CASE STUDY
— NEW FOLK
Whether using traditional or innovative materials, designers lean on the craft and expertise of former practitioners to carve, shape, mould or weave.
THE SHAPE OF LIGHT
— ARK X GUBI
In collaboration with Gubi, and to celebrate the brand’s new lighting collections, Ark Journal’s creative team produced a photo essay inspired by the Californian mid-century modern architectural style.
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
— LOEWE FOUNDATION CRAFT PRIZE
Promoting modernisation of tradition within the realm of craft, the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2022 is now open for submissions. Ark Journal talked to Chairperson of the Jury, Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, about contemporary craft and it’s impact through the fifth edition of the award.
SHAPED MEMORY
— MALENE HVIDT & NIKOLAJ LORENTZ MENTZE
Designed with rigour and made with love and care, a modest 1980s home is reimagined by architect Malene Hvidt and designer/maker Nikolaj Lorentz Mentze to express their formative values.
RECREATING HISTORY
— DANIELLE SIGGERUD
In personal as well as professional projects, Danielle Siggerud respects the past but also sheds and refines before creating tailored layers of significance.
CASE STUDY
— NEW FOLK
Whether using traditional or innovative materials, designers lean on the craft and expertise of former practitioners to carve, shape, mould or weave.
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
— LOEWE FOUNDATION CRAFT PRIZE
Promoting modernisation of tradition within the realm of craft, the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2022 is now open for submissions. Ark Journal talked to Chairperson of the Jury, Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, about contemporary craft and it’s impact through the fifth edition of the award.
SHAPED MEMORY
— MALENE HVIDT & NIKOLAJ LORENTZ MENTZE
Designed with rigour and made with love and care, a modest 1980s home is reimagined by architect Malene Hvidt and designer/maker Nikolaj Lorentz Mentze to express their formative values.
RECREATING HISTORY
— DANIELLE SIGGERUD
In personal as well as professional projects, Danielle Siggerud respects the past but also sheds and refines before creating tailored layers of significance.
CREATIVE VOICES
— CARL EMIL JACOBSEN
The landscape surrounding Carl Emil Jacobsen provides the materials and colours that form his sculptures, reminiscent of ancient forms and archaeology.
CREATIVE VOICES
— Patricia Perales García
Fragments of memory and changing seasons are evoked in the ceramics and textile assemblages of Patricia Perales García as costume design crosses over with sculpture.
CASE STUDY
— THE COLLECTOR’S EYE
In The Collector’s Eye, the melange of disparate elements, vintage and contemporary, refined and brutalist, are united by a discerning eclecticism in an historic exhibition space.
ASTUTE BLEND
— KIRSTINE MEIER CARLSEN
As the founder of Studio X, a design studio and gallery in Copenhagen that acts as a laboratory for concepts, Kirstine Meier Carlsen is an individual imbued with curiosity. Her home is a natural extension of this.
DOWNSIZED
— KIM GRENAA
He is undoubtedly one of Denmark’s pre-eminent slashies. The fashion-industry insider / creative director / founder and editor-in-chief of Dansk Magazine has recently added a new slash to his list: interior-design consultant and downsizing specialist.
CASE STUDY
— NATURAL ORDER
A study of handcrafted and tactile furniture and objects harmonised by the use of raw materials and calm forms.