Daniele Innamoratos Rare Butterfly Collection at Gallery Nilufar
Daniele Innamorato recently showed his Rare Butterfly Collection paintings at Gallery Nilufar, Milan. The project was born in 2005, thanks to the meetings with Mrs.Nina Yachar. The butterflies are painted on paper realized with the test of Rorschach method. The paintings are exhibited in small series or operas and every piece is unique having been realised … Read more
COLOUR ONE for MINI by Scholten & Baijings
We always get to see the final product. We buy it, consume it but rarely do we ever see or question the process of its composition. The INTERNI Legacy exhibition staged by the renowned Italian design magazine INTERNI presented MINI as one of the main protagonists with the design installation COLOUR ONE for MINI by the Dutch designers Scholten & Baijings at the Cortile del … Read more
Syzygy by Sophie Mensen and Oskar Peet
Sophie Menser & Oscar Peet have designed the Syzygy lamp collection. Based on three celestial alignments – transits, eclipses and occultations – Syzygy uses photographic polarizing filters to manipulate light. The back dis, or … Read more
Preview Milan 2012: Chairs by Marni
Italian fashion brand Marni will exhibit 100 PVC thread-wrapped chairs at its Milan boutique during this year’s Milan Furniture Fair. Each and everyone of the chairs are constructed in Colombia by ex-prisoners as part of a rehabilitation programme. Read more: Marni
Preview Milan 2012: Cura by Studio Toogood
Studio Toogood have teamed up with skin care brand Nivea for the Salone del Mobile 2012 to create an experiential installation called la cura that will offer a creative antidote to the chaos of the annual Milan furniture fair, and will invite visitors to re-balance through a series of intimate performances. Upon arrival, visitors will be seated on Spade chairs designed by … Read more
Stairway to Heaven Chandelier by Bertjan Pot
A mere humorous suggestion became an actual project when dutch design studio Bertjan Pot decided to make a feature chandelier from a safety ladder and carnival lights on a string. The Stairway to Heaven lights are now used to illuminate the industrial theater-café Wennekerpand in Schiedam. Read more: Bertjan Pot Read more: Wennekerpand
Winding Tower by Mieke Meijer
Mieke Meijer’s Winding Tower 01 desk takes its form from disappearing late 19th and early 20th century industrial architecture. Meijer’s works are inspired by the photographs of Bernd and Hilla Becher. The black and white images of the photographers couple are best known for their ‘typologies’ – grids of black-and-white photographs of variant examples of a … Read more
2012 Slamdance Film Festival: Solipsist by Andrew Huang
Watch the movie here: Andrew Huang is a Los Angeles based commercial and music video director who recently won the Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short category at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival with his SOLIPSIST film. The jury explained that he won this category ”for its unique blend of live action footage of the human body, puppetry and … Read more
Jim Hodges Sculptures
Jim Hodges’ latest, two-part exhibition at the Gladstone Gallery in New York City — mounted across both gallery spaces in Chelsea in late 2011. For the last two decades, Hodges has utilized a broad range of materials — both precious and commonplace — to transform quotidian objects into reflective sculptures. Merging the personal, political and universal, … Read more
Deception Series by Leigh Wells
San Francisco based Leigh Wells is the artist behind these strangely but beautifully surreal collages. In fall 2011 Leigh showed the Deception series in a solo show at Ampersand International Arts space in San Francisco. Read more: Leigh Wells










