The Novelty Cave
Several weeks ago we unearthed an incredible interior design feature from the past, known as the conversation pit. Often, designers and architects would refer to this as a "cave" on schematics and...
View ArticleThe Tale of Margiela's Tabi Boot
“I first met Martin [Margiela] when Eddy [Michiels] and I started our small shoe store, Cocodrillo,” explains Geert Bruloot, the man behind MoMu Antwerp’s new exhibition: Footprint – The Track of Shoes...
View ArticleAnna Lomax on Luxury Goods
Who? Anna Lomax describes herself as a "London-based maker and collector," but considering the breadth and diversity of projects she has put her name to, this prescriptive subheading scarcely seems to...
View ArticleHelmut Newton: Bergström Over Paris
"Any photographer who says he’s not a voyeur is either stupid or a liar," proclaimed photographic provocateur Helmut Newton – and his 1976 image Bergström Over Paris is an apt realisation of this...
View ArticleFive Good Things: Painted Plants and Dandelion Patterns
Artist and stylist Sarah Illenberger strikes again – this time on tropical plants, which she has adorned with tape and office stickers, giving all other plants an inferiority complex.read more »
View ArticleMarie Jacotey on the Female Experience
Who? Since moving to London from Paris four years ago to study printmaking at the Royal College of Arts, French artist Marie Jacotey has become an enduring and charming presence on the contemporary...
View ArticleBubblegum Lakes
Where on Earth?Western AustraliaGPS Coordinates: 34°5′S 123°12′E We’re flying above Australia’s rugged, wild coastline along the Southern Ocean. For mile after mile, empty sand dunes and thousands of...
View ArticleKarl Lagerfeld on Choupette
"It took time for her to get used to the camera," Karl Lagerfeld explains of the above averagely photogenic Choupette when we meet in March. "Normally cats don’t like it and run away. She doesn’t like...
View ArticleThe Sounds of Wes Craven
Last Sunday marked the passing of legendary Hollywood director and writer, Wes Craven, who died of cancer at the age of 76. Craven was, of course, most famous for his horror offerings – from his...
View ArticleRaf Simons' Grand Finale at Jil Sander
When Raf Simons arrived at Jil Sander in 2005, it was as a novice within the field of womenswear, having spent his career previous designing only for men at his eponymous brand. His departure from the...
View ArticleShane Meadows on Watching Cowboy Movies With His Dad
"When I was young, my dad was a lorry driver. He was away a lot and so my fondest memories are of him coming home. One of the reasons I got obsessed with films was because we used to sit down and watch...
View ArticleLeonor Fini: Female Libertine
When outspoken art critic Jerry Saltz took aim at the art world’s lack of women artists included in collections, calling out MoMA for its embarrassing percentages of art by females, he imagined a...
View ArticleThe Art of Embroidery
Who? Chilean artist Jose Romussi creates works that are simple in concept, yet beautifully intricate and unique. Using a needle and various, multicoloured threads, he embroiders patterns and words over...
View ArticleAdrienne Adar: Making Music With Plants
Just as the 80s had leg warmers and the 90s had Blur, people will glance fondly back at the 00s and reminisce at how you couldn’t enter a workplace or apartment without being greeted by endless potted...
View ArticleLessons We Can Learn From Lee Miller
The life of photographer, model, muse, and Surrealist artist Lee Miller is so extraordinary that accounts often border on the fantastical. As a 19-year-old art student living in New York in 1927,...
View ArticleSam Gilliam: Paint Pioneer
Looking at the fluidly constructed, vividly coloured works of contemporary artist Sam Gilliam, it's hard to assimilate why his name is not as familiar as it should be. As one of the first artists to...
View ArticleAnOther's Top 10 Mother and Child Relationships on Film
After the wry exuberance of his Berlusconian feature, The Caiman, and the affable farce of Habemus Papam, famed Italian auteur Nanni Moretti dives back into the autobiographical realm of his moving,...
View ArticlePatternity: The Next Chapter
When art director Anna Murray and surface designer Grace Winteringham launched PATTERNITY in 2009, their hope was that the online archive of pattern-centric imagery would encourage others to view...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Pug Shot
There's no denying it, the AnOther team loves dogs. We love magazines about dogs, we love dog-inclined photography, we love dogs on tables, dogs shaking and read more »
View ArticleZosia Mamet: One Summer in Annisquam
Zosia Russell Mamet is a creative polymath. Best known for her witty, esoteric turn as Shoshanna Shapiro on the cult US TV series Girls, the 27-year-old actress and musician also writes avidly, and...
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