Finding the Happiness in Clean Spaces and a Simplistic Aesthetic
Finding the Happiness in Clean Spaces and a Simplistic Aesthetic

Minimalism may be a hot trend when it comes to home decor, but for artist and designer Hanne Willmann, this simplicity isn’t a trend, but a beauty that inspires and informs her designs. In 2015, she founded Studio Hanne Willmann, an award-winning, Berlin-based multidisciplinary design studio that focuses on creating furniture, lights, and tableware—all with a transformative emphasis on detail, textiles, and craftsmanship. Hanne currently runs her eponymous studio with a passion for the aesthetic appeal found in the understated beauty of these elements. And somewhere between moving studio locations and having a baby, this wonder-woman artist has found her happiness and calm within this space.

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DesignMarissa StempienFurniture, Interview
Unconventional Thinking and Strong Aesthetics Come Naturally for VAUST Studio
Unconventional Thinking and Strong Aesthetics Come Naturally for VAUST Studio

Even in the most creative and open-minded of artistic circles, you might be hard-pressed to argue that concrete can be beautiful, let alone an artistic medium of any real merit. But Joern Scheipers and David Kosock of VAUST studio would suggest otherwise. The two CEOs and creatives see the beauty and undiscovered artistry that lies within. Their Berlin-based, award-winning interdisciplinary design studio works between interior design, object design, and creative direction to find the untold story and genius in even the most everyday materials.

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DesignMarissa StempienInterview
Sink Into the Realistic and Enchanting Spaces of Reisinger Studio
Sink Into the Realistic and Enchanting Spaces of Reisinger Studio

Barcelona-based Reisinger Studio is a multidisciplinary design practice where founder Andrés Reisinger creates the most beautiful and uplifting 3D interior and product designs. Andrés is an artist and director as well as a product, interior, and graphic designer, and co-founder of Six N. Five. His experience, in combination with contemporary culture, is at the heart of his studio. Creating spaces that look imaginative but at the same time are realistic, Andrés opts for a soft and bright atmosphere often using colors like pink, orange, yellow, and blue, and organic, rounded shapes. The designs by Reisinger Studio generate an almost endearing and enchanting feel. Reality and imagination merge, resulting in impressive dreamscapes. Andrés has previously worked with renowned interior and furniture designers such as Patricia Urquiola, Cassina, Studio Proba, and Ikea and with brands like Nike, Massimo Dutti, Samsung, and Microsoft. Today, the designer talks sensibility, style, and surreal realities.

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ArtCaroline MeeusenDigital, Interview
Uncovering the Playful and Fashionable Stylings of Sabine Marcelis
Uncovering the Playful and Fashionable Stylings of Sabine Marcelis

Where style and art collide, you’re likely to find the work of Sabine Marcelis. The artist has a client list that reads like a who’s who in the fashion, design, and creative world, and her pieces have caught the eyes of discerning clients who have found her work to be the epitome of style.

Céline, Burberry, Isabel Marant, and Fendi are just a few of the names that have combined their brand with her playful aesthetic. Whether it’s creating water sculptures for Fendi’s 2018 Design Miami collections or crafting an architectural wall of laminated glass, mirror, and aluminum for Repossi’s flagship store in Paris, her colorful artistry has captured the attention of those who appreciate the beauty in simplicity.

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Art, DesignMarissa StempienFurniture
Finding the Balance of Home Decor and Beauty With Frama
Finding the Balance of Home Decor and Beauty With Frama

Your home is a treasure trove of life’s experiences. Family, friends, adventures, history, memories, and personality combine within the home to create a place of personal beauty, respite, and comfort. To create a framework for that special place, lifestyle brand Frama has created a line of objects for the home that play with natural materials, simple silhouettes, and a timeless, straightforward aesthetic. Founded in 2011 by Niels Strøyer Christophersen, Frama was always intended to be a multi-disciplinary design brand that made everything for the home from multi-use daybeds to small accessories like candlesticks. The brand focuses on mindful living—finding the balance between simplistic beauty and a natural aesthetic while still keeping everything warm, inviting, and made for a livable, welcoming home. Niels’ own home, a 1905 watchmaker’s store near Frama’s studio in Copenhagen, is a testament to this balance of design and function.

