Minimalissimo Weekly Edit
Minimalissimo in Design
Hello. I hope you've had a good week. You might have noticed we skipped last week's newsletter. I took a short break to the north west of Scotland and was completely off-grid in nature to do some hiking and climbing. It felt great (minus the midgies). Anyway, we're back at it and this week we have shipped out all the pre-orders of the Selection book, which means some of you will have already received your copy and hopefully the rest will be arriving next week. I'm going to be turning up the promotional volume for this book over the next few weeks, because the soft launch of this project has been very quiet. And more people need to hear about this beautiful piece of print. So if you already have yours, please spread the word. Share on socials and help us get this into more hands. Also, please get in touch with me if you have some feedback. Thanks so much.
Our recent features include a mix of soft minimalism with brutalist design. We visit Setagaya, Japan and Berlin, Germany to admire a couple of tranquil interiors. We also celebrate the simple steel homeware designs by Tom Kundig. And in our featured mood we curate a fresh gallery of beautiful matte black objects. Have a read, take it slow, and enjoy your Sunday.
— Carl Barenbrug, Creative Director
Features
Hanegi G-House
Makoto Yamaguchi Design's Hanegi G-House is a collaged image with fragments of nature, traditions, and the past. When looking, one can find a door leading out to the lush backyard, the Shoji dividers with their translucent screen made of thin paper, or structural remnants of the wooden shell. They all contribute to a minimalist whole. Over time, they become those elements of timelessness, which weaves in the threads of past and present.
Tom Kundig Collection Revisited
The Tom Kundig Collection is a hardware and home furnishings line that grew out of Tom Kundig’s longstanding interest in crafting intimate, human-scaled experiences within architecture. It is a celebration of the moments when people become kinetically engaged with the buildings and spaces they inhabit.
Seamus Kowarzik Studio
Located in a typical Berlin apartment building just off Karl Marx Alle, the Seamus Kowarzik Studio space was converted from a vacated upholsterer and a disused bakery. This minimalist space appears to be an ideal canvas for the studio's compelling and beautiful architectural work.
Mood
Matte Black II
From the Archive
Split Table
The Split table, designed by Polish furniture brand Muroy, is a combination of the monolithic heaviness which is reflected in the uniform surface of the top and the lightness that splits the massive leg into two separate elements.
In the Shop
Minimalissimo Selection: Architecture
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