Partisans

Young architects seek to shake up design norms from Mecca to your living room

Alex Josephson, Pooya Baktash and their fellow architects at Toronto-based Partisans are engaging in architectural guerrilla warfare. They want your attention and, most likely, they’ll get it as they poke, prod, shock and awe you into changing the way you see the world, or at least its buildings. “Everyone at Partisans is young. The average age is 26,” says Josephson. “The idea was to graduate …

Metropole Aluminum House

Jean Prouvé's 1949 design steals the show at Design Miami/Basel

As Design Miami/Basel continues to establish itself as the dominant satellite fair of Switzerland’s Art Basel, Galerie Patrick Seguin upped the ante this year by installing a 1,000 square-foot aluminum structure designed by Jean Prouvé. The Metropole Aluminum House was originally created as a school for rural communities that could be pre-fabricated and erected on-site. While the structure was never implemented on a mass scale, …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Crazy swimming pools, a traveling nail salon, aerial nudes and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Crazy Swimming Pools Complex gathered 30 of the craziest swimming pools across the world, from gardens in Bali to caves in Santorini. The alluring oases are sure to have you booking your next tropical holiday. 2. 2013 Chloé Resort Collection In her first full year at the label, former Pringle of Scotland designer Clare Waight Keller presents a pitch-perfect 2013 Resort Collection for Chloé. …