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The Great Indoors Award 2013
Frame is now welcoming submissions for the fourth edition of the international biennial interior-design award, The Great Indoors.
Frame is now welcoming submissions for the fourth edition of the international biennial interior-design award, The Great Indoors.
// Book / Frame Magazine / Mark Magazine / Elephant Magazine
It’s the first day of Frame’s annual summer sale: the perfect chance to get your hands on some great additions to your …
// Event / Architecture / Lecture / Switzerland / Contemporary Art / Basel
How does today’s ‘architect that makes everything’ differ from the ‘master builder’ of the past? That was the central …
// Painting / Contemporary Art / Beijing
Chinese painter Wang Xingwei has said of his artistic vision: “I see the artist as a postman, delivering letters. He should not …
// Furniture / Product Design
Starting later this month and running for two weeks, New Designers 2013 will showcase work from over 3000 of the UK’s design …
// Installation / London / Contemporary Art
Birmingham-based artist Ruth Claxton recently opened her first solo exhibition in London. Entitled Specular Spectacular (Cheryl, …
// Exhibition / Fair / Basel
As the fun of the fair winds up over in Basel, we take you through some of the highlights from this year’s Design Miami/.
// Installation / Architecture / Photography / Interior Design / Basel / Art & Culture / Photo Essay
Here’s a selection of the finest photos that were posted on frameweb.com this week.
// Exhibition / Fair / Switzerland / Basel
At Design Miami/ Basel, seven Swiss design studios transformed disused cable-car gondolas in charming and artful ways.
// Architecture / Photography / Interior Design / Art & Culture / Best Reads
This week we read about digital art, MoMA’s exhibition of Le Corbusier’s work, Hirst’s spot paintings and NSA’s poor …
Tough times and internet shopping mean retailers must reinvent or die. This issue, Frame talks to shoe brand Camper about its three-pronged store design strategy and visits My Boon, a singular shop in Seoul that’s conceived as an interior garden – only without the plants. Then it’s back to nature with artist Paula Hayes and off to São Paulo to sample the design delights of Brazil’s biggest city.
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The past 15 years have seen architecture in Indonesia free itself from the stifling uniformity that defined it during the presidential regimes of Sukarno and Suharto. Large government-controlled architecture firms have made place for small, independent practices that are giving the country a new sense of self-confidence. This issue, Mark focuses on 14 of the nation’s newest projects. Then it’s off to China, where OMA’s stock exchange in Shenzhen has …
Elephant travels to Cape Town in the company of photographer Pieter Hugo gathering an explosive mix of writing, music, design and art, not to mention some highly original socio-political ideas and interesting anecdotes. Sue Hubbard looks at the career of South Africa's seminal artist William Kentridge, who is not the only seminal artist in this issue as we reassess the work (and colourful personality) of Maggi Hambling and visit the studio of France's …