THE SHAPE OF LIGHT
— ARK X GUBI
ADVERTORIAL
In collaboration with Gubi, and to celebrate the brand’s new lighting collections, Ark Journal’s creative team produced a photo essay inspired by the Californian mid-century modern architectural style. It’s an homage to a period that embraced both art and craft, a time of eclecticism and optimism that was defined by the transition from modernism, an era that was both forward-thinking and outward-looking. It was an epoch suffused with a desire to experiment and with a curiosity about other people’s cultures, and particularly folk art. A deep concern for comfort and nourishing of the spirit resulted in natural materials, ceramic and organic sculptures combined with the cosiness of low-level furniture.
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.
INSIDE THE MIND — JUDITH HAASE
Architect Judith Haase gets her creative sustenance from many sources: fearless women, avant-garde theatre, the proportions of a tatami mat, and spaces where light is a defining element.
THE SHAPE OF LIGHT
— ARK X GUBI
ADVERTORIAL
In collaboration with Gubi, and to celebrate the brand’s new lighting collections, Ark Journal’s creative team produced a photo essay inspired by the Californian mid-century modern architectural style. It’s an homage to a period that embraced both art and craft, a time of eclecticism and optimism that was defined by the transition from modernism, an era that was both forward-thinking and outward-looking. It was an epoch suffused with a desire to experiment and with a curiosity about other people’s cultures, and particularly folk art. A deep concern for comfort and nourishing of the spirit resulted in natural materials, ceramic and organic sculptures combined with the cosiness of low-level furniture.