Issue # 12
Archive stories

Émigré on tour Sète: It was a warm day in July and I was finally face-to-face with Omar Souleyman outside of his hotel room in Sète, a small town in the south of France. He was due to perform at a music festival a few hours after our interview. My tailbone was still sore from the...

Los Angeles: Passionate, lively, comedic, and deep. Those are the words that I would use to describe the beautiful actress turned director, Rose McGowan. Rose lives atop the Mount Olympus canyon in a modernist gem that she shares with her fiancé, Cyrcle, artist Davey Detail, and their two small dogs Happy and Sasquatch. Happy, a...

Korean memories, Italian reality Torre Orsina: Chung Eun Mo is a Korean painter. She lives in Torre Orsina, a village on top of a hill near Terni in Umbria. I have known her a few years now and every time I go to her place I am impressed by the perfect ease with which she mixes...

Biebrza National Park in north-eastern Poland is a land predominantly known for its marshes and forests. Late May is the busiest period here, because that’s when the bird watchers come, all wanting to catch that rare glimpse of a White-backed Woodpecker, a Greater Spotted Eagle or an Eagle Owl. Travelling through the park by car,...

When my family and I moved to Brisbane in 1999, we moved into a suburb called Indooroopilly, which is an Aboriginal name for ‘meeting point’. The house we moved into was a Queenslander, which is a form of architecture typically found in the Australian state of Queensland. Our Queenslander was a simple wooden structure with...

Concept by Ana Dominguez & Omar Sosa              

A conversation chaired by Federica Sala Now that objects are dematerialising, what will be the future of our relationship with light? On a fine Milanese afternoon, with Piero Gandini, president of Flos; Jolanthe Kugler, curator at the Vitra Design Museum; and Francesco Zanot, photography critic and curator, we endeavoured to find out. Light has been around...

Times Square on the Bowery New York City: Artist Scott Ewalt’s life-long passion for burlesque is unparalleled. It inspires his art, has guided his career, and has lead to many friendships, but it’s perhaps most apparent in the spectacular interior of his East Village apartment. In 2000, when Giuliani’s mission was to clean up Times Square, Scott’s...

Little bears inside things Zurich: They are known for putting a cape on the United Nations Building in New York (in a collage, at least). But how do they go about dressing their own house in Zürich, Switzerland? Trix and Robert Haussmann, both architects, have lived close to the Lake of Zürich for 45 years. Opposing...

Hidden genius New York: Known perfunctorily to many as the leader of influential bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is as prolific a writer and visual artist as she is a musician and performer. Widely hailed as one of the foremost pioneers of alternative culture as we know it, she has dedicated her...

Soft pink truth Sydney: My mother used to ride her bike around Rottnest Island with a pink, blue, and yellow Ken Done kangaroo print bicycle seat attached to the back, and two year-old me strapped into it. That seat was a dream; the colours were bright and warm and absorptive, somehow both saturated and bleached, almost...

Dogs the pony show Los Angeles: Launched in 2004, Band of Outsiders made preppy cool. They tapped into a trend at just the right time when the hipster look started to become more polished and clean cut. I never knew much about the story behind the Los Angeles brand, nor much about the man, Scott Sternberg,...

False figuration Leipzig: On a quiet Saturday morning in the middle of August Christoph Ruckhäberle and his girlfriend Henriette open the door to their Leipzig home for us. It’s a five bedroom flat in a four storey building called Schumann House, built in 1869, about ten minutes walk from the city centre. Except for a little...

Placed into abyss New York/Paris: Études is a Paris and New York-based think tank composed of Jérémie Egry, Aurélien Arbet, and the numerous others that gravitate around the project. As a creative studio, they have been designing and producing a menswear collection and publishing artist books since 2012. A clear conceptual methodology unites all their different...

Displace all things Tokyo: Atsuki Kikuchi was born in Japan in 1974. He is a graphic designer, art director, and curator who works in Tokyo. He lives with his wife Izumi Shiokawa, a successful illustrator, in a Western-style home in a West Tokyo suburb. Western-style means high ceilings, two bathrooms and a lot of space where,...

‘What year is that?’, a man in an adjacent car asked through his window and into mine. Before the lights changed I answered, ‘2011,’ and then pulled off. In traffic, the neighbours are always changing, which provides plenty of people watching and some unexpected conversations. People in L.A. spend as much thought and energy choosing...

The first thing Murray Moss says to us, as we take off our shoes in the foyer of his striking apartment, nestled near the top of Olympic Towers in Midtown, is that he is not a collector. As we vehemently protest, he insists that this is most certainly the case and shows us a large group of...

Copenhagen: Have you ever compared your routines to those of others and wondered how Bohemian your life is? Sara Sachs and Frederik Jacobi are the most Bohemian couple I know, they’re laid back, but make absolutely no compromises. They live part time in L.A., and part time in an old bunker in Copenhagen’s harbour together...

This is the story of a family place. Something which the Chilean architect Smiljan Radic has built along with his wife, the sculptor Marcela Correa. It began as a half-hectare plot, which has expanded to one of over five hectares, and now hosts an oak forest and is blanketed almost entirely by golden brown leaves....

There were no doors in the whole house, so very little privacy. But it worked. There was so much outdoor space that indoors was purely about spending time; living together. Although how that functioned in winter I don’t remember, in my head it was perpetual summer. It was located over a steep bank. At the...

In theory, we all know that there are certain rules to follow when moving through public space. Well, at least theoretically most of us know to how to behave, and mostly we all conduct ourselves in a different way to when we have privacy. These rules help us get along with each other. More or...

I sit on the terrace and look out over the roofs of Bosa in Sardinia. On the floor I see the purple leaves of the Bougainvillea, and apart from their soft rustling, it’s very quiet. It’s always very quiet in Italy during the ‘siesta’ time. I’ve known this house for half of my life. It...

Finding an apartment in New York is awful. I wonder if trying to rent a place in other cities is as unpleasant? Maybe. Could it be even worse? Perhaps. But how? If you were trying to develop a system that deprives the body of sleep, causes dormant neuroses to rise like weeds, and engenders distrust...

When I was a kid I attended after school activities at the local church. I was born secular. My parents even made a point of not baptising me to give me the chance to decide what I believed for myself. Even so, sending me to the church’s youth group was something very natural. Everybody did...