Designed by the Florentine architecture practice Pierattelli Architetture, the future electricity converter substation pays homage to the Tuscan countryside, merging into the colors of the nature …
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Moët & Chandon taps Yoon – AMBUSH Creative Director – for its first-ever global product collaboration. The international fashion designer will create a limited-edition bottle of Moët Impérial in support of a charitable cause …
In this interview, the owners of im Kinsky – Michael Kovacek & Dr. Ernst Ploil – look back on a challenging year and offer exciting insights into the future of the art market …
The small piece of rock just off New York City has a dark history that has earned it the name Rat Island. But now the private island is to play host to a sustainable luxury resort …
What do you think of wine as an investment? Does it make sense? THE Stylemate asked two wine merchants in Vienna who were bound to know. They explained to us why wine is first and foremost a passion and treated with awe and humility, and why all roads lead to Burgundy …
Interview with the Contemporary Art experts Astrid Pfeiffer and Timea Pinter about the Phantastic Realists – Hutter, Hausner & Co.
Stefanie Hering, porcelain designer and founder of the Hering Berlin manufactory, and Wilhelm Seibel, owner and managing director of the legendary Pott cutlery manufactory, have known and appreciated each other since 1995. Now the idea of a cooperation has become reality …
This year, the award for the promotion of young artists, endowed with 10,000 euros, will be presented for the 5th time.
The exhibition of this year’s award winner Hugo Canoilas can be seen at the mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna until April 5, 2021 …
Just like the hydrangeas in Olga Wisinger-Florian’s work that went under the hammer in the most recent auction at the im Kinsky, the art market is blooming even in this period of crisis. We cast a glance behind the scenes of the Viennese auction house …
Wenn das kein Grund zum Feiern ist: Der Gewürztraminer Nussbaumer 2018 der Kellerei Tramin erhielt vom führenden italienischen Wein-Guide Gambero Rosso die Höchstnote „Tre Bicchieri“ (Drei Gläser) und liefert damit eine Sensation. Es handelt sich nämlich um die zwanzigste Drei-Gläser-Auszeichnung in Folge …
In the picturesque village of Pürgg, high above the Ennstal valley and with a population of just 150, time seems to stand still. Austrian poet Peter Rosegger described the idyllic spot as the “cradle of Styria”, and it’s where we discover a restaurant and guesthouse with centuries-old character that is still evident today …
The most ambitious building project in human history has been launched. Architecture office BIG, construction company ICON and NASA plan to build the first settlement on the moon using 3D printing technologies. The name of their mission: Project Olympus …
In this exclusive feature for THE Stylemate, interior style expert, Melissa Pyell, shares her Top 10 European Seating Introductions of 2020 …
Although we live in a materialistic world, “things” have a surprisingly bad reputation: they are seen as dead and soulless, and inferior to the organic world of plants, animals and humans in every respect. Anyone devoting themselves too enthusiastically to “things” is quickly suspected of being superficial. You might find that somewhat hypocritical considering we all invest a lot of energy in the quest for beautiful and valuable things, and in order to buy them we have to earn that thing called money…
Artist Martin Grandits is known as the “King of Irony”, and gives things like food, logos and beer garden benches a whole new meaning. We talk to him about value and being valued in life and in art.
As the world’s leading manufacturer and distributor of innovative surfaces for architecture and design, Cosentino is launching the Silestone® Loft collection, a new series of five colors inspired by the Industrial Style …
Michael Kovacek is one of the founders of the Viennese auction house im Kinsky and, as he will tell you himself, has dedicated himself “body and soul” to art. We discuss the thrill of the auctions, the passion for collecting and why record prices are always worthy of making the headlines …