Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1931, artist Agnes Denes was raised in Sweden and educated in the United States. A primary figure among the conceptual artists who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, Denes is known for works created in a diverse range of mediums; a pioneer of several art movements, she is difficult to…
From Jacques Adnet and Jean Prouvé, to Pierre Chareau and Richard Neutra, furniture dealer and interior designer Michael Bargo’s diligent Instagram feed, updated daily, is a joyous education in design. The New York-based creative’s page is a carefully curated assemblage of images showcasing the heyday of 20th-century furniture design, peppered with stylish shots of his…
Born in 1925, artist Valentine Schlegel developed her extraordinarily diverse creative practice between Paris and Sète, a port city in southeastern France. Having mastered several techniques over decades, Schlegel prolifically produced her distinctively sculptural versions of everyday objects, including wooden serving utensils, ceramic vases, leather bags and sandals, and, perhaps most spectacularly, her undulating plaster…
Los Angeles-based musician and recording artist Kelsey Lu, born Kelsey McJunkins, is perhaps best known for her unembellished cello and vocal sound, possessing a distinct eerie flair in it’s tonality. Lu was born and raised in North Carolina, where she lived for most of her young adult life. Her mother played the piano and her…
Oscillating between the spheres of reality and the imagined, Janiva Ellis creates energetic, cartoonish paintings which often explore matters of pain and violence in a spectrum of deceivingly jovial colour. The Los Angeles-based visual artist works primarily as a painter, ambitiously rendering inherently personal images of strange, contorted, augmented, and at times, psychedelic, human-like forms….
The celebrated team behind New York Thai restaurant Uncle Boons has announced they will be opening another dining concept in Nolita this spring; chefs Ann Redding and Matt Danzer, the duo behind popular eateries including Michelin-starred Uncle Boons and takeout spot Uncle Boons Sister, are broaching an entirely new venture, which this time won’t centre…
Self-taught designer Nicole McLaughlin’s simultaneously playful and functional creations have gained viral attention in recent months, accruing her over 125,000 followers on Instagram. Over the past year, the young designer has made footwear and garments out of everything from tennis balls and balloons, to badminton shuttlecocks and packaging beads. Now, McLaughlin has turned the popularity…
Hailing from Portland, Oregon, and based in NYC, American artist Jessi Reaves’ practice freely traverses the realms of art and design, smudging the lines between sculpture and furniture. Reaves studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, originally joining the celebrated institute to study furniture design before changing her specialism. It was while working…