Japanese-American artist and designer Isamu Noguchi started creating the Akari Light Sculptures in the 1950s. He chose the name “akari”, a word that means “light” in Japanese, connoting both illumination and physical lightness …
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In Arles in the south of France, an old church was transformed into an art hotel. Here, the guests of the small hotel Le Collatéral become protagonists of a piece of art …
I received some incense sticks as a souvenir from our neighbour following a trip to Asia. I was eight years old at the time and they seemed infinitely precious to me. They smelt different to anything I’d encountered up until that point, and soon the whole linen cupboard where they were put smelt the same, enchanting and exotic …
Ceremonial Formality: Fashion For The Future Human Psyche
Frederik Heyman’s fashion film ‘Ceremonial Formality’ gives a glimpse into what our future psyches might be, as models and contortionists engage with–and become–machinery …
Celebrating female bodies through designer Sinéad O’Dwyer’s wearable sculptures
Directed by Rei Nadal, this fashion film captures Sinéad O’Dwyer’s wearable sculptures moulded from fibreglass, as they exaggerate and emulate the female form …
THE Stylemate knows where to find the city’s most exciting fashion labels …
A border marks the edge of an area and is therefore a dividing line or delimitation. Borders separate people, countries and thoughts. Yet even if they restrict us, we need them. Not least so that we recognise freedom …
There is a lot you could say about borders, boundaries, barriers and limits. Tree boundaries, boundless love and things like that. Yet two phenomena at the edges of my old home are what immediately come to mind, and I would like to tell you about them …
At Hotel Provocateur, guests can live unfettered by norms and rigid expectations, and simply forget time and all their responsibilities. The general manager, Julia Himburg, spoke to us about her shamelessly good hotel …
The Austrian photographer Elfie Semotan started her career in front of the camera as a model but soon discovered her passion for working behind the lens…
Bergland Design- und Wellnesshotel Sölden: Hollywood in the hills // LIFESTYLEHOTELS
James Bond actor Daniel Craig once selected Bergland Design- und Wellnesshotel Sölden as his personal retreat and a touch of Hollywood remains…
Vienna – Albrecht Dürer
Berlin – “Original Bauhaus
Miami – art district
Miami – Art Basel
19. September 2019 – 20 January 2020
A major retrospective exhibit in Düsseldorf dedicated to the designer who, with his avant-garde style, revolutionized international fashion…
The restaurant tells the story of the chefs’ journey around the world, offering a cosmopolitan and modern cuisine. Designed by the Italian Studio Vudafieri-Saverino Partners, the interior combines Asian influences with references to the great Milanese design, in a vibrant and colorful atmosphere…
Minimalists who want to spend their holidays in the nature without hut folklore, check in at the Juvet Landscape Hotel in Norway. Some consider the award-winning architecture the backdrop to a science-fiction thriller, but you do not have to be afraid here…
30 October 2019 – 18 February 2020
Louvre Abu Dhabi will present 10,000 Years of Luxury, a ground-breaking exhibition that explores the history of luxury for the first time in the Middle East…
Only the cellar remained from the forme Café Bergland of the post-war period, when the hoteliers Elisabeth and Sigi Grüner started the redesign into the design hotel in 2010 with the help of the Wimreiter architects…
Some places are right in front of our eyes but we don’t see them. Others appear unreachable and remain that way for most – and that is a good thing. Because they all tell stories that fascinate and inspire our fantasy…