News Archive | May 2016

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May 31st
- Norman Kelley designs Aesop Chicago using reclaimed bricks
- True colours: artist Daniel Buren’s kaleidoscopic takeover at Paris’ Le Bristol hotel
- Musical chairs: Daniel Libeskind unveils new installation in Frankfurt
- Lifestyle lab: Nendo overhauls Siam Discovery department store in Bangkok
- Espousing Oddity: piloting Buckminster Fuller’s futuristic Dymaxion car
May 27th
- London home: Moooi opens new store in the heart of the capital
- Mid-market masterpiece: BMW reveal the M2 Coupé
- Cebu’s new Bus Rapid Transit line celebrates its first stations by CAZA
- ’Heliotropia’: Byredo debuts a new perfume inspired by Liberty London
- New York townhouse: The Row opens its latest flagship in Manhattan
May 26th
- Skin and ritual: Aesop’s mesmerising Melbourne windows
- Istanbul gallery Dirimart inaugurates new space designed by Studio MDA
May 25th
- Creative collaboration: a sculptor's house echoes the Canadian woods around it
- Eternal love for the pumpkin: Yayoi Kusama takes over Victoria Miro, London
- Ana Arana's tiny kitchen wins over ICFF
- Clean Beauty Co: the new beauty brand that’s cleaning up
May 24th
- Digital futures: Sam Jacob Studio creates an installation based on the humble shed
- Home from home: James Rosenquist at the Judd Foundation
- Abstract space: BD Barcelona opens first UK space at Clerkenwell Design Week
- Netzwerkarchitekten and Heike Klussmann reimagine the art of travel
- Empire rising: Mast Brothers opens a mammoth factory/boutique in LA
- Grand statements: Ai Weiwei unveils new works at Athens’ Cycladic Art Museum
May 23rd
- Cover to cover: Papier launches range of personalised notebooks
- New era: Apple unveils futuristic new store in San Francisco’s Union Square
- Made pure: the Campana Brothers and Stephan Hamel create Fontana Etruria
- Pastel prisms: Dawn Ng’s free-ranging installation at Hermès’ Aloft space
May 20th
- Just like Buddy Holly: DSAI design a Texas music centre that’s good at everything
- Full tilt: Bernard Frize’s contemporary drip paintings at Galerie Perrotin
- Clay collective: Arita House opens in Amsterdam, displaying perfect porcelain
- Johnston Sans: TfL toasts 100 years of signage during Clerkenwell Design Week
- New space: Tess Jaray's colourful works at the relaunched Megan Piper in London
May 19th
- Hold the phone: start-up tech firm Insensi reinvents the landline
- Through the grapevine: Lee Ufan at Château La Coste's new vineyard gallery
- Bold as brass: Neri & Hu design an impactful Sulwhasoo flagship
- Knock on wood: Snøhetta-designed Aesop ION store opens in Singapore
- Moroccan jewel: Studio KO reveals design for new Yves Saint Laurent museum
- Balancing act: Case-Real convert Japanese storehouse into modern work space
- Dark arts: an Austrian jeweller’s alchemical approach
- A strong case: travel in style with new carry-on luggage from Arlo Skye
May 18th
- ’Pittura Analitica: 1970s’: the rebellious Italian art movement comes to London
- Mixing it up: O CÉU is a new Eurocentric modern furniture brand
- Parisian pedigree: L’Artisan Parfumeur relaunches its classic French fragrance line
- The drawn word: SFMoMA tracks the modern evolution of typography
- This American life: Lisson Gallery opens a spacious new outpost in New York
- Art house: Laurence Kavanagh’s filmic works channel Mayfair’s Curzon cinema
May 17th
- Shaken and stirred: Studio Caramel brings back the bar cart in Beirut
- Round two: Marta Sala presents second Editions furniture collection in New York
- Touch wood: Katie Paterson and Zeller & Moye unveil Hollow installation in Bristol
- One shot: there’s more than nostalgia to the I-1, a new digital-age Polaroid
May 16th
- Welcome wagon: a slew of new design showrooms open in New York City
- Out of Africa: Francis Kéré’s community architecture arrives in Philadelphia
- Back to the future: Helsinki City Museum’s impressive new home
