City Guides Spotlight: Chicago

A dose of art, music, fresh cuisine and more in America's "Second City"

Sponsored content: It’s time to dismiss the “Second City” nomenclature, as Chicago takes the backseat to nobody. As a haven of early modern architecture in the US, with towering historic structures lining the Loop over looking the Chicago River, the city’s knack for design and mindful aesthetics started young—much earlier than most of our standout cities, in fact. In more recent years, as home to …

Melbourne Furniture Project by Sigurd Larsen

Danish architect Sigurd Larsen draws upon travel memories for his new desert-inspired furniture collection

by Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi When MINI Australia tapped Berlin-based Sigurd Larsen to exhibit furniture as part of their temporary concept space, little did they know the Danish-born architect would translate his wanderlust memories of Australia’s deserts into the Melbourne Furniture Project. For this project, Larsen created a family of furniture, experimenting with materials that possess qualities that are a similitude of the continent’s rugged, sun-kissed terrain—enduring, …

Heidi Bucher’s Mummified Homes

The Swiss artist's laborious and poignant look at shedding skin and memories

In 1993 Swiss artist Heidi Bucher passed away at 67 years old, leaving behind a portfolio of thoughtfully executed work. Bucher began making rubber latex casts over parts of houses comprising her life back in the ’70s and from that point forward her practice remained focused on mummifying these structures. Her approach was twofold: Garments and personal objects would be molded in rubber while fractions …