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“I am hoping to change the paradigm, push people to dream and undergo risk. It is not because you are rich that you should waste material. It is not because you are poor that you should not try to create quality. Everyone deserves quality, everyone deserves luxury, and everyone deserves comfort. We are interlinked and concerns in climate, democracy, and scarcity are concerns for us all.” Francis Kéré,winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2022 From Gando—in Burkina Faso, where he was born in 1965—and for the whole world, this architect based in Berlin (Germany) has come to change the paradigm of architectural practice. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize this year and that is very good news, but it is even better news that there is someone like him, with…

“Conversation.” That is the word Valentina Volchkova repeats most persistently. At 36 years old, the head of the prestigious Pace Gallery in Geneva is convinced that there is no better tool in her profession, nor a better guarantee of survival, than the power of the word. “The digital world will never be able to replace human relationships, art galleries will survive forever”, she assures during a Zoom conference. She talks to this magazine in one of the few breaks in her frenetic schedule, just a few days after inaugurating a theatrical production of Puccini’s Turandot promoted by the artists’ collective Team Lab. Another memorable event to add to a resume as precocious as it is spectacular, and one that has made Volchkova one of the most influential women in the…

Dean hurries past the phoenix theatre, dodges a blind man in dark glasses, steps onto Charing Cross Road… And so begins Utopia Avenue, the vibrant and courageous new novel by David Mitchell, set in the musical revolution of London in the 60’s. It is a journey full of music, thanks to the band led by folk singer Elf Holloway, and with bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin, a fictional band created in great detail in the author’s mind. David Mitchell, English novelist and screenwriter, author of titles such as Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas, a novel made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, co-writer of Sense 8 and Matrix Revolutions, is undoubtedly one of the leading writers of our time.…

“Designers and architects brought the fire of our kiln into the heart of their creativity”.Silvia Damiani, president of VENINI and vice president of the Damiani Group. Autumn 1921. Venetian artist Vittorio Zecchin strolls through the Galleria dell’Accademia of his native city. A painting by Veronese catches his eye and, within that painting, The Annunciation, a detail: a vase, simple and rounded in its forms, transparent and of infinite beauty. Not long ago Zecchin had joined as artistic director the business duo formed by the Milanese lawyer Paolo Venini and the Venetian antique dealer Giacomo Cappellin, who had just founded “Vetri Soffiati Cappellin Venini & C.”, dedicated to glass work. Spring 2022. At the latest edition of the Milan Salone, the firm that inherited that work, VENINI, presents Veronese Kintsugi. The…

SOLO HOUSE OFFICE KGDVS – A place to get lost in, a breathtaking landscape untouched by humankind. Nature in its purest state. The view is one of the first most striking sensations we experience, it is located in an estate of 247 acres of pristine nature in the region of Matarraña, Teruel. And for those who want to explore the area we recommend visiting Cretas, a nearby medieval village of only 600 inhabitants, a walk through Calaceite, or bathing in summer in the natural pools that give so much fame to the region of Matarraña. There are many cultural routes to be undertaken, such as the route of the Iberian burial mounds of the 7th and 6th centuries BC. THE ACCOMMODATION Meters: 2000 sq Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Beds: 3…

It was during a visit to Washington DC in January 2019 that Diego Guerrero began to understand the dimension of World Central Kitchen. The chef from Vitoria at the helm of the two Michelin-starred DSTAgE and the other members of his gastronomic project had been invited by his friend José Andrés to offer a joint dinner at Minibar—a restaurant deserving of just as many stars. By then, the Asturian chef had already become a first-class media figure. Not only for the success of his restaurants in cities like Las Vegas and New York or for his contagious charisma, but for a humanitarian activism that has led him to be considered one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine on two occasions. “He is a gift…

The first thing that attracted Bernd Schmahl (Hamburg, 62 years of age) to Palma de Mallorca was not architecture, but the Mediterranean Sea: “I had taken a sabbatical year to finish my training as a diving instructor and I came here”. In the following winter, and hardly speaking Spanish, Schmahl was already working in a studio, thus beginning a professional career on the island that would culminate in 2005, with the opening of his own studio, Arbes. Since then, the German’s vision, strongly influenced by Japanese philosophy, has become one of the most sought-after and respected on the island. And in his impressive list of projects, Can Axartell stands as one of the jewels in the crown and the culmination of the sustainable commitment and integration with the environment that…

