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Racing Spirit Supremo: A Dream Machine with an Uncompromising Soul
The Maserati MC20 is a very rapid machine with incredible aerodynamic efficiency. It received the prize for Best of the Best at the Red Dot Awards 2021 in the Product Design category. Innovative by nature, its every design detail is functional: the butterfly...
Good Things Take Time: Imagine the Result 13 Years After Designing One of the Most Significant Gardens in Connecticut
It appears wiser than ever these days to heighten our human experience of the natural world and one way to do so is to design emotive, varied, immersive public spaces that beautifully integrate built form, sophisticated horticulture, fine art detailing, and...
Hypnotic Disclosure: It Reflects Transformation, Not Costume Change Frill. This is Jewellery With a Purpose
Her calmness of mind seems to be only one among many of her beautiful jewels of wisdom; and her works have life in them. If the artist herself were something we could slide onto a finger or around a wrist, into an earlobe or fasten at the back of our...
Major Retrospective Exhibition in Rome with Precious Material from Worldwide Collections and Archives
The architect and the cities exhibition is on the Italian architect Aldo Rossi and presents over 800 drawings, sketches, notes, letters, photographs, models and documents. It celebrates Aldo Rossi over 20 years after his death and offers an opportunity to...
Unadorned Silhouettes: Peek into the Cognitive Creativity Process Behind Three Irresistible Lighting Designs
Created by renowned Japanese designer Ichiro Iwasaki for Vibia, the Flat collection features distinctive, disc-shaped diffusers that form horizontal planes of light. The flat metal plates reflect light off their surfaces, casting an enveloping, wrap-around glow...
Isn’t It Beautiful? Lexus Team Raises Ride Comfort and Drive Performance to Radical New Heights
Impeccable ride comfort has always been a defining quality of Lexus’ flagship sedan, the LS. The model helped found the brand 30 years ago, and the benchmark set by the original LS has inspired the teams developing successive LS generations to always seek to...
The Secret Starts With a Black Dot in Exceptional Privacy Where Hours Become Seconds
There being a substantial or subtle strangeness and ambiguity behind all that is beauty, really reveals more of it, doesn’t it? You might imagine someone of her creative calibre to take themselves super seriously. Thankfully, on the contrary, a curious and...
Artist Chris Soal Talks Bottle Caps and Toothpicks, Being Human and the Vanishing Burden of Goals When Taking It One Step at a Time
His fascination with the regular, somewhat mundane objects sparked after he shot a photograph of some toothpicks in a jar where he was having dinner. Initially dismissing the image as totally trivial, an experimentation a couple years later developed how Soal...
Cuisine Talents Partner with Forward-Thinking Japanese Luxury Car Brand to Publish Gorgeous Global Digital Cookbooks with Evocative Recipes
Lexus International has launched Culinary Perspectives, the first of two installments, this volume of the cookbook offers insight into the brand’s culinary partners who share an enticing menu of recipes robust with exotic flavours of the Eastern and...
Peak Form Perfection – The Never-been-this-Masculine New Audi TT RS Range
The heart of the Audi TT RS Coupé is up front: the 2.5-litre TFSI-series 5-cylinder engine. With 294kW of power and 480Nm of torque, you will pass the acceleration test of 0 to 100km/h in 3.7 seconds. The standard 7-speed S tronic and the quattro permanent...
Instinctive Skill Between Architecture and Art Merges into Light Fixtures to Tell of Nature’s Sacred Geometry
They appear to float from the ceiling, like jellyfish softly illuminating the space, enhancing the relaxed sophistication of spaces such as the culinary jewel of the landmark cultural building on the Swiss shores of Lake Lucerne. The adaptable and versatile...
Transformable Kitchens-in-Motion Encounter Freedom, Changeability and Individuality
blu_line's sensorline range continues to streamline and to strive for the extraordinary by integrating specialised knowledge and systems into the brand’s design ethos. The focus has its fingers on two central pulses: on the beat of technology; and on the beat of...
A Trip Down Legacy Lane to Celebrate this Model’s Legendary Status
A decade has passed since production began on the Lexus LFA, an authentic supercar that revealed a new aspect of Lexus as a committed and visionary manufacturer of world-class high-performance cars. For all its exclusivity and rarity – from the outset,...
Discover a New Sense of Belonging on the Edges of the Earliest Rice Fields in South Central Portugal
Infused with an elegance that only the most unpretentious simplicity can realise, every detail here invites you into a deep retreat. The gaze is carried far – no cities or landforms to hinder it. The marshes, heaths, pine forests and beaches stretch as far as the eye...
Artisanal Meets Technological in Handcrafted Bags that Digitally Record Memories
Yours truly? Well, yes. Truly and faithfully until the bag dances the intergenerational boogie and belongs to someone else in your family with all the relished moments of you connected to it. Wolf & Maiden products go on a journey with their owners, collecting...