Issue # 18
Archive stories

Concept by Ana Dominguez & Omar Sosa              

The biography of the iconic New York artist Kembra Pfahler is as wide-ranging as it is productive. It includes formative years spent in LA’s punk scene, a decade-long ‘day-job’ as a video dominatrix, stints modelling for Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler, she’s been a muse and model for a diverse range of designers, including Calvin Klein,…

‘Sometimes I hear their guest toilet flush upstairs’. We are sat in the open-plan living room of Margaret Howell’s almost-seaside second home on the Suffolk coast, which she bought off a school inspector from Croydon in 2002. It’s one of a row of attached houses by Swiss architect Rudy Mock that were built in 1965,…

I met editor Luis Venegas 12 years ago through a mutual friend at a dive bar in Barcelona. Shortly after we began chatting, it already seemed as if we had known each other since forever. Aside from discussing our idols and references, I was already telling him intimate stories, like the time that I participated…

Molly Goddard Originally published in Apartamento Magazine Issue 18, 2016 Interview by Danielle Pender Photography by Angelo Pennetta Molly Goddard is a fashion designer whose collections remind me of the house parties I used to go to as a teenager. Parties that were full of girls with an awkward prettiness about them, their hair sweaty and matted…

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 house of Benedetta Tagliabue is hidden on a small street of the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona. When observing the façades from the exterior, it’s difficult to imagine the magical nooks and crannies hidden behind them. In this house that she renovated together with her husband and professional partner at EMBT, Enric Miralles, layers of…

When I came back to Los Angeles in March I had a friend visiting from Canada who used to drive me to Sqirl every morning for the drip coffee, which is thick and rich and comes in large quantities. I remember sitting in the sunshine with him outside the restaurant, really stoned one day, drinking…

I first met Mariah Nielson about six years ago at a gallery on 24th Street in the Mission District of San Francisco. A mutual friend who ran the space had introduced us saying that we ought to know one another as we had many things in common. She explained that, like me, Mariah was working…

I was probably chosen to do this interview because I live three Parisian buildings away from Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant’s beautiful home. When I entered a courtyard that takes you back in time, about 47 seconds after I had closed my own door, there was a feeling of immediacy that Courrèges’ artistic directors only extended….

Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn is a noticer, but she doesn’t just notice what is hiding all around her. She knows that is not enough, so she plunges into action, whether it’s giving deserved exhibitions to longstanding artists who have fallen out of view or observing how intentionally placed contemporary art objects can suddenly open up dialogues…

We wait to buzz until 2.21pm, the exact time we have been appointed. Fernando receives us with his usual double pair of glasses covering his forehead. ‘Nothing is true or false, it all depends on the colour of the lenses you look through’, he says. Arrabal is considered one of the most important playwrights alive…

    Jules used a knife, then two forks to separate the meat from the greasy carcass, then shred it. The water in the saucepan was boiling now. Jules grabbed the two buns from the counter and placed them both in the bamboo steamer atop the saucepan, then put the lid on the steamer. He…

A conversation chaired by Tag Christof Illustration by Pieter Van Eenoge Design is a verb. As such, its products and processes are shaped by culture, informed by narrative, and understood through imagery—perhaps more so than ever in an age where everything converges on social media. Or, does it? We gathered three pre-eminent thinkers for a discussion…

New York City: Artist Chloe Wise’s social media tactics might make her a lightning rod among her peers, but positive or negative she seems to thrive off the energy. She talks quickly, and when she pauses, it’s generally to laugh. Her unsinkable attitude and humour have served her well in navigating the demands set upon…

Joshua Tree, California: The artist Andrea Zittel lives in the desert in Joshua Tree, California, with a trio of dogs (Maggie Peppercorn, Mona Winona, Owlette), a pair of cats (Mood Cloud, Stripy Tiger Wolf), assorted fish, a burgeoning family of rescue tortoises, and her son, Emmett. She started out, in 2000, with a five-acre parcel…

Each time we come back, it’s the same bliss. The road high above the sea gives you the sense of diving into the sky. Then it’s a drive down a winding road carved into the cliff on the wilder side of the island, so narrow that you’d rather not cross another car. We never remember…