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Change of art
Art & Culture / Interior Design / TravelCurator and editor Carla Sozzani has long helped to shape the direction of Italian fashion, art and design. But now Milan’s cultural doyenne is embarking on a new chapter. We join her for a stroll …
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Spatial verve
Art & Culture / Interior Design / TravelIn their Florentine home, gallerist couple Alessandra Tabacchi and Franco Mariotti prize patina over perfection, filling their interiors with expressive texture and detail …
Nomas
Hussein Chalayan - The scents and flavours of Cyprus are deeply engraved in me
Art & Culture / Fashion / TravelHussein Chalayan is considered an avant-gardist. Since graduating from the renowned Central Saint Martins College over thirty years ago, the fashion designer has repeatedly attracted the attention of the fashion world – from London to Paris – with his experimental approach and the performance character of his presentations …
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Baroque beauty
Art & Culture / Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / TravelMagnificent baroque architecture and unrivalled art treasures Dresden is not known as the Florence on the Elbe for nothing. A lot has happened in the city in recent years, especially in Neustadt, Germany’s largest art deco neighbourhood, where artsy bars are popping up next to fashion-forward boutiques. Further afield, in the surrounding area, there are also the vast Elbe meadows, the Oberlössnitz vineyards and dozens of palaces and castles scattered throughout Saxony that bear witness to the past of old Prussia …
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Living is easy
Art & Culture / TravelWhen gallery owner Mariane Ibrahim was looking for a new center of life, Chicago was the obvious choice. For her, the city stands for America like no other …
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Show and tell
Art & Culture / InterviewFrench-Somali gallerist Mariane Ibrahim splits her time between continents but here she invites us for a stroll around her favourite spots in Paris …
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Another country
Art & Culture / FoodAfter a childhood of experimentation in the kitchen of her rustic family home, Alice Moireau set aside her dreams of opening a restaurant for a new life in Paris. Having returned to the Loire Valley last year, she now draws inspiration from nature for her various creative pursuits, whether it’s cooking or designing textiles. Here she shares some simple recipes from her autumn playbook, from a mouth-watering polenta dish to a comforting almond and pear tart …
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Metropolis of feasibility
Art & Culture / Food / Interior Design / TravelIn recent years, Leipzig’s magnificent old buildings and abandoned factories have attracted artists and creatives, and the German city has blossomed as a result. Though its cultural scene is now fizzing, a refreshingly laid-back spirit lingers in the air. We take a stroll through its picturesque streets to find a city that’s full of surprises …
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The lady in the fen
Art & CultureAs often as she can, Juliet Kothe, director of the private museum Sammlung Boros, takes short escapes to the rural surroundings of Berlin. Here, where the sparrows whistle and swallow give flying lessons to their fledglings in the horse stables, time seems to stand still until the church bells remind her to move on with her busy schedule …
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All sewn up
Art & Culture / FashionThe exclusive luxury coat designs of Nanna Pause are brought to life in Sicily by skilled specialists. She tells Konfekt why she relies on experts from this region and explains their intricate technique that gives each piece a unique quality …
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Healing waters
Art & CulturePainter Anna Kuen’s abstract canvases are heavily influenced by the landscape. Now based in Berlin, she escapes to Lake Liepnitzsee to swim whenever she can –and finds that it puts life back into perspective …
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In vanitas veritas
Art & Culture / RetailThe botanical couturiers behind Anatomie Fleur find contrast and complement in their budding business …
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Blue dye thinking
Art & Culture / Fashion / TravelThe ancient Japanese technique of ‘shibori’ is the inspiration behind Hiroyuki Murase’s line of exquisitely complex hand-dyed clothes. He takes us to Arimatsu in Japan, where the whole town is pulling together to keep this delicate industry alive …
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Sound ideas
Art & Culture / Interior DesignAdmiration for Rudolf Diesel’s inventive spirit led architect and product designer Marie Aigner to move into his former house on Munich’s Höchlstrasse. Today the Diesel-Villa is not only Aigner’s center of life, but also a generous stage for her sound-absorbing furniture and sculptures made from recycled materials …
