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A Place of Encounter
Architecture & Interior
On Calle Claudio Coello, in the heart of Madrid’s vivacious Salamanca district, Aesop has opened its first Spanish signature store. Created in collaboration between Ciszak Dalmas and Matteo Ferrari, the space honours the city’s artistic heritage, cultural eclecticism, and public spaces that prioritise social exchange.
Breaking Paradigms
Product Design, Art
Siete Studio was founded in Mexico City and Australia, arising from a multidisciplinary fusion that seeks to break paradigms and link uniquely with users, creating a concept that they like to call spatial and sculptural design, which is based on creating a direct link between users, spaces, and meaning.
Amity Street
Architecture & Interior
Amity street is a design-led development project by Selma Akkari, in collaboration with Rawan Muqaddas. Located in the historic Cobble Hill district, the Brooklyn apartment sits in stone building built in 1910.
Hues of Memory
Architecture & Interior
Sierra + de la Higuera bring a bright and colourful aesthetic to a family home in Madrid, introducing an eclecticism reflective of its owners’ Mexican and Galician origins.
Optician Dresen
Architecture & Interior
Frederic Kielemos designed a retail space for Optician Dresen as a minimal and balanced environment characterised by rich textures and a solemn colour palette.
LUNAR OBJECT
Product Design
LUNAR OBJECT landed as a meteorite during a time when the world seemed to have stopped spinning. It came as the crystallisation of a cluster of feelings, ideas, observations, and experiences.
A Private Reading Room
Architecture & Interior
Founded by architectural designers, Tao Liu and Chunyan Cai in 2016, atelier tao+c is an emerging design studio based in Shanghai. Their latest project, A Private Reading Room, is an internal reading room for a team, a shared study room among a group of friends, and a third space between public and private, living and working.
Existence of Abstraction
Art, Event & Exhibition
Object Momento is delighted to announce the Existence of Abstraction, a solo exhibition of sculptures by the Korean ceramic artist, Lee Nuri, her first show with the gallery and the first in China.
Challenging Familiar Perceptions
Product Design
The Corner Collection by another bureau of design presents a series of seating forms reminiscent of gable-roofed houses - reimagining a child’s drawing of a house, transforming these simple lines into a playful yet functional objects.
Between Past and Present
Product Design
Immersed in references from the past, another bureau of design has created the Untitled Drink Cabinet as a piece that highlights the cultural significance of tea tables in a Moroccan household, taking shape in a contemporary form and material.
Window of Hope
Architecture & Interior
Bogdanova Bureau moved into their new office in the center of Kyiv half a year before the war started in Ukraine. After a year of online work on quarantine, the bureau team got together in these walls — fully understanding the importance of interaction.
Chubby Girl Noodle Bar
Architecture & Interior, Food
So often do chain restaurants play the safe route by sticking to one branded spatial design that looks the same everywhere. That isn’t the case for Chubby Girl’s Noodle Bar, whose latest branch by OFFICE AIO is an iteration of its aspirations as a passionate restaurateur.
atelier axo
Architecture & Interior, People & Studios
atelier axo is a cross disciplinary design and architecture practice based in Copenhagen. Founded in 2019 by Rose Hermansen and Caroline Sillesen, the atelier specialises in small scale architecture, interior, and furniture design.
Architecture & Interiors
Seoul-based design office HOFFICE and PRACTICE, elevate the interiors of a pet supplies showroom, Bon9, with a refined approach and playful furnishings.
Playful Formalism
Nordic Books
Architecture & Interior
Situated in a historic building on the iconic banks of Ningbo’s Yongjiang River, Nordic Books by Yatofu Creatives is a newly conceived experiential retail destination, dedicated to showcasing Nordic design, publications, and lifestyle.
Apartment XVIII
Architecture & Interior
studio razavi architecture’s latest residential project, Apartment XVIII sees the sensorial revival of a Parisian apartment, embodying a sense of calm and reflection, with a gentle appreciation of its monastic surroundings.
Feast for the Senses
People & Studios, Interviews, Product Design
Bonni Bonne is a design studio founded by Emelie Ivarsson and Shalony van Stralendorff - the company was born out of a joint passion and fascination for nature, gastronomy, and the presence of everyday aesthetics.
