Lameice Abu Aker is a designer living between Jerusalem and Milan. She studied furniture design at the Politecnico in Milan, but a chance encounter with a generations-old family glass workshop in the village of Jaba, Palestine, inspired her to create Ornamental by Lameice, a wildly creative collection of glassware and tableware. TLmag spoke with Abu Aker about her creative practice, her fascination with the alchemy of glass and the history of glass-making in Palestine.
From a barn in rural Spain, to a small showroom in London, to collections with designers including Neri & Hu, Manuel Aires Mateus and Sam Baron, De La Espada continues to innovate and expand while always staying true to its belief in slow, handcrafted design.
Spazio Nobile presents “A Complementary Grammar of Creation,” a duo-show by Kiki van Eijk & Joost van Bleiswijk, curated by Maria Cristina Didero. The exhibition opened on September 4th as part of the RendezVous Brussels Gallery Weekend.
The Swedish Institute in Paris presents “Blazing Grace” a group exhibition of five leading glass artists whose work is reframing the legacy Swedish Grace movement and blazing a new future in Swedish glass. The exhibition is on view between September 3-September 21, 2025.
Spanish architect Alejandra Esteve talks to TL Mag about her early influences, the foundation of her multidisciplinary practice ERENTIA, and her commitment to designing spaces that resonate emotionally while addressing broader contexts.
The fall art season kicks off on September 4th with the opening of RendezVous – Brussels Art Week, a citywide initiative that brings together galleries, museums, artist studios, auction houses and more, highlighting the city’s diverse and dynamic art and culture scene.
Viúva Lamego is an icon of Portuguese ceramic traditions and after 175 years, is managing to lead the way with contemporary collaborations, from the tiled roof on Kengo Kuma’s design for the Gulbenkian Museum to Joana Vasconcelos’s wild ‘Wedding Cake’ at the Rothschild Foundation.
The Fondation Thalie in Arles presents Géologie des âmes (Geology of Souls), a collective exhibition drawn from the Nathalie Guiot Collection and set in a restored 18th-century hôtel particulier. The exhibition has been prolonged an additional week, August 23-30.
During Lisbon Design Week, Oficina Marques partnered with Spacegram Studios and the heritage ceramics company Viúva Lamego, to present “Arcádia,” a joyful, contemplative temple-like structure that was adorned with a new collection of handcrafted tiles that are inspired by the botanical world.
Between August 8-31, Spazio Nobile presents Panoramic, a solo show dedicated to Belgian photographer Frederik Vercruysse, hosted in a modernist 1970s villa in Knokke Le Zoute.
The Art & History Museum in Brussels unveils two new galleries dedicated to Art Nouveau and Art Deco, reaffirming Belgium’s rich cultural heritage in these two important artistic movements.
Together with a group of students from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Dr. Niklas Maak helped develop a prototype of tiny home housing for refugees living in Frankfurt. He wrote about the experience and the tiny home movement for our 2024 print issue: TLmag40: The Ideal Home.
