George Nakashima Woodworkers: A Legacy Carved in Time 8 Apr 5:05 AM (9 days ago)
Stepping onto the grounds of George Nakashima Woodworkers feels like entering another world—a quieter, more refined realm. The soft light, unhurried sense of time, and almost tangible peacefulness create a space for reflection. A network of thoughtfully placed structures invites gentle exploration, each one revealing another chapter of Nakashima’s creative journey and a story shaped by time.
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The Saut Hermès 2025: A Spectacle of Airborne Precision at Paris’s Grand Palais 1 Apr 11:35 AM (16 days ago)
For three days in March, the show jumping competition Saut Hermès transformed Paris’s Grand Palais into a theatre of equestrian brilliance. Beneath the newly restored glass and iron vault, the world’s finest show jumpers and their equine partners carved fleeting lines through the air, defying gravity with a precision honed over years of disciplined training. The stakes were high, the course exacting – every movement a negotiation of control and intuition. Clemens Poloczek was at the arena’s edge to capture the details in an exclusive photo series for Ignant.
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Hospitality’s Next Era: In And Beyond Flussbad, Slowness Reimagines the Possibilities 4 Mar 11:13 PM (last month)
Boutique hotels and global membership clubs have had an outsized influence on the 21st century hospitality landscape. Twenty-five years in, amid our hyperconnected context of cultural sameness and climate awareness, many are questioning what our predominant modes of going and staying truly offer. Is there a way forward that nurtures rather than depletes? How can we reconnect with places, people, and ideas in ways that feel grounded and real? Charting the course for answers is Slowness, the experiential hospitality collective co-founded by Claus Sendlinger, whose creation of Design Hotels in the early ‘90s helped catalyzed the boutique hotel movement. In the next era of his team’s vision, Slowness is redefining what hospitality brings to the table. Ignant experienced its flagship project in Berlin, the Flussbad Campus on the eastern reaches of the Spree River, where the category-eluding Reethaus stands as a stoic centerpiece. An exploration of how Slowness’s life-centered philosophy honors the connections between all living things, and strengthens the bonds between them.
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Sea, Sun and Soil: Dennis Eichmann’s Crete in Analogue 14 Feb 11:54 AM (2 months ago)
The light in Crete doesn’t just fall. It slices, sculpts, and illuminates with a force that is almost architectural. It is elemental intensity, that photographer Dennis Eichmann captures in ‘Sea, Sun and Soil’, a series of analogue photographs that reveal the layers of their subjects like a slow exhale. Shot on 35mm film, the collection is a meditation on time and place, drawing the viewer into the delicate interplay between fleeting moments and the enduring past.
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A Space That Breathes: Inside the Atelier Of Leiko Ikemura 5 Feb 10:40 AM (2 months ago)
Leiko Ikemura creates worlds where the visible and the invisible intertwine. Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, she shapes environments inhabited by mythical beings that blend human and animal features. These hybrid creatures manifest themselves in her studio across mediums—ceramics, glass sculptures, drawings, and text. On her canvas, they dissolve into images of landscapes and natural sceneries. During the first days of spring, Ignant had the pleasure of visiting Ikemura in the place where she brings her creations to life.
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Curating Stillness: Colin King on Crafting Spaces with Depth and Emotion 20 Jan 7:44 AM (2 months ago)
Known for his serene, harmonious compositions, Colin King has captivated the interior design world, becoming one of today’s most sought-after stylists. The quiet, wholesome elegance of his work speaks to a broader, collective need—for a pause, a moment to reflect, and a chance to engage with the present without haste.
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Kesselhaus Offenburg: Where Historic Walls Embrace Contemporary Culture 9 Jan 2:31 AM (3 months ago)
Germany’s southwest region, the border triangle with France and Switzerland, is known for its idyllic charm and fusion of cultures. Here, the culinary and artistic influences of the three countries flow into one another and form a fertile ground that nurtures a lively creative scene. In nearby Offenburg, a picturesque small town at the gateway to the Black Forest, artist Stefan Strumbel has created a space in which art, gastronomy, and contemporary forms of expression merge organically and reflect the cultural abundance of the region.
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From Its Brutalist Lab in Berlin, ANTI Activates the Art of Longevity 16 Dec 2024 10:52 PM (4 months ago)
If you know, you know. Or at least, you do now. Because Berlin’s lab for holistic health doesn’t do flashy. Community, movement, wellbeing platform – whatever the labels, ANTI prefers to remain elusive. It lets people seek it out, pulled in by its quiet magnetism, perhaps the subtle provocation of its name. Established in October 2024 by Antonia Benecke and Yoel Sartras together with studio director Patrick Maschke and co-founding investor Rafael Frenk, the community coheres around team of teachers, trainers, and specialists realizing a progressive vision of holistic health. Across the top three floors of a Brutalist landmark in Berlin-Mitte, the studio presents a cadre of opportunities for individualized training, restoration, and introspection, from breathwork and contrast therapy to personal training and yoga. A hyperbaric chamber also features. But beyond its high-performance equipment and reverential atmosphere, it’s ANTI’s radiant presence that sets it apart. Ignant stopped by to soak it up as the trio at its forefront articulated all their shapeshifting offering stands for.
