A personal review of design creations
#BrickWeek 2 - Roly-Poly Cotto By StudioVASE
Seoul can wrongly be categorised as another heartless metropole. It has a discreet charm with plenty of little gems for the visitor (or resident) that knows and takes time to explore. Here is a new one for your list.
Season Two, Episode Four: Roly-Poly Cotto
#BrickWeek 2 - The Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl’s School
‘The one who teaches is the giver of eyes’ says an Indian proverb. In a desert region of Rajastan, 400 girls can now go to school until class 10 and soon be able to also enjoy a performance and art centre and cooperative for local artisans.
Season Two, Episode Three: The Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl’s School
#BrickWeek 2 - Bricks Berlin Schöneberg
In Germany, building with bricks is nothing new. But in Berlin Schöneberg, there are two new buildings that bring a flavour of Brick Expressionism back in town.
Season 2, Episode Two: Bricks Berlin Schöneberg
#BrickWeek 2 - Sforza House
Just a year ago, I launched the first edition of the #Brickweek, celebrating this building material so often disregarded but which is nevertheless the basis of all sedentary civilisations.
Here is a new series of five articles proving, if it was still necessary, the versatility of brick for projects of luxury hotels up to a bush school.
Season Two, Episode One - Sforza House in Mexico
Phillips Design Auction New York - June 2021
The calendar of design auctions is now also back to normal and before the Summer break, here is one at Phillips New York.
Architecture & Design At La Bourse De Commerce—Pinault Collection
Before becoming a new temple for contemporary art, the Bourse de Commerce building had many lives and its history goes all the way back the 16th century. Let’s look back in time and discover the great contemporary transformation of the place.
La Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection (finally) opens its doors
All good things happen to those who wait. That must be a speciality in France when it comes to private initiatives to set up and open a new museum. This week opens a brand new and beautiful project developed since 2006 by François Pinault.
DZign 2020+1, The First Algerian-French Design Biennale
Initially planned a year ago, the first design biennale to ‘rethink the city’ in the capital of Algiers is finally going ahead, and set to take place from 27 May 2021.
Vaarnii: Brutally Finnish
Finland is a country of contrasts where the snowy white mixes with greenish forests, where typically urban-based technologies are based in the middle of the countryside… Vaarnii, a new furniture brand, takes its DNA from wood, that material that has shaped Finland’s economy, lifestyle and culture.