- What matters now: Matter reveals new products by a host of rising design stars
May 13th
- Super size: the Mercedes S-Class Cabriolet is a drop-top with grandeur
- Stroke of genius: Japanese brand Shaquda’s range of brushes
- Made to order: OTHR, a new design brand championing 3D printed wares
- Pop art: Tatabi Studio makes microwavable popcorn pretty
- Renaissance man: Jan Fabre’s sculptural dialogue with Florence
- Galerie Patrick Seguin explores Maison du Brésil and Chandigarh in new dual shows
- Breath of fresh air: Dyson debuts new hairdryer, entitled Supersonic
May 12th
- Louis Kahn’s renovated Yale Center for British Art unveiled
- Observatory of Light: Daniel Buren at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
- 'Sculpture in the Garden': Pangolin London shows works in King's Cross
- Concrete curves: we take in the charms of an under-construction museum in Spain
- London calling: Michael Kors weighs in on his supersized Regent Street flagship
May 11th
- Scents and the city: Handsome London’s capital new fragrances
- Textiles, trinkets and taxidermy: Anabela Chan’s designs at Les Ateliers Courbet
- Weird & wonderful: the Dirty Art Department's experimental school
- Double vision: a Miami home blurs the boundaries between urban and wild living
- Gathering pace: the 2016 London Festival of Architecture reveals its programme
May 10th
- Toad in the hole: Toiletpaper launches vibrant limited edition monograph
- Wild side: A Nova Scotian retreat is geared to its dramatic setting
- Rafael de Cárdenas brings a touch of retail theatre to St Petersburg’s Au Pont Rouge
- Lease of life: a hidden gem of Brazilian modernism reopens as an art gallery
- Heading south: Espasso opens a new showroom in Miami Ironside
- Winning season: the Aga Khan Award for Architecture releases 2016 shortlist
May 9th
- New heights: a cable car line proposal to offer new perspective to Chicago visitors
- Arcade games: Antonini Darmon unveil latest housing development in Paris
- Good & Proper Tea: London brew champions open Leather Lane tea bar
- Colouring outside the lines: Normann Copenhagen launches stationery line
- Fresh platforms: Chart Art Fair reveals new Design section for 2016
- Tool of the trade: Mario Botta creates a limited edition Fixpencil for Caran d’Ache
May 6th
- Celebrating the old: La Boverie breathes new life to Liège’s Fine Arts Museum
- Break the mold: Adam Silverman debuts new ceramic works at Friedman Benda
- Pretty in pink: Aquazzura opens a well-heeled boutique in New York
- Building blocks: architecture studio Planbureau launches new concrete puzzle
- Madison moves: Moynat adds NYC to its portfolio of international storefronts
May 5th
- Relocation relocation: Artek settles into a new Helsinki home
- 443 Greenwich: a book bindery in New York’s Tribeca is transformed into residences
- Masters old and new: Hannah Martin unveils a modern classic in New York
- ’Behind Closed Doors’: Esther Stewart’s strict forms at Sarah Cottier Gallery
May 4th
- UCL’s Sainsbury Wellcome Centre is a translucent experimental laboratory
- Fizzical force: Feudi di San Gregorio’s new Dubl bubble
- The big reveal: RIBA London announces the winners of its 2016 Regional Awards
- See the wood for the trees: Robin Wood and Barn the Spoon do dinner at Craft
May 3rd
- Walk the line: Nendo unveils new designs at Collective Design Fair
- #1 crush: Samuel Amoia presents a limited-edition collection for DeLorenzo Gallery
- Molten forces: Harry Allen and Esque combine glass and metal to novel effect
- George Kravis’ epic design collection finds a home at the Cooper Hewitt, New York
- ’Muguet Porcelaine’: Jean-Claude Ellena’s sparkling swansong for Hermès
- Design finalists unveil their concepts for the reinvented Pershing Square, LA
- Modern marvel: Living Architecture adds Pawson-designed Welsh retreat to roster
- ‘Tra L'Occhio e L'Ombra’: Sam Orlando Miller gets illusory at Gallery Fumi
- ’Collection 1’: the sunglasses throwing shade at the mass-market
- The return of the POP Swatch watch