In ‘Architecton’, Russian documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky spans a wide arc from building to the stability and aesthetics of life. His witness is the architect and designer Michele De Lucchi. Stone circles and arches, quarries and […]
As Philippe Starck puts it at the beginning of Saléha Gherdane’s documentary, she was “an eccentric”, a “high priestess” whom no one could hold a candle to. Andrée Putman (1925 to 2013), born Aynard, came from […]
Even people who are critical of the automobile know his name: Enzo Ferrari. After all, they say, he was “one of the most famous Italians after Leonardo da Vinci”. Today, Ferrari is a global brand. But […]
Many people are familiar with the large-scale floral patterns, the play with geometric shapes and many other colourful fabric designs of the Finnish company Marimekko. The Finnish artist Maija Isola (1927 to 2001) worked as a […]
Do you know the Anglepoise Type 75 lamp? Or the Kodak Instamatic 33 camera that was widely used in the 1960s? Or have you ever seen the British Railways Intercity Type 125? Do you know the […]
A single storey, green surroundings, relaxed, modern: it is originally from Asia, is seen by the French as a holiday home and was regarded as a modern dacha in the GDR. In post-war West Germany, it […]
