{"title":"Sloft Magazine","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"sloft-edition-08","title":"Sloft Edition 08","description":"Capturing space\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn this eighth bilingual French-English issue:\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n8 Exclusive Home Tours\nWhether in Tokyo, Madrid, or Paris, our latest crop of interiors defies the growing uniformity of urban landscapes by affirming their uniqueness. Indeed, a new kind of financialized architecture is “smoothing out” buildings to make them “exchangeable,” like assets in a portfolio. This sweeping trend further anonymizes territories by pushing out what is specific. It dilutes our points of reference—something that the sporadic creation of a few large-scale “landmark” projects cannot fully offset.\nWhat if the antidote to our external disorientation lies in the creation of singular interior worlds? Like the bold combination of materials, colors, and patterns in designer Pia Chevallier’s apartment? Or the radical functionality of Eduardo Mediero’s flat in Madrid?\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nOur First “Fashion Feature,” combining a literary reflection with a fashion series\nAnother remedy for the vanishing feeling of the urban landscape may lie in the notion of scale. In a time that values ever-larger dimensions, it seems illusory to grasp an entire city, palace, village - or even a holiday home - in one go. Places must be revisited endlessly to recall their features, their unique geography. At best, we retain sensations, fleeting impressions. Dwellings that are too large slip away, living their own still, indifferent lives the moment their inhabitants turn their backs. This is the experience Ulysse Josselin recounts in \"The Haunting”.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nAn Interview with the artistic duo Xolo Cuintle\nAnd yet, in the end, it is the settings that remain when we are gone. Concrete settings that might have expelled us for good? That’s the universe Romy Texier and Valentin Vie Binet develop as the duo Xolo Cuintle. They see concrete—their material of choice—as a kind of barrier between nature and humanity, sanitizing and controlling the environment. To them, it is a material that stifles the surface and blocks dialogue. At a time when architecture is shifting toward more natural building methods, they seek to restore its roots, to inject the organic—as if to conjure it, to re-anchor it in connection with the human. Fascinating.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nEclecticism, poetry, art, escapism, beauty and good ideas are definitely not a function of square metres!","brand":"Sloft Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54788300702081,"sku":"SLO1001","price":95.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/7442\/5885\/files\/SLO1001.jpg?v=1764645194"},{"product_id":"sloft-edition-07","title":"Sloft Edition 07","description":"Our individual utopias are part of the collective space.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn this seventh bilingual French-English issue:\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom Madrid to London (and closer to home via the Loiret, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and of course Paris,) our new issue’s selection of homes has a whiff of utopia to it. A polymorphous, human-scale utopia, providing a clutch of responses to an increasingly dysfunctional world. Far from the great univocal narratives (with their totalitarian undertones,) each of these dwellings tells of its own project and vision: that of a life in Technicolor in a Madrid apartment; that of an impressionistic painting of a riverside cottage; or that of days basking in the soft daylight of… a barn. Like the drops that form rivers, can all these bubbles coalesce to form a better reality?\nThese individual initiatives, however beautiful, must not mask another reality: until proven otherwise, our homes still have thresholds. They open onto a common, shared space that makes their existence possible: public space. A space that has never been so fragile and necessary. Between attempts at private appropriation under the guise of general interest, commercial over-exploitation, lack of investment or even outright abandonment by public authorities, this space – which, it must be stressed – belongs to everyone is only truly public when it can be used safely at any time of day or night. But there's still a long way to go. After the success of the Paralympic Games, we need to consider whether, once the sports facilities have been dismantled and the extraordinary organization that made them possible has disappeared, the greatest challenge of people with disabilities could be our insufficiently inclusive public realm. In fact, it is an essential embodiment of the republican promise to emancipate individuals – in their bodies, their identities, but also their thinking, while also promoting the free circulation of ideas and opinions, as expressed by Jürgen Habermas.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nTo live one's life to the fullest, without being subjected to any form of injunction, limit or oppression, is the utopia that artist and photographer Romy Alizée claims – and lives. Posing nude in her photos, exposing her unabashed sexuality, she breaks down representations and participates in her own way to the broader movement of women's emancipation. Alizée takes her freedom as a citizen very seriously, no matter how angry it makes those who see their power under attack. It's daring and touching. It is very necessary. And also very simple: Long live freedom.\nEclecticism, poetry, art, escapism, beauty and good ideas are definitely not a function of square metres!","brand":"Sloft Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54788320100737,"sku":"SLO1000","price":95.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/7442\/5885\/files\/SLO1000.jpg?v=1764652905"},{"product_id":"sloft-edition-09","title":"Sloft Edition 09","description":"Space is the place\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nAccording to the UN, there should be close to 9.6 billion people on Earth by 2050, and most of them concentrated in cities. This is happening in parallel to our planet’s habitable surface dwindling under the pressure of rising sea levels and desertification. The notion of “sharing space” is thus taking on an increasingly weighty, almost critical tenor. Here at Sloft, we have been contributing to the building of this idea, in our own way, for a few years now. By promoting more compact design for housing, we’ve been able to imagine beautifully stimulating and originally sensible solutions to help urban dwellers envision a refuge in our ever-expanding megacities.","brand":"Sloft Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55322804158849,"sku":"SLO1002","price":100.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/7442\/5885\/files\/SLO1002.jpg?v=1770338030"}],"url":"https:\/\/b2b-new-mags.com\/collections\/sloft-magazine.oembed","provider":"New Mags B2B","version":"1.0","type":"link"}