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Editor’s Letter

ANTENNAE

What’s in the air this month

Sweeping Statements • To keep your table setting looking tiptop you really have to brush up on the best kit. Not that we’re ones to generalise – crumbs, no, exclaims David Lipton

Things of the Wild Frontier • Coffee tables made from solidified hot wire, wall lights that nod to Cristóbal Balenciaga’s couture… Full of pioneering spirit and brio, a new generation of makers is venturing into uncharted territory with designs that feel more than a little out there. The future’s looking very bright – not to mention somewhat bobbly and bendy – in their hands.

Can You Dig It? • Yes, you can! But what will the folks of the future think? Happily, you don’t need to imagine tomorrow’s tastemakers unearthing the designs of the times. We’ve mined our moment for the most zeitgeisty specimens, from the ‘Bellhop’ lamp to Ikea’s flat-pack fancies. Ruth Sleightholme dusts off her current capsule collection.

Make-up Your Minds! • Perhaps your home is in need of a cosmetic lift but you find yourself umming and ahing over the most flattering palettes… Well, never fear, Ruth Sleightholme is here to offer lots of emulsional support while she does your colours.

The Word on the Sheet • Reports of print’s death have been greatly exaggerated, declares one Kenneth Goldsmith. And he should know. In the name of ‘uncreative writing’, he’s spent years collecting tracts of text by others, recycling them into 32 books of collage poetry and, more recently, 750 ‘retyped’ manuscripts on ultra-thin onion-skin paper. Many, many reams of it. He explains – in his own words – why digital is so passé.

The Right Stuff • In our globalised world, people have become ever more detached from the stories underlying the objects they own. Materials designer Seetal Solanki argues that the problem stems from the West prioritising individual authorship over ancestry

Mission Impeccable • Rewind to 1970 and François and Betty Catroux have gone full space age in their Paris apartment. Who else could have made the future look so fabulous, asks Hamish Bowles

Wings of Design

Court and Spark

A Breath of Fresh Eire

Spreading the Word

Network • Clare Holley chooses the best merchandise and events worldwide

VISITOR’S BOOK

CHEZ SUN AND THE ARCONAUTS • In 1970, Paolo Soleri began building a future-proofed eco-city in the baking Arizona desert. The Italian architect, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, had planned for 5,000 people to inhabit Arcosanti, but in the end the population peaked at 150. Few, it seems, could face the harsh, monastic life and radical experiment in communal living. Hilary Stunda meets some of the idealists who remain.

PREDICTIVE TEXTS • Languishing on the shelves of a south London library, Le Petit Inventeur might easily have been forgotten for ever – along with the zanier innovations that this once popular magazine for French children foretold 100 years ago. But while some of its prophecies never did materialise (an aerodrome on top of the Eiffel Tower, anyone?), others proved uncannily prescient… Elly Parsons enjoys the view from hier

BACK TO THE FUTURISTIC • Even now, Hopkins House is capable of stirring the odd double take from unsuspecting passers-by. Just imagine, then, how...