Library is where Lampoon documents and reviews the cultural and creative landscape.
From bookstores to hotels, perfumes to museums, and artistic spaces, each review observes what works and what doesn’t. The focus is on experience and context:
how places, objects, and projects function, how they shape ideas and environments. Lampoon Library isn’t a guide or a catalog — it’s a tool to explore culture critically.
Readers follow the magazine’s investigations, discovering spaces and products through sharp, direct observations.
The Library collects reviews that map the intersection of creativity, design, and everyday life, showing how culture is lived and produced, without gloss or exaggeration.
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Keyla Hotel & Beach, Antalya: adaptive reuse on the cliffs of Lara
Dark ceramic, timber-toned aluminium and sharp horizontal lines set Keyla against the limestone cliffs of Lara, where architecture follows the geology of Antalya’s Mediterranean coast
IDEA, London. Finding genius, magic and creative insight in a curated inventory of images
David Owen and Angela Hill refined their ability to perceive an image’s potential through a process of trial and error. Their intuition and broad-mindedness define their approach to selecting titles
Pressato Coffee and Books: Nello Russo brings letterpress to a Turin coffee bar
Pressato combines a coffee counter, a bookshop for analog printing and a program of exhibitions tied to independent publishing
Maison Crivelli builds Tobacco Carnaval on a leaf that is cured
Thibaud Crivelli worked with Quentin Bisch on an extrait built around cured tobacco leaf and infused rum – the formula is withheld
Poliform Milano: cast-iron columns and an oak stair at Piazza della Scala
Stefano Belingardi Clusoni holds the renovation to stone, light oak, glass and mirrored steel, while Poliform Lab furnishes fifteen hundred square meters as a villa inside the city
D-Resort Göcek and the making of Turkey’s quietest yachting town
Low-rise buildings, open wood grids and reflecting pools frame D-Resort Göcek, set between the village, six marinas and the Twelve Islands, along a protected stretch of the Gulf of Fethiye
Perfumer H Clay: Lyn Harris translates the earth into scent
Orange flower, sandalwood, juniper and burnt ash form CLAY, the eau de parfum Lyn Harris built after travelling through the Haouz Valley and the High Atlas: dry wood, mineral heat,...
Lake Como Design Festival 2026 works the border between materials
Waste and biomaterials: the eighth edition reads the border as the seam where one material is worked into another
The Telegraph Tbilisi shows that adaptive reuse can resist nostalgia
One year after opening, The Telegraph continues to chart Tbilisi’s evolution: how the 1964 Brutalist Central Post and Telegraph Office was transformed, and the references that help decode its identity
Archambault built Essential Parfums on extraction methods
Essential Parfums pairs high-concentration naturals with direct distribution and puts the perfumer's name on the bottle
How Carthusia turned Capri into a fragrance identity
Inside the world of Fiori di Capri, and how Carthusia transformed Capri into a fragrance identity built on place, continuity and local production.
Mille Edicola Milan: a newsstand in Porta Romana expands beyond newspaper distribution
Mille Edicola in Milan - a historic Porta Romana newsstand featuring newspapers, independent magazines, books, exhibitions and publishing events while preserving its original retail function
Getting high without getting drunk
Mixology, herbs, ritual and Eli Martinez Bello at YAPA’s fourth Liquid Dialogues chapter — Altered states that has nothing to do with the alcohol
Librairie La Comète, Paris. One does not know but to take a leap
«What we carry is based on instinct. There are times when the print job is not up to standard, or the other way around. We trust the quality of the...
Yvon Lambert, Paris. On artistic recurrences
Yvon Lamberts returns to Marais, this time not as an art dealer but as a bookseller and modern publisher. «I want to do something more humanistic»
Reading Room, Milan. A white cube for magazines turns into a cultural hub
A Forty-square-meter gallery in the district of Corvetto. In conversation with founder Francesca Spiller: «Running a bookshop today means creating a relationship with the producers of magazines»
Palazzo Offline in Rome: publishing, work, and the changing Pigneto
As Pigneto changes through urban redevelopment, Palazzo Offline combines publishing, education, and editorial production under one roof
How CHART 2026 is redefining the art fair model: in conversation with Julie Quottrup Silbermann
Lowering the threshold without lowering artistic ambition: CHART Art Fair’s approach to new collectors, public engagement and contemporary art
Primo Piano: a perfume inspired by the unfinished palace of Luisa Casati in Venice
Primo Piano transforms Palazzo Venier dei Leoni into an olfactory project built around tuberose, incense, leather accords, cultural memory, and twentieth-century Venetian lifestyle
Verdura Resort, Sciacca: A Coastline Built from Seventy Deeds and a Duke’s Name
Sir Rocco Forte spent seven years assembling more than seventy plots of land to build Verdura Resort on Sicily’s southwest coast and this year completed a redesign by Paolo Moschino...
Aurora Merano: how a family hotel evolves without starting over
A conversation with Philipp Aukenthaler to trace the evolution of Aurora: “Every generation has changed it in its own way.” Looking forward, never erasing: from materials and architecture to music...
Casa del Limonero, the Sevillian house where eclecticism becomes instinct
The deer teaches you to move forward while looking back: the symbol of Casa del Limonero, a Sevillian casa-palacio where a collector turns what she has gathered into a buen...
