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.
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.
The Vitra Design Museum presents “The Shakers: A World in the Making”, an engaging and comprehensive exhibition around this unique American design style that also examines what possibilities its values offer us today. The exhibition is on view through September 28th, 2025.
Willie Morlon received the Grand Prize of the Jury Van Cleef & Arpels in Toulon for the Design Parade Toulon, 2024. This summer, Morlon presents Wunder Haus, a dedicated exhibition as part of the 2025 Design Parade Toulon.
For the 2024 issue of TLmag40: The Ideal Home, Bolivian architect Freddy Mamami Silvestre wrote about his architectural practice based in the Neo-Andean Style, including his singular ‘Cholets’, multi-purpose, public and private buildings that embrace the country’s layered culture and past.
This summer, the Palais Galliera opens a major exhibition dedicated to the work of avant-garde fashion designer Rick Owens. For our 2025 print issue: TLmag40: The Ideal Home, Marie Honnay spoke to Michèle Lamy, artist, performer, fashion icon, and partner of Owens about the hybrid home they share.
For the 2024 issue: TLmag40: The Ideal Home, curator Romy Cockx wrote about the relationship between fashion and interiors in an essay titled: Wearing the Home in Times of Anxiety. This is a subject which she explores more deeply in the current exhibition: Fashion & Interiors: A Gendered Affair, currently on view at MoMu, the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. Fashion & Interiors: A Gendered Affair explores the interaction between fashion and interiors, with a focus on complex gender dynamics. The exhibition also examines the responses of several influential designers, with a particular emphasis on the visual fusion between these two forms of expression. Herewith is Cockx’s essay reproduced in full with images from the exhibition.
For the 2024 print issue of TLmag40: The Ideal Home, architect, design researcher and writer Ibrahim Kombarji interviewed Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma about the idea of ‘being home’.
Our 2024-2025 yearly edition: TLmag 40: The Ideal Home, guest edited by Chris Dercon, is now out in newsstands and online via Cafeyn. The 300 page issue brings together an engaging and provocative exploration of what is meant by the ‘Ideal Home’.
Early in 2024, Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer completed work on The Cabanon, a micro apartment of 6.89m2 in Rotterdam.
