Florals…Spring…How original. ELLE Magazine confirms with their description of the 2010 runways: pretty petals—from prim jackets at Dolce & Gabbana to sexy minis at Dior. D’accord, so the colors of gloom doom and death aren’t the first choices to compliment blooming gardens and fresh air. Except that is exactly what Astrid Olsson and Lee Cotter …
Tamez Gabriel
Heard of Michael Meier? Chances are, you haven’t. It’s not a brand name and outside of the CH, you won’t place a face to the name. So why bother with a blog? Because this young Basel-based architect fresh from ETH Zurich, has a flat just soooo darned sleek, it belongs in the pages of apartamento …
Just outside of Basel is Vitra Campus. If you’re in any way involved with architecture or product design, then you know this place Weil am Rhein; more of less the chillout spot of the modern Holy Grail. The names attached to the complex are all revered – Eames, Jacobsen, Castiglioni, SANAA, Ando, Hadid, etc. The …
This duo is new; 2009 brand new. Educated at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee and groomed in the offices of Givenchy and Yurkevich, Johanna Perret and Tutia Schaad ( PERRET SCHAAD) has brought refreshing elegance back into Haute couture. This is not a showcase of frills and thrills. Recently exhibited at RENDEZ-VOUS Femme Showroom in Paris, PERRET …
Operating out of a PrenzlauerBerg Altbau, Berlin based architect and designer Jon Kleinhample is not just another design upstart. His starkly white homepage masks a series of independent and professional work with a broad range. The design project Exploding Plastic Inevitable is an exploration into the agglomeration of cellular structured spaces. Rejecting the popular trend …