Art & Nature

Little known to many who visit the island of Mallorca for sea and sun, is that the island was once home to one of modernism’s leading architects, Jørn Utzon.

The interior designer’s very first furniture collection is handcrafted in her home-country of Belgium, and brings furniture to its essence of being a lifelong ‘travelling companion’.

Until February 2021, Belgian museum CID au Grand-Hornu presents ‘Plant Fever’: a traveling exhibition that looks at the development of phyto-centered (or plant-originated) design.

A unique dining experience within an art gallery; Snarkitecture made it happen. The New York-based collaborative design practice recently completed the design for 3110NZ by LDH kitchen, which is a new cultural destination in Tokyo.

“Gritty, wild stuff”, is how Schloss Hollenegg for Design and mischer’traxler studio describe the presented investigations of the role of design and its relationship with our natural environment in their exhibition during this year’s Vienna Design Week.

Before Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian, there was Hilma af Klint. After a breakout exhibition of her work in their Stockholm museum back in 2013, Malmö’s Moderna Musseet revisits the Swedish artist’s oeuvre to present new insights into af Klimt’s systematic research.

Now available through MoMa’s ‘Virtual Views’ programme, Neri Oxman’s latest exhibition not only takes a critical look at the future of architecture and design, but also aims to re-define the role of the designer as the initiator of a process, rather than the decisive form-giver of an object. 

The path between BOZAR and Gooik leads to the Third Paradise, in a landscape that evokes the Primitive Dutch canvases.

If her concept for building an island bridge out of salt in the middle of the Dead Sea becomes a reality, artist Sigalit Landau will have created a symbol for connection and hope in the Middle East

Within Louis Carré’s iconic house built by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto in the late 1950s, visitors can now experience the fine artworks of three contemporary Finnish artists: Laura Laine, Kustaa Saksi and Kim Simonsson.

For over a decade, Belgian designer Lucile Soufflet has been inspired by the individual, a sense of fun, and a rational perspective play. Recently, Spazio Nobile Gallery commissioned her to design a piece of furniture for the gallery: a metal circular bench has now taken place in the back of the garden, in dialogue with the existing furniture, and inaugurating the outdoor collection of the gallery.

With her image as the cover for TLmag’s 31st print edition, we decided to take a stroll down memory lane and take another look at Amy Hilton’s ever more relevant reflections on how isolation and solitude are among the keys to gaining a sense of unrestrained creativity.