Ollie Horne

ROADBOOK • 18th July 2022

Modern Mexican Craft

Javier Reyes, the founder of rrres studio, abruptly swapped life in Barcelona for Oaxaca to work closely with local craftspeople, creating geometric rugs, wall hangings, woven palm sculptures and traditional raw clay vessels. We hear how the Dominican designer is inspired by the Mexican state and its artisanal traditions. "I feel that a good designer is someone that can see the potential in the unexpected," he says.

CEREAL • 7th July 2021

A Mysterious Balance

An interview with Oki Sato, the founder and chief designer of Nendo. We discuss his playful and prolific design practice, his day to day life in Tokyo, and his thoughts on living and working in the city.

CEREAL • 25th June 2021

Les Palmiers

A look at Les Palmiers ahead of its auction at Phillips Gallery in London. Les Palmiers is a room designed by Jean Dunand in the 1930s for his client Mademoiselle Colette Aboucaya, as her exotic, luxurious, and painstakingly crafted smoking room, for her apartments on the rue de Monceau in Paris. The room is an iconic piece of Art Deco design, entirely clad in wooden panels lacquered in silver and gold tones, and lustrous black metal. The panels feature geometric stripes and swirls, creating an abstract, cubist impression of a forest of palm trees.

CEREAL • 22nd June 2021

Berdoulat

An interview with Patrick and Neri Williams of interior design studio Berdoulat, in their traditionally restored home, studio and retail space in Bath, which occupies a combination of Georgian, Regency and Victorian era buildings. For Cereal Volume 21.

The Design Edit  • 11th June 2021

Muller Van Severen

An interview with Muller van Severen for The Design Edit.

Cubitts • 1st June 2021

Yinka Ilori

An interview with London-based designer and artist Yinka Ilori, for The Spectacle - a biannual newspaper published by spectacles company Cubitts. We discuss his public art installations, his homeware collection, and his project to uplift people with art.

CEREAL • 2nd December 2020

Pavillon Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier's Gesamtkunstwerk in Zurich, for Volume 20.

CEREAL • 20th November 2020

Native Wood

In the heart of the Tyrolean Alps, Studio van der Zee create hand-made, solid wood furniture from native wood.

CEREAL • 30th April 2020

Material Colour

Muller Van Severen’s functional yet sculptural design practice, at their home studio in Ghent.

CEREAL • 7th April 2020

Cube of Light

The Bauhaus at Dessau, and its legacy as an ever-relevant model for education.

CEREAL • 18th March 2020

Blue Pine

Visiting designer Teo Yang's contemporary hanok in Seoul, for Volume 19.

CEREAL • 17th March 2020

How We Used to Live

A visit to the Korea Furniture Museum in Seoul, as featured in Volume 19.

CEREAL • 10th March 2020

Good Energy

Remembering the mid-century designer Achille Castiglioni, with his daughter, Giovanna Castiglioni, to mark the launch of his Bulbo57 design with FLOS.

CEREAL • 5th December 2019

Bauhaus in Bristol

How the Bauhaus architect and designer Marcel Breuer came to work in the city of Bristol, UK, constructing one of his two most-prized buildings of his career in the process.

CEREAL • 14th November 2019

Clay Studio

A conversation with Tung Chiang, director of the experimental Clay Studio at Heath Ceramics, San Francisco, to discuss his latest design series, focused on innovating the potter’s simplest form: the bowl.

CEREAL • 24th October 2019

Lights and Shadow

At home and studio with Workstead in Hudson and Gallatin, New York.

CEREAL • 19th September 2019

Arcosanti

The experimental eco-city in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, designed by the late Italian architect Paolo Soleri.

CEREAL • 23rd July 2019

Augustinian Order

Discussing the renovation of a former convent in Antwerp’s Green Quarter into the city's latest hotel, called August, with owner and hotelier Mooche Van Hool and interior architect Vincent Van Duysen.

CEREAL • 6th June 2019

Segal House

Exploring the mid-century London residence of Faye Toogood and Matt Gibberd, as the pair begin their process of moving home, and leaving the property behind. Faye Toogood is a furniture, fashion and interiors designer, and Matt Gibberd is co-founder of the aesthetically-minded estate agency The Modern House, specialising in the UK's most architecturally significant homes.

CEREAL • 29th May 2019

Noble Brew

A visit to Dojima, one of the UK's first sake breweries, founded by Yoshihide Hashimoto, and situated around the Fordham Abbey estate in Cambridgeshire.