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DesignMarissa StempienFurniture, Travel
MODO Barcelona’s Search for Beauty and Pureness In Design
MODO Barcelona’s Search for Beauty and Pureness In Design

Exploring different shapes and materials in search of beauty and pureness, the Spanish brand MODO Barcelona designs furniture pieces, decoration, and lighting for the modern space. The sculptural creations have an elegant and playful look while also radiating a certain rawness. MODO saw the light of day in 2017 when industrial design engineer and founder Javier del Toro started working on this new concept of local design along with Jaime Estela. Last year, the brand was finally ready to be launched to the market.

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DesignCaroline MeeusenFurniture, Product
Step Into the Fascinating Geometric Scenes of Photographer Clemente Vergara
Step Into the Fascinating Geometric Scenes of Photographer Clemente Vergara

Clemente Vergara is a Spanish photographer based in Barcelona. Combining his passions, he is specialized in travel and architecture photography. It was not that long ago that he picked up a camera for the first time, but he has developed an exceptionally strong eye and individual visual language since. With layers of light, shadow, colors, and shapes, he draws the viewer into his fascinating images that transport you into the world portrayed. Having always loved architecture, geometry has a main role in his works. Besides his career in photography, Clemente also works as an environmental engineer. He tries to combine the two jobs in the best way he can and voices his creativity and view in his photos. Clemente talks passions, inspirations, and how it all began.

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PhotographyCaroline MeeusenInterview
Balancing the Beauty of Architecture and Body With George Kroustallis
Balancing the Beauty of Architecture and Body With George Kroustallis

For photographer and creative director George Kroustallis, finding the feminine form in human shape, architecture, and minimalism is at the core of his creative inspiration. His photography, which is a mix of fine art and commercial work, is a beautiful blend of shape and structure, balanced with the artistry of light and dynamic storytelling. The award-winning artist and his creative agency Minorstep have worked with some of the biggest names in the industry including Lancome, Burberry, Reebok, Refinery29, and Yatzer.Creating dynamic narratives through his work, George designs around architecture and the human body to find the parallels in their structure and simplicity. Here he discusses how he got started, the drive behind his artistic vision, and how he finds harmony and correlation between his seemingly divergent subjects.

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PhotographyMarissa StempienArchitectural, Interview
Experience the Beauty of Balance With Guillaume Alan’s Project Victor Hugo
Experience the Beauty of Balance With Guillaume Alan’s Project Victor Hugo

If timelessness and serenity could always share a space, they would continuously be found within the interiors of Guillaume Alan. The conceptual architecture design studio is known for its personification of French beauty, classic lines, modern silhouettes, and just a touch of minimalism to keep everything understated. His last work, the Kennedy Residence in Paris, showcased a monochromatic, minimalist sanctuary, while his latest project, Victor Hugo, Paris, captures a balance between his luxurious purity and a shared passion for Asian design.

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Architecture, InteriorMarissa Stempien
Capturing the Beauty Between Light & Shadow in Italian Design
Capturing the Beauty Between Light & Shadow in Italian Design

An in-depth Google search for photographer Paolo Abate would garner you very little results, but that’s how the artist prefers it. While admittedly a very private person, he makes no hesitation in turning his lens on the world around him, showcasing the beauty of Italian design through the mediums of structure and illumination. A dance between light and shadow, on a backdrop of architectural design, his photographs capture the beauty of any space with a well-placed beam of light.

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PhotographyMarissa Stempien
Portraying Serenity Through an Architectural Perspective
Portraying Serenity Through an Architectural Perspective

Greek photographer Yiorgos Kordakis captures the most beautiful and sober minimalistic architectural sceneries. Focusing on pureness and serenity and ridding us of “visual pollution,” he imagines the world how it should be. After having studied automobile design in Turin and media management in London, Yiorgos returned to his home country to serve in the air force. He never anticipated becoming a photographer, but life proved itself to be surprising and unexpected because, after some experimenting, it led him to a professional career in photography. Today, he has been working as a freelance photographer for more than twenty years in New York and Athens. Yiorgos’ works vary between capturing interior, architecture, and people, and he also worked in black and white and with polaroids. By instinct, the artist is drawn most to architectural photography. His imagery has a soft and sober feel while making the architecture and sites come into their own. His photos have been published in internationally-renowned magazines such as Vogue UK, Elle, Architectural Digest, and more, and he has won several awards. Yiorgos tells us more about his path to a career in photography and shooting with perspective.

