The Kate Moss Portfolio and Other Stories

fabulous exhibit of one the greatest genre-bending models imho. m.








“Danziger Projects Gallery opens its doors, in its new premises, to the habitants and visitors of New York who will have the opportunity to view a unique collection of photographs of the supermodel Kate Moss since her early career, taken by the world’s most renowned fashion photographers. The exhibition features a Kate Moss portfolio, which was produced by Danziger Projects in collaboration with the model herself, containing eleven 24×30 inch prints, each produced by a different photographer emphasizing on the versatility and particular beauty of the model. Further to the portfolio, the exhibition will also carry a compilation of unseen photographs of Moss taken before her first ever shoot for the FACE, rarely seen pictures shot by Mary Mc Cartney and Herb Ritts and finally a transition to the present, through a presentation of contemporary silkscreens produced by Peter Blake, featuring the most iconic pop-cultural figures of our times.”

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152 Elizabeth Street NYC by Tadao Ando

classic ando. m.












A luxury condominium in the Big Apple is usually de rigueur for a Pritzker prize-winning architect, but in the case of Tadao Ando, the Japanese architect is only just now popping his cherry. 152 Elizabeth Street, a beautifully formed, seven-storey, seven-residence building situated in the heart of Nolita that is scheduled to complete at the end of 2016, is Ando’s first residential building in Manhattan. Developed by Sumaida + Khurana, a local firm that is making it a point to work with renowned architects that have yet to build in New York City, 152 Elizabeth Street is poised to set a new standard in luxury living.

‘I had the right team in the office for this project at the time of the offer so I took upon this venture,’ Ando says simply of why a New York City project had not happened sooner. ‘The project site and its scale were just right and rather opposite of the extreme skyscraper building rush taking place in New York, so I was intrigued.’

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Philharmonic Hall Szczecin by Estudio Barozzi Veiga

beautiful gabled design — photographed by laurian ghinitoiu. m.










Laurian is a Romanian photographer who is passionate about photography and focusing on documenting architecture and its continuous process of change, from the start, towards it’s endless ambiguity. He conducts this documentation by capturing people’s emotions within a rural or urban context, how architecture responds to different social contexts, from the carefully designed to the informal architectural objects. Laurian studied his Masters in Architecture at DIA (Dessau International Architecture School) and currently works in Berlin, as an architect and a freelance photographer.

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Zero Energy Table by Jean-Sébastien Lagrange

creative wonderfully detailed eco design — kudos! m.





“We wanted to see if it was possible to address climate and energy issues on a furniture scale,” says designer Jean-Sébastien Lagrange. The designer, along with architect and engineer Raphaël Ménard, developed the first piece in their Zero Energy Furniture line: a table that can store excess heat and release it when a room gets cold again.

At first glance, the Zero Energy table looks like an ordinary wood conference table, but hidden underneath the slab of oak is a sandwich of materials that turns the table into a thermal sponge of sorts. Between a layer of corrugated aluminum is a waxy phase-changing material that softens when the room reaches about 71 degrees Fahrenheit.

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