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Forma Gallery and Ignant Unveil Their Evolving Spatial Dialogue With A New Editorial
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Ignant continues its series Spatial Dialogue with its second editorial “Silhouette” co-curated and produced with Forma Gallery, the shapeshifting Berlin gallery dedicated to collectible design. The hallowed environment of a Berlin church, once in ruins, set the scene for a luminous scenography of collectible design by Vanessa Heepen, Interior Designer and Founder of Forma Gallery and Clemens Poloczek, Founder and Creative Director of Ignant. The coalescence of their complementary disciplines – photography and curation respectively – cast new light on an ensemble of singular objects from emerging and established designers alongside vintage pieces from across Europe.
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From Its Brutalist Lab in Berlin, ANTI Activates the Art of Longevity
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If you know, you know. Or at least, you do now. Because Berlin’s lab for holistic health doesn’t do flashy. Community, movement, wellbeing platform – whatever the labels, ANTI prefers to remain elusive. It lets people seek it out, pulled in by its quiet magnetism, perhaps the subtle provocation of its name. Established in October 2024 by Antonia Benecke and Yoel Sartras together with studio director Patrick Maschke and co-founding investor Rafael Frenk, the community coheres around team of teachers, trainers, and specialists realizing a progressive vision of holistic health. Across the top three floors of a Brutalist landmark in Berlin-Mitte, the studio presents a cadre of opportunities for individualized training, restoration, and introspection, from breathwork and contrast therapy to personal training and yoga. A hyperbaric chamber also features. But beyond its high-performance equipment and reverential atmosphere, it’s ANTI’s radiant presence that sets it apart. Ignant stopped by to soak it up as the trio at its forefront articulated all their shapeshifting offering stands for.
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Kesselhaus Offenburg: Where Historic Walls Embrace Contemporary Culture
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Germany’s southwest region, the border triangle with France and Switzerland, is known for its idyllic charm and fusion of cultures. Here, the culinary and artistic influences of the three countries flow into one another and form a fertile ground that nurtures a lively creative scene. In nearby Offenburg, a picturesque small town at the gateway to the Black Forest, artist Stefan Strumbel has created a space in which art, gastronomy, and contemporary forms of expression merge organically and reflect the cultural abundance of the region.
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Curating Stillness: Colin King on Crafting Spaces with Depth and Emotion
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Known for his serene, harmonious compositions, Colin King has captivated the interior design world, becoming one of today’s most sought-after stylists. The quiet, wholesome elegance of his work speaks to a broader, collective need—for a pause, a moment to reflect, and a chance to engage with the present without haste.
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A Space That Breathes: Inside the Atelier Of Leiko Ikemura
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Leiko Ikemura creates worlds where the visible and the invisible intertwine. Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, she shapes environments inhabited by mythical beings that blend human and animal features. These hybrid creatures manifest themselves in her studio across mediums—ceramics, glass sculptures, drawings, and text. On her canvas, they dissolve into images of landscapes and natural sceneries. During the first days of spring, Ignant had the pleasure of visiting Ikemura in the place where she brings her creations to life.
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Sea, Sun and Soil: Dennis Eichmann’s Crete in Analogue
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The light in Crete doesn’t just fall. It slices, sculpts, and illuminates with a force that is almost architectural. It is elemental intensity, that photographer Dennis Eichmann captures in ‘Sea, Sun and Soil’, a series of analogue photographs that reveal the layers of their subjects like a slow exhale. Shot on 35mm film, the collection is a meditation on time and place, drawing the viewer into the delicate interplay between fleeting moments and the enduring past.
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Hospitality’s Next Era: In And Beyond Flussbad, Slowness Reimagines the Possibilities
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Boutique hotels and global membership clubs have had an outsized influence on the 21st century hospitality landscape. Twenty-five years in, amid our hyperconnected context of cultural sameness and climate awareness, many are questioning what our predominant modes of going and staying truly offer. Is there a way forward that nurtures rather than depletes? How can we reconnect with places, people, and ideas in ways that feel grounded and real? Charting the course for answers is Slowness, the experiential hospitality collective co-founded by Claus Sendlinger, whose creation of Design Hotels in the early ‘90s helped catalyzed the boutique hotel movement. In the next era of his team’s vision, Slowness is redefining what hospitality brings to the table. Ignant experienced its flagship project in Berlin, the Flussbad Campus on the eastern reaches of the Spree River, where the category-eluding Reethaus stands as a stoic centerpiece. An exploration of how Slowness’s life-centered philosophy honors the connections between all living things, and strengthens the bonds between them.
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The Saut Hermès 2025: A Spectacle of Airborne Precision at Paris’s Grand Palais
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For three days in March, the show jumping competition Saut Hermès transformed Paris’s Grand Palais into a theatre of equestrian brilliance. Beneath the newly restored glass and iron vault, the world’s finest show jumpers and their equine partners carved fleeting lines through the air, defying gravity with a precision honed over years of disciplined training. The stakes were high, the course exacting – every movement a negotiation of control and intuition. Clemens Poloczek was at the arena’s edge to capture the details in an exclusive photo series for Ignant.
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George Nakashima Woodworkers: A Legacy Carved in Time
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Stepping onto the grounds of George Nakashima Woodworkers feels like entering another world—a quieter, more refined realm. The soft light, unhurried sense of time, and almost tangible peacefulness create a space for reflection. A network of thoughtfully placed structures invites gentle exploration, each one revealing another chapter of Nakashima’s creative journey and a story shaped by time.
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What the Land Remembers: Julian Charrière and Ruinart Engage in Conversations with Nature
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On the chalky soil of Champagne, time collects in layers. Ancient sea beds, slow-growing vines, and old-world rituals compound into to a future shaped by climate, conversation, and care. Maison Ruinart, with its nearly 300-year-old history, turns again towards the natural world for its latest artistic collaboration. In 2025, the house invites Swiss-born, Berlin-based artist Julian Charrière to contribute to its ongoing series Conversations with Nature. The result is a stirring meditation on coral, collapse, and continuity.
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