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Brick Beguiles in Retail Design for Leica’s New Manhattan Store + Gallery

Design Milk

But Brooklyn-based Format Architecture Office bucks this standard practice with the unveiling of their remarkable design for the Leica Store & Gallery in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, which transforms the formerly dilapidated building into a contemporized historical neighborhood fixture.

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Japanese artist En Iwamura's fanciful sculptures are a holiday for the mind

Creative Boom

His ceramic sculpture series 'Neo Jomon: Beans' presents simple round forms of dynamic beings with childlike expressions that seem almost cartoonish. Both of these works are on show at a solo exhibition at WOAW Gallery in Hong Kong, entitled URLANDSCHAF (26 May 26 to 7 July). From the series Neo Jomon: Beans © En Iwamura.

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Bec Brittain Debuts Lighting Inspired by NASA Parachutes

Design Milk

The renowned lighting designer Bec Brittain has presented Paraciphers , her first exhibition in two years, at Emma Scully Gallery. Brittain created a series of flowing patterns that resemble the rhythm of flowers in the wind by drawing inspiration from the movement of inflated parachutes. Photography by Brooke Holm.

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Photo Gallery: Cersaie 2023 Balances Imitation with Creative Expression

Azure Magazine

Upon close inspection, its patterns are composed of embossed “stitching” that nods to the collection’s inspiration without performing any “gotcha”-style visual trickery. Debuting a fresh creative direction, the brand relaunched its catalogue with five core collections all offered in the same 21-colour palette.

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Thousands of Brushstrokes: Antonio Santín’s New Rug Paintings

Design Milk

This month in New York, artist Antonio Santín presents shockingly hyperreal oil paintings that depict life-size undulating ornate rugs. On view at Marc Straus Gallery , each painting is a surprising illusion of a carpet in 3D space, but up close, they’re even more impressive. Detail photographs by David Behringer.

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The Creative Boom 2023 Christmas gift guide for creatives

Creative Boom

We've got a selection of quirky and beautiful gift ideas that will raise your present-buying above the generic and propel your imagination. Because all of us love the idea of buying presents in theory – 'tis better to give than to receive, as they say – in practice, we often struggle to devote enough time to it.

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Objects With Narratives, a Nomadic Gallery, Tells the Stories Behind Collectible Design

Azure Magazine

In a design world going increasingly hybrid — with fairs taking place virtually and in-person — Objects With Narratives is a new nomadic gallery that presents collectible design both online and in physical shows. The gallery has an “interactive webshop, other online channels and physical exhibitions around the world.”

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