Through The Lens Of Photographer Nikita Dembinski

Le photographe Nikita Dembinski, born and raised à Bucarest en Roumanie, a une affection toute particulière pour la communauté des personnes âgées. Avec vulnérabilité, humour et une certaine dose de glamour, sa dernière série photographique Age is a Wrinkle, conçue pour le magazine Kajet qui met sur le devant de la scène les récits des populations de l’Europe de l’Est, laisse à voir un tout autre visage des retraités, grands absents des cultures visuelles…

Comment la photographie est devenue votre médium de prédilection ?

Petit, j’adorais feuilleter les National Geographic, et c’est ainsi que la photographie est entrée dans ma vie. Puis, j’ai étudié la musique et plus tard, je me suis spécialisé en photographie à l’Université d’art locale de Bucarest. 

Avec Age is a Wrinkle vous faites de vos modèles des sujets longtemps invisibilisés : les personnes âgées. 

Age is a Wrinkle est un projet cher à mon cœur. C’est une série photographique qui est toujours en cours de création ; je ressens encore le besoin d’en faire plus. Tout a commencé au hasard, sans aucune attente. Age is a Wrinkle dépeint une communauté d’anciens dans leur maison, certains sont des parents, d’autres sont des amis. J’ai toujours eu un faible pour les aînés. Peut-être parce que je pense qu’il est difficile de vieillir sainement physiquement et mentalement.

Comment réussissez-vous à les représenter dans leur expression individuelle la plus pure et simple, sans artifices ?

Une chose dont je suis sûr, c’est que je comprends quand un sujet que je photographie est timide face à la caméra. Je fais donc de mon mieux pour qu’il puisse se sentir à l’aise. Et s’il n’est pas timide, la tâche est simple. Le moment se fait naturellement.

Comment parvenez-vous à cultiver votre inspiration, que ce soit dans vos création musicale mais aussi photographique ? 

Dès que j’ai l’impression d’avoir une bonne idée, j’essaie de la traduire visuellement ou musicalement. C’est un processus que je ne peux pas vraiment expliquer, car il se produit assez naturellement. J’ai dû beaucoup expérimenter pour mieux comprendre ce que je voulais faire et ce qui marchait le mieux pour moi. Il est certain qu’il est toujours important de rester ouvert à l’expérimentation.















10 remote homes to offer a little escapism during the pandemic

As self-isolation continues across the globe to help slow the spread of coronavirus, we’ve rounded up 10 remote cabins, treehouses and retreats that would be ideal to escape to.


Aculco by PPAA

Aculco House, Mexico, by PPAA Arquitectos

PPAA Arquitectos built Aculco house in a remote location for two brothers who discovered the site while rock climbing north of Mexico City.

Made of stone mined from a nearby quarry, the isolated house has rough walls and minimal interiors to keep the focus on the views of nature that surround it.

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Granholmen summerhouse by Bornstein Lyckefors

Granholmen, Sweden, by Bornstein Lyckefors

This little green cabin sits on the Swedish island of Kallaxön, which has no roads or running water.

Architecture studio Bornstein Lyckefors completed the cabin, featuring pine walls and an oxidised copper roof, with facilities installed so it can be used to get closer to nature all year round.

Find out more about Granholmen ›


Birdhut, Canada, by Studio North

Studio North built this cabin almost three metres off the ground, perching it on stilts so human and avian occupants alike can enjoy its treetop position.

Covered in shingles of red cedar, it has room for two humans and 12 species of birds that can nest in custom spaces carved into the walls. A bridge leads down to a campfire and a natural spring.

Find out more about Birdhut ›


Costa Rica Treehouse by Tom Kundig

Costa Rica Treehouse, Costa Rica, by Olsun Kundig

Columns made out of tree trunks support this three-storey nature retreat in the dense jungle near a beach in Costa Rica. Olsun Kundig added a concrete swimming pool to the house, which was built for a pair of keen surfers and environmentalists.

Find out more about Costa Rica Treehouse ›


Trailer by Invisible Studios

Trailer, UK, Invisible Studio

Trailer is a micro home built from salvaged materials and timber in a forest in the south of England. Light spills in through corrugated plastic walls, and the space is heated by a gas stove that sits in the middle.

A ladder leads up to a mezzanine area with slim criss-crossed ropes instead of walls. The gabled ends extend to create a sheltered porch area with views of the trees.

Find out more about Trailer ›


Project Ö by Aleksi Hautamaki and Milla Selkimaki

Project Ö, Sweden, by Aleksi Hautamaki and Milla Selkimaki

Project Ö sits on a five-acre private island in Sweden and is entirely self sustaining. The two cabins are heated by a sauna stove and energy is provided by roof-mounted solar panels. Filtered seawater is used for the sinks.

Along with room for 10 people, Project Ö has a workshop, sauna, and a covered dining terrace with views of the sea.

Find out more about Project Ö ›


Pinecone treehouse by Architetto Claudio Beltrame and Domus Gaia

Pinecone, Italy, Claudio Beltrame

Visitors to this pinecone-shaped treehouse in the Dolomites can gaze at the stars from the bed through a clerestory window at the top.

Hidden amongst the trees and accessible via a bridge, architect Claudio Beltrame has disguised the egg-shaped building with shingles of larch. On the bottom level, windows have 360-degree views of the mountains and meadows.

Find out more about Pinecone ›


Wood House by Office Matra

Woodhouse Farm, India, by Matra Architects

High in the Himalayas, this holiday home by Matra Architects offers panoramic views of surrounding mountains through large windows and skylights.

Inside, the rustic open-plan space is set over multiple levels to create different views and places to sit and relax.

Find out more about Woodhouse Farm ›


Manshausen 2.0 by Stinessen Arkitektur

Manshausen 2.0 , Norway, by Stinessen Arkitektu

Stinessen Arkitektu built cabins on stilts over the sea on the Steigen Archipelago in Norway as part of an eco-retreat founded by a polar explorer. There’s also a sauna with its own saltwater plunge pool, and rare sea eagles live on the island.

Covered in aluminium, the elevated structures have glazed ends that offer views out to the sea.

Find out more about Manshausen 2.0 ›


Yoki Treehouse by Will Beilharz

Yoki Treehouse, USA, by Will Beilharz

Yoki Treehouse in Texas sits seven metres above ground on a platform suspended between two cypress trees over a creek.

Designer Will Beilharz clad the treehouse’s interiors with birch, and a suspension bridge leads to a bathhouse with a concrete onsen-style pool.

Find out more about Yoki Treehouse ›

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This week's VDF highlights include a live interview with Li Edelkoort and messages from 35 designers

Virtual Design Festival launched this week! Here’s a roundup of everything that happened in week one including live interviews, collaborations with cultural organisations and video messages from designers around the world.


Pre-launch

Video messages: we built up towards the launch day by releasing a few of the many video messages we’ve received from creatives around the world. On Monday, Aric Chen sent a message of hope from Shanghai while Liam Young described the apocalyptic scenes in Los Angeles.

On Tuesday, Hella Jongerius provided an animation (above) explaining her hope that designers will not return to making “more meaningless stuff” after the pandemic, while Maarten Baas sent a funny video of himself trying to figure out what to do with his time during lockdown.


Wednesday 15 April

Launch movie: we kicked things off with an emotional video (top image) featuring self-recorded messages from 35 architects and designers around the world. Introduced by Maurizio Stochetto of legendary Milanese designer watering hole Bar Basso