Archipanic looks into the true colours of marketing, starting from Very Pery, Pantone’s 2022 colour of the year, to Cadbury’s Royal Purple and Milka’s lilac but also Anish Kapoor’s blackest black and the pinkest pink.
Samuel Ross’ new furniture collections blend European and Western African references to explore Black culture’s wounds and hopes, from the African diaspora to contemporary struggles.
A bookshelf with rotating vertical panels, a table with a base which can be flipped upside down and two chairs with an understated imprint. At Design Week Mexico, Esrawe studio went ‘total black’ with the INTERVALO furniture collection.
TAKATINA’s Black Blox house is a dark cladded monolith encasing a light-filled loft with a private garden in Tokyo residential suburbs.
Belem Lima intersected black-cladded volumes for Alves de Sousa winery to respect the unique landscape of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Northern Portugal.