• Florentine Kitchen Knives

    Florentine Kitchen Knives

    It’s no coincidence that Florentine Kitchen Knives are able to invoke an almost borderless aesthetic that somehow exemplifies very specific cultures across the globe. Florentine Kitchen Knives is the brainchild Tomer Botner – an industrial designer who spent 10 years in the restaurant industry ruminating on how he could apply his very practical mastery of…

  • JOEL MEYEROWITZ | The Everyday Chaos of Ordinary Life

    JOEL MEYEROWITZ | The Everyday Chaos of Ordinary Life

    Good photographers have the ability see special moments in the mundane, while great photographers manage to capture them, immortalising them in the 2D format and enabling others to eternally share in a moment that at the time, was fleeting. Such is the skill of Joel Meyerowitz, an icon of contemporary photography often regarded as a…

  • Holmen Lofoten | Kitchen on the Edge of the World

    Holmen Lofoten | Kitchen on the Edge of the World

    An idea remains just that until someone has the heart and drive to turn it into something more—only then does it become a reality. Such is the case with Holmen Lofoton; a concept so remote from feasibility, its very existence alone is award-worthy, and yet it exists. It takes a unique kind of vision to…

  • DESIGN | Limited-Edition Wenger Wishbone Chair

    DESIGN | Limited-Edition Wenger Wishbone Chair

    “Take a seat” Some of the most reassuring and unnerving words ever spoken, depending both on their context and environment. In this case it is most certainly the former, as the heritage and design language of a Wenger chair belies comfort, and if not at the very least respect. The ever-current Hans J. Wegner would…

  • The 911 Speaker by Porsche Design

    The 911 Speaker by Porsche Design

    On the racetrack, the sound of the of the Porsche 911 GT3 exhaust system is unmistakable, distinctive in its pitch and ferocity, to the delight of many a car-lover across the world. Even the exhaust tailpipe itself is equally distinctive, and has transcended the ranks of functional element to become a design feature. So with…

  • L’Envol de Cartier

    L’Envol de Cartier

    Cartier are renown for their prestige, their almost ethereal quality as a brand representative of that glass ceiling purchase. But as often happens when a brand releases a fragrance, that aspirational price point is temporarily relinquished in favour of a more affable one, which is – much like the low reaching branches of a tree…

  • Thinkpiece : Have we become more Impatient?

    Thinkpiece : Have we become more Impatient?

    Have we lost the art of patience? When Internet speeds were restricted by the limitations of dial-up, the fact that the webpage loaded at all was incredible in itself, but now we get frustrated if we can’t stream flawless video in Ultra HD, or if a heavily image imbued website takes over 0.79 seconds to…

  • MICROSCULPTURE

    MICROSCULPTURE

    With a career spanning over 18 years, British photographer Levon Biss has had an illustrious career, with his work appearing on the cover of TIME magazine, and a best selling book on global football entitled ‘One Love’ – a title I’m not sure many English fans would currently agree with. Swiftly moving on, today our…

  • Petit Loire: Liquid Marble by Mathieu Lehanneur

    Petit Loire: Liquid Marble by Mathieu Lehanneur

    A marble sculpture in the Loire Valley would at first not seem like a oddity in itself, but look around the 16th-century castle Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, you would be hard pressed to discern exactly where that sculpture is located. Yet despite appearances, the 330 lbs of marble takes centre stage in an otherwise seemingly ‘normal’…