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Perspillicum by Lightning + Kinglyface, photography Ryan Hopkinson
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Luxury

The Living Machine

What we once knew as nature continues to change under the impact of industrialisation. Drawing on the tensions shaping this new landscape, artists and designers are creating hybrid concepts where nature is augmented with high-tech qualities.

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Retail

Ethereal elements: Book explores the future of materials

London – Material Alchemy is a new book exploring the history of materials with a focus on how current technology and practices are synthesising links between the natural and man-made worlds.

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Design

Material benefits: Sculpture designer finds beauty in the cracks

Kansas City – Synthesis by Tom Price is a careful study of materials in which the designer combined tar and resin to create sculptures that mimic nature while simultaneously looking other-worldly.