Stan Hema rebrands Stadtmuseum Berlin as the Berlin Museum, with a wordmark built from the city itself
Imagine sitting on a collection of 4.5 million objects and discovering that most people in your own city can’t tell you where you are. That…
2,300-Year-Old Fragment of Homer’s “Odyssey” Now on View at The Met
News The papyrus fragment contains three lines from Book 20 of the epic that don’t appear in the modern text. A papyrus fragment of Homer’s…
Monumental Painted Wood Carvings by Jiang Miao Center Mindfulness
The spiral is one of the most ubiquitous, universal symbols. Or perhaps it is more apt to describe the motif as mimicked from nature, where…
Before Palm Springs, there was Corbin Palms – now one of its original mid-century homes is for sale
There is one name almost inextricably bound to Palm Springs’ mid-century architecture: the American architectural firm Palmer & Krisel. The partnership between architect William Krisel…
This Iron Frying Plate Sears Food on Bare Steel & Goes Straight From the Stove to Your Table
Most pans are designed for the cook. The Iron Frying Plate was designed for the meal. It removes the transfer step entirely, functioning as the…
For 100 years no-one noticed it, but this rebrand finally gives Gunnersbury Museum a reason to be found
Ask most Londoners what’s inside Gunnersbury Park, and you’ll get a shrug, a mention of the boating lake, or, if you’re really lucky, a vague…
The Mona Lisa: Spatial and Mythological Tension Between Florence and Paris
Architectural & Cultural Analysis How Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait evolved from a Florentine domestic painting into a global icon reshaping the architectural space of the…
The Queer Surrealists Who Fought Nazis With Paper Bullets
Art Review Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore shared a magnificent life as both romantic and creative partners, one in which gender proved as mercurial as…
كيف تركت يوري مهنة تصميم الأزياء لترسم نساء محبات للموضة بالقلم الرصاص الملون
لقد فعلت يوري تاكاهاشي كل ما يفترض أن تفعله. التحقت بمدرسة الأزياء، وتخرجت بنجاح كبير، وحصلت على وظيفة في تصميم إكسسوارات الملابس، وكل ذلك أثناء…
Damien Aubin Documents a Former Soviet Mining Settlement Suspended in Time
The small settlement of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard is literally frozen in time. A former mining outpost for the Soviet Union, industrial…
