Laura Frade

Read Anna Sulan Masing’s essay on the origins of laksa and the evolution of Peranakan cuisine in Penang: Recipes & Wanderings Around an Island in Malaysia. London: Anna Sulan Masing’s house in northeast London is like a repository filled with fragments of past and future works, whether written, spoken, or performed for a live audience.

Originally published in Apartamento magazine issue #35. Charlie Porter is a writer, critic, and curator. He is the author of two acclaimed books: What Artists Wear and Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion. His first novel, Nova Scotia House, was published by Particular Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK Ltd. He lives in London. What do you expect of course we have character. We were built with purpose we were built with principles we were built with intentions.

Los Angeles: Time passes slowly, stills, in Ryan Preciado’s home and studio in central LA. Chairs form loose circles around conversations that must have stretched into the night, left at slight angles where distant ideas gather again in morning light. Ryan’s designs experiment with function, ranging from domestic pieces to more ‘insecure sculptures’, elemental shapes painted with primary colours.