The artist and researcher Sissel Tolaas has collaborated with PIN–UP to create a unique, collectible Smell Edition.
In PIN–UP’s first collectible edition, Tolaas introduces her concept of a “content hack,” featuring an eight-piece fragrant sticker system dispersed throughout the magazine. Readers are invited to peel off these scented stickers and reassemble them on the cover to form an image. Photographed by the artist Lengua during a shoot for PIN–UP, the reassembled image depicts one of the small signature scent vials from Tolaas’s Smell Research Lab in Berlin.
For the Smell Edition, Tolaas explores the concept of ‘nothingness’ by pairing the blank cover of PIN–UP’s Under Construction issue with a specially created scent: a molecular reconstitution of ozone, which she describes as the smell of “nothing.”
SISSEL TOLAAS
The certified expert of all things smell is on a quest to sharpen your fifth sense
Text by Whitney Mallett
Portraits by Lengua
ANUPAMA KUNDOO
The Indian-born architect creates low-cost housing solutions with vernacular knowledge and materials
Interview by Victoria Camblin
Portraits by Joseph Kadow
SHOHEI SHIGEMATSU
The OMA partner pushes architecture forward by building
Interview by Felix Burrichter
Photography by Chris Maggio
MICHAEL E. REYNOLDS
The Taos, New Mexico-based radical visionary turns recycled beer cans and tires into self-sustaining architectural gems
Interview by Michael Bullock
Also in the issue: Portraits by Luke AbbyInside Francesco Vezzoli’s Milanese home, a high-drama Italian design lover’s dream; Yale Center for British Art director (and the next executive director of the Rauschenberg Foundation) Courtney J. Martin on renovating an iconic Louis Kahn building; Fabrizio Ballabio and Alessandro Bava reinterpret the idea of “made in Italy” with their Milan-based architectural studio BB; Limbo Accra create speculative futures for unfinished architecture around the world; and Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia calls for a radical reevaluation of “home” as a vector for social and economic change.
Plus: Pippa Garner and Hedi Slimane’s Celine Art Project.