Pravin Nair
Maxim’s, Paris. Marking itself into the fabric of history as a space for known individuals in the arts
Resident director Pierre Pelegry has been a part of Maxim’s – the pinnacle of culture and the arts – since the beginning of his career, having worked there for the...
Richter Hotel, Moscow. Guests are welcomed into a mansion turned hotel
Guests and patrons are welcomed into The Richter to wander around throughout the day – a move made by Efimova and her team to create a mood as to being...
Ark Books, Copenhagen. The nucleus of esoteric novels
The thesis of the store revolves around the initiative of each volunteer and how they pour their time into Ark. As of now, there are twenty individuals who are contributing...
192 Books, New York City. A mirror of the Paula Cooper Gallery
In the absence of bookstores in the Chelsea area, Paula Cooper and Jack Macrae persisted in operating a bookstore for the community of inhabitants for this corner of Manhattan
GoodNews, Barcelona. Independent magazines and signature coffee blends creating a sense of community
The story of the foundation begun as a response to the pandemic: «There was a sense of fear and an unnerving feeling that we as a society shared», explains Head...
Casa Maria Luigia, Modena. Gilmore and Bottura and a two-thousand-year-old Chinese Hun vase
An Ai Weiwei photo series hangs within the living space. Lara Gilmore shares, «Three life-sized photographs depicting the artist breaking a 2000-year-old Chinese Hun vase: We took this as symbolism...
Okhtein, Cairo. Womanhood in Egyptian manufacture and design
Two sisters set to carry forth their existing work in disseminating and redefining the narrative of what it means to be an Arabic woman in the world of today
Komiyama Bookstore, Tokyo. Three generations of curated vintage books
Having traversed across bookstores on a global scale to locations in Europe and Northern America, Komiyama found a lack of diversity of subject matter carried in bookstores in the genre...
