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John Jervis

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As seen in: The RIBA Journal, Medium, Dezeen, Apollo The Internacional Art Magazine, Frame, Icon Magazine, Local Government News, Art Asia Pacific, Disegno Magazine, Stir World, New Start Magazine and
Covers:  Art, architecture, design and history, with a particular focus on the 20th century
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High & Mighty - Design Anthology UK

High & Mighty - Design Anthology UK

designanthologyuk.com — Restored and modernised, Ernö Goldfinger's Balfron Tower enters a new age of exaltation In the last few years, Balfron Tower - a glowering 1960s hulk of social housing near the old East London Docks - has become the high-rise that seems to be most treasured by the capital's architectural cognoscenti.
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How radical was the modernist Frankfurt kitchen?

How radical was the modernist Frankfurt kitchen?

Icon Magazine — The Frankfurt kitchen, designed by Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in 1927, was the most successful product to emerge from early modernism. The Bauhaus pursued utilitarianism, but in reality fashioned expensive, handcrafted objects. In contrast, Schütte-Lihotzky's cheap, modular, mass-produced kitchen was installed in over 10,000 social-housing units in the late 1920s.
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Does 'Cars: Accelerating the Modern World' reveal the future of the design exhibition?

Does 'Cars: Accelerating the Modern World' reveal the future of the design exhibition?

stirworld.com — Design theory has changed over the decades, acquiring a boundless purview that museums struggle to contain. The V&A London’s new show proves that it can be done - but not easily.
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Jerusalem Design Week 2019

Jerusalem Design Week 2019

Disegno Magazine — Pushing aside a black curtain and entering a small, darkened room, visitors are confronted by a philosopher's stone presented under a spotlight, a glittering cascade of sand trickling down its side. Two smaller siblings appear on either side, courtesy of some clever mirror trickery.
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Subodh Gupta

Subodh Gupta

Art Asia Pacific — Moving up to the ground floor, things are more serene. Having acted as a holding bay for works on their way to his retrospective, the hangar-like space is now almost empty, leaving a few works in fortuitous isolation around its sides. A triptych of polished metal plaques, from which bunches of stainless-steel utensils explode, adorns one wall.
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MOMENT / Redefining the Brand Experience

MOMENT / Redefining the Brand Experience

www.moment-design.com — Publisher : FRAME Direction : Hisaaki Hirawata, Tomohiro Watabe Writer : Masaaki Takahashi Copy Editor : John Jervis Art Direction, Graphic Design : Hisaaki Hirawata, Tomohiro Watabe Production : Ana Martins Prepress : Edward Nijs Printing : Tuijtel English 225x297mm 256page, Full color, Hardcover Tokyo-based firm MOMENT brings to light the constructive design strategies employed in redefining brand experiences.
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The icon of modern architecture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and America

The icon of modern architecture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and America

stirworld.com — It's Mies' birth anniversary, writes John Jervis, but would the pre-eminent architect of America’s golden age receive the same welcome from his adopted nation in the age of “making America great again”?
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BD Barcelona: 'So crazy, so young'

BD Barcelona: 'So crazy, so young'

Icon Magazine — BD Barcelona burst out of Franco's Spain with an exuberance matched by their avant-garde designs. Forty years on, they're still drawn to the bold and experimentalThe 43-year-old Catalan firm BD Barcelona finally opened a London showroom in Clerkenwell this May. On display wer
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Twenty Years of Tate Modern, UK: Delving into the past, the present and the future

Twenty Years of Tate Modern, UK: Delving into the past, the present and the future

stirworld.com — John Jervis explores the people and ideas that both shaped the world’s most successful modern art gallery, and changed the face of London, and how Tate Modern will need to find a new approach in a world of reduced tourism.
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