Sometimes, for things to turn out well, you need to use your hands. u need to use your hands.

There are things machines can’t do. This is what we think at Poltrona Frau, which is why we have always placed our trust in the skillfull hands of our craftsmen, who lead every single step of the manufacturing process and choose the very finest raw materials. This is our way of offering you the best italian quality.

Poltrona Frau. Intelligence in our hands.

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Poltrona Frau UK: 150 St. John Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1V 4UD. Tel: +44 (0)20 7014 5980. june 2011

Contents

Cover illustration: Shazia Chaudhry

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Leader Scene iary Anatomy of rimes Against Design rethink FIVE Most Wanted Icon of the Month

FRONT Cousteau’s cabinet ————————————————— 023 Milan Uncut — —————————————————— 026 Events to see this month— ————————————— 028 Heston Blumenthal’s ice-cream maker— ——————— 033 The land-hungry golf course— ——————————— 034 SEA Design changes the face of the watch — ————— 037 Peter Marigold’s pick of industrial design — ————— 038 The revolutionary invention of the scuba kit — ———— 040 NEW UN Studio’s theatrical department store in South Korea, MIT Media Lab’s ever-changing company logo, veteran architect Oscar Niemeyer’s cultural centre in Spain, a service building that thinks it’s a helicopter, inflatable metal furniture from Oskar Zieta, an installation of glowing archive boxes at the V&A and Jürgen Mayer H’s timber mega-lattice in Seville — —— 046

tokyo after the quake

VID CHIPPERFIELD

undersea BASES

hang venetian binds

FEATURES Julian Worrall on life in a city plunged into darkness — 100 The architect’s ice-cool Turner Contemporary lands on Margate Beach— ———————————————— 108 Geoff Manaugh’s guide to the subaqueous architecture of films and video games — —————— 116 Artist Mark Dion’s cabinet of oceanic curiosities— —— 124 Dr Rachel Armstrong’s biological reef could save the sinking city— ————————————————— 130

REVIEW James Stirling’s drawings, the rebirth of psychedelica, a 4.2kg new urbanist manifesto, centuries of filth, and a rehang at MOMA— ———————————————— 138

PRODUCTS Selected products including lighting, furniture and flooring — —————————————————— 150

DIRECTORY A noticeboard for design, retail and services, including brands exhibiting at Clerkenwell Design Week— ——— 172

BACK PAGE Pritzker Prize winner Eduardo Souto de Moura ———— 178