Best of #whites

We collected the shades of this typical summer color in the ten stories we propose you for this weekend’s readings.

Snarkitecture, The Beach, vista dell'installazione al National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
Discover here ten stories about art, architecture and design in which the white color covers the forms and invades the spaces, making them ethereal and luminous, or silent and petrified.


– In Milan, at the Spazio delle Erbe, Snarkitecture has designed a cavern filled with natural light and inspired by the lightness and translucency of the SS15 COS collection.

Yusuke Seki designed the exhibition on hemp textiles for the japanese producer Majotae creating a quiet, white, interactive space for contemporary and historical pieces.

– Transforming the materiality of the space by petrifying it literally, French artist Vincent Lamouroux visually calcifies Silver Lake’s deserted and derelict Sunset Pacific Motel.

– Creating an open space with floating walls and pillars Sasaki Architecture transforms the attic part of a former discotheque in Tokyo into a white wall cloud, deleting the oppressive feeling.

– For the St. Voile wedding chapel in Niigata, Japan, Eriko Kasahara created a white clean space ispired to the wedding veil with a series of interconnected pipes.

– Following the local construction tradition Camilo Rebelo and Susana Martins composed on the Greek islands of Antiparos the Ktima House, a house that, seen from above, appears like a thick white and abstract line.

Septembre Architecture has renovated and extended a traditional courtyard house in the historic heart of Hammamet in Tunisia, using local materials and know-how.

– A white glass facade, juxtaposed with the black exterior of the restored ventilator building, hosts the spacious light-filled galleries of the Corning Museum of Glass North Wing Expansion, designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners.

– Through Vache à lait, a milk dispenser and a cup, 5.5 design studio wants to reconnect consumers with producers and return to the real taste of natural products.

– Designed for Nature & Découvertes, Constance Guisset’s essential oil diffuser Cumulus evokes dreaming and contemplation with its matt ceramics that is an invitation to touch.

 

Top Snarkitecture, The Beach, view of the installation at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. Photo © Noah Kalina

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