“It’s a really incisive work that allows people to examine how we position ourselves as spectators to art and identity,” he said.Most famous in the 1940s and 50s, pin up hairstyle is a retro look that is sexy and overtly glamorous. “When I started living alone last year, I began making furniture because I wanted my space to reflect myself for the first time,” he said.ĭeep Play: For his graduate thesis at Columbia University (he graduated with a Master of Science degree in May), he dissected the spatiality of “ Slave Play,” the Tony-nominated production by Jeremy O. A new capsule collection of furniture will be sold by Ssense this fall. Olunkwa is known for flower-shaped side tables and sculptural chairs made from high-grade plywood (starting at $650 and sold on, and at Picture Room in Brooklyn). ( Felix Burrichter, the magazine’s founder and former editor, moves into the new role of creative director.) “Pin-Up prides itself on its rigorous optimism, so I want to continue complicating what this idea of ‘architectural entertainment’ can mean,” he said.

Latest Project: This month, he took over as editor of Pin-Up, a cheeky biannual architecture publication based in New York. “Everything pretty much picked up for me over the last year,” he said. During that time, he also oversaw November Magazine, a cerebral “publishing and programming endeavor” he helped found in 2020, and was an editor for The Broadcast, a virtual publication by Pioneer Works gallery.

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