211: Lighter hand, longer dwelling
A thatched studio on the Odsherred coast, a clay pavilion scented with cinnamon and cloves at the Barbican, sculptures held in unstable equilibrium in Paris, a steam-bent seating collection from...
On Denmark’s Odsherred coast, Norm Architects thatch a small atelier in reed, line it in vertical hardwood and reclaimed beams, and let wooden louvers cut the daylight into shifting bands across a herringbone brick floor. Shoreline Studio is built to slow a working day down, and the rest of this week follows that lighter hand, the one that lets material and atmosphere do the heavier work.
At the Barbican Sculpture Court in London, Delcy Morelos packs clay, hay, cinnamon and cloves into origo, a twenty-four-metre earthen pavilion set against the brutalist concrete of Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. In Paris, Marinés Agurto and Katherinne Fiedler stage Main de fer, gant de velours at Espace Brownstone, salvaged plaster blocks held by zinc hinges and lead weights at the edge of giving way. From Portugal, Carlos Pereira makes the Rasa Collection for More Contract, steam-bent ash and beech where the grain carries both the structure and the look. In Berlin, Lucia Jost finishes Capital Daughters, twenty-one square-format film portraits made across apartments, rooftops and parks since 2022. And in London Fields, Paraforma run a single inhabitable wall of bleached oak through Studio Four, folding kitchen, storage and services into one continuous timber gesture.
On Denmark‘s Odsherred coast, Norm Architects extends the summerhouse tradition with Shoreline Studio, a thatched-roof atelier where Japanese spatial thinking meets Danish vernacular craft.
From London Guide: Soil, cinnamon, and cloves fill the Barbican Sculpture Court in London, where Delcy Morelos has built origo, a 24-meter earth pavilion set against the brutalist concrete of Chamberlin, Powell and Bon.
From Paris Guide: Matter held in unstable equilibrium: at Espace Brownstone in Paris, Marinés Agurto and Katherinne Fiedler stage Main de fer, gant de velours, sculptures that test the threshold between what sustains and what spills.
Private homes built around the particular quality of time a weekend allows. Larch cabins in pasture, concrete refuges in Alpine foothills, restored farmhouses, coastal pavilions, compact Nordic summer houses, Mornington-Peninsula sheds, hidden atria in the south of Sweden. Architecture where the point is not escape but the slowness of arriving — the stay long enough to notice you have.
From The New Chair: Carlos Pereira of Induse Design Industrial makes the Rasa Collection for More Contract: bentwood chairs, stools and lounge pieces in ash or beech where steam-bent grain carries both the structural and visual proposition.
Berlin photographer Lucia Jost has been building Capital Daughters since 2022 — a Portrait of Humanity Award-winning series that refuses to arrive at a fixed idea of who the Berlin woman is.
In London Fields, Paraforma converts a flat into Studio Four, where an inhabitable bleached-oak wall holds kitchen, storage, and services, dissolving the boundary between communal and private life.
