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High impact meets compact design in Division Twelve’s new Twigz café collection, created in collaboration with design duo Jones & de Leval. The furniture family’s throughline is a minimal frame with a small footprint, proving you don’t need visual heft to make a big impact. Twigz’s design details are ready to add plenty of interest to any small space, with both indoor and outdoor options available. Combine stackable chairs, benches, and tables to create a unique setup that’s all your own.
Twigz offers plenty of options to make it happen. Steel or upholstered chairs, round or rectangular table, and 20 powder coat colors are your creative playground. The one thing you won’t have deliberate is whether to play up form or function – Twigz does it all. Furthermore, the collection does so while being fully carbon neutral. Watch below to learn more about Twigz:
Pocket pens often come with quite cool and sophisticated logics of how to be portable while being able to extend to a full length pen.
Some examples include the Kaweco Sport, Kaweco Lilliput, Traveler’s Fountain Pen, Kaweco Special S, the SCHON DESGN pen, or the No 1 pencil.
There are many more – one of them being the Lamy Pico, which is an expandable ballpoint pen with a push mechanism, in a cool and minimalist design.
Before we hop into the review, I would like to take the opportunity to thank Fontoplumo for supporting the review of this stationery item. You can also buy the Lamy Pico (ballpoint pen) in their webshop (no affiliate – just a friendly pointer).
Check out the video-review below, which is as always preceded by some quick facts. Again, I hope the review is helpful and that you enjoy watching it!
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The Pierre Lorinet Collection: From Western Minimalism to Asian Political Abstraction is an exhibition featuring pieces collected over a period of a decade. Curated by Edward Mitterand, the exhibition is part of Singapore Art Week, a ten-day celebration that will see over 700 artists and curators from Singapore and around the world present over 130 programs.
According to What by Ai Weiwei
In this exhibition, a number of significant contemporary works are brought together for the first time. They were chosen to show the voluntary connection that the Pierre Lorinet Collection has made over the past ten years between the founders of Minimalism and some of the most well-known Asian artists of the twenty-first century. These artists’ practices are largely influenced by Asian political or philosophical ideas as well as the history of modernism.
Pierre Lorinet challenged his relationship with art by deciding to find and experience emotions inside radicalism when he started his collection in 2012 with an emphasis on Minimalism, one of the most influential and rigorous movements in the history of contemporary art. A few years later, the collection was moved to Singapore, making it accessible to Asian-born artists who are or have been influenced by minimalism in diverse ways.
Ai Weiwei, Chen Zhen, Nam June Paik, and Haegue Yang are just a few examples of artists who all have a strong background in art history and care deeply about their contributions to both modern art and their home nations. Their inclusion in the collection foreshadowed the purchase of works by subsequent generations of Asian artists, like Korakrit Arunanondchai, a Thai-American artist.
According to What by Ai Weiwei
Relatum by Lee Ufan
Relatum by Lee Ufan
Untitled by Donald Judd
Untitled by Donald Judd
Untitled by Donald Judd
Incomplete Open Cube by Sol Lewitt
Incomplete Open Cube by Sol Lewitt
Photos by Colin Wan.
Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus of The Minimalists have built their careers on helping people live better with less stuff, via their best-selling books, films, live events, and The Minimalists Podcast, co-hosted by T.K. Coleman. On this episode of Milkshake, we speak with all three, as they trade off questions about minimalism, maximalism, and how to consider the objects in our lives.
For those who find this lifestyle philosophy convincing, the key might be easing into it: “There’s no need to get rid of your grandmother’s doily collection right away,” says Fields Millburn, noting that “people tend to struggle with sentimental items.” There are probably other places to look: “Start with the things that are easy to give you the momentum: Have you been in your closet lately? Have you noticed that most of the clothes you own you don’t actually wear? It’s okay to let go of anything you haven’t worn in the last year. We have a rule called the 90-90 rule – we also refer to it as the seasonality rule. If you’re holding onto something that you haven’t worn in the last 90 days, and you know you’re not gonna wear it in the next 90 days, you can give yourself permission to let it go.”
We asked how minimalists give gifts: “The best gift that I can give is the opportunity to help another human being feel, seen, heard, appreciated, validated in a way that matters to them,” says Coleman. “That’s what really matters. You can impress people with things. You can make them jealous of you. But you can’t ‘money’ your way into love. So when you’re trying to get a gift for someone [and] you pay a lot of money but your heart’s not in it, they’re gonna see right through it. But if your heart is in it, they’re gonna see what really matters.”
Also in this Milkshake, we ask how the pandemic changed minimalism, how to determine what’s junk and what’s essential, and where the hosts might permit a little bit of maximalism into their lives. Tune in for the answers!
Diana Ostrom, who has written for Wallpaper, Interior Design, ID, The Wall Street Journal, and other outlets, is also the author of Faraway Places, a newsletter about travel.
Milkshake, DMTV (Design Milk TV)’s first regular series, shakes up the traditional interview format by asking designers, creatives, educators and industry professionals to select interview questions at random from their favorite bowl or vessel. During their candid discussions, you’ll not only gain a peek into their personal homeware collections, but also valuable insights into their work, life and passions.
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