Frame is a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to the design of interiors and products. It offers a stunning, global selection of shops, hospitality venues, workplaces, exhibitions and residences on more than 224 pages. Well-written articles accompanied by a wealth of high-quality photographs, sketches and drawings make the magazine an indispensable source of inspiration for designers as well as for all those involved in other creative disciplines.
How to make livable cities
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OBJECT • RAPID MANUFACTURING accelerates on-demand design. INDOOR GREENERY enjoys a light treatment. The corridor sparks SOCIAL INTERACTION. Discover new directions in the world of products.
The latest HORTICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY is aimed at plants for indoor spaces
What RAPID MANUFACTURING means for the future of on-demand design
Corridor Society ENCOURAGES SOCIAL INTERACTION in shared domestic housing
Can plastic rise to the rank of LUXURY MATERIAL? Three designers think so
Dynamic Street is a MODULAR SOLUTION for tomorrow’s urban environment
From presentation to personnel, Additions provides retailers with FULLY EQUIPPED pop-up shops
NATURAL GEOMETRY • LEX DE GOOIJER balances nature and architecture in a bathroom design for Dornbracht.
THE FUTURE OF COHABITATION • In the lead-up to each issue, Frame challenges emerging designers to answer a topical question with a future-forward concept. As urban areas grow outwards and upwards, the cost of inner-city living becomes equally inflated. In order to stay central while avoiding social isolation, various groups of people are opting to share the load. Today that means everything from self-sufficient communes to co-housing models, but how will cohabitation look in the future? In line with this issue’s living-themed Frame Lab (see p. 131), we asked five makers to come up with possible solutions.
Magic Medicine • LUKAS FRANCISZKIEWICZ dreams up a set of supplements that adds comfort and privacy to shared spaces.
Enlightened Identity • With her community simulation concept, EIRINI TSACHRELIA aims to tackle loneliness and isolation among minorities.
Higher Ground • As populations grow and communal life gets more condensed, JOB VAN DEN BERG elevates seating to facilitate the desire for isolation.
Memorial Mode • With the afterlives of online ‘members’ in mind, COMMON ACCOUNTS envisions a commemorative building for storing both the physical and virtual heritage of its deceased inhabitants.
Slated for Interaction • Streamlining human interaction in tech-filled public spaces, OOOF helps smartphone users to connect or simply cooperate with like-minded strangers.
UNSEEN CONNECTIONS • On a mission to attune people to the hidden language of the heart, WAKIMUKŪDŌ sets up an atelier in Finland.
PORTRAITS • BETHAN LAURA WOOD cycles to the strings of a cello. RACHEL WHITEREAD gets concrete. BARBER OSGERBY proves that one plus one is three. THOM MAYNE discusses his metaMorphosis. Meet the people. Get their perspectives.
‘Architecture has the power to reshape who we are’ • From a tortured Borromini to ‘LA bad boy’ to negotiator, THOM MAYNE expounds on architecture’s role in influencing behaviour, including his own.
Thom Mayne
Everyone Together • SIBLING ARCHITECTURE advocates a more inclusive approach to spatial design.
Hybrid Retail
London Night Owl • The intertwined nature of BETHAN LAURA WOOD’s flea-market finds colours her daily life and inspires her work.
Triple Threat • Founding partners of three firms, designer duo EDWARD BARBER and JAY OSGERBY discuss the knock-on effect of five career-defining projects.
Filling the Void • Through the casting of negative space, RACHEL WHITEREAD monumentalizes and memorializes...
