The founders of Pandora, the jewelry brand, Per Enevoldsen and Steen Bock decided to build a hospitality project in Porto, Portugal, when they found a pair of 16th-century buildings in the Largo de São Domingos neighborhood. The project, known as The Largo, includes an 18-room hotel, a restaurant, Cozinha das Flores, and bar, Flôr, from the chef Nuno Mendes. Each room is designed by Space Copenhagen, using local materials and the works of artisans, including a tiled mural by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Álvaro Siza. The Largo opens on May 25.
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Men’s Fashion that Celebrates Indian Artistry
India has long been underrepresented in the international luxury men’s wear scene, but that’s changing with the help of a group of designers. Kartik Kumra founded Karu, a brand that utilizes woven silk and voile fabrics from small-scale producers made on antique hand looms. Harsh Agarwal’s brand, Harago, works with textile artisans in Jaipur, Rajasthan, where he forges relationships with them, drawing inspiration from the artisans’ personal treasures that inspire the brand’s designs. Rikki Kher founded the Kardo brand, which incorporates India’s various textile regions’ specialties into their designs, including hand-painted shirting and striped silk drawstring pants.
Alexandre da Cunha’s solo exhibition entitled “Broken” is now on view at Thomas Dane gallery in London. Da Cunha, a Brazilian artist, showcases his “Exile” mini-series of gouache on paper, five works that convey a sentiment of entrapment in the outside world. The multimedia works round out the exhibition, maintaining a sense of joyous Latin American colors that help keep bleak existentialism at bay. Cunha is well-known for returning to his world of found objects. Included in the exhibition are keys and coins encased in glass bottles and set upon small blocks of concrete, a nod to the heavily present Brutalist buildings in his home country. “Broken” is on view until July 15.
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A Collection of British Fabrics that Brings Back 17th-Century Maximalism
Gemma Moulton, the curtain-maker, founded the soft-furnishings company East London Cloth in 2020 intending to support the beleaguered British textiles industry and keep its rich history from fading away. The Spitalfields Collection, her most recent offering of fabrics, named after the area of east London that was once the heart of the silk-weaving industry, was inspired by her exploration of the archives of a family-run Suffolk mill that once wove silk for Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation outfit. Moulton revived three designs for contemporary consumption. The collection brings a touch of bygone glamour to interior design, available in pastel colorways of a striped silk with a floral motif, a floral trellis pattern dating back to the 17th century, and a Regency-era cotton stripe. The fabrics cost approximately $250 per meter and can be purchased through East London Cloth’s website.
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A Collection of Treasured Objects by an Architectural Duo
The architectural duo, Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty, who are based in Paris and Marrakesh, often create fully conceived worlds full of objects, furniture, and surfaces made by hand whenever they design a house. Studio KO, their company, designed the celebrated Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh, featuring a facade of handmade terra-cotta bricks, and a concrete bathhouse with bespoke stained-glass windows for Flamingo Estate in Los Angeles. The L’Oeil de KO online store’s recent launch offers the duo’s collected objects that are not meant for any specific project, sold alongside collaborations with their favorite
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