Minimalissimo Weekly Edit
Minimalissimo in Design
Hello. I hope you’ve had a good week. As I’m sipping coffee and listing to some easy lofi, I’ll share a couple of updates with you. We have pretty much finalised the creative direction of the next printed magazine. It’s going to be considerably different from the previous three, but I always saw those a bit like a trilogy anyway. So this feels like a fresh start. As we’re not going to rush it, it might be a while yet before it’s ready. More updates on this will follow.
I was speaking with design studio Berger & Föhr and we have decided to push the release of the diptych paintings we collaborated on, titled 100-50-0, back a month or so given the current global situation. I think it makes sense.
Finally, we just added a wonderful book to our shop. It is called A Lesson with A G Fronzoni and it’s a beautiful and brilliant book authored by Ester Manitto and designed by Artiva Design. A nod to one of the greatest designers in history.
Our features over the past week include an interview with Elisa Valero Ramos, an architect we have admired for years and whose work speaks for itself. We visit South Yarra in Australia to celebrate a beautifully minimal renovation project, we also visit Mexico City and the grand design of AdH House by Francesc Rifé Studio, and in our featured mood we showcase a lighthearted collection of handcrafted limited-edition miniatures by Sue Doeksen and Spitsberg that provide places you can escape to. Have a read, take it slow, and enjoy your Sunday.
—Carl Barenbrug, Creative Director
Creator Interview
Elisa Valero Ramos (Architect)
“When I discovered light as a central theme in architecture, I realised that it would engage all my life. Light in my work is the most valuable material.”
Features
South Yarra House
South Yarra townhouse is a reset, realignment, and reinvigoration of a previously cumbersome 90s era townhouse. The design by collaborative Australian studio, Winter Architecture, reflects a process of removal and consolidation. Adding carefully and beautifully, where absolutely necessary.
AdH House
On a sloping street around Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico City, an enveloping grey stone wall encases a lush green garden. The oceanic climate vegetation inside speckles the brutalist cubic structure. Vines crawl in a disordered manner, undulating reeds sway to swift winds, a sheet of water lie obediently as ripples from falling leaves transforms the liquid surface. This is AdH House by Francesc Rifé Studio.
Mood
Miniature Moments
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