Milan Design Week 2017: Studiopepe’s “The Visit”

An exhibition addressing the intimacy of interior design

How do we offer access and exclusivity through design at the same time? How do we maintain intimacy in the age of social media? These are questions that seem to have yielded one of our favorite projects at Milan Design Week this year; “The Visit” by Studiopepe. Set inside the Brera Design Apartment, a private space of multiple identities in the heart of Brera (one …

The Porn Cameos of a Famous Chaise Lounge

Including over 800 photographic examples, the book “We Don’t Embroider Cushions Here” documents the many cameos the LC4 chaise lounge makes in pornographic films. The iconic chair—designed back in 1928—was the collaborative work of Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand. Authors (and artists) Augustine and Josephine Rockebrune paid an internet workforce based in India to sort through hundreds of pornos—from 2005’s “Slut Puppies” to …

Bec Brittain Studios’ Aries Collection

Constellation-like light systems with prisms for punctuation

With her acclaimed SHY Light, designer Bec Brittain proposed a modular system that could be arranged to accommodate a room’s needs. With SHY, thin LED tubes cast light outward in connected stretches. The result was a fixture that could illuminate a room. Today, Brittain reveals a new type of minimal, structural lighting system, known as the Aries collection, and its intent is quite different. Once …