Restoring Lost Forms
Architecture & Interior, Food
Seoul-based design office, HOFFICE, has created a sleek and alluring interior for local cafe, KÄSE COFFEE - marrying brutalist rigour with minimalist sophistication to transform a mundane experience such as coffee into one that is immersive and vivid.
Restaurant Botanic
Architecture & Interior, Food
As a respectful honouring of place, heritage and produce, Restaurant Botanic is reimagined by Williams Burton Leopardi as an encasing and naturally warming harbour within which to savour and embellish the senses.
Architecture & Interiors
Continuing a long-standing lineage, Adelaide Residence by Williams Burton Leopardi is the story of an evolved relationship with place. Sitting on the edge of the city fringe, the residence faces the protected natural landscape parklands that circle the CBD.
Adelaide Residence
FAINA Gallery of live Ukrainian design
Product Design, Architecture & Interior
FAINA, a collection of furniture, lighting, and decor, rooted in Ukrainian cultural heritage. Brought to life by the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, FAINA nurtures its connection to land and
ethnic roots, starting a new wave on the global design scene —“live design”.
TC Apartment
Architecture & Interior
The Taicang apartment by office ZHU, is a renovation project of an existing double-storey residence in Taicang, Jiangsu. office ZHU’s design intervention provides its clients with ample space to escape the city and reconnect, whether on a weekend retreat or holiday family visits.
The Silent Dialogue
Photography
This photo series by Henriette Schou and Frederik Kastrupsen highlights the need for a deeper reflection on how climate change and isolation may change our meals in a modern or futuristic world.
The Affordance Series
Product Design
The Affordance Series by niceworkshop is an extensive family of stainless-steel furnishings, designed to induce human behaviour and psychology - hoping to encourage users to contemplate the ‘interactions between furniture and people’, a relationship unconsciously induced into our daily lives.
Hotel For The Senses And Mind
Architecture & Interior
Bonni Bonne is a design studio founded by Emelie Ivarsson and Shalony van Stralendorff - the company was born out of a joint passion and fascination for nature, gastronomy, and the presence of everyday aesthetics.
Balancing Sense with Sensibility
Architecture & Interior
Set in Taipei, Taiwan, Caché by NestSpace Design is defined by an interior design language which seeks to find a balance between sense and sensibility.
Looking Through Voids
Product Design
Hayden Allison Richer is a ceramic artist residing in Detroit, Michigan. Her interest lies in the mirroring and reflecting of pairings and voids through the dense visual language of solid cast hydrocal.
Architecture & Interiors, Food
The extension to My Oh My Espresso takes its cues from the classic cafe and restaurant styling, with built-in banquettes, deep burgundy colour tones and these amazing restored archways.
My Oh My Espresso
The Library
Architecture & Interior
As a curated library of vast automotive treasures, The Library by A Work of Substance was designed with the intent of strengthening the thread that cultivates the avid spirit for driving. Fuelled with endless motion and the purest exhilaration, this place introduces an aura of stillness.
A Love for Impermanence
Architecture & Interior
Inspired by “ The love for impermanence”, HIR Studio expressedd this ancient Asian thinking through the use of tactile materials which age beautifully, like ancient wood, rough stone, woven rattan, and patina iron; The delicate beauty of the space is transient and ever-changing.
The Chapel and Meditation Room
Architecture & Interior
‘The Chapel and Meditation Room’ by Studio Nicholas Burns is a sculptural monument for reflection, celebration and worship in the hills of Northern Portugal.
New Normal – Hybrid Working
Architecture & Interior
Winners of a competition held by The Nate, Bagua+Bhava explores the idea of what Hong Kong’s Residential or Office Space would look like in the immediate future, following the pandemic.
Botanical Form
Photography, Art
In this series, Michiko Picco captures the silhouettes of different flowers through the passage of time in an aesthetic and timeless way, turning something so fragile into a moment of elegance.
Architecture & Interiors
Contemporary and historic narratives intertwine at Hi atelier’s latest residential project, Olly Apartment located in Podil, Kyiv.
