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Huntington Beach: Both Ed and Deanna Templeton have achieved global success and respect over the years as artists. In 2021, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City acquired 82 of their photographs for its permanent collection. Yet they remain in their ‘70s-style Huntington Beach ranch house in a nondescript suburban neighbourhood now dotted with…

Goa: On one of the main streets in the centre of Göttingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl has set up what most of your favourite photographers consider to be the Mecca of publishing. The building sits alongside a historic Günter Grass archive and hotel reserved for Steidl artists, all contrasted by the uber modern museum space, Kunsthaus, where…

t’s always intriguing to step into someone’s home and find the unexpected. I think that’s because we tend to make assumptions about the people we meet, drawing conclusions about their personal style and the books they might keep on their shelves. Or we may believe we understand them from their public personas and track records,…

New York City: Duane Michals loves pie, especially apple. There were at least three on the counter and one in the refrigerator when I came by to visit. His cramped kitchen also serves as a de facto greenhouse for dozens of orchids that soak up the light from the recessed window. In fact flowers, both fresh…

New York City: I first met Darrel Ellis in 1981. I was 30 and he was almost 23. He had just broken up with the actor José Rafael Arango and we were at an East Village neighbourhood gay bar called The Bar, at 2nd Avenue and East 4th Street, half a block from José’s apartment. The…

Brussels: The first time I heard of David Numwami, who back then was releasing music as Le Colisée, must have been in 2017 or 2018. I was about to launch an online radio here in Brussels, and my colleague at the time suggested I give his stuff a listen. I won’t lie, at first I…

‘What do any of us really know about love?’ Mel said. ‘It seems to me we’re just beginners at love. We say we love each other and we do, I don’t doubt it. I love Terri and Terri loves me, and you guys love each other and we do, I don’t doubt it. You know…

Book Cornered London: Settling down didn’t come naturally to Duncan Fallowell. He bought this apartment (his first and only) in London’s leafy Notting Hill just before his 40th birthday ‘in a panic’. Describing himself as a vagabond soul, Fallowell had spent the previous two decades travelling the world as a writer and journalist, interviewing and often…

Introduction and footnotes by Flavin Judd Don had about 20 houses that he needed to furnish. They all needed bowls, knives, coffee cups, and other necessities of life. I think by anyone’s standards that’s a lot of houses, but Don liked things that he liked and he liked a good house, a beautiful structure, a…

In 1982, Manoel de Oliveira, a 73-year-old Portuguese director, shot a movie entitled Visita ou Memórias e Confissões. He had directed six features by then, and at 73 he thought he was getting towards the end of his career—or the end of his life, for that matter. This film was meant to be a visit…

I live in a converted paper mill on Hackney Road, East London. Tucked away across the street there’s a City Farm, complete with chickens and goats and guinea pigs, and teeming with toddlers over the weekends coming to pet them and run amuck. The Farm’s restaurant (serving up home-grown salads and herbs but not its…

Space and work Philadelphia: The night before our interview, Denise Scott Brown called. ‘Hello, Amelia’, she said, ‘This is Denise Scott Brown’. She hoped I didn’t mind her phoning so late, but was I driving from New York to Philadelphia? Which roads would I take? There’s a café she likes in town; could we break for…

Introduction and footnotes by Flavin Judd Don had about 20 houses that he needed to furnish. They all needed bowls, knives, coffee cups, and other necessities of life. I think by anyone’s standards that’s a lot of houses, but Don liked things that he liked and he liked a good house, a beautiful structure, a…

New York, New York New York City: I met Dike Blair in college, in the western United States. He looked like a New-Yorker: short hair, white T-shirt, khaki pants, cigarette—an artist. He moved to New York City several years before me and lived in the East Village during decades of unprecedented change in the world, in…

New York City: Duncan Hannah is a New York City–based painter who has lived and worked in his apartment on the Upper West Side since 1977. After a Midwestern childhood filled with a curiosity towards art and all things British invasion, Duncan moved to New York to attend Parsons School of Design to study painting and…

The DIY Chair has been designed to be constructed using very cheap and basic building materials readily available from your local DIY (do-it-yourself) or hardware store, using simple hand tools and joinery methods, by you. I would like as many people as possible to have a go at building their own DIY Chair. The material…

New York City: I first met Danny Bowien in Chinatown, New York, exactly a year ago. A dear friend of mine and contributing editor of this magazine, Jim Walrod, had recently got to know Danny and was going on about ‘this nice chef guy with chartreuse hair who’s covered in tattoos’ that I needed to…

What is the life of objects after they have fulfilled their utilitarian duties? After they have met the unexpected needs of the fickle buyer? For a lot of contemporary culture paraphernalia (namely plastic), life goes on, albeit at the dump. Plastic’s longevity is precisely what makes the material, environmentally speaking, so polemic, and yet in…

London: 2018 will witness the celebration of a special golden jubilee by the British artist and aesthete Duggie Fields: in autumn he will have inhabited the same rented apartment in the inner West London neighbourhood of Earl’s Court for 50 years. And just as Fields isn’t an ordinary dweller of the discreet and genteel mansion flats…

Sex, comics & voguing New York City: Devonté Hynes wears many masks: musician, producer, actor, nerd, comic whiz, synaesthete, sex symbol, and ostensible playboy. Today, he is perhaps best known as Blood Orange, the moniker under which he makes sexy, early ‘80s disco infused with Eastern melodies. Throughout his career, Hynes has become known for changing…

A conversation chaired by Jack Self Illustrations by Jim Stoten The smart home, no longer a futurist fantasy, is increasingly sold to us as a technological inevitability. Through product release spectacles and a myriad of consumer electronics shows, the smart home is a project rooted in the commodified self. As critics, designers, architects, and futurists, there…

DIS lifestyle options New York City: David Toro and Solomon Chase are boyfriends, collaborators and two of the founding members/editors of DIS magazine. Since DIS’s launch in 2010 the online magazine has caused a stir, setting forth a definitive new look and editorial position that encapsulates the attitude of a generation that grew up with the…

I came to Bed Stuy ten years ago because I’d taken the wrong train and I never left. I think that was in 1998. I’d lived in Manhattan since ’77 and had been to Brooklyn, at the most four times during those twenty years. At that time, I figured out that I had lived in…

          Edited by Laura Alcalde We’ve all enjoyed the childish game of making a stack out of seemingly inappropriate materials, and though it might be more for kids, it’s nevertheless a lot of fun. For most of us it’s an occasional pastime, but for Apartamento it’s a duty, involving serious research,…

Spirited and strong; a sweet, black haired pixie who is progressive in her views on female sexuality and free thinking over all, Fabiola Alondra is the director of Fulton Ryder, a private, invitation-only bookshop, gallery and publisher. Coming from a background rich in books, Fabiola worked for John McWhinnie, a noted rare book and art…