Aesop Shibuya by Torafu Architects
A Store that Makes the Most of its Small Proportions
Torafu Architects transformed this slender interior on Meiji Street in Shibuya for Australian skincare brand Aesop.
Torafu Architects transformed this slender interior on Meiji Street in Shibuya for Australian skincare brand Aesop.
The three-dimensional artistic walls of Italian company 3D Surface create infinite surfaces, without interruption or joints.
// 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 …
// London / Painting / Contemporary Art
Flowers Gallery celebrates the 80th birthday of London artist Bernard Cohen with an exhibition of his intensely coloured, …
// Installation / Video
You can’t get something for nothing, or can you? That’s the question raised by Jelle Mastenbroek’s Splendour Lender.
// Sculpture / Contemporary Art / Denmark
The American artist Tara Donovan once said of her vision to “be an alchemist and to transcend the material”. Her most recent …
// Retail / France / Interior Design
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 …