Olly Apartment
Making the Past Present
Art, Event & Exhibition
Making the Past Present. A poetic ground created in collaboration between ang-ang studio, No.29, and OOLONG to present their vision of memories and time while bringing awareness to the elderly in Changde Nursing Home.
Poetic Rawness
Architecture & Interior
Seoul-based design studio, ‘niceworkshop’ transformed a decrepit facility into a raw immersive retail and exhibition experience. Fitted with gleaming display cases and sleek sitting nooks, the interior design illustrates the studio’s signature design language while retaining the building’s industrial appeal.
Flexible Order
Product Design
In his latest furniture collection ‘Pedestal Series’, Japan-based spatial and furniture designer Luka Yasukawa explores the interrelation between object recognition and functionality. The collection comprises of seven distinctive designs created through an experimental approach.
Refined Minimalism
Product Design
Thom Fougere Studio works within the fields of furniture and product design, architecture, interiors, and creative direction. His work have been exhibited internationally at design fairs in Milan, Stockholm, New York, Montreal, and Toronto.
Tuning the Tone
Architecture & Interior
Sawaki Nakayama Architects revives an inner-city apartment in Tokyo, Japan as a minimalist retreat. The team took inspiration from ‘Villa Rothmayer’ (1928), a little-known masterpiece standing in a pleasant neighbourhood in Prague.
Basic Coffee
Architecture & Interior, Food
Office AIO turns mundane morning coffee run into a sensational journey. Despite occupying a 30sqm corner of a restored historic building, Basic Coffee is a vital tenant of a co-working hub that activates a newly gentrified commercial zone in Beijing.
Whimsical Realism
Product Design
Lameice Abu Aker a multidisciplinary designer based in Jerusalem - aiming to create contemporary pieces through working with Palestinian craftsmen and artisans from different areas in Palestine.
Out of the Woods - In Conversation with co-founder of Foresta, Patricia Peinador
People & Studios, Product Design
FORESTA was born from a place of care with the deepest desire to change the world. In 2019, they began working with a designer to develop their own products - furniture and interior accessories. We caught up with co-founder Patricia Peinador to learn more about FORESTA and its sustainable approach to design and manufacturing.
Falcon House
Architecture & Interior
With a strong ethos of creating truly innovative, high quality and sustainable homes, Koto designs dynamic and striking buildings that remain mindful of nature and the environment. Their latest project, Falcon House is now onsite and complete.
Lieu Painting Studio
Architecture & Interior
Lieu Painting Studio by ATELIER MOZH is located in Xi’an’s High-Tech District. The clients wanted to create an artistic venue within the urbanised fabric, to meet flexible functional requests of teaching, experiencing, communicating, and exhibiting, etc.
Ambient Reform
Architecture & Interiors
N House by moss was a renovation of an atmospheric vintage apartment in the Magome neighbourhood of Tokyo. The team transformed the original two-bedroom layout to a light-filled one-bedroom with living room, dining area, and kitchen.
Endless Virtues
Product Design
AD Miller is a Los Angeles based creative studio founded by architect and designer Adam Miller. The studio’s work spans from architecture and interiors to sculptures, lighting, and homeware products.
Aesthetic Lab
Architecture & Interior
Dubrovska Studio is a multi-disciplinary architectural and design bureau that creates perfect living scenarios for people, who seek a mindful aesthetic lifestyle. Founded by designer and synesthete, Natalie Dubrovska, in Kyiv in 2018.
Speaking Volumes
People & Studios, Interview, Art
Patrick van Riemsdijk is an Amsterdam-based artist with a background full immersed in visual arts. We were delighted to speak to Patrick about his journey as an artist, the creative process behind his artwork, and what he has got planned next.
People & Studios, Interview, Architecture & Interior
We speak to the founders of Blackhaus, Fernando and Deisi, to discuss their inspirations, approach to their craft and the growing interest in architectural visualisation.
Visualising the Invisible
Combination of minimalistic and harmonic
Architecture & Interior
Hintegro blends textures and soft hues to create a sleek and inviting home for a young couple.
Transient Dwelling
Architecture & Interior
Design studio, wiercinski-studio, unveils the design for their mobile home, a portable cabin which allows its occupants to experience living in the heart of nature.