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Dover Street Market – doverstreetmarket.com
Brand’s note: The solar panels in the coat have the ability to generate and store enough electricity to charge a smartphone, given five hours on a sunny day. They are also removable and washable. —Junya Watanabe Man
OBSERVATION: COAT FROM OUTSIDE BY JUNYA WATANABE MAN p. 31
MoMA – moma.org
Interviewee’s note: MoMA has recently acquired a group of furniture by Eileen Gray, which was strategic in the sense that we are aware we have a gender issue, especially in architecture and design. We’re really looking to fill the gaps of our modernist collection through female designers who have been underrepresented. It’s not just that MoMA as an institution has a gender issue, it’s that the whole discipline has this problem. —Martino Stierli
INTERVIEW: TRANS-CURATION pp. 22-28
Writer’s note: Years ago, as a young adolescent, I switched on my parents’ television and was horrified to see Take That performing a live cover version of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ – the torment of the mainstream grabbing what I naively thought was my precious thing. It’s shameful, but the shallower end of the brutalism revival inspires similar feelings in the much older, clearly not much wiser me. —Douglas Murphy
Chanel – chanel.com Elemental – elementalchile.cl Giorgio Armani – armani.com Google – google.com Ikea – ikea.com Philips Lighting – lighting.philips.co.uk Saint Laurent – ysl.com Serpentine Galleries – serpentinegalleries.org Sydney Opera House – sydneyoperahouse.com Vitra Design Museum – design-museum.de V&A – vam.ac.uk Zaha Hadid – zaha-hadid.com
Interviewer’s note: I really didn’t know what to make of a children’s story about sentient 19th-century chairs.
OBSERVATION: THE LUCKY, PLUCKY CHAIRS BY ROLF FEHLBAUM FOR THE VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM p. 57
SCI-Arc – sciarc.edu Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today – tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com Unknown Fields Division – unknownfieldsdivision.com
OBSERVATION: FIXPENCIL BY MARIO BOTTA FOR CARAN D’ACHE p. 75
Writer’s note: At least one drone circled overhead as we gathered for final reviews in the SCI-Arc parking lot. A quad of glowing green dots and the pervasive sense of being watched: this is the new normal. —Mimi Zeiger
Writer’s note: Slow Burn City is kind of spunky. One of its
REVIEW: SLOW BURN CITY pp. 77–80
Mario Botta – botta.ch Caran d’ache – carandache.com
Manufacturer’s note: The Fixpencil was invented in 1929 by Carl Schmid. It was developed because of low cedar wood supplies. Hence the idea to create a very precise writing instrument with a mechanical clutch mechanism holding the graphite. —Caran d’Ache
Advanced Ordnance Teaching Materials – eodtrainingaids.com
Writer’s note: After living in Phnom Penh for several years and writing innumerable stories about its dark history and troubled politics, it was refreshing to come back to write something more cheerful. —Poppy McPherson
PROJECT: ADVANCED ORDNANCE pp. 65–74
Les Champs Libres – leschampslibres.fr Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Design – bouroullec.com
PROFILE: SPECTACULAR TALES OF ADVENTURE AND YEARNING pp. 50-55
Writer’s note: I wonder whether fashion might salve its fixation on the shortening lifespan of the creative director by looking at the role of the professional sports manager: a person hired and fired in as short‑termist and scattergun a way as possible. Managers now exist in the realm of project management. Fashion doesn’t seem far behind. —Oli Stratford
COMMENT: SO LONG, FAREWELL p. 48
COMMENT: BRUTALIST GREENHORNS p. 47
TIMELINE pp. 19–20