Suspended Seating: Eero Aarnio’s Brilliant Bubble Chair
We at AnOther have advocated many a space-saving initiative in our fortnightly Supreme Interiors column – but none so chic, one might argue, as the aptly named Bubble Chair, which was selected for the...
View ArticleTristan Pigott: The Art of Social Narcissism
Artist Tristan Pigott’s most recent collection of paintings, wittily entitled Dead Natural, targets both the way sitters traditionally pose for a painting, and the way we painstakingly choreograph our...
View ArticleUnmade: London’s Knitwear Vanguards
Who? Kirsty Emery, Ben Alun-Jones and Hal Watts are three Royal College of Art graduates and the founders of Unmade: a studio that creates bespoke knitwear co-designed by customers. By using...
View ArticleBumper Stickers to Make You Beam
It takes a discerning eye to mark out those tiny, singular instances of peculiar wit which exist unseen and un-celebrated all around us – and one image-maker in possession of a pair of them is...
View ArticleBrigid Berlin on her Iconic Polaroids, Phallic Art and More
“Hail Brigid, full of attitude, Warhol is with thee. Blessed are thou among superstars and blessed is the fruit of blue blood privilege,” reads John Waters’ poem to Brigid Berlin, the reluctant...
View ArticleThe Most Beautiful On-Screen Portrayals of Lesbian Love
It’s hard to identify the moment when cinema went from portraying lesbianism in a purely subtextual manner to a more overt one, however the German Mädchen in Uniform is widely considered the earliest...
View ArticleIlluminating Decor: For the Love of Neon
As a kid, my favourite store at the local mall was Spencer's Gifts, which sold all sorts of gag gifts, posters, and adult toys; it was the type of stuff that would either blow our minds or just give us...
View ArticleThe Brassiere: An Uplifting History
Since time imemorial, women have been employing all manner of devices to contort their breasts into whichever silhouette their era determines desirable: from the fascia of ancient Rome to the...
View ArticleBill Henson's Bewitching 'Anti-Portraits' of Ballerinas
Australian photographer Bill Henson is a master of chiaroscuro – his brooding images painterly studies in light and shade. "I painted and drew and made things out of clay constantly from earliest...
View ArticleThe Verdant Legacy of Irving Penn's Flowers
In 1967, art director Alexander Liberman commissioned Irving Penn to lens a still life series of flowers for the December edition of American Vogue. Using his signature compositional clarity, the...
View ArticleShaping the Future: Ten Marvellous Modern Ceramicists
Once the domain of archaeologists seeking remnants of past civilisations, ceramics – or the art of creating objects, both decorative and functional from earthenware – are having a moment. From simple...
View ArticleTeddy Girls: The Style Subculture That Time Forgot
On reflection, the paring of the aristocratic flamboyancy of an Edwardian gent with the rebellious attitude of American rock and roll shouldn't have worked – but it did. This sartorial hybrid,...
View ArticleThe Artist Dismantling Constructed Realities
Who? Born in Berkshire in 1985, Jonny Briggs is a multidisciplinary artist best known for his idiosyncratic brand of highly autobiographical, self-psychoanalytical and yet irreverent photography....
View ArticleAn Insta-Trip to Moonrise Kingdom
Like most of us, American photographer Kevin Russ watches films as a means of escapism. Unlike most of us however, rather than returning to his desk with a burgeoning sense of wanderlust, Russ acts...
View ArticleAnother Man Explores The Vintage Showrooms Archive
"With the items we select, there are definitely pieces that I am more passionate about," explains Douglas Gunn, co-founder of fashion industry treasure trove The Vintage Showroom. "These are the things...
View ArticleThe Pom Pom Girls of the Gobi Desert
Deep in a remote part of Mongolia’s Gobi desert, about 20 hours travel from the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, flowery hair scrunchies are having a style moment. It’s a sweetly nostalgic resurgence, and...
View ArticleThe AnOther Guide to Email Etiquette
The first ever email was sent by US programmer, Ray Tomlinson, to himself, in 1971. It was a historic moment in the evolution of communication. Over fifty years later, email has become an intrinsic...
View ArticleTodd Haynes on Cate Blanchett, Saul Leiter and Queer Cinema
Patricia Highsmith first published the groundbreaking lesbian romance The Price of Salt in 1952 under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The tale of an affair between a tremulous young store clerk and a...
View ArticleMouthing Off: Why Spring's Boldest Lip Looks Made a Mark
There are few things as tedious as reading scores of articles on beauty trends – but, equally, as few things as strangely bewitching as the lipsticks of S/S16. Thus, rather than proclaiming that we all...
View ArticleCapturing the Evolution of Contemporary Art in Japan
Japanese artist and photographer Shigeo Anzaï’s prolific career is proof that sometimes all you need is to be in the right place at the right time. He usually is, as it turns out; after shifting his...
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