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1 week ago | pinupmagazine.org | Felix Burrichter

In the design world, Piero Gandini is a rare breed: part old-school industrialist, part enfant terrible. Now in his early sixties, the Italian entrepreneur is the Executive Chairman of the Flos B&B Italia Group, a sprawling design empire that includes B&B Italia, Flos, Louis Poulsen, Maxalto, Arclinea, Azucena, Fendi Casa, Audo, and Lumens.

1 week ago | pinupmagazine.org | Felix Burrichter

Talking HBF Textiles with Mark Grattan by Felix Burrichter The state of Mark Grattan’s apartment is nothing like the high-polish spaces he’s designed and that have been featured in the pages (and on the covers) of glossy shelter bibles like Elle Décor. Instead, it’s an active construction site, covered in dust from constant sanding, with delivery boxes, loose appliances, and building tools scattered everywhere. A hard hat seems almost required.

2 months ago | pinupmagazine.org | Billie Muraben |Miranda Keyes

“I find the term ‘glass artist’ frustrating,” says sculptor Miranda Keyes. “I think the binary nature of describing my work as ‘glass art’ ties in with a real ambivalence about the material. Glass isn’t taken seriously, maybe because it's so seductive.” Keyes, who works from a beautifully-lit studio in south London, learned how to sculpt with glass on her own terms, training in bronze at university in Scotland and during a stint working at a foundry in Germany.

2 months ago | pinupmagazine.org | Mimi Zeiger

Architectural Entertainers PlayLab Celebrate 20 Years of Thinking Big by Mimi Zeiger Many of the remembrances of David Lynch published after his passing in January mentioned his gee-whiz, cherry-pie-and-coffee, Midwestern earnestness. The director always exuded uncanny sunshine in contrast to his penchant for noir. As a trait, earnestness rarely gets enough attention. More often than not, it’s overshadowed by hipness, camp, or irony. PlayLab is earnest.

Nov 19, 2024 | pinupmagazine.org | India Ennenga

A far cry from stuffy classicists for whom music is a respite from contemporary concerns, the Anglo-German composer and pianist Max Richter sees his medium as a mode of communication, at once comprehensible, beautiful, and deeply engaged with the important topics of our time. Produced in collaboration with neuroscientists, his 2015 album Sleep aims to help the listener achieve a restorative night’s rest in a world where computers and smartphones have played havoc with our circadian rhythms.