizes these works at their studio, a stone’s throw from their house in Milan’s industrial estate, Zona Tortona,

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Bolt for Bolt: Trading lightning against thread with Julius von Bismarck and Robert Vogdt

root — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 05:47:46 +0000

Julius is most famous for his creation, the “Image Fulgurator,” which covertly projects images that are only revealed when a photographer sits down to edit the photos later. His ability to bend light extends into the natural world, with a recent project taking him to the jungles of Venezuela where he was able to trap

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Publisher Ricarda Messner on the potential for alternate universes in print

root — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:17:08 +0000

Quite the contrary, they’re actually becoming both more diverse and more sophisticated. For Ricarda Messner, whose magazine Flaneur is often described with a language advocating a certain slower pace, analog and digital are far from mutually exclusive. Her new project SOFA is considered to be an empathetic zone that connects physical and digital sofas and

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Culture editor Anna Sinofzik on how shelves reveal our deepest secrets

root — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 23:31:51 +0000

But in addition to books arranged in tight rows, record players, stacked dishes, and lots of potential as room partitions, shelving units hold personal histories. Like the frames of a film, their compartments tell of lives. And like many a picture, some shelves imprint themselves on an entire life. In my mother’s bookshelves, Günther Grass’s

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FvF Christmas Pop-Up Shop

root — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 23:30:26 +0000

Already two weeks in, the store has given us the opportunity to invite our readers into our space, host workshops and present hand-picked goods true to our design roots. We’ve gathered our friends from the FvF world to curate a collection encompassing fashion, homewares, interior, with a range of holiday stationery and cards to complete

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Roman Arnold

root — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 23:00:42 +0000

As a young man, he was an enthusiastic racing cyclist, and it was his passion for bike racing that first brought him to the business. Over his last 30 years with Canyon, Arnold has built a steadily growing, internationally successful bicycle company that specializes in road bikes, used in competitions by professional Tour de France

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