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The calathea is also known as the ‘living plant.’ Which is odd, because every plant is alive, until it’s dead. But the calathea does something special that makes it…
Based in Rotterdam, Studio Ossidiana is an architecture, design and research practice. Working from the Netherlands since 2015 and led by the Italian duo Alessandra Covini and Giovanni Bellotti,…
‘You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it – it’s the only way,’ the French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote. ‘You have to be continually…
Following in the footsteps of the poet Jules Deelder, remembering the novels of Mohamed Choukri, Siham Amghar finds flagrant pink post-its all over Rotterdam. Each one is like an exquisite…
It’s the same sofa, burgundy red and sturdy, although it needs reupholstering. Seventeen years, an entire childhood, and still the same sofa. He’s careful with his things. Or he’s…