Tag: vintage
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Miami Art & Design Week 2025 was a quieter and more refined affair
This year’s edition of the ever-established city-wide happening shed showy spectacle for more substantive exhibitions, installations, and launches.
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5 unmissable design and cultural highlights at NOMAD Abu Dhabi
The travelling design fair NOMAD frames collectible design and art with an exceptional series of culturally resonant locations. We speak to its founder and director, Nicolas Bellavance‑Lecompte, about NOMAD’s first edition in the Middle East, and we round up the essential highlights.
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From Yves Saint Laurent to the White House: How La Manufacture Cogolin weaved a century of dreams
With their saturated Côte d’Azur colours and Modernist motifs, La Manufacture Cogolin has seduced the world of design for over a hundred years from their artisanal workshop near Saint-Tropez. Cultural Union speaks to their managing and creative director Sarah Henry about their storied heritage and innovative future.
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Design Museum Brussels is leading a reappraisal of vintage and contemporary plastic design
The ground-breaking Plastic Design Collection has reopened following a major update at the excellent Design Museum Brussels. Cultural Union sat down with the museum’s director, Arnaud Bozzini, to learn more about the exhibition and the vital work of the young Belgian institution. One of the jewels of Belgium’s capital city is the Design Museum Brussels, located…
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How the world’s most iconic cars are as collectable as fine art
GQ columnist and BBC’s Top Gear editor-at-large Jason Barlow talks to Cultural Union about his book The Atlas of Car Design: The World’s Most Iconic Cars, published by Phaidon “Beautiful cars will always be appreciated as kinetic sculptures,” says Jason Barlow in his book The Atlas of Car Design, pointing out that the best classic…
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10 essential highlights from BRAFA 2024
One of the world’s great art fairs returns to Brussels for its 69th edition, bookending the start of the design year If December’s Miami Art Week closes the design year with an exuberant orgy of art and design happenings, BRAFA heralds its January rebirth, with a supremely assured exhibition that is high in both elegance…
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6 Modernist glass houses with incredible design and architecture
From South America to Northern Europe, here are six extraordinary residences with pioneering use of glass by Modernist architects such as John Lautner and Philip Johnson and their contemporary successors, curated from Glass Houses by Phaidon One of the most dazzling aspects of Modernist architecture is its extensive use of glass – an innovation unlocked by…
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How creative director Jacu Strauss built a hotel empire on art and design
Jacu Strauss, creative director of the Lore Group, speaks to Cultural Union about designing their global portfolio of hotels, searching the world for vintage gems – and tangling with the Beauty Committee. Jacu Strauss may just have the best job in the world. As creative director of the Lore Group, he oversees all things design…
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10 must-see highlights from PAD Paris Design + Art 2023
An ebullient PAD Paris returned to the French capital this week for its 25th anniversary, emphatically asserting its place at the forefront of the world’s contemporary and modern design fairs. Outside, the Jardin des Tuileries basked in what felt like the first day of summer; inside, the fair exuded a similarly elevated atmosphere – busier and…
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How Moderne Gallery pioneered the revival of the Studio Craft Movement
Philadelphia’s Moderne Gallery has become synonymous with the Studio Craft Movement and its leading names such as George Nakashima, Sam Maloof and Wharton Esherick. Cultural Union speaks to Moderne’s founder Robert Aibel and his son, gallery co-director Joshua Aibel, to discover the origins of this decades-long association. “I always found these objects powerful,” says Joshua…
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Tala Fustok brings glamour and edge to her interior design
London-based designer Tala Fustok has brought her singular vision to interiors from the Mandrake Hotel in London to Bleecker Street in New York and Hôtel de Crillon in Paris. She talks to Effect about her design philosophy, process and influences. In just over six years, Tala Fustok has emerged as a highly original voice in…
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8 essential highlights from BRAFA 2023
BRAFA has made an emphatic return to Brussels for its 68th edition, taking back its traditional January slot and re-asserting itself as one of the world’s great art and design fairs. The approach to BRAFA’s new home at Brussels Expo is something of a palate cleanser, sitting as it does in the gaze of the…
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Amy Lau on the beauty of Brutalist design
It’s a freezing day in New York when Amy Lau sits down with Cultural Union, just hours before she’s leaving for a tropical Hawaii beset by volcanic eruptions. We’d expect nothing less from the glamorous designer, who so effortlessly blends the ice-cool and the dramatic in the interiors she creates for her clients around the…
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7 must-see highlights from New York’s 2023 Winter Show
Cultural Union rounds up the highlights from New York’s premier art and design fair, returning to the Park Avenue Armory for its 69th edition. Founded in the 1950s and the undisputed grande dame of America’s art and design events, The Winter Show returned this week to the Park Avenue Armory, its home for all but…
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Benjamin Hubert’s LAYER Design Studio is creating the icons of tomorrow
In the latest of our Designer Q&A series, Effect speaks to LAYER, a London-based strategic design agency with clients from Bang & Olufsen to Deutsche Telekom You know something is afoot when you hear about a studio from several different sources in the same week. First, their Canopy Chair was a hit at Material Matters at the…
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Icons of the mid-century Space Age design movement
The Space Age design movement exploded out of the optimism and cultural landscape of the mid-20th-century space race, leaving us with a legacy of highly collectible design icons infused with the exuberance of the era.
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8 home offices and studies with stunning interior design
We roundup some of the most beautiful home offices and studies that have crossed our desk in the past year from the world’s leading interior designers and stylists The home office or study might be a place to work – but it’s also a place of refuge, creativity and contemplation. For those fortunate enough, it’s an…
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How the Riva Tritone became a design icon
The Riva Tritone speedboat – forebearer of the flashier Riva Aquarama – was a legendary design classic that ruled the Med in the golden jet-set age of the 1950s and 60s What do Brigitte Bardot, Anita Ekberg, Kirk Douglas, Richard Burton, and Sophia Loren have in common? They were all devotees of the Riva speedboats…