I have to admit that before this article I had not enjoyed the work of the wonderful photographer Jesús Roncandio. Now I feel very fortunate to have been able to discover the whole universe that surrounds him. Jesús Rocandio is a photographer who knows his medium and all the facets of the world of photography. In the 80’s he opened one of the first art galleries specialized in photography in Spain in Logroño (La Rioja), Cámara Oscura. This project was also complete with a school to provide training in the art of photography. His entrepreneurial character led this initial project to grow more and more and in 2007 he founded the cultural center Casa Imagen, housed in a wonderful building of the seventeenth century, entirely devoted to culture, training and…

Michal Rovner’s days begin early in the morning. When she wakes up on her farm in the Ayalon Valley in Israel she walks to the trees, picks the apples or figs that have ripened and, before returning to her studio to spend the bulk of the day there, she observes and dialogues with the longing for the landscape that no longer exists. “In my relationship with reality I always set out from within it: I record it and then look for something beyond the details of place and time,” the indispensable 64-year-old artist explains to this magazine. Through video, photography, installation and sculpture, Rovner boasts an essential body of work that has given rise to more than seventy exhibitions around the world since before Pace Gallery invited her to join…

If there is one thing this restaurant is proud of, it is the fact that it continues to be family owned as well as having remained unchanged since its original founding. Lo Scoglio was first opened in 1958, founded by Tommaso De Simone, on the Amalfi Coast. Today it is managed by the third generation and remains a place that locals and international guests alike continue to visit year after year, because once you go there, you know you will come back. After all, there is nothing better than discovering it as so many have done over the years by word of mouth. The hotel “Lo Scoglio” or “La Roca” (the rock), on which is built the dining room of the restaurant that overhangs about 10 meters from the sea,…

André Butzer (Stuttgart, 1973) is one of the most relevant international painters of the last decades. His vision of the history of painting and his combination of elements of pop and abstraction articulates a peculiar and unique pictorial imaginary. For decades his painting has traveled different paths, and today, after 25 intense years of career, and with some perspective, we could arrange it by periods, types or series, which despite their disparity, converge in one place. His conception of the elements of nature and their representation in painting, which sometimes respond to his own imagination, are joys of poetry and the art of man. Far from a structuralist logic or modern rationalism, vision and poetics, understood as the principles of art (its purest motifs, the search for a concrete form,…

For all those who pursue or want to pursue an activity related to creation and infuse it with a dose of “truth”, the painter Alex Katz (New York, 1927) has an important message: he is still looking for it. More than nine decades of life and seventy decades of art behind him have not been enough to find the truth. He also has an even more important message: we must keep looking for it every day. He practices it when he gets up early every morning and every day he works, more or less, intellectually or manually, but always. Always. Daily. Each and every day. The explanation? “One always wants to go on, to go forward and I want to find the truth because the truth is a variable. Many…

The “Salone del Mobile” in Milan celebrated its 60th birthday, establishing itself as the most comprehensive and interesting fair in the industry. After the pandemic and global crisis, the event has come back to life with great enthusiasm, and there was no doubt that companies and designers would opt for a positive attitude, expansion and a return to normalcy. This cheerfulness was conveyed through a real color festival with all kinds of shades in play, from primaries to pastels, colors to die for. At the same time, there was a special interest in artisanal processes, linked to nature, tradition and local production, all practices that are of interest because of their relationship with the sustainability that is expected and demanded today from those who populate the planet with products. As…

It is located on top of a cliff, leveraging the steepness of the terrain to give the house spectacular views over the sea in the municipality is Salobreña, a coastal town in the province of Granada. Built by architects Jaime Bartolomé and Pablo Gil. The house is spread over two floors: a large terraced living room, following the slope of the mountain, connected to an overhanging terrace with swimming pool, and a second floor with rooms that have verandas above the roof. The house is on the steep slope and benefits from the yearly constant 67°F ground temperature, which reminds us of traditional cave house constructions in Granada. “The shape of the house and the metal roof create a deliberate aesthetic ambiguity between the natural and the artificial, between the…