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Foto: Ikea Lautsprecher können ja ganz dekorativ sein. Und manche Zeitgenossen protzen gerne mit besonders wuchtigen Modellen. Aber in der Regel sind Lautsprecher ein notwendiges Übel, nehmen Platz weg und sind ständig staubig. Aber ganz ohne gehts halt nicht. Wer Musik hören will, braucht Lautsprecher, die mindestens etwas (und im Idealfall massiv) grösser sind als die im Smartphone. Bislang gab es daher vor allem Bestrebungen, Lautsprecher kleiner, hübscher und beweglicher zu machen. Aber vor zwei Jahren haben sich Ikea und Sonos für einen anderen Weg entschieden. Das Möbelhaus u...

Acclaimed Italian designer Allesandro Mendini embraced a level of whimsy throughout his postmodern designs, including this cutesy corkscrew, which is the perfect happy hour partner (and way less noisy than a live parrot). This hand-tufted wool rug by Lorien Stern is a prime addition to your sloth collection. Utah-based Rug Maker Audrey Hancock of Tuft Gal is making worms and other everyday objects adorably personified.

Some artists look for inspiration in otherworldly places, while others use whatever is around them and make the most out of it! Brazilian architect, urban planner, building technician, and art lover Felipe de Castro turns everyday objects, places, and foods into unusual architectural designs. In his wild imagination, a face mask transforms into a hospital, a microphone is a hotel, a sandwich becomes an oddly-shaped building, and a stamp turns into an Apple office. The 33-year-old artist based in Rio de Janeiro has liked to draw since he was a little kid and now he teaches students and profess...

Some artists look for inspiration in otherworldly places, while others use whatever is around them and make the most out of it! Brazilian architect, urban planner, building technician, and art lover Felipe de Castro turns everyday objects, places, and foods into unusual architectural designs. In his wild imagination, a face mask transforms into a hospital, a microphone is a hotel, a sandwich becomes an oddly-shaped building, and a stamp turns into an Apple office. The 33-year-old artist based in Rio de Janeiro has liked to draw since he was a little kid and now he teaches students and profess...

The Atlantic Lee Isaac Chung’s David Bornfriend / A24 Having moved from the teeming cityscape of Taipei to the rural American South in the 1970s as a preteen, I know something of the shock, at once awe-inspiring and estranging, of that first sight of the great American landscape—just sheer land—that seems to stretch on forever. Watching Minari, the new semi-autobiographical film from Lee Isaac Chung about a Korean-American family newly arrived in the heartlands of 1980s Arkansas, I remember again that uncanny sense of feeling at once free and lost. From the get-go, there are hints of ...