Rossana Orlandi tasks architects and designers to rethink the door archetype
The famed Milanese gallerist tasked Patricia Urquiola, Maarten Baas, Kiki van Eijk, and more with creating statement doors that respond to the issues of our time.
Dutch Design Week 2024: fifteen must-visit destinations in Eindhoven
Dutch Design Week 2024: bio-sensitive concrete encouraging spontaneous urban moss growth, a choir of AI robots, and more.
Milan Design Week 2024: seven collborative furniture collections debuting at 5Vie Design District
Optimistic upcycled furniture, interactive furniture duets, a radical sofa dispensing kisses, and more. 5Vie Design District 2024 explored the collaborative spirit of design.
MORE OR LESS: Maarten Baas wraps a jet in denim for G-Star RAW
Green design and mass consumerism? Maarten Baas and G-Star RAW’s thought-provoking MORE OR LESS exhibition features a jet and cabinets dressed in denim.
Fashion meets design: hype-free exhibitions and initiatives at Milan Design Week 2023
Irina Dzhus’ powerful message of freedom from Ukraine, Formafantasma’s multidisciplinary symposium for Prada, Issey Miyake’s high-tech R&D for fashion design, Armani’s home invitation, Hermès’ beton brut installation, and a greenwashing provocation from Maarten Baas and G-Star RAW. In Milan, fashion meets design with hype-free projects.
The ‘DYSFUNCTIONAL’ exhibition in Venice explores the boundaries between art and design
Carpenters Workshop Gallery and Lombard Odier inaugurate the DYSFUNCTIONAL exhibition at the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti at the Ca’ D’Oro in Venice. On show, works by international designers such as Virgil Abloh, Nacho Carbonell and Matthieu Lehanneur which seek to forget functionality whilst celebrating the power of artistic expression and extraordinary craftsmanship.
Lasvit goes on show in Milan with a Monster Cabaret
Blown glass martians, a multi-eyed mirror and troops of quirky creatures populate Lasvit’s latest collection which took over the halls and the stage of a Milanese theatre with a monster cabaret.
Moooi’s extraordinary life: designers narrate their debuting designs in Milan
Designers narrate Moooi’s extraordinary life through their projects debuting in Milan. Archipanic met Marcel Wanders, Maarten Baas, Luca Nichetto and more.
Maarten Baas Makes Time: time related projects on show at Dutch Design Week
A 12 hours long real time clock-installation, kinetic ticking machines and knitting lamps. Maarten Baas Makes Time exhibition presented lateral thinking design projects.
Dutch Design Week 2016: 10 must-see exhibitions in Eindhoven
Archipanic is in Eindhoven for Dutch Design Week 2016! We selected 10 must-see shows in town. From designs that shape sexuality to Maarten Baas’ time-related exhibition and a quirky Parliament of Things, but also Space Age furniture from the ‘60s, parties and more…
Maarten Baas supervised architecture teams to re-develop Eindhoven ugliest place
Eindhoven ugliest place is about to get a cartoonish facelift thanks to Maarten Baas and a local studio who engaged into an architecture battle.