Month: January 2026

Interiors

peter pichler echoes traditional alpine design with timber ski lift stations in italy

peter pichler architecture’s mountain stations and hut in ponte di legno reinterpret alpine lift infrastructure through a contemporary lens.
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History

Derrick Guild Summons Historical Portraits in Fragmented Trompe-l’œil Paintings

Paintings by Velázquez, Ramsay, Hodges, and more provide the starting point for Guild’s intimate works.
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FASHION

Francesco Risso Left Marni… For Cheap Clothes

Francesco Risso, the mind who spent nearly a decade making Marni… well, Marni, is now jumping ship to GU, the Japanese brand where clothes are cheap enough to be actually worn by us mortals. The ver

Interiors

BIG’s suzhou museum of contemporary art opens with ‘materialism’ exhibition

the museum readies for materialism, an inaugural exhibition curated by BIG ahead of its 2026 opening.
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Interiors

le penhuel & associés designs french school with ubiquitous wooden interiors

le penhuel & associés designs the school as a cluster of low volumes punctuated by deep-set wooden openings.
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Interiors

MVRDV embeds luminous, pearl-like lounge into its proposed inaura tower for dubai

inaura’s floorplates embed a luminous, egg-shaped volume which MVRDV designs as a club space with views across dubai.
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History

Michelangelo Made His First Masterpiece When He Was 12 Years Old

The painting was attributed to another Renaissance artist’s workshop for centuries.
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History

‘Making the Invisible Visible’ Highlights an Ambitious Digitization Project at Harvard

More than 3,000 historical scientific microscope slides are conserved and digitized to enable greater access.
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FASHION

I Saw Mbappé In Jonathan Anderson’s First Dior Campaign, Through David Sims’ Very Expensive Lens

If you ever wondered what it would look like if luxury fashion hired an elegant and bored interior decorator, Jonathan Anderson’s first Dior campaign answers that question with astonishing clarity.

Photography

Imagination and Reality intermingled in Wasteland Dream

Words TL Team
Imagination and reality intermingle, and everything appears to melt together in a continuously inventive game. “Wasteland dream” is a still-life collaboration project between set des