Minimalissimo Weekly Edit
Minimalissimo in Design
Hello. I hope you've had a good week. For us, it was one focused on publications, but we did manage to make a few improvements to our shop. This included typography and product gallery improvements, making the shop design feel harmonious with our principal site. Small details, but important ones.
For all projects we're working on, you can see updates in our Sync, which you'll get access to by becoming a member.
Our features over the past week include a visit to Valencia to admire the minimalist work of Fran Silvestre. We pay homage to the basic bookend tool through Kenyon Yeh's minimalist interpretation. And in our featured mood we celebrate a super simple library of Japan pictograms. Have a read, take it slow, and enjoy your Sunday.
— Carl Barenbrug, Creative Director
Features
Slim Bookend
Slim Bookend reduces a bookend to its fundamental physical principals. It is a sculptural desk and shelf accessory with a striking, minimalist statement. Designed by Kenyon Yeh for ESAILA, this unobtrusive object is composed of two basic shapes and effortlessly joined by a single screw, making this piece simultaneously inconspicuous and full of life.
Niu 160 House
Minimal architecture in its purest form: a simple rectangle, expertly designed. Niu 160 is a classic example of minimal architecture, from the structure to the colour palette and decor. As a guiding design principle, minimalism can be quite rigid. In Niu 160, Fran Silvestre takes this rigidity to the next level.
Mood
Japan Pictograms
From the Archive
Newson Aluminium Chair
Honouring the cantilevered chairs of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a forefather of Modernism, Marc Newson’s design is a forward-looking expression that synthesises simplicity, material, and precision, in the Modernist tradition.
In the Shop
The Touch
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This monthly edition of the Minimalissimo newsletter was supported by aprile, the hanging chair
inspired by spring days and designed by Matteo Modica, aprile is a simple suspended chair that oozes elegance—a floating seat, shaped after spring petals, swinging gently. designed and handcrafted in Italy with artisanal love.
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