OPUMO Magazine

1 week ago | opumo.com | Paddy Maddison

Welcome to Futurespective: Connected World – Range Rover’s Milanese fever dream that sends you back to the shag-pile-ccarpeted seventies before hurling you headfirst into the light-drenched future. It's all to celebrate 55 years of the luxury SUV benchmark. To mark the occasion, the British marque has teamed up with design studio NUOVA for its first immersive installation – a two-room experience that’s equal parts Mad Men, Kubrick and Goodwood Revival. You begin in 1970.

2 weeks ago | opumo.com | Philip G Lane

Statement house? No thank you. Architects mwworks say this family home, overlooking Case Inlet in Washington state, is designed instead to be overlooked. This is a design that’s all about the landscape and all about the Douglas firs that already occupied the site, and specifically a pair of trees that now frame the front door. Not that you’ll see it from the road, or even as you approach. Longbranch House is imagined to feel as if it’s always been there.

2 weeks ago | opumo.com | Paddy Maddison

Ronnie Fieg doesn’t just remember 2010 – he’s built a career off it. Back then, the internet moved at a slower pace. Tumblr was king, sneaker blogs were gospel, and a good digicam could make or break your online clout. It was the year he founded Kith, and the time when footwear design became an obsession. Now, as Kith Manhattan reopens its doors, Fieg is using that very year as the anchor for his latest project. The Ronnie Fieg x New Balance ABZORB 2010, delivered in two knockout colourways.

2 weeks ago | opumo.com | Philip G Lane

Minimal in every way. You’re looking at first images of the Slate Truck, a minimalist utility vehicle available in any colour you like so long as it’s grey, to paraphrase Henry Ford’s quip about his only-in-black Model T. And like the Model T, this two-seater pick-up truck, sorry Truck, is designed to bring contemporary automobile technology within everyone’s reach. Only this time it’s battery, not fossil fuel, power for the masses.

3 weeks ago | opumo.com | Philip G Lane

High on a ridge, in the Central Oregon desert, is a minimalist house that’s as much art statement as home. Sharp-edged exterior styling is uncompromising. Interior spaces could not be more welcoming. We’re already arranging our mid-century modern furnishings in this landmark building, known as Tetherow Overlook House. Architecture and interior design is by award-winning Portland architects Hacker.