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PhotographyCaroline MeeusenArchitectural, Interview
Discover the Feminine Shapes and Softness of FAINA Design’s Divine DOMNA Armchair
Discover the Feminine Shapes and Softness of FAINA Design’s Divine DOMNA Armchair

FAINA Design presented a beautiful new design piece at the art fair Collectible 2020. The DOMNA is a stunner of an armchair with elegant, feminine shapes and a soft cloud-like feel. “This new design piece with a soft, and at the same time hawkish temper, tends to be the mistress of any space,” says its designer Victoriya Yakusha, the creative mind behind the Ukrainian studio FAINA Design.

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DesignCaroline MeeusenFurniture
Finding Balance and Peace in the Natural Beauty With House of Grey
Finding Balance and Peace in the Natural Beauty With House of Grey

For over 20 years, Louisa Grey of House of Grey has been perfecting her hand at interior design. Whether for residential or commercial properties, she has created a niche aesthetic through the use of locally-sourced, sustainable, and natural materials to bring the organic imperfections of nature indoors. Her work blends form and function, allowing businesses and homeowners the opportunity to grow and flourish in the space, making it their own as it evolves with them.

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Interior, DesignMarissa StempienInterview
Gurilla Speaks to the Imagination With Soft Enthralling Anonymous Portraits and Prints
Gurilla Speaks to the Imagination With Soft Enthralling Anonymous Portraits and Prints

Guðrið Syderbø, better known as Gurilla, is a graphic designer from the Faroe Islands who creates the most enchanting and mysterious portraits and prints. With soft colors, blurry imagery, and emotional perspectives she draws you into her work. Gurilla takes inspiration from atmosphere, moments, silence, situations, and intuition, and transfers this into her work to inspire others. Even without showing actual faces, she manages to achieve a great sense of vulnerability and emotion in her prints.She has been making these prints since 2014 but has long been interested in interior and furniture design as well. That is why she is finally turning her dream to make furniture into a reality. The chair she is designing may not have the same gentle sensation as her prints, but will likely be just as creative. Gurilla talks about her creative process, portraits, and future in furniture design.

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Design, ArtCaroline MeeusenInterview
Step Into the Sophisticated 3D World of Designer Stefano Giacomello
Step Into the Sophisticated 3D World of Designer Stefano Giacomello

Montreal-based designer and art director Stefano Giacomello creates the most realistic and stunning 3D renderings of interior spaces and objects. His experience in 3D modeling allows him to design impressive and unique projects that draw you into a hyper-realistic fabricated world. A set designer at the Canadian design studio Lambert & Fils, he also creates his own one-of-a-kind pieces, using his Instagram to share his wondrous creations.

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Design, ArtCaroline MeeusenDigital, Interview
Exploring the World of Fine Art With the Curated Collections at The Ode To
Exploring the World of Fine Art With the Curated Collections at The Ode To

They say your home is your castle, but for lovers of interior design and the fine arts, your home feels more like a canvas. Whether it’s the prints on your walls, the antique furniture in your living room, or the objet d’art displayed on your shelves, your home is a representation of your personality and passions. It’s filled with pieces that move you, that remind you of a special place, or someone close to you. For those who use their home to surround themselves with the exquisite and meaningful, The Ode To has created a finely-curated collection of handmade pieces from emerging artists around the world.

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ArtMarissa StempienSculptures
Discover Supaform’s Geometric Play With Furniture and Interior Design
Discover Supaform’s Geometric Play With Furniture and Interior Design

The Russian architecture and design studio Supaform pushes the boundaries of interplay between disciplines like architecture, sculpture, and painting. Founded by Maxim Scherbakov, the studio focuses on furniture and interior design with a geometric and playful twist. The visionary designs are unusual and seem minimalistic yet say it all by their strong, geometric and often colorful shape. Going back to the essence, the Supaform spaces and custom furniture pieces make use of strong contrasts both in color and in shape resulting in ever-interesting and playful creations with a retro vibe. Maxim Scherbakov takes us through his process.

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Design, InteriorCaroline MeeusenInterview