design

by alexia|20 October 202022 October 2024|ART

Colette’s sparkling prose made her an international sensation. Although her fictional plots and characters are often scandalous, her famous journal Paris from my Window is more subtle with its observations of nature and descriptions of the loyal tenants of the...

Nina Yashar Celestial Map

by alexia|13 October 202022 October 2024|ART

Enter Nina Yashar’s home and you enter Nina Yashar’s eclectic universe where Italian Grazia Toderi’s aerial photo of the myriad twinkling lights of London’s night sky is the centrepiece of her collection. In the photograph, the brightest city lights trace...

Ron Arad A Straight Line Is Also a Curve

by alexia|11 October 202022 October 2024|ART

Ron Arad’s iPhone screen displays the image of an elongated male figure painted in earth-toned colors reminiscent of a Modigliani. It is the portrait of his father at 23 by his mother when she was 21, younger than Arad’s youngest...

Bethan Laura Wood The Alchemist

by alexia|10 October 202022 October 2024|ART

‘Oysters,’ a collection of laminate marquetry ovals, are spread out on the London studio desk of designer Bethan Laura Wood, who casts herself in the role of magician or alchemist of surfaces by creating luxury pieces out of inexpensive material....