Les Maîtres du Désordre Exhibition
by Jakob + MacFarlane
// Exhibition / Paris
Les maîtres du désordre (Masters of Chaos) exhibition boasts an idiosyncratic scenography that reflects the show’s subject …
// Exhibition / Paris
Les maîtres du désordre (Masters of Chaos) exhibition boasts an idiosyncratic scenography that reflects the show’s subject …
At the River of Paradise stand in Via Tortona during Milan’s Salone last month, Cotto presented its new tiles collection, …
For its new European flagship shop, Levi’s has created a retail experience centred around more than just denim.
Amsterdam-based UNStudio has revealed its design for the new central train station of the Dutch town Arnhem.
// Installation / Video / New York / Sculpture
Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg uses sculpture and claymation to create disturbing universes populated by grotesque human beings …
If a traditional apothecary could be interpreted into a 21st century space, the result would surely be (Malin+Goetz)’s new Los …
// Facade / Competition / Public Building / China
Shanghai-based architecture firm Kokaistudios has won a competition to realize the Tsinghua University Law Library in Beijing.
// Restaurant / China / Salon
Reflective partitions, mirrors and hanging lights make a restaurant and salon in Shenzhen, China, a total maze to navigate.
A proposed design for a pair of skyscrapers in Seoul, South Korea, will be the physical interpretation of the project’s fierce …
// Installation / Lighting / Germany
A series of white elastic strings pulled across the interior of a container ship formed the aptly-named Resonate installation, an …
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Elephant #10 explores how visual artists are using new strategies and approaches in making art. Drawing is being transformed from ‘a means to an end’ to ‘an end in itself,’ as artists shift lines away from their sketchbooks and move them onto an epic scale. The notion of the heroic painter mutates into that of the dauntless draftsman (not exclusively male). Meanwhile, Stan Douglas revisits key turns in the history of photography, questioning the …