This issue of ‘PIN-UP’ magazine explores the notion of keeping up appearances through the lens of the 'bourgeois' and its various interpretations in contemporary times, where consumerism has largely supplanted political convictions and subversive individuality often lurks underneath carefully manicured exteriors.
Varied perspectives on the topic and its related fields are offered through interviews with Zhao Yang, Maria Pergay, Jon Rafman and Steven Holl, features on Herman Hertzberger and Konstantin Grcic, Edgar Allan Poe’s essay, ‘The Philosophy of Furniture’, and Daniel Sherer’s critical response to it
This issue of ‘PIN-UP’ magazine explores the notion of keeping up appearances through the lens of the 'bourgeois' and its various interpretations in contemporary times, where consumerism has largely supplanted political convictions and subversive individuality often lurks underneath carefully manicured exteriors.
Varied perspectives on the topic and its related fields are offered through interviews with Zhao Yang, Maria Pergay, Jon Rafman and Steven Holl, features on Herman Hertzberger and Konstantin Grcic, Edgar Allan Poe’s essay, ‘The Philosophy of Furniture’, and Daniel Sherer’s critical response to it.
Plus 67 pages of interior designpages of Interior Moments, including the Princeton home of Michael Graves, the DESTE Foundation in Athens by Dakis Joannou and Andreas Angelidakis, Jean Pigozzi’s Sottsass-designed beach-side getaway, a beautiful Fifth Avenue penthouse designed by Michael Schaible, an imaginary home at London’s V&A designed by artists Elmgreen & Dragset, Veronica Chou’s Beijing party home, and a spectacular New York lair entirely designed by the late Ward Bennett.