Now Open: Joya Studio

Info

19 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
+1 718 852 6979

Words

Last month, Joya, Frederick Bouchardy's Brooklyn-based fragrance company, opened their first retail location. The space in Clinton Hill combines a small shopfront with their production facility. The interior of the renovated 19th century rigging garage was devised by Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design, using floating wood and steel panels suspended from the ceiling. These separate the shop from the factory, but also create a strong connection between the two by allowing you to see behind the scenes, while perusing a selection of finished products.

—Joya Studio

Albers & the Bauhaus

Info

Stephen Friedman Gallery
11 Old Burlington Street
London W1S 3AQ
February 10 – March 12, 2016

Words

While the core of this exhibition revolves around the output of Josef Albers in the 1920s and '30s, it also includes the work of Marcel Breuer, Otto Lindig and Marianne Brandt, as a means of creating a more complete sense of the Bauhaus and its ideals. The resulting collection of drawings, paintings, photographs, furniture, ceramics, glassware and other objects is displayed alongside a series of artworks produced by Albers and his wife, Anni, between the 1940s and '70s. With two weeks of its run at the Stephen Friedman Gallery to go, this is an essential show for anyone interested in modernist art and design, as well as the unmistakable influence of the Bauhaus.

—Stephen Friedman Gallery

Ten Years of Margaret Howell and Eric Gill

01

Image

—01. Three different covers.

Words

StudioSmall's work with Margaret Howell is some of the design agency's most successful, achieving a consistently beautiful balance between the client's vision and their own principles – irrespective of the medium or brief. Looking at this output overall, it's the printed invitations that often stand out, and a range of them are assembled here. The 36-page commemorative publication explores the evolution of a decade-long relationship grounded in the Gill Sans typeface, alongside a contextualising essay from Eye magazine editor and co-owner John L. Walters.

—StudioSmall
—Margaret Howell

Click to view more…

In Place: Leonard Koren and the Art of Arranging Things

Info

Writer: Leigh Patterson
Photographer: Hanna Tveite

Words

For their latest editorial piece, The Line explores the theories of Leonard Koren, with particular reference to his highly collectible publication, Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement. The article is accompanied by a series of still life photographs by Hanna Tveite, which recreate Natalie Du Pasquier's paintings for the book using items from the store.

—The Line

Kaikado Tea Caddies

01

Image

—01. Only ten made each day.

Words

Kaikado began producing handmade tea caddies in 1875 using sheets of tin imported from Cornwall in the UK. The company's small Kyoto factory only makes ten each day, with incredible precision and the perfect balance between simple design and personal character. With years of use the airtight containers, available in a variety of sizes and finishes, begin to reveal a deeper appeal as they develop an ever-evolving patina.

—Available from Inform Interiors

Vintage Wassily Lounge Chairs at The Good Mod

01

Image

—01. Made by Knoll.

Words

The Wassily chair is one of the most iconic Bauhaus designs, and probably Marcel Breuer's most recognizable piece. This beautiful brown leather pair are available from West Coast retailer The Good Mod, who have a dangerous selection of vintage furniture for sale through their showroom and web store.

—Available from The Good Mod

Pleasure at Dover Street Market

01

02

Images

—01. Co-branding.
—02. Nevermind the Dirty Dancing.

Words

Jakarta-based collective, Pleasure, have just launched a handful of T-shirt designs at Dover Street Market in London and Ginza, including one in collaboration with the store itself, which reflects "the spirit of playful youth in all of us." The group of friends are particularly focused on music, throwing parties in their hometown and around the world, with an anything goes policy to the genres they embrace.

—Available from Dover Street Market

Eileen Gray by Caroline Constant

Info

Hardcover, 21 x 21cm
256 pages, 222 illustrations
Published by Phaidon

Words

"A contemporary of Pierre Chareau and Charlotte Perriand, Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is known primarily for her highly original furniture and interior design but also realized nine buildings in her lifetime and amassed an archive of more than 45 architectural projects. This monograph by Caroline Constant is the first in-depth study of Gray’s entire career, providing a generously illustrated analysis of her early designs as well as her work as an architect beginning in 1926. It draws on a wealth of archival material, plans, drawings, and photographs – including many of Gray’s own – to place her in the context of contemporary movements in design and architecture as well as twentieth-century social and cultural history."

—Available from The Line