TLmag40:The Ideal Home

The Director of Craft & Heritage at Fritz Hansen, Christian Andresen, talks to TLmag about the brand’s legacy and its approach to preserving their archive, reissuing iconic pieces and its role in Danish design history.

Casa Museo Molinario Colombari is a home like no other. Located in a radically renovated factory in the Isola district of Milan, Rosella Colombari and Ettore Molinario have created a dynamic, living dialogue between architecture, design, photography and sculpture.

After decades shaping the visual language of fashion and culture on a global scale, Alexandre de Betak starts a new chapter, working on his own artistic projects.

Triennale Milano pays homage to one of Italian design’s most radical minds — Andrea Branzi — through the eyes of his longtime friend and collaborator, Toyo Ito.

Amor Immeuble is an architecture practice based in Paris and Brussels that develops projects at the intersection of research, site-specific experimentation, and construction. This is an edited version of a Carte Blanche feature they contributed to TLmag40:The Ideal Home.

The Fondazione MAST presents the seventh edition of FOTO/INDUSTRIA, the Biennial of Photography on Industry and Work, running from 7 November to 14 December 2025.

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.