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Caro Ruggaber's studio sits beside a meadow-like field that edges the River Spree - wild green pushing into what was once a heavily industrial landscape. It feels a fitting place for the artist, who takes nature's miraculous and ephemeral forms and transf

On a sunny tree-lined street in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg, plum-coloured noren (暖簾) - traditional Japanese split curtains - float gently in the breeze. They mark the doorway to Kissabō, a 16-seat tea bar that its owners, Marcin and Gosia Chelkowski, descri

"Is the equation between destruction and growth also a formula for art?" writes American postmodern novelist Kathy Acker in Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body, her seminal 1993 meditation on how weightlifting exposes the shortfall of word

Tadashi Kawamata has been creating temporal installations from salvaged materials since the late 1970s - wooden accretions that appear to have grown organically from the architecture they inhabit. These symbiotic structures have been exhibited everywhere

In the heart of Berlin, a quiet courtyard sits framed by historic properties that once thrummed with the energy of industry. Here, on the ground floor of a 19th-century building, you'll find Strom-a café where reverie meets play, conceptualised by Berlin-

Sanghyeok Lee's work is nothing if not balanced. It is restrained and minimal. Playful and intellectually rigorous. Read moreThe post Sanghyeok Lee on ARC, Emptiness, and the Spaces Between appeared first on IGNANT.

Berlin's vibrant Torstraße in Mitte isn't exactly a street you'd associate with the words "calm" or "retreat". Yet, from the moment you step into the sports studio Hagius, housed in the historic former post office building, the noise of the city immediate

For over fifty years, ORFÈVRE has been a home for jewelry that values meaning as much as beauty. Among the artists it champions, the German sculptor and goldsmith Walter Wittek stands out for a radical clarity of design that unites minimalism, conceptual

On Berlin's monumental Karl-Marx-Allee, one of the former GDR's emblematic sites of Socialist Classicism has taken on a renewed role as the working home of one of the city's leading design exports. Read moreThe post Aeyde Haus by Gonzalez Haase AAS Marks

Hamburg's growing TRADER constellation stems from founder Vincent von Thien's wish to offer his city more than another café. TRADER Gallery in the Schanze set the first tone, uniting specialty coffee with art and design. Read moreThe post TRADER HiFi Tune