Editorial

  1. Read more: Annotations cc: Dominique Petit-Frère
    Annotations cc: Dominique Petit-Frère

    Annotations cc: Dominique Petit-Frère

    by Anoe Melliou

    Dominique Petit-Frère is the founder and director of Limbo Museum, a decentralized cultural institution operating within unfinished and abandoned s...
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  2. Read more: Primitive Buro: Objects as Explorations of Form and Meaning
    Primitive Buro: Objects as Explorations of Form and Meaning

    Primitive Buro: Objects as Explorations of Form and Meaning

    by Simone Lorusso

    We find ourselves in a period of deep global crisis. Wars are knocking the world to its knees, not only destroying our cities and land, but also ou...
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  3. Read more: Muuto and the Poetics of Everyday Space
    Muuto and the Poetics of Everyday Space

    Muuto and the Poetics of Everyday Space

    by Simone Lorusso

    In the everyday spaces through which we move, all these places are not perceived strictly in aesthetic terms but as veritable relational ecosystems...
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  4. Read more: UTIL and the Politics of Usefulness
    UTIL and the Politics of Usefulness

    UTIL and the Politics of Usefulness

    by Simone Lorusso

    The word useful appears neutral, almost benign. It belongs to the language of practicality and common sense. Yet usefulness is never merely descrip...
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  5. Read more: The Vase as Object, System, and Image
    The Vase as Object, System, and Image

    The Vase as Object, System, and Image

    by Simone Lorusso

    The vase is often presented as a neutral domestic object, but its persistence in interiors reveals more about social habits than about flowers. Whi...
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  6. Read more: Annotations cc: Gonzalez Haase AAS
    Annotations cc: Gonzalez Haase AAS

    Annotations cc: Gonzalez Haase AAS

    by Anoe Melliou

    Judith Haase and Pierre Jorge Gonzalez, following a collaboration in New York, founded the design practice Gonzalez Haase AAS, based in Berlin. Beg...
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  7. Read more: Industrial Design Wrapped: Twelve Voices, One Year
    Industrial Design Wrapped: Twelve Voices, One Year

    Industrial Design Wrapped: Twelve Voices, One Year

    by Simone Lorusso

    Dear World, the year behind us was structurally complex. Crises accumulated rather than followed one another—geopolitical instability, environmenta...
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  8. Read more: STOFF Nagel and the reinvention of an iconic artefact
    STOFF Nagel and the reinvention of an iconic artefact

    STOFF Nagel and the reinvention of an iconic artefact

    by Simone Lorusso

    When we speak of artefacts, we refer to objects that do not arise spontaneously from the natural world but take shape through intention: a n...
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  9. Read more: A Domestic Mythology: Exploring Laspi
    A Domestic Mythology: Exploring Laspi

    A Domestic Mythology: Exploring Laspi

    by Anoe Melliou

    Inside a disciplined and discreetly distorted frame, the myth of a house begins. It is hard to define its origin and end. Weighty walls form the sh...
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