3-8 Installation by Leopold Banchini & Laure Jaffuel at Centre Pompidou in Paris.Earlier this year, Swiss architect Leopold Banchini installed a permanent educational space in one of the Centre Pompidou’s exhibition rooms in Paris. Dubbed 3-8, the installation is designed to host dialogues between art and industries,...
The Shifting Feminine Aesthetic: Forte Forte Store in Paris by Robert Vattilana & Giada Forte.There’s an emerging breed of retail interiors designed for women, which feel like spaces that just get us. They are layered, tactile, nurturing, inclusive, and more than a little unexpected. And while utterly and unapologetically...
La Tournette: Parisian Pied-à-Terre by Freaks Architecture Divided With a Mobile Storage Unit.The front of this tiny Parisian apartment features a sculptural mobile cupboard, which also accommodates shelving and a folding table. “It organises the space in many configurations depending on where it is positioned,” explains Freaks...
Cédric Grolet’s Meurice Patisserie in Paris by Ciguë.The executive pastry chef at the exclusive Le Maurice, Cédric Grolet, has unveiled his first pastry boutique under the arcades of the Paris hotel, with an interior designed by Ciguë. At just 32 years of age, Cédric Grolet is one of...
Antoni Clavé Archives in Paris by Kengo Kuma.Paper is perhaps the very last material one would think of when approaching a project of architecture, but this is precisely the material Kengo Kuma and Associates have turned to when designing a private museum in Paris to house the...
Bricks Decoded: The Return of Glass Blocks.Go on. Admit it. The thought of glass blocks probably makes you shudder. Unless you fall into the 5%* category of new generation designers who have already embraced the potential of this highly misunderstood and marginalised building...
Heute Craftsmanship: Contemporary Lighting & Furniture by Garnier & Linker.Guillaume Garnier and Florent Linker met at École Camondo in Paris. Both went on to spend time in the studios of France’s coolest – Guillaume with Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty at Studio KO, and Florent with the master of magical...
Alvaro Siza Vieira’s New Church of Saint-Jacques de la Lande in Rennes, France.Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza Vieira has designed a beautiful, light-filled church for Rennes’ outer suburbs. Alvaro Siza Vieira's Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande will be the first church built in Brittany, France...
Hotel National des Arts et Métiers, Paris by Raphael Navot.New among Paris’ boutique hotels is Hôtel National des Arts & Métiers. Set somewhere between the Marais and Montorgueil quartiers in the third arrondissement, the hotel takes its design cues from the Centre National des Arts &...
