American born Arthur is the man behind quintessentia.com. A home furnishing website you’d expect to be based everywhere but in Zurich. For all of you out there who know, that the term “eclectic” was not only coined for music, Arthur provides the answer.

Everybody else… feel free to stay with your USM shelf….

I recently purchased some items from Mister Rooks… and that’s my only “eclectic complaint”; the service was impeccably Swiss, simply swift and hassle free. Almost boring… Keep it up Arthur!

Quintessentia is an online treasure trove not to be missed.

Note to self: I really need to visit Istanbul.

House Hotel

Who would have thought I’d ever post a kitchen hood/vent… This custom design by Belgium architects Lhoas & Lhoas made me do it! Sculptural beauty!

You know that if the Swiss made it… quality and functionality need not be one of your worries. The people behind Qwstion took it a step further and managed to combine the famed Swiss-Quality with… a lot… of style! Their bags come in perfect sizes for any occasion… and fortunately for you… all of them fit airplane carry-on requirements. Because I’m pretty sure… once you own one, you’ll want to keep it close.

Pictured above is their Herringbone Special Edition. Winter can come!

Qwstion

I chose (the work of)¬†Matilda Svenson, who just got her degree from Malm√∂ University, to kick off a new series called fresh(up)… where I will be presenting the next generation of talented, skillful and gifted designers, architects, artists, faces… and who knows what else…¬†I hope you’ll enjoy!

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When visiting the St Michiel Church in Leuven one might overlook that the church has no dome. Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh build an installation that takes this seemingly trivial fact as a starting point and generate the missing dome in a remarkable way.

The installation casts light on the architecture of one of the most prestigious baroque churches of the Low Countries from a contemporary perspective. Using the design technique of the catenary, a new structure emerges in the church. The Upside Dome is a real size scale model, comprised of hundreds of meters of chain, which is literally and figuratively the counterpart of the unfinished dome.

Pieterjan Gijs (1983) and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh (1983) studied both architecture and work together under the name Gijs Van Vaerenbergh in a multidisciplinary practice with an important focus on public space.