Byungsub Kim

Byungsub Kim is a designer based in Seoul, South Korea. He majored in spatial design and designs space related things from small functional objects to furnitures, and also interior.

Yoonjeong Lee

Yoonjeong Lee is based in Seoul, she predominantly employs functional objects as her medium, while simultaneously being cautious about creating predictable shapes that conform to their intended purposes.

Unité d'Habitation

The Unité d'Habitation is a pioneering residential building designed by architect Le Corbusier, completed in 1952 in Marseille, France. It's a landmark of modernist architecture, characterized by its use of pilotis, a free facade, and an open floor plan.

Le Cabanon

The Cabanon de Cap-Martin designed by Le Corbusier is both a total work of art and the archetype of the minimum cell, based on an absolute ergonomic and functionalist approach.

E-1027

E-1027 is a modernist villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. It was designed and built from 1926-29 by the Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray.

Luma Arles

Luma Arles, designed by Frank Gehry, is a cultural hub in Arles, France. Its centerpiece is a 56-meter-high tower clad in shimmering stainless steel panels, reflecting the light and inspired by the local landscape and Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” The futuristic design contrasts with the restored industrial buildings on site, creating a harmony between past and present.

Villa Noailles

Villa Noailles, built between 1924 and 1932 in Hyères, France, is a landmark of modernist architecture. Designed by architect Robert Mallet-Stevens, the villa was commissioned by Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, influential patrons of the arts. The building features innovative design elements like cubic forms, spacious terraces, and large picture windows, reflecting the avant-garde style of the era.

Lloyd's building

The Lloyd's Building in London, designed by Richard Rogers and completed in 1986, is famous for its "inside-out" design. With its exposed elevators and ducts on the exterior, it exemplifies high-tech architecture and has become a modern landmark in the city's financial district.

Guide to South of France

The South of France is a place where modernist and avant-garde visions come to life. From Le Corbusier's minimalist Cabanon and Eileen Gray's pioneering E1027 to the futuristic curves of Palais Bulles by Antti Lovag, the region is a showcase of bold creativity. The historic Villa Noailles and the art-filled Fondation Maeght further highlight the cultural richness that defines this Mediterranean paradise.

Studio Visit with Max Radford

We visit the London, UK, studio of Designer and Gallerist Max Radford

Amelia Stevens

Defined by an understated visual language, essential material palette and subtle wit, Amelia Stevens’ London-based practice encompasses the design and production of objects, furniture and scenography with an architectural and luxury design sensibility.

La Grande-Motte

La Grande Motte, a seaside resort in southern France, is renowned for its distinctive architecture designed by Jean Balladur. The cityscape is defined by striking, pyramidal buildings inspired by pre-Columbian architecture and modernist principles. These white, geometric structures, often adorned with hexagonal windows and lush greenery, create a futuristic yet harmonious environment.

Freddy Tuppen

Whether working at the scale of a building or a desk lamp, London-based artist and architectural designer Freddy Tuppen brings an experimental approach to design, rooted in a deep sensitivity to site, materials and people.

Sundo Yoon

Sundo Yoon explores the ways in which objects view the beauty. To express this, he mainly focuses on the texture and patterns that arise from repetitive actions.

Palais Bulles

Palais Bulles is a large house in Théoule-sur-Mer, near Cannes, France, that was designed by the Hungarian architect Antti Lovag. It was built for the French industrialist Pierre Bernard, and later bought by the fashion designer Pierre Cardin as a holiday home.

Fondation Maeght

Some of the biggest names in 20th-century European sculpture, including Georges Braque, Joan Miró and Alberto Giacometti, came together to help create La Fondation Maeght, which has become France’s most important art foundation and is among the world’s leading cultural institutions.

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

This museum designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa in Kanazawa, Japan features immersive installations from the likes of James Turrell and is amongst the top ten most visited Contemporary Art Museums in the world.

Rooms Studio

Repetition, one of the duo’s trademarks, reminds the viewer of their feminist approach, as well as Georgia’s Eastern culture. In this way, Rooms Studio creates a perfect blend of design where East meets West in its collectable design and architecture practice.

Maggie Pei

Maggie Pei's studio practice serves as a world-building experience, where the array of furniture aims to transcend object and become subject, capturing the forgotten sensations of a moment on the threshold where the past converges with the present and where the lucid coexists with the hidden.

Teshima Art Museum

Uniting the creative visions of artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa, Teshima Art Museum stands on a hill on the island of Teshima overlooking the Seto Inland Sea. The museum, which resembles a water droplet at the moment of landing, is located in the corner of a rice terrace that was restored in collaboration with local residents.

Richard Aybar

Richard Aybar expertly navigates the delicate balance between natural and synthetic elements. Profound understanding of the tactile qualities and historical context of his chosen materials lends a unique depth to his creations.

Chen Chen & Kai Williams

Chen Chen & Kai Williams create a wide range of products, from handmade, one-off, and limited-production collectible works to producing specialty home goods carried by retailers around the world.

Jialun Xiong

Hailing from Chiogqing, China, Studio/ JIALUN XIONG, a multidisciplinary design studio based in Los Angeles, explores ideas of duality and creative restraint in designs for spaces, furnishings, lighting, and objects.

Lionel Jadot

Jadot invites you into subtle, quirky worlds bordering on reality. “I don't throw anything out, I pick up. I don't have a green thumb, I try cuttings, unnatural marriages. I never forget a line.”

Wang and Söderström

Wang and Söderström are interested in investigating the relationship between digital technologies, materials, and living things in the current and future digital and ecological shift.

Pretziada

Pretziada is a creative practice, based on the island of Sardinia, that promotes the heritage of a territory through a collection of design objects made with local artisans.

Guide to Naoshima and Teshima

A once sleepy, seaside post-industrial wasteland, Naoshima and Teshima islands in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan were transformed in the early nineties. They have now become one of the world's most unique immersive contemporary art destinations featuring the work of legends Tadao Ando, Ufan Lee, Claude Monet and Yayoi Kusama, and more.

Formafantasma

Formafantasma is a research-based design studio investigating the ecological, historical, political and social forces shaping the discipline of design today.

Lucia Massari

Lucia Massari designs ordinary furniture and objects that teeter between two and three dimensions, exposing both her craftsmanship and her experimental side.

GSL Gallery

BLUE Steel Exhibition curated by Kristen de La Vallière and John Whelan at GSL Gallery in Paris