Willy Packnett, 61, never thought he would be faced with losing his home. Now, a prominent Oakland landlord has purchased the house he lives in and doubled his monthly rent.
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Camilla Sterne
Vitra Design Museum opens new exhibition space showcasing classics
Germany’s Vitra Design Museum has opened a new archive and exhibition space called Schaudepot, which brings the gallery’s 7,000 piece collections out of storage and into public view.
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The changing libraryness of libraries
As funding cuts sound the knell for UK branch libraries, a new breed is emerging worldwide. What do these modern marvels say about the role of contemporary libraries? Final project for Masters in Magazine Journalism at City University London.
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More is More
Wataru Tominaga’s clothing designs are brazen. They have a sense of childlike abandon — the sort of outlandish shapes a youngster might concoct when set loose with a handful of markers and a giant notepad.
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The Eighth Wonder of the World
The Brunel Museum opens a music venue and exhibit space in the historic Thames Tunnel, thanks to a staircase and doorway engineered by London architecture firm Tate Harmer.
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The Spectre of Milan: Marco de Vincenzo
For the 2016 iteration of Milan’s Salone del Mobile, Disegno created a large format newspaper that shares oral histories about Milan’s place in design lore.
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Forty
The XCity Anniversary Supplement. Made with peers during my Masters at City University London in 2016.
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Volez, Voguez, Voyagez — Louis Vuitton
“Volez, Voguez, Voyagez avec des valises Louis Vuitton” were the words sprawled across a 1965 advertisement mock-up encouraging people to “Fly, Sail, Travel with Louis Vuitton suitcases”. A new book edited by French curator Olivier Saillard borrows the advert’s phrasing for its title.
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Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear
Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear, a new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is an expansive reveal of fashion behind the seams from the mid-18th century to present day.
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Top five picks from Lumiere London: the capital’s light festival
The light installation festival is illuminating London this weekend with 30 different installations—from fish in a telephone booth to hundreds of colourful, plastic bottles.
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