Born in Switzerland in 1919, Mira Schendel moved to Brazil in the mid twentieth century and became one of the country’s most important and prolific artists. Her work spans between...

With her radically unflinching style, British photographer Corinne Day changed the face of fashion forever.If the defining look of the 1980s was all brash colour, spandex and conspicuous consumption, the...

This sequence of images relates to one house, which is ultimately the subject of these pictures. The photographs, taken at different moments of the project’s life, depict mostly materials, textures...

Through the lens of his signature Rolleiflex camera, Malian photographer Malick Sidibé took the portrait of an Africa the wider world had never seen. It was joyous, proud and assuredly...

Betts Project is an art gallery, which promotes architects’ works by exhibiting materials that have been produced as part of the design process. As its founder Marie Coulon, says herself, it...

Positioned by the bay window, amongst the oversized Yucca plants and a neat stack of Mies van der books, was his Marcel Breuer chair. With each of us struggling to...

Aino Marsio Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer, a founding member of Artek, the visionary furniture and interiors firm, and partner in the practice of her celebrated husband Alvar...

Within the SU18 collection I have cultivated a mien of indolence, embracing simplicity and subtlety. As ever, I have approached all aspects of design for the collections from a very masculine perspective, the detail...

Tadao Ando was raised within Osaka’s typical shitamachi, a mixed use neighbourhood comprising of low-income row houses, shops and small factories. The streets served as school and the factories as...