Tag: Lampoon Issue 33
Looking closely: Chiara Yiontis draws circles without a plan
Each work is built through repetition: circles drawn one by one without sketch, where proximity creates structure and a single encounter can redirect a life. Chiara Yiontis for Lampoon MECCANO
Uzbekistan: some Soviet Modernism is leading creativity worldwide
From Timurid empires to Cold War metros, from mud-brick labyrinths to solar furnaces: how Uzbekistan is turning heritage, brutalism and contemporary art into a new geopolitical and aesthetic statement
Nick Knight working on the latest Tiffany & Co. collections for Lampoon Meccano
SHOWstudio, London - Nick Knight interprets Tiffany collections portraying Hunter Piferc and conceptually connecting body, structure, and surface – this Lampoon’s MECCANO issue
Loro Piana Extra Bag by Adrien Dubost: scale without redesign
Shot for Lampoon Meccano, Adrien Dubost places the Extra Bag in an industrial set, isolating its form among steel structures and reflective surfaces to test proportion, material, and construction
Amateur bodies escape the economy of perfection
Spyros Rennt's images for Lampoon Meccano trace an analog, unguarded intimacy of bodies — and open a reflection on amateur desire and what happens when the spectacle breaks
The Back Studio, industrial scrap for the hottest lamps around
Neon bends, aluminum scratches, glass suspends: The Back Studio’s work lives in the tension between mechanical precision and raw imperfection. An interview with Eugenio Rossi and Yaazd Contractor
Goshka Macuga: when systems work too well power takes over
“Growing up with nothing trained me to build everything” – Goshka Macuga on memory, archives, AI, and why systems become dangerous when efficiency starts to override human truth
The loudspeaker as machine: Erwann Petersen and the mechanics of sound
From early electromagnetic experiments to Transparent’s exposed systems, the loudspeaker shifts from hidden function to visible structure, staged as object and evidence
Nick Knight shoots Tiffany for Lampoon MECCANO: why jewelry works like engineering
A dock chain cast in 18k gold, a knot that holds what words can't, a cuff shaped on bone. Nick Knight shoots three of Tiffany collections built like a machine...
Can hemp become a fragrance, or is it still just raw material?
Canapa N318 by LabSolue uses Cannabis sativa L. as an olfactory raw material, isolating terpenes through low-yield distillation and integrating them into a controlled formulation system
The Beautiful Fall: Meccano of rivalry, calibrated to fail
A story by photographer Eva Baales for Lampoon MECCANO becomes an occasion to reflect on downfall – From Onassis to Lagerfeld, from Callas to Jackie, love turns into leverage
