Roger Tallon is this rare and great cross-over between artist, designer and engineer. The general public mostly knows him for his watches. But it’s fascinating to see the hundreds of products Tallon and his team actually designed
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  “What does it mean, to be famous, to be great? What is life, death, nothing? Those questions stay unanswered, famous or not.” Roger Raveel, January 5,
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  We meet Didier Teissoniere in his apartment in the Marais quarter in Paris. On the doorbell an iconic name: Francis Bacon (1909-1992). The flat is the old atelier of this Irish-born figurative painter. Needless to say we were entering a very special place.   Since when do you live here? And how do you
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  Wouter and Harvey, both fashion designers, crossed paths eight years ago. They’ve been together ever since. Besides a passion for each other, they also share their love for beauty and ceramics. What once started with one piece is now a collection that fills their home and their lives.     Your house is filled
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  Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho will always be remembered as a key figures in the development of modern architecture.   Niemeyer was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro where he attended the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes. His first work experience was for his father’s typography house and as a draftsman
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  Chat with Design lover Michael Marcy   A few weeks ago Michael Marcy opened his new Design Gallery. His passion for furniture and design started at the age of 17.  He invited us for a visit and we talked about how he went from young hippie to gallery owner. But some things never change,
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  German artist ATAK landed in A’town last week for his exhibition ‘Greetings from Berlin’ at The Bries Space. I sat down with him to talk about art, life in East Berlin and more. Charmed by his gentle aura and the way he speaks about his work from the heart I could’ve talked with him all
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 We came across a beautiful collection of vintage photos of Brooklyn taken in the summer of 1974. Photographer Danny Lyon spent two months snapping pictures of the daily life in the borough — exploring Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Fort Green and Park Slope among other neighborhoods.   &nbsp
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  This book belongs on everyone’s nightstand. Patti Smith‘s ‘Just Kids‘ is a tribute to New York in the late 60′s and 70′s, rock music and art. But most importantly it’s an intimate glimpse into the bohemian life of Patti and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe long before they caught the public eye. Two soul mates who
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Some actors have been around for so long, and have done so much solid work in so many genres, that’s it’s easy to forget or simply take for granted just how tremendous they really are. Donald Sutherland, who turns 77 on July 17, 2012, is one such actor. For almost 50 years, he’s been bringing
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With a population of just over 300,000 people and an alternately forbidding and breathtaking landscape of lava fields, geysers, seascapes and majestic waterfalls, Iceland has always been something of a curiosity to the rest of the globe. Small in stature, the island nation can seem, at times, like a land outside of time. In recent
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Over forty years ago, LIFE magazine published an intimate and, for the time, remarkably even-handed article on the mounting problems associated with street gangs in New York and other cities around the country. The piece focused on one gang in particular — the Reapers in the South Bronx — and featured a series of powerful
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Temples rise from the arid desert floor, minivans grow horns and dusty revelers cycle through the hazy expanse in photographer Zahra Khan’s images taken at last year’s Burning Man festival. Held since the early 1990s in a five-mile site in the Black Rock Desert, some 120 miles north of Reno, Nevada, Burning Man serves as
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Neil Armstrong, who died on Saturday, August 25, at 82 years old, was one of those rare, genuine heroes whose legend grew larger with passing years not because he nurtured the myths that attached to him as the first human to walk on the moon, but because he quietly, resolutely refused to play the role
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A Holden VB Commodore muscle car appears suspended above the clouds in New Zealand-born photographer Simon Davidson’s latest “burnout” series. The cult gear-head activity involves spinning the rear wheels of a stationary car, by simultaneously hitting the breaks and gas, until the extreme heat from the resulting friction burns the rubber tires, literally shredding them
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