With Guest Editor David Flack leading us through the incredible world of Flack Studio get ready for a fast ride through the most interesting and creative minds of the Indo Pacific Region and beyond. As the second in our highly collectable Guest Editor issues, it was imperative that the bar remain high with astounding projects, impeccable style and furniture and art to die for. Flack as always never disappoints and his selection of artisans, artists, designers and architects is beyond compare.
Taking the theme of Vintage Modern head on, Flack directed us to the vintage importers Nicholas & Alistair, who he often works with to find the extraordinary pieces used in his designs (p. 102). Sharing another of his collaborators, we interviewed Florian Wild, the landscaper so often shaping the outdoor component of Flack Studio projects (p. 78). The theme was a perfect match for Flack with his Tamarama project mixing old and new with incredible art for the whole package (p. 144). A Flack directed issue wouldn’t be right without something completely left-field, and for this issue we spoke to the astounding colourist behind Paris based Uchronia, Julien Sebban (p. 90) and the artists challenging traditional Korean Design, WKND Lab (p. 74).
Vintage can often mean iconic, yet it is the new readings and directions that keep the icons on point and relevant to a contemporary aesthetic. As such, this issue looks at the ever evolving constantly reinventing context that shapes the Fritz Hansen Brand (p. 116). Alvaro Seza, the Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, and Portuguese architect of truly iconic status has stepped up as a contemporary furniture line, released this year in Milan (p. 110). The architect Robyn Boyd is another enjoying a new audience with photographer Veeral Patel nurturing a Boyd designed home back into the public eye as his private home (p. 122).
Flack directed the issue to some brilliant projects including Checkmate by his pal Yasmine at YSG (p. 172), a divine jewel like Aesop Store in Paris by Jakob Sprenger (p. 164) and the magnificent Adelaide Street by Robert Simeoni (p.134). Across the Indo-Pacific, the projects are astounding and include a brilliant home in India (p.154), a renewed vintage house in Japan, (p.182) a (NOT) a hotel, also in Japan and a delightful folly in Australia (p. 198).
Lightbox also got the David Flack treatment with some of his favourite artists, makers, collectors, designers and lighting gathered together (24).
Topping it off, this is also the Winning x Habitus House of the Year Issue with our short list of the twenty most gorgeous homes designed in the past year. Just wow!
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Sit back, relax and dream big!
Gillian Serisier
Editor