Maxim Zhestkov is a 23-year-old director, video artist, industrial, motion and graphics designer, that bases much of his work on his dreams and fantasies. “Any composition needs to begin with one or two main elements. The smaller the elements, the greater number of them there should be. You need to start with one or two main ideas and gradually build up the smaller elements until the space becomes rich with Read More ...
Project A Apparel, a street wear brand based in Dublin, Ireland was created by Dualta Jones and Francesca Griffin who wanted to tap into the niche market of people interested in graffiti, street art and graphics. Since their background was in fashion, graffitti and architecture they gave it a try and what started out as a hobby eventually spiralled into a full fledged business. Their latest collection incorporates Continentals Earth Positive Read More ...
With Mondrian South Beach, Morgans Hotel Group has made a pioneering move away from the bustle of Miami Beach’s oceanfront tourist center to the fashionable, growing neighborhood of Biscayne Bay. Marcel Wanders, a world-famous design star and an original member of the influential Droog collective in the Netherlands, has conceived of the hotel as Sleeping Beauty’s castle. Guests will step into a magical world, entering a leisurely oasis of gardens Read More ...
The Chanel Mobile Art exhibit in Central Park honors the 50th anniversary of the Chanel purse, and was conceived by Karl Lagerfeld and designed by Zaha Hadid. The exhibit premiered in Hong Kong in March, traveled to Tokyo and will spend three weeks in New York ( till Nov 9th), before heading off to London, Moscow and Paris. Ambitious brand marketing to say the least. The building which resembles a Read More ...
Safretti decorative firespaces have a unique design and are easy to attach to the wall or to place in open spaces. The open fire will be created by using a special liquid (bio-alcohol) therefore a flue is not necessary.A revolutionary design with a wink to the ‘60’s.
CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON HERZOG & DE MEURON’S 56 LEONARD STREET New Yorkers are talking about Herzog & de Meuron’s 56 Leonard project- a 57 story residential complex in Tribeca that architects describe as “houses stacked in the sky,” but that wont be for those scared of heights. Fall 2010, residents will start calling the $650 million luxury building home where residences, all 2 to 5-bedrooms, will range from $3.5 million Read More ...
The Collective
Laurent King grew up in Paris, and went to American University where he focused on what he had always wanted to do: film studies. One of the strong points of AU was its exchange program with the National Film School in Prague, Czech Republic. He spent a semester there in 95, ( I decided to go the year after) where he directed his first serious short film (not counting the Read More ...
a barriga de um arquitecto An architecture(…) where the hardware is not the dominant preposition and is intended not to overcome but to serve.Wendell Burnette: Maryvale Community Center, 2008-05-28.
Soho Loft I really love the work and creative vision of Mark Foster Gage and Marc Clemenceau Bailly of ¨Gage / Clemenceau Architects¨. They were the architects behind a friends soho loft and ever since I have been following their work closely and am excited to interview Mark Foster Gage. A little bit about your background and how you started? We both had incredibly classical educations, architecturally and otherwise, at the Read More ...