Poliform Café extends the flagship store into a glass volume open onto Piazza della Scala
A working sample of the company's interiors, tested by daily use: travertine, steel, and wood, forty covers, and a covered terrace at the quiet edge of the square
Wideyes Sound Garden at La Cutura: a night of electronic music built on pietra leccese
Cristina Lazic, the Curly Brothers, and Gianni Sabato play a glasshouse courtyard in Giuggianello, where a DJ console cut from quarry offcuts stands on the stone that carried Lecce Baroque
1 Hotel Central Park: a green façade for Manhattan hospitality
A few steps from Central Park, 1 Hotel Central Park turns reclaimed wood, living plants, low-impact systems and biophilic design into the grammar of contemporary luxury
We Love Print, London. A Magazine Stall at Old Spitalfields Market
In conversation with the founder James Laffar – «My grandfather used to know a few of our clients back when he had bookstalls in the Sixties»
Boutique de la Prensa: a kiosk for international magazines in Madrid
An old press store is becoming a centre for independent international magazines, owner Antonio Torán recounts the publishing selling system in Spain
Iconic, New York City: magazines stacked on the ground
The NYCmagazine store, café and bodega selling «magazines, cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, food, beer, beverages, lotto, groceries, e-smoke»: a meeting point for the mags community, Iconic Magazines
Bodrum Loft: brutalist stone volumes absorbed into the woodland of Demirbükü bay
Thirty-six stone villas form a village outside time, poised between the ancestral and the futuristic, while two thirds of the 57,000-square-metre site remain native woodland
700 plants in the garden of La Serena, Forte dei Marmi
At Vittoria Apuana, a Sixties building steps into the present as a five-star boutique hotel, its garden filled with citrus, ferns and hydrangeas beneath tall maritime pines It feels like...
Rupture Venice: from Giudecca to Santa Croce, a bookstore becomes a publishing platform
Alexandre Sap's Rupture relocates to Venice's museum district, expanding its activities through publishing, exhibitions and international collaborations while continuing to treat books as objects of research rather than retail
Guerlain Vétiver Fauve: eau de parfum, rewriting a classic ingrédient
With Vétiver Fauve, Guerlain hands perfumer Delphine Jelk a difficult raw material — vetiver root — and asks for something the molecule has rarely produced: lightness
Villa Igiea: one hundred rooms where Sicilian industrial history became hospitality
Commissioned by Ignazio Florio Jr. in 1899 and designed by Ernesto Basile, Villa Igiea has survived requisition, institutional ownership, and decades of neglect to reopen under Rocco Forte in 2021
Pensione America’s garden restoration recovers the villa’s 1920s and 1930s botany
Banana trees, palms, lemons, bougainvillea, and the original loggia wisteria trace Pensione America's garden back to Forte dei Marmi's Roma Imperiale in the Twenties and Thirties heyday
Rupture Paris and Marseille: books, architecture and independent publishing between two cities
Rupture started a renovation that uncovered the original structure of Le Corbusier’s idea – they decided to use only glass, cement, and ceramic materials for the store
Eau des Princes, L.T. Piver: the Politics of Mint
An aromatic built on nineteenth-century mythology, herb-driven composition, and the question of what "heritage" actually means in fragrance
Capturism Studio Paris: a photography bookstore café without a photographer
In Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Capturism Studio introduces a self-photography system where users create their own images inside a pre-designed studio, integrating photobook retail, café and exhibition space
News & Coffee, Barcelona. The kiosk is a social nexus
From Passeig de Sant Joan to an international network of kiosks: News & Coffee brings together specialty coffee, newspapers and independent magazines without leaving the street
Bjørk, Florence. San Frediano neighborhood between selection and mutation
«The mission was to unite independent publishing, designers and international brands not yet in the spotlight. The essence of the space is based on simplicity and DIY», explains owner Filippo Anzalone
Athens’ Hyper Hypo and the unfinished business of independent publishing
In Athens' Monastiraki district, Hyper Hypo combines bookselling, publishing and public programming, building a space dedicated to visual culture, independent magazines and contemporary publishing.
The red that changed everything: Baccarat Rouge 540
In 2014, Maison Francis Kurkdjian created Baccarat Rouge 540 as a limited edition of 250 bottles. A documentary reconstructs what happens when a perfume is taken seriously as a cultural...
Art Basel 2026: the market wants the first look back
From digital drift to material presence. How everyday matter became contemporary meaning. Art Basel Paris: a new stability
Ara Maris: how one hotel rewrote the rules of Sorrento hospitality
Sorrento's hospitality has long been defined by scale and history; this property bets instead on material culture, sustainability and a coherent design argument that runs through every space
Paris Internationale 2023: eco-responsibility, shifting identities, hybridization, excess, eroticism
Multigenerational and inclusive. Paris Internationale presents itself as ‘an unconventional art fair’ that puts the value of collaboration at its center
How Amouage builds a fragrance around perfumery’s most elusive flower
With Love Hibiscus, Amouage adds a fifth chapter to its Secret Garden collection — pairing one of perfumery's most structurally elusive flowers with a caramelized pastry accord
Athenaeum Boekhandel & Nieuwscentrum, Amsterdam. A printed archive on the Spui
Founded on the Spui in 1966, Athenaeum Boekhandel & Nieuwscentrum is a multi-floor archive of Dutch and international literature, academic titles, magazines, and periodicals at the heart of the city's...
