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Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Bill Amberg
Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafé, shares coffee and creative small talk with leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and fashion. This week, it’s British leather craftsman Bill Amberg, who is set to launch his second range of digitally printed hides at London Design Festival
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Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Eric Fischl
Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafé, shares coffee and creative small talk with leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and fashion. This week it’s American artist Eric Fischl, who is making a splash at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles with an exhibition of new paintings centred on bodies of water
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Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Thomas Heatherwick
Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafé, shares coffee and creative small talk with leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and fashion. This week it’s British designer and architect Thomas Heatherwick, who currently has a number of architectural projects in development in Singapore
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Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Tatiana Bilbao
Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafé, shares coffee and creative small talk with leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and fashion. This week, it’s Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao, who is currently designing a brutalist, ethical aquarium in Mazatlán and has an exhibition at Copenhagen's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opening in October 2019
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Out of office: creative small talk with Stephen Witherford and William Mann
Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafé, shares coffee and creative small talk with leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and fashion. In her interview with Stephen Witherford and William Mann of London-based Witherford Watson Mann architects, the discussion turns to the art of ‘incompleteness’ in architecture. The pair demonstrate how to delicately layer new designs upon 17th century architecture, as seen at the Nevill Holt Theatre, and question how communal living could be pioneered in London today.
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Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Amanda Levete
Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafé, shares coffee and creative small talk with leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and fashion. This week, it’s London-based architect Amanda Levete, who founded her award winning practice AL_A in 2009 with co-directors Ho-Yin Ng, Alice Dietsch and Maximiliano Arrocet.
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Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Kjetil Trædal Thorsen
Snøhetta founding partner Kjetil Trædal Thorsen discusses collective creativity, the art of prepositions, and the psychology of architecture with Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafe
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Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Simone Rocha
Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafé, shares coffee and creative small talk with leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and fashion. This week, London-based fashion designer Simone Rocha
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Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with John Pawson
Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafé, shares coffee and creative small talk with leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and fashion. In her interview with designer John Pawson, he rises to his ‘terribly British and understated’ reputation. A humble practitioner disinterested in legacy, he learnt discipline from Japanese designer Shiro Kuramata and cites the St. Moritz church in Augsburg as his career highlight.
