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“A Good Home Today Needs to Do Much More with Less” | Interview with Fanny Leyten, Head of Interior Design at IKEA Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia

What makes a home feel distinctly Central European today? Somewhere between inherited furniture, shrinking urban apartments and the growing pressure to make one room function as five, a new domestic logic is emerging across the region. We spoke with Fanny Leyten, Head of Interior Design at IKEA Hungary, Czech Republic
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TASTE | János Mizsei—MÁK bistro

We arrive at the MÁK bistro before the evening service, where we are immediately approached by the “chamber shelf” dressed in a modern guise—we speculate for minutes which jars can hide what. Later, the chef, János Mizsei, also comes in and offers us one of the jars: it contains
TASTE | János Mizsei—MÁK bistro
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The Cyclical Politics of Digital Aesthetics | From Frutiger Aero to Corporate Memphis and Back

The Cyclical Politics of Digital Aesthetics | From Frutiger Aero to Corporate Memphis and Back

From glossy bubbles and utopian gradients to flat corporate figures and back again, digital aesthetics follow the same nostalgic cycles as fashion.
One Tenement, Ten Cuisines, Four Atmospheres | The Story Behind Poznań’s Kulinarna Kamienica

One Tenement, Ten Cuisines, Four Atmospheres | The Story Behind Poznań’s Kulinarna Kamienica

The early 20th-century Wiedeńska tenement house on Podgórna Street in the centre of Poznań spent decades quietly witnessing the city’s transformations.
Clashing Narratives on the Runway | The 17th Budapest Central European Fashion Week

Clashing Narratives on the Runway | The 17th Budapest Central European Fashion Week

Inner Radiance, Outer Freedom | Sonia Zander and the Power of Odesa’s Lightness

Inner Radiance, Outer Freedom | Sonia Zander and the Power of Odesa’s Lightness

The Bond Villain Who Reshaped London’s Skyline

The Bond Villain Who Reshaped London’s Skyline

Breuer, Goldfinger and Others | A New Exhibition on Hungarian Brutalist Architecture

Breuer, Goldfinger and Others | A New Exhibition on Hungarian Brutalist Architecture