14/05/2020 architecture & interior
Shortlisted in the 2019 Houses Awards, the Superba Entrance Courtyard in Sydney is an exemplary use of space to transform an environment. Ushering in a new lease cool green, Abbye Churchill talks us through the vigorous earthy tones and sculptural plantation.
Read more 06/05/2020 architecture & interior design & fashion
The limitless ability of Carlo Mollino is what separates him from other designers of the mid-century era of utopian visions. A renaissance man whose oeuvre embraced the cultural and technological world, he grew to become a symbolic part of Turin's architectural and interior design landscape. Look back at his legacy on what would have been his birthday.
Read more 28/04/2020 architecture & interior visual culture
Architectural and interior dreams of the world's leading digital creators are creating a new design language bound to utopian hopes and surreal visuals. In the preface of the book, Rosie Flanagan discusses how the digital world is liberating perceptions of what is possible in the physical realm.
Read more 23/04/2020 architecture & interior
With a lucid painting style that plays on climatic atmospheres and contrasting shadows, Marc Martin makes the ordinary, extraordinary. By combining hand-drawn and digital techniques, his style is reminiscent of masters from the 1960s. After illustrating the cover of Do You Read Me?, we speak to Martin about independent bookstore culture.
Read more 15/04/2020 architecture & interior
The 1950s were all about optimism, a postwar carpe diem. Design icon George Nakashima was a progressive master of architecture and interior. Known for crossing over modern societal visions with Japanese craftsmanship, he championed a futuristic concept of living treasured by his peers. Step into his New Hope studio as featured in Inside Utopia.
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The mid-century modernism movement took hold of Los Angeles like no other place in the United States. Houses were made translucent, the focus shifted from the street to the backyard. Abbye Churchill takes us into a Californian garden that creates seamless transitions between environments. A tranquil, yet wild nature in the heart of a thumping city.
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