Hailing from Hanoi, Vietnam, Quasar Khanh was born Nguyen Manh Khanh in 1934. When he married his wife, French fashion designer Emmanuelle, in 1957, Khanh decided to adopt the pseudonym Quasar, referring to a star that shines from millions of light years away. The latter half of the sixties saw the designer and engineer’s career…
Chef Junghyun Park will join the team at Michelin-starred Lyle’s in London for two nights this month, Tuesday 30th and Wednesday 31st July, serving up modern Korean cuisine as part of the restaurant’s popular Guest Series. After completing a degree in Food Science at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea, Park began his extensive…
Creative partnership OrtaMiklos was formed within the walls of the Design Academy in Eindhoven, Netherlands. During their two years working together, Leo Orta and Victor Miklos have explored and challenged the traditional precincts of art and design. In their body of work entitled Creatures, the duo created a series of objects inspired from their daily…
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….