“by Jill Singer It’s a common journalistic trope to anoint cities “the new Brooklyn,” but what do you call it when a place suddenly begins to pull creative people from all over the world into its orbit? In the past few years, we’ve had friends from Berlin, London, New Jersey, Joshua Tree, Spain, Los Angeles, and, yes, Brooklyn pick up and move to Mexico City; the latest is Mark Grattan, a Pratt grad who founded his firm VIDIVIXI in 2014 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, but who moved to Mexico City now more than two years ago. We met Mark briefly during his time in New York, but based on the sophistication of the new collection VIDIVIXI debuted this week, we’re now dying to get to know him a bit better. The centerpiece of the collection is a bed — the...

Tons of clothes are thrown in the bin once they’ve been worn out. As most contain some sort of synthetic material, they cannot easily be recycled or burned – even faux leather is generally made from plastic. In the UK, an estimated 350,000 tonnes of clothing go to landfills every year. Natural materials, like cotton and wool, break down much faster than plastic, usually in less than a year. Plants and algae now offer an even eco-friendlier solution to the fashion industry’s giant waste problem. Adventure-clothing brand Vollebak has created a t-shirt from pulped eucalyptus, beech and spruce that will fully decompose within three months. Rather than using the traditionally synthetic inks, the company created a printable ink from algae to decorate the t-shirt with a large green rectangle on the front. Algae only...

Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater in 1935 for his friend Edgar Kaufmann, and completed it three years later. The client asked for a holiday home for his family that faced the 30-foot (nine-metre) waterfall of the Bear Run Nature Reserve in rural Pennsylvania. But on visiting the site, Wright spotted a rock that jutted out over the streaming water, and decided to build the house there and let the water flow underneath Via: https://www.dezeen.com/2017/06/07/fallingwater-frank-lloyd-wright-pennsylvania-house-usa-150th-birthday/