// Installation / Photography / Illustration / Painting / Contemporary Art / Best Of
Charles Baudelaire once remarked: 'What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes …
The three-dimensional artistic walls of Italian company 3D Surface create infinite surfaces, without interruption or joints.
// Spain / Shop Window
ja! studio created two surprising and imaginative spring/summer window displays for Loreak Mendian’s stores in Barcelona and …
Gunilla Klingberg presents her first site-specific solo exhibition in the UK for over a decade with Parallelareal Variable, which …
// House / Architecture / Australia
A quirky, compact extension to a holiday house in Australia uses materials and site constraints to bond with the surrounding …
Torafu Architects transformed this slender interior on Meiji Street in Shibuya for Australian skincare brand Aesop.
// Bar/Club / Danish Design / Interior Design
Mikkeller & Friends is a new bar and one-stop-shop for beer lovers and design enthusiasts in Copenhagen.
// Amsterdam / Film / Contemporary Art
Upstream Gallery, which has represented Chilean artists Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña since 2010, is presenting an …
// Exhibition / Architecture / Germany
A forgotten project by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is being brought to life as part of an exhibition that will open this weekend in …
// Installation / Fair / Trade-Fair Stand
Dorrell.Ghotmeh.Tane Architects immersed visitors in a glittering snowstorm of mechanical watch parts, in an installation at last …
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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New museums keep popping up in the USA. We visit three of them: Farshid Moussavi's Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Zaha Hadid's Broad Art Museum in East Lansing and Morphosis's Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas. In the Netherlands, Ector Hoogstad gave Eindhoven University of Technology a new library and Powerhouse Company added an impressive villa to their growing portfolio. On the eve of the launch of his new feature film, Oblivion, …
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 …