The Weekender
In wonderland
Art & Culture / TravelIn the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, spectacular contemporary art and a huge tropical garden paradise merge to create a wholly exceptional place. Photographer Jewgeni Roppel captured Instituto Inhotim during a kaleidoscopic tour …
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Culinary portrait
Art & Culture / Food / TravelVictoire de Taillac-Touhami’s Parisian apartment is the setting for her recreation of a childhood dish. And not even a visit from the Louvre can interrupt dinner …
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Art of glass
Art & CultureFive generations of the Mayer family have perfected the craft of translating artists’ work into glass panels. As Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt celebrates its 175th anniversary we take a tour of its workshops. Plus, we visit the creator of a Parisian antique homeware brand and the Italian sisters keeping lithography alive …
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Forward motion
Art & Culture / InterviewAt 33, Diandra Donecker is a fresh face in the art market but as director of Grisebach, a historic Berlin auction house, she uses her youthful dynamism to her advantage. We join her for a stroll through the silent woods – and poignant past – of Wannsee …
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Feathering the best
Art & Culture / FashionBrazilian-born Parisian designer Janaïna Milheiro has reinvented the traditional French craft of feather work, taking it beyond fashion into art galleries and architecture. Dior and Cartier knock on her door and her down-based fabrics are very much in demand. This singular artist thrives on collaboration, cross-pollination and experimentation …
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Home comforts
Art & Culture / Food / TravelJust hours before hosting a performance at the gallery she runs in Paris, Bianca Lee Vasquez throws a cosy, Latino- themed housewarming banquet at her new home – inviting her creative friends to partake in the art of joyous hospitality …
Konfekt
Who wears the trousers?
A modern guide to power dressing
Art & Culture / FashionForget sized-up shoulders and male tailoring, it’s time women donned power from within …
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Detached from space and time
Art & CultureTerunobu Fujimori’s teahouses literally grow on trees. The Japanese architect builds poetic sites of ceremonial encounter into the forks and onto the trunks of trees. Now the 73-year-old is inviting fans of environmentally aware modern architecture to tea at the Hombroich rocket station …
Walter Knoll
Airy elegance
Art & Culture / Interior Design / TravelTwo blues. The neon signage of the Norton Museum of Art shines in Yves Klein blue against the deep blue sky of West Palm Beach. With a strong sense of aesthetics, the architects at Foster + Partners have carefully redesigned the house and turned it into a magnet for lovers of art and architecture …
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Sparkling waters
Art & Culture / InterviewOn a walk along the Isar River to a beer garden, jewellery designer Saskia Diez explains how anthropology influences her work, and why designing is such an intimate process …
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Lindbergh’s legacy
Art & Culture / FashionPeter Lindbergh still had the story of his complete works to tell. Right up until his death in September 2019, he continued working on the exhibition ‘Untold Stories’, the first and only works exhibition that he ever curated …
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“I don't believe in leisure time”
Art & CultureA blonde woman on a beach chair, working on her holiday tan. Her eyes are covered to protect them from the sun, her legs are slightly apart. Was this photo taken by a voyeur from the foot of her lounger? No. Martin Parr captured this scene in 2000 on Knokke beach in Belgium …
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Golden promise
Art & Culture / TravelSpeeding across a bridge over the Enz, one of the three rivers that wend their way through Pforzheim, a Porsche Boxster is struck by a ray of evening light and momentarily gleams almost as brightly as the setting sun …
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“I want to be a machine”
Art & CultureRobert Wilson’s adaptation of The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann garnered him standing ovations in Düsseldorf.
To transcend the human by aesthetic means – this striving is something the American director Robert Wilson has in common with the late Andy Warhol. After the world premiere at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, who co-produced it, Wilson’s adaptation of The Sandman had its debut in Düsseldorf on Saturday …
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From the collection to the collective
Art & CultureThe Julia Stoschek Collection is celebrating its tenth anniversary with an exhibition curated by Ed Atkins: Generation Loss. What are ten years in the art world, really? Quite a bit, when the genre is as young as time-based media …