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The Belgian architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen has become synonymous with one word: serenity.

Meeting of minds | A new generation of designers offer contrasting visions of the present. 

Vincent Van Duysen is used to travel. The architect’s home and studio is in Antwerp, and he also lives in Melides, Portugal, where he designed his Casa M retreat, a concrete pavilion nestled among the cork trees and sand dunes. Architectural projects, meanwhile, have taken him from Thailand to the USA, China to Saudi Arabia. Travelling, he told the actor and his longtime friend Julianne Moore in 2014, is a constant source of inspiration. “[It] really fascinates me, and blending all the sources of inspiration makes me who I am,” he explained. “I’m a sponge; from the moment I wake up, I’m a very curious person.” But in addition to his homes in Antwerp and Melides, there is a place to which he has returned time and time again: Milan.

The photographer Jeff Burton is known for the cinematic quality of his work: bathers by a hotel pool become a study in saturated colour; tanned bodies are seen at one remove, distorted by mirrored surfaces; a woman’s glance is glimpsed through a car’s rearview mirror.

Lunar New Year is the most important day in China’s lunisolar calendar.

The holidays are a time to eat, drink and make merry – the most convivial time of the year. 

Beyond the art of ceramics: Japanese artist Yoshimi Futamura in conversation with KALPA Galleries’ founder Olga Niescier.

Which objects could you not bear to be without? Molteni&C's designers reveal the personal objects that serve as faithful companions in their homes and studios.

Yves Béhar is not only a designer. Above all, he does not design objects but solutions.