Dietmar Brixy – “The Description of the World”
Parallel to the Biennale Arte 2024 – 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice 24 August to 21 September 2024 – Biblioteca Nazionale Marcian
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Das Pistohiekka Resort nach dem Entwurf von Studio Puisto erweckt eine vergessene Urlaubsdestination in Finnland zu neuem Leben. Die außergewöhnlichen Holzbauten machen den Ort auch zum architektonischen Erlebnis.
Riccardo’s Locanda al Colle in Tuscany is a Wunderkammer. The host has lovingly placed numerous furnishing treasures in his guest house, a historic farmhouse, and brought them together to create a harmonious whole. The chairs, tables and lamps come from antique markets and earlier times, from contemporary artists and old design icons, from Italy or London. Breathing new life into old objects and placing them in a new context is one of Riccardo Barsottelli’s passions. It’s worth asking where the pieces in Locanda al Colle come from and what stories they tell…
Even as a child, she was welcomed by the guests at her parents’ establishment with a glass of schnapps in their hands. As a born and bred “Puschterin” [someone from Pustertal] and with experience in hospitality, Gudrun Huber now runs the Hofergut in her South Tyrolean homeland. With a great deal of passion and enthusiasm, she looks after both her guests and the almost 1,000-year-old property. She’s like the Fairy Godmother of the building. We asked her about where the walls express their historic charm, which collector’s items are hidden here and what she takes out of the smokehouse at night, plus much more.
After extensive microsurgery, the Hotel El Palau Fugit, a former 18th century building in the Spanish city of Girona, opened its doors. Not without revealing numerous historical and contemporary treasures.
Until September 2, 2024 a set of iconic works from the Pinault Collection will be displayed throughout the Bourse de Commerce. Like a dizzying spiral within which images are generated, talk to one another, and telescope each other, they highlight François Pinault’s passion for, and commitment to, contemporary art.
NOT A HOTEL Setouchi is the unusual name for holiday homes in an equally unusual setting. The Danish studio BIG designed an exclusive resort in a Japanese national park.
The fair, scheduled to run from October 11th to 13th 2024, presents a preview of the projects from the EDIT CULT programme of disseminated exhibitions involving various symbolic locations in the city, from the Palazzo Reale to the Real Museo Mineralogico and the Ipogeo dei Cristallini.
The American Gregory Crewdson (*1962, Brooklyn) is one of the most internationally renowned photographers. Since the mid-1980s, Crewdson has been using the backdrop of small American towns and film sets to create technically brilliant and seductively colourful stagings of human loneliness and the abysses of society.
A new chapter is being opened at the Hofergut in the picturesque Pustertal Valley in South Tyrol. From now on, you can stay here in a modern ambience in a historical setting. Sounds like a contradiction? Not at all! The listed walls have been carefully brought up to date and now shine in new old splendour!
On the occasion of Louis Vuitton’s first Voyager show, which took place in Shanghai on 18 April, the Maison is now unveiling its extended collaboration with artist Sun Yitian. Known for her photorealistic paintings of toys and other mass-produced items, she has created an exclusive series that brings the Pre-Fall 2024-Collection to life in a colourful way. The collaboration spans ready-to-wear, leather goods, trunks, accessories and fragrances.
Louis Vuitton proudly presented the Pre-Fall 2024 women’s collection in Shanghai. Nicolas Ghesquière,Creative Director of the women’s collections, celebrates a remarkable decade of innovation and creativity at Louis Vuitton with this collection.
Wolfgang Walkensteiner (*1949 in Klagenfurt) studied in the Master Class for Architecture under Prof. Schlesinger at the University of Applied Arts and completed his diploma studies in painting under Max Weiler at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
Galerie Gmurzynska is showing a retrospective of the entire oeuvre of the legendary Austrian artist Christian Ludwig Attersee in its two Zurich exhibition spaces. The exhibition brings together paintings and sculptures from the 1960s through to his latest, cross-genre paintings from today.
The young New York designer, who explores the affirmation of the female role in her creations, has won first place in the competition organised by Lineapiù Italia to promote emerging talent in the fashion world.
In the fast-paced world of architecture and hotel operations, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is now opening up a whole host of fascinating opportunities…
For over 50 years, artist Philip Guston restlessly made paintings and drawings that captured the anxious and turbulent world he was witnessing.
Roy Lichtenstein, the master of Pop Art, is 100 years old. The ALBERTINA Museum is celebrating the artist with a comprehensive retrospective that brings together over 90 paintings, sculptures and prints.