MICHÈLE LAMY
CREATIVE PARTNER, POETIC FORCE
PORTRAIT
More than a muse to husband Rick Owens, Michèle Lamy breathes life into their furniture creations. In her Paris-based atelier she talks about how her creativity is fuelled by emotion or seduction and that the designs are all about materials, noble or otherwise.
“THE CORE CONCEPT IS TO TAKE A CHEAP MATERIAL LIKE PLYWOOD, THEN WORK WITH IT AS IF IT WAS EBONY.”
This interview is featured in Ark Journal VOL II
WORDS ALICE CAVANAGH
PHOTOGRAPHY WICHMANN + BENDTSEN
STYLING HELLE WALSTED
HOME AS A PASSAGE OF TIME
— MICHAEL ANASTASSIADES
Best known for lights, Michael Anastassiades lives in a pared-back, deeply considered manner, a way of life reduced to its essence.
OBJECTS AS ARCHITECTURE
— MARCIO KOGAN FOR MINOTTI
Marcio Kogan and his Studio MK27 is a name intimately linked to the contemporary modernist architecture movement in Brazil.
THE POWER OF GREY
— STUDIO OLIVER GUSTAV
A tribute to the poetic yet haunting atmospheres of the canvases of Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916), designer Oliver Gustav’s studio gallery is modelled on the oil-on-canvas interior paintings of the fêted Danish artist.
MICHÈLE LAMY
CREATIVE PARTNER, POETIC FORCE
PORTRAIT
More than a muse to husband Rick Owens, Michèle Lamy breathes life into their furniture creations. In her Paris-based atelier she talks about how her creativity is fuelled by emotion or seduction and that the designs are all about materials, noble or otherwise.
“THE CORE CONCEPT IS TO TAKE A CHEAP MATERIAL LIKE PLYWOOD, THEN WORK WITH IT AS IF IT WAS EBONY.”
This interview is featured in Ark Journal VOL II
WORDS ALICE CAVANAGH
PHOTOGRAPHY WICHMANN + BENDTSEN
STYLING HELLE WALSTED