A collector's edition alternative mainbook cover for the "PIN–UP 40: INDEPENDENCE" box set, celebrating 20 years of architectural entertainment and asking where do architecture, design, and culture stand today?
FEATURING
DOZIE KANU
Lisbon-based artist and designer Dozie Kanu on interdisciplinarity, his Texas roots, and his first collaboration with Knoll.
Interview by Victoria Camblin
Portraits by Jim C. Nedd
SOLANGE KNOWLES / SAINT HERON
Music’s consummate multi-hyphenate reflects on her career through Saint Heron, the multidisciplinary creative studio she founded in 2013.
Interview by Theaster Gates
Portraits by Kobe Wagstaff
YASMEEN LARI
Pakistan’s architectural pioneer on craft, “barefoot social architecture,” and the duty of architects to become humanitarians.
Interview by Andrew Ayers
Portraits by Arif Mahmood
IAN SCHRAGER
The New York nightlife impresario turned godfather of boutique hotels on Studio 54, Palladium, and a career built on subverting the status quo.
Interview by Michael Bullock
Portraits by Bolade Banjo
Also in the issue: five essays on the state of design (Jay Osgerby), architecture (Kate Wagner), interiors (Rafael de Cárdenas), wellness (Andrew Pasquier), and the female body in the 21st century (Whitney Mallett); architect Mariam Issoufou and Ghetto Gastro’s Jon Gray on Gourmega, their new West Village eatery; Valentina Cameranesi Sgroi’s bold borosilicate glassware; Francisco Gaspar and Tawanda Chiweshe of the newly formed studio YY; a Milanese fantasy in rug form by cc-tapis and Fornasetti; Shepard Fairey’s take on a modern armchair classic; and much more.