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“Urban street Kitchen” is the motto of the small restaurant in Bremen´s city centre. We transported the asian street kitchen character into a contemporary and clear interior architecture. High fair-faced concrete walls with the artwork presenting a smiling Jackie Su, bright red Asian characters as well as the large suspended acoustic ceilings and unclad air-conditioning ducts emphasise the urban ambience.

Designer: rauminraum (Germany)
Manufacturer: rauminraum (Germany)
Inspired By: urban street kitchen
Material: bamboo and concrete

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words Douglas Murphy
On the roof terrace of the former Dia Art Foundation building in Chelsea, New York, Los Angeles-based Inaba architects has designed Pool Noodle Rooftop, a seating installation made from flotation aids.

Since March, this Manhattan warehouse has been occupied by the X-initiative, a not-for-profit art consortium. Each floor of the building is a separate exhibition space, and the rooftop is to be used for film screenings and special events. The initiative is dedicated to exploring new ways of creating and experiencing art in response to the “major philosophical and economic shifts impacting culture”.

Inaba’s rooftop design takes the X of the X-initiative as its main figure: a cross-shaped carpet stretches across the rooftop, and cruciform couches are strewn across the space, the forms encouraging relaxed multiple seating arrangements. As the project title suggests, the couches are constructed from 6,000 “pool noodles”, the foam buoyancy aids used by swimmers. Seen from above, these squishy, multi-coloured seats of varying heights spell out the word “bububluooopppp”, a suitably fun aquatic touch.

words Douglas Murphy
On the roof terrace of the former Dia Art Foundation building in Chelsea, New York, Los Angeles-based Inaba architects has designed Pool Noodle Rooftop, a seating installation made from flotation aids.

Since March, this Manhattan warehouse has been occupied by the X-initiative, a not-for-profit art consortium. Each floor of the building is a separate exhibition space, and the rooftop is to be used for film screenings and special events. The initiative is dedicated to exploring new ways of creating and experiencing art in response to the “major philosophical and economic shifts impacting culture”.

Inaba’s rooftop design takes the X of the X-initiative as its main figure: a cross-shaped carpet stretches across the rooftop, and cruciform couches are strewn across the space, the forms encouraging relaxed multiple seating arrangements. As the project title suggests, the couches are constructed from 6,000 “pool noodles”, the foam buoyancy aids used by swimmers. Seen from above, these squishy, multi-coloured seats of varying heights spell out the word “bububluooopppp”, a suitably fun aquatic touch.

words Johanna Agerman

The flatpack Ply stool is a collaboration between furniture designer Michael Marriot and fashion brand Paul Smith for the London Design Festival.

“They approached me about a collaboration when I was working on the idea for this design,” says Marriot. He took them up on the offer and now a limited edition of 100 stools is going on sale exclusively in Paul Smith’s stores.

Ply is designed from five pieces of untreated plywood adorned with a stripy screenprint conceived by Smith. The pieces slot together like a jigsaw and fasten with a zip tie attached to the seat.

The stool is manufactured entirely in London and each piece is slightly different as the screenprint comes in eight different colours. “There are many permutations because of the colours, and of course you have the wonder of wood that makes each piece unique,” says Marriot.

The 6mm thick plywood gives the impression of thick card but the piece is sturdy and simple to put together. “They go together very easily – there are no tools needed, you just fasten the zip ties and Bob’s your uncle,” says Marriot.

A special window display and exhibition will be revealed on Thursday in Paul Smith’s store on Albemarle Street, W1.

This beautiful shot was made by the cool cat photographer Maria Dønvang. The shoes are the Purple Corduroyal sneaks which are new in town…

‘Peckham is a Place on Earth’ is a brand new one-off installation from Garudio Studiage, an artists collective based in the South-East London area of Peckham.

Inspired by Victorian paper cuts, classic children’s stories and a hint of 80s pop music, the whole window becomes a magical Christmas landscape with a twist. Beyond the glittering mountains in the star-filled sky, the Garudio’s hometown of Peckham rises above the landscape on a giant cloud.

With the title referring to Belinda Carlisle’s classic 80’s pop song, Peckham is raised to a heavenly status, and becomes the ‘Star of the South-East’, a cheeky reference to the classic story of Christmas.

Entirely hand made, and with an appropriate amount of glitter, Garudio Studiage use their trademark ironic humour and love of all things kitsch to play with the area’s less-than desirable reputation.

The scene also features some familiar Peckham shops and buildings such as Khan’s Bargain Superstore alongside the feral pigeons, rats and foxes who have been the subject of many Garudio ‘Wildlife of London’ products and exhibitions.

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Shoelace Exchange is a multi-layered project about the lost art of shoemaking, arts economy, and local flora. It is a play on “getting by on a shoestring”. One hundred fifty shoelaces were hand died with local “weeds”. Each lace was wrapped with paper containing an interview with a local shoe repair merchant or maker and a description of the flora used to die the lace.
String, weeds, paper, wood, video

Amy Franceschini
Michael Swaine