Blistered Leather and Melted Aluminum — Soft Baroque’s New Works Were Inspired By the Sun

After a year of pretty much everything being on hold, we’re finally seeing the fruits of some of that pre-COVID labor. For those of us here in Milan, that means projects originally slated for the canceled 2020 Design Week are at last seeing the light of day. One of the better projects to have made it out the other side is Sun City, a collaboration between PIN-UP magazine, Soft Baroque, and Marséll, the Milanese footwear brand. Set over three levels in Marséll’s headquarters in an ex-factory in the Porta Romana district, Soft Baroque debuted — during the Digital Design Days in April — a slew of new work, each piece loosely inspired by the sun.

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03.02.21

Sighted

This New York Designer Turned His West Village Walk-Up Into a Design Showroom

Bereft of the camaraderie and inspiration that's provided in a normal year by design parties, openings, and exhibitions, Olivier Garcé and Clio Dimofski, partners in life and at the New York arm of Pierre Yovanovitch's New York office, moved a passel of furniture into their West Village apartment and opened it up by appointment only.

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01.14.19

Excerpt: Exhibition

From a 19th-Century French Metalworking Atelier, New Work by Four Exciting Designers

Curated by Léa Padovani and Sébastien Kieffer of POOL, the exhibition highlights a collection of eight pieces created by POOL, Fabien Cappello, Paul Loebach, and Fredrik Paulsen in collaboration with Atelier François Pouenat, a 130-year-old metalworking atelier in the north of France.

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09.13.18

Excerpt: Exhibition

14 Up-and-Coming American Designers, In a Show Curated By One of Their Own

As people whose job it is to track emerging designers — particularly those on the American scene — it's rare that we walk into a show to find incredible work by a roster of relative unknowns. And yet that's exactly what happened when I rolled up to Fernando Mastrangelo's studio in deep (deep) Brooklyn last Friday night for the opening party of In Good Company: Material Culture. It's the second exhibition Mastrangelo has curated in his space — this time alongside Architectural Digest's senior design writer Hannah Martin.

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