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GLAZED EYES

For your consideration, Cabinet Books’ Notes on Glaze: 18 Photographic Investigations by poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum.
Notes on Glaze collects Koestebaum’s “Legends” columns for Cabinet. From 2010-2015, he wrote captions for photographs selected by the magazine’s editors, provided he was not acquainted with the image beforehand.
What results resembles a sophisticated Pictionary, in which the caption [...]

MONO.KULTUR #40: EDMUND DE WAAL

Dear Friends,
we’re not quite sure what happened with that last year, and if anybody has seen it, please let us know. In the meantime, we are proud to return from our involuntary hiatus with a splendid new issue – mono.kultur #40, no less – with the wonderful British ceramicist, artist and writer Edmund de Waal.
Edmund [...]

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Throwback, extant. Originally published in Emigre #65, Rob Giampietro and Rudy VanderLans’s conversation on the Default Systems Design aesthetic and the search for the standard.

Pimp Someone’s Ride

Whatever happened to suburban car tuning?, wondered Max Siedentopf. To help people figure out their individual car style, Siedentopf pimped cars overnight adding cardboard modifications. In an interview with the Telegraph he stressed his concern that the potential of self-expression is often neglected in cars.

THE WHITE RIBBON

The White Ribbon makes handmade leather shoes and accessories gathered from sustainable sources. At their shop in Berlin you can find the perfect pair of ballet flats and that tote bag you’ve been looking for. By ordering your shoes in the shop or online, you do not only support slow fashion but also craftsmanship, your local [...]

THE PYGMALION EFFECT

As the holiday season is coming to an end, we are still looking for reasons to stay or even to go back to some of our favorite spots this summer. Cyprus for instance has not only a multilayered history, but also an eclectic contemporary art scene. Part of it is Neoterismoi Toumazou, a former novelty [...]

A CHAIR FOR MARUGAME

Martino Gamper first attracted widespread attention in 2007 with the project 100 Chairs in 100 Days, for which he reworked elements of existing  chairs into a collection of charismatic new pieces of furniture. Taking on the ultimate design object of the chair within severe self-imposed constraints in terms of time and material, the results were [...]

BANG BANG PEGBOARD

Inspired by battleships, the iconic childhood game. The neat layout of the plywood canvas allows for a satisfying, organized arrangement – the Bang Bang Pegboard.

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Waiting in line, or queuing if you prefer, used to be a cultural strategy to cope with deficit. In an age of abundance, waiting becomes a monastery-like virtue. But not it’s not only selective minimalism of urban micro-brew knowledge, third wave coffee meticulousness or single speed bike fetishism indicating the less is beautiful consumerism: Please, [...]

MY OWN PRIVATE I DON’T KNOW

Photograph by Skylar Williams (for Purple Fashion)
Eckhaus Latta once again proved their inventive and avant garde take on fashion at this years New York Fashion Week FW 2015. Being reminiscent of a certain nostalgia paired with the flair of contemporary twenty-somethings, the runway show merged into an artistic performance. The FW collection was also presented [...]