Introducing Cereal Vol. 21.
In this volume, we consider the subject of preservation. We visit the Goetheanum, rediscover the work of Auguste Rodin, tour the Sir John Soane’s Museum, the Oxford Botanic Garden, and contemplate memory and identity.
The Camaleonda sofa takes its name from the Italian for chameleon (“camaleonte”) and wave (“onda”) – a hybrid which speaks to the adaptability and buoyancy of the shape-shifting design icon.
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Atelier Vime was created by partners Benoit Rauzy and Anthony Watson to revive the willow-weaving history of a Provençal house.
A Provençal Narrative. From Cereal Volume 18, 2019.
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“I have always loved clay…It is part of our evolution. And the process of making it involves all four elements: water, air, fire and earth.”
Understanding: Bosco Sodi and Casa Wabi
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“Away from the theatre, a low mist clung to the two long ponds which reached back towards the main house. Hours earlier these waters had reflected the busy white and blue of passing clouds, but were now shrouded in diffuse grey"
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From Cereal Volume 21
An iconic piece of Art Deco design, Les Palmiers - a smoking room designed by Jean Dunand in the 1930s and considered a French national treasure - has now moved from Paris to Phillips Gallery in London, ahead of its auction on 30th June 2021.
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Dubbed a ‘modern temple’ by Isamu Noguchi, Stone House is a compelling synthesis of competing trends in late modernist thought and design.
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From Cereal Volume 20.
“By turning the mirror into a painting, it creates a space both forwards and backwards; it is a mirror, and a painting. And so it plays an interactive game with the viewer, changing form and colour as their reflection inhabits the work.”
Objects of the Void - From Cereal Vol 20.
Between Past and Future - Massimo De Carlo’s Milan galleries, Lombardia and Belgioioso, provide beautiful yet challenging spaces for the presentation of contemporary art: https://t.co/giZSpjEYy3
The Korea Furniture Museum, a collection of furniture — or in some cases entire buildings — gathered from across Korea and reassembled onsite into 10 hanok structures:
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From Cereal Volume 19.
“Making takes you to a space which is not about good conclusions, it’s about positive being.” — Edmund de Waal.
A Type of Kindness: In conversation with Edmund de Waal, from Cereal Vol. 20. Order a copy here: https://t.co/ij4TFfaADI
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The Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth. Known for its dramatic rock, sand and petrified salt formations and dried salt lakes, its landscape has been carved over millennia by wind into a moonscape of towers, caverns and crevasses.
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Birds, at least, are plentiful. They stand stilt-legged on shining planes of brine. They sail overhead, always on the move from somewhere to somewhere else.
Atacama Desert: Dust Stained Skies
From Cereal Volume 20: https://t.co/ONO7kIXPDQ
Introducing Cereal Volume 20.
In this volume, we look to the restorative power of art and nature. We meet with artists Torkwase Dyson, Edmund de Waal and Anish Kapoor, visit Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Enoura Observatory, and traverse the Atacama Desert.
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Using exclusively native woods, Studio van der Zee creates hand-made furniture in the heart of the Tyrolean Alps. The zirbe is particularly prized, celebrated for its aroma and soft structure.
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Charlotte Perriand started building her cabin in the village of Méribel in 1960. Inspired by Perriand and her work, perfumer Barnabé Fillion created a fragrance for Aēsop — Rōzu, which captures Perriand’s love of the mountains, pine trees and fresh air:
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