// 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 …
// Restaurant / Paris / Interior Design
The name may suggest otherwise, but there’s not an inch of azure in sight at Monsieur Bleu.
// Retail / Berlin / Interior Design / Product Design
The Hacke und Spitze store in Berlin’s Kreuzberg resembles a ballroom, but, in this case, it’s the furniture that does the …
// Architecture / Slovenia
Architecture is sometimes as challenging as the function it will serve.
// Fair / Trade-Fair Stand / Sunday books
Lenka Křemenová and David Maštálka of A1 Architects appeared in Grand Stand 4 with a colourful and playful exhibition stand. …
// Retail / Paris / Interior Design
Stylist Gordana Dimitrijevic’s first Parisian boutique, located in the city’s 6th arrondissement, is the handiwork of Manuel …
// Architecture / Photography / Interior Design / Culture / Art & Culture / Best Reads
This week we read about cartoonists's inventions, the ICP Triennial, Charles Correa, the Vatican's first participation at …
// Restaurant / Spain
Due to their previous successful collaborations, El Equipo Creativo created a third restaurant interior for Albert and Ferran …
// Fair / Product Design
Canadian brand Castor will launch two lighting products during the ICFF, which opens tomorrow in New York City.
// Sculpture / Belgium / Contemporary Art
“Soft Cockney” is Spanish artist Enrique Marty’s fourth solo exhibition at Deweer Gallery in Belgium. Through his …
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 …
