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.
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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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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 Vétiver Fauve is an...
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...
Glass, steel and the New York table: how Rivington Milan evolves
A new outdoor terrace overlooking Porta Nuova marks the latest evolution of Hyatt Centric Milan Centrale's New York-inspired restaurant
Happy Valley Melbourne. A store whose entity is unclear until you step into it
Chris Crouch, the figure behind Polyester Records and The Tramway Hotel, brought the theatrical language of independent retail to Collingwood, Melbourne
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»
Smoke Signals San Francisco: Fadi Berbery’s independent newsstand on Polk Street
From Beirut to San Francisco, Fadi Berbery founded Smoke Signals in 1995, a European-style newsstand offering international magazines, independent titles and curated print culture on Polk Street
Smell reaches the brain before you think. Olfactory Signals builds on that
OS.03 opens at 10 Corso Como on June 4: thirty-plus makers, a rooftop by Sissel Tolaas and Octave Perrault, and a program that treats the olfactory pathway as a medium...
Rosa Alpina and the Pizzinini family’s making of a territorial system
From a local inn in San Cassiano to an Aman destination, Rosa Alpina remains tied to the Pizzinini family, Ladin culture and the territorial system of Alta Badia
Ānti: perfume begins with sweat and salt – not flowers
While presenting the fragrance Paura dell’Acqua, the founders of Ānti took us through the chronology of the brand, from the Egyptian “sweat of the gods” to plague-era opulence – how...
UNITOM Manchester and the return of the physical magazine
In Manchester’s Northern Quarter, UNITOM and some independent publishing — treating printed matter as something to collect
Between Fire and Fermentation: Inside a Contemporary Culinary Laboratory
Moving through cultures – Yapa beyond Milan with an opening in Antiparos, extending a project built around movement, local relationships and changing landscapes
Dorbeetle Store, Hangzhou: born from a need to read with friends
From foreign magazines brought back from trips abroad to a physical store in Hangzhou: Tony Lee's Dorbeetle Store works as a platform for independent publishing, minority voices and printed culture
Dolomiti SPA Hotel Fanes: cool air, altitude and body rituals in Alta Badia
From a sixteenth-century farmhouse to a five-star wellness destination, Hotel Fanes reimagines Alpine hospitality through architecture, landscape, and a deeply physical approach to wellbeing
Why Villa Feltrinelli is in a category of its own
Twenty rooms, three hectares of botanical park, two Michelin stars since 2013: Grand Hotel a Villa Feltrinelli operates on a scale that standard hotel categories cannot contain
XYZ Books, Lisbon: endorsing experimentation without compromise
At XYZ Books, the focus is not aesthetics. Pedro Guimarães and Tiago Casanova encourage freshness and support the artists they collaborate with through their insight and intuition in editing
The house carved into the Amalfi Coast between Praiano and Positano
Born as a home carved into the rock, Piccolo Sant'Andrea is curved lines and arches that generate points of observation — an evolving presence in the hotel landscape of the...
The Manner, or how Milan learned to live in New York
At 58 Thompson Street, Soho, Hannes Peer composes a design symphony for New York, drawing on Milanese masters and excavating, like an archaeologist, the layered beauty of the world
Restoring stone and silence: San Corrado di Noto and the rural Sicilian landscape
Nestled in citrus groves and olive trees, the resort maintains historic architecture and landscape, integrating energy-efficient design and local materials in its restoration
Isola Design Festival 2026: ten editions, one neighborhood, new horizons
The tenth edition of Isola brought the festival back to its Milanese roots — and showed just how far an independent design platform can travel in a decade without losing...
Wythe Hotel, Williamsburg: a barrel factory became Brooklyn’s defining address
How an abandoned industrial building became Brooklyn’s first boutique hotel: the Wythe Hotel tells the story of Williamsburg itself, from working waterfront to one of New York’s most visible neighborhoods
CAN Art Fair Madrid at ten: from urban art to a broader contemporary field
At Matadero, over 50 galleries and new sections such as CAN Design marked a shift from street-rooted practices toward a cross-disciplinary programme spanning art, design, and architecture
Diptyque Re-lights the Neon of the Orphéon
More than half a century later, Diptyque has returned to that ember-lit cradle of its creativity, transforming memories of sax riffs and swirling cigarette ribbons into a limited-edition collection that...
The Florentin Frankfurt: an urban retreat in Germany’s financial capital
In Frankfurt's financial landscape, The Florentin by Althoff Collection introduces a different pace: an inner courtyard, greenery, and a design that soothes. The culinary experience unfolds beneath a starry sky
The Grande Provence, Franschhoek: a micro-European atmosphere in the Cape
Rolling panoramas frame the valley and accentuate the drama of the surrounding Rocky Mountains – the South African wine country is an hour's drive from Cape Town
Hen’s Teeth, Dublin. A dialogue on the lack of cultural spaces in Ireland
A hybrid gallery, hi-fi café in Dublin 8 where art community meet, born from DIY pop-ups and crowdfunding to answer the city’s need for more cultural spaces
Temple & Chapon: Phantom Relics in Neo-Gothic Flesh
Dining at Temple & Chapon unfolds as a neo-Gothic reverie in the Marais, where mid-century Manhattan grit meets ecclesiastical hush, turning every meal into a wanderer's relic-strewn pause
Tadashi Kawamata for Maison Ruinart: shaping reclaimed wood in the vineyards of Champagne
Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata brings three permanent installations in salvaged wood to Maison Ruinart's estate in Reims, as part of the Conversations with Nature curatorial programme
Mandarin Oriental Savoy, Zurich: An Exploration of Its Rebirth and Legacy
The renovation of the Mandarin Oriental Savoy Zurich highlights its 19th-century origins and recent architectural updates designed to preserve Zurich’s oldest grand hotel
