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Manuel Mathieu presents Archipelago
The olfactory is perhaps our most mystical sense. Everyone has been transported or transcended to a profound place or feeling by a nostalgic scent. It’s so affecting because it is typically unannounced, always invisible and yet so psychologically tangible. Scents are also incredibly difficult to attach to other mediums, with scratch ‘n sniff still being…
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Forestalgia Modular 001 Furniture
These organic spaces are crucial to the reveries wherein ideas are born.
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HOLLAND & HOLLAND — Explosive Colour
Holland & Holland, the preeminent British gun maker, is bringing a little colour to the hunt. Their new engraving technology allows for level of detail as yet unseen on a firearm. Available for models in the ‘Royal’ portfolio, this innovative development allows clients to select from an extensive palate, bringing colour and vibrancy to their…
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TWIST/d — by Based Upon
Based Upon’s latest creation could happily occupy a room as a simple piece of art. It has no obligation to be a functional marvel of technology. It certainly doesn’t owe us such a bounty of musical possibilities. And yet, it delivers on the above to such astounding effect that one wonders what to label it.…
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Rolls-Royce Cars celebrate London Craft Week
It seems that we are entering an age where the excitement of harnessing digital technology to create is at an all time high. The triumvirate of AI, faster processing times and near instant data-transfer have led to an abundance of abstract “creative” use cases being proposed; speed has begun to supersede quality. That’s why on…
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The London — Based Upon meets Steinway & Sons
There is nothing more pure than authentic collaborations, ones where a synergistic combination of ideals leads to an end result that truly reflects both brands, yet showcases them in a new way. These collaborations are always more risky for legacy brands, ones with substantial heritage, established customer bases and hence, brands with more to lose.…
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A Customer’s Perspective — Heesen Yachts
The nature of my work means that I’m often thrust into surreal situations, but even with that in mind, my recent experience was particularly surreal. It’s one thing sitting on a superyacht, it’s another thing altogether going through the process of designing your own. Normally if you get the opportunity to go on a yacht,…
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Remy Martin XO by LEE BROOM
The idea that change is “necessary” to remain relevant is something that the classicists have fought for years. Having said that on the other side of the coin, the modernists could argue that if you don’t change you will get left behind. A conundrum indeed. This is where what I call “tasteful re-interpretation” comes in…
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Organic Architecture — Ilulissat Icefjord
The great American biologist E.O. Wilson says that if we are to safeguard the systems on which all species – including our own – depend, we must devote half of all available land mass to nature. Nature is forgiving. It will bounce back – if we let it. And nature, more than anything else, holds…
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finessed — modern artistry
In this, the digital age, the concept of antiquity feels almost mythical. This great era of information has brought about untold benefits – namely, an ability to collect, compile and archive all human endeavour with robotic accuracy. Since the turn of the century, our ability (not to mention proclivity) to consume and catalogue information –…
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Spirio R — Steinway & Sons
It was 1857 when bespoke grand piano makers Steinway & Sons registered their first patent; since then over 139 patents have been filed and the innovation still continues. The embodiment of this is SPIRIO. Launched by Steinway & Sons in 2015 this technology captures and recreates the unique playing techniques of world renown pianists to…
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Redbreast — One for the Birds
The tradition of keeping the bottle is a marvellous exercise. Any act of converting the disposable into a trinket or keepsake has to be considered worthy. If cracking open a bottle of something special is a way of marking an occasion – the birth of a child, the union of marriage, a graduation – then…
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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…
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao + Architecture MasterPrize Awards
This year, Frank Gehry’s acclaimed Guggenheim Museum building in Bilbao hosted the honourable Architecture MasterPrize Awards (AMP). One of the most synonymous contemporary buildings of the 20th Century, the location was superbly fitting with the genre of awards itself. Famed for his other buildings including the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris and the Walt Disney…
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