This extended edition of TLmag’s 32nd printed edition highlights the energy and daring of the designers who throw themselves body and soul into the challenge of hand and material.
As their exhibition, Next of Europe, part of the 2022 Venice edition of Homo Faber was getting underway, Stefano Boeri and Jean Blanchaert spoke with TLmag about their vision on craft and the importance of supporting master artisans around the world.
Anders Herwald Ruhwald on what drew him to the work of Swedish modernist ceramicist, Carl-Harry Stålhane, and how his current exhibition, “Ruhwald vs. Stålhane”, explores this relationship through clay and glazing. The exhibition, curated by Love Jönsson, is on view at the Rian Design Museum through April 24th.
”It is about making sculptures with constraints”, TLmag spoke to Benoît Maire about the new show at Galerie Nathalie Obadia and his practice.
“No place in the world would be alien to Sheila Hicks. Her particular sensitivity absorbs and selects, from each voyage of discovery, experiences, and visions that she stores in her mind’s eye for some future use.” Beyond Craft: The Art Fabric
Ernst Gamperl creates large-scale wooden vessels, expertly crafting the material to reveal and express natural details and textures. In this careful and considered process, knots, bulges, splits, indentations, and scars are elevated, shown to be integral parts of the material’s history and lifespan.
For over two decades, Luis Laplace has designed bespoke interiors and architectural spaces, embracing craftsmanship, atmosphere and the nuances of contemporary art.
Contemporary Czech glass art has created a major imprint in the world, and today is pulsating, full of life, and a vibrant component of the global scene. This new generation of glass artists is defined by a sense of artistic restlessness – a generation searching and experimenting.
“Kosmic memories” reveals extraordinary architectures, veritable totems of the civilization of the future erected as so many signs of a possible elsewhere. It is not… Read more
In a small town in the centre of Mallorca, Huguet has been manufacturing cement tiles for nearly a century. A heritage company that has managed to grow and shift with the times, always emphasizing tradition alongside a contemporary vision.
TLmag catches up with multifaceted creator Hubert Barrère, most known as being the artistic director of the Paris-based embroidery Maison Lesage. Caught between art, fashion and contemporary creation, the conversation dives into the Maison’s ethos, the gesture of the corset and the emotion of craftsmanship.
Norwegian Crafts’ latest five-part book series edited by André Gali explores the core phenomena that make up the field of contemporary craft.
TLmag sat down with Pierre Yovanovitch to talk about his practice as architect and his project La Casa de Quinta da Côrte.