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Forma Gallery and Ignant Unveil Their Evolving Spatial Dialogue With A New Editorial 28 Nov 2024 2:10 AM (4 months ago)
Ignant continues its series Spatial Dialogue with its second editorial “Silhouette” co-curated and produced with Forma Gallery, the shapeshifting Berlin gallery dedicated to collectible design. The hallowed environment of a Berlin church, once in ruins, set the scene for a luminous scenography of collectible design by Vanessa Heepen, Interior Designer and Founder of Forma Gallery and Clemens Poloczek, Founder and Creative Director of Ignant. The coalescence of their complementary disciplines – photography and curation respectively – cast new light on an ensemble of singular objects from emerging and established designers alongside vintage pieces from across Europe.
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Villa Mahler: Anna Philipp And Eichkorn Collaborate On A Rarefied Artist’s Residence 8 Nov 2024 3:24 AM (5 months ago)
Camouflaged amidst peaceful surrounds of a southern German village, an opaque facade vertically clad in scorched wood gives way to exposed concrete on the second floor. The L-shaped monolith takes care to complement the form of its neighbouring buildings. On second glance, it reveals itself to be anything but standard. Every material, surface, and furnishing of Villa Mahler is custom-made; at once an essential part of a singular spatial composition and a testament to shared values and mutual respect between its creators. Led by architect Anna Philipp of Philipp Architekten, the residence was brought to life in close collaboration with Eichkorn, the young Black Forest-based atelier and manufactory of Felix Eichkorn and Ruben Rebmann. Grounded in the collaborative philosophy of the Bauhaus, the first manifestation of their collective exemplifies the potential of synergy directed towards the pursuit of enduring beauty, which the trio of collaborators and friends reflect on in an exclusive with Ignant.
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Ignant and Mosche Present BOGEN: A Sonic Portal to Another Frequency 24 Oct 2024 10:49 AM (5 months ago)
Against the soft glow of a sun-drenched background, a solid, squared arch emits an unsettling soundscape, compelling a choreography of contrasts: fluid yet fragmentary. The original short film and photographic editorial ‘BOGEN’ (German for Arch) marks Ignant’s latest interdisciplinary project. Created in collaboration with Jason Heath of Berlin sound design agency Mosche, the film centers on a sonic sculpture by New York artist Kevin Stahl, around which dancer Meyron weaves a choreography of contrasts. Offsetting visual clarity with a disconcerting aural ambience, BOGEN reverberates as a portal to myriad constellations and possibilities. In conversation with Jason Heath, to accompany the release of the short film and photo series, Ignant unraveled a few of them.
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Cultural Icons Hiroshi Fujiwara And Richard Wilson Join Forces For Moncler’s ‘City of Genius’ At Shanghai Fashion Week 21 Oct 2024 1:15 AM (5 months ago)
How do you live Genius? This question lies at the heart of Moncler’s ‘City of Genius’, an immersive showcase of collaborative creativity set to close Shanghai Fashion Week on October 19, 2024. Inspired by the city’s dynamism, this latest iteration of the Moncler Genius platform comprises distinct neighborhoods co-created by a global line-up of creative visionaries. Ahead of its official unveiling, Ignant heard from two of these trailblazers – streetstyle, design and music icon Hiroshi Fujiwara of FRGMT, and renowned artist Richard Wilson – about their ‘Looking Glass’ collaboration.
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Architect Julian Bächle Is Expanding the Art of Space-Making 10 Oct 2024 2:08 AM (6 months ago)
To open the Berlin chapter of his family’s storied architecture practice, bächlemeid, Julian Bächle moved into a former gallery at Kurfürstenstraße 142, at the core of the Potsdamer Straße arts district. Soon after, he activated the semi-subterranean space with an exhibition of contemporary collectible European furniture design. The move exemplifies his expansive view of space-making – partially cultivated under the wings of John Pawson and Virgil Abloh – which slips through the barriers between creative disciplines. On a private tour of the bächlemeid Berlin office, Julian opened up to Ignant on his foray into the city’s art milieu, his no-repeat approach to architecture, and the abandoned building he’d most like to revitalize.
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Studio Mara: Architecture of Subtraction 20 Sep 2024 10:16 AM (6 months ago)
To decode the warm minimalism of Berlin architecture practice Studio Mara reveals a reverence for the natural, the raw and the nuanced. Yet it’s what the duo’s spaces leave out that defines their subtle atmospheres – something felt more than seen. Whether rehabilitating Berlin lofts carved up by misguided ‘90s renovations the or unfurling a hunched Majorcan finca towards an ocean view, the architecture of Mirjam Danke and Olaf Schulz is a practice of subtraction. In an exclusive editorial feature, the partners in life and work invited Ignant into their new workspace at Glint in Berlin-Mitte, whose gentle essentialism exudes a powerful presence.
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Studio Lilo’s Living Sculptures Reimagine Floral Design 29 Aug 2024 9:22 PM (7 months ago)
A spongy carpet of velvety green oozes out of a corner, spilling along a corridor between perforated concrete and glass. A string of yellow beans winds itself down a stainless-steel shelf. Mounds of grapes atop a banquet table recall a Nature Morte painting. Each is the work of Studio Lilo, the practice of Kreuzberg-born and -bred artist Lilo Klinkenberg, whose darkly romantic living sculptures have over the past few years unfurled across industrial spaces, art institutions and high fashion installations around the world. In conversation with Ignant, Klinkenberg shares her trajectory from fashion to hospitality and floral design, her unlikely sources of inspiration, and her enduring appreciation for chicken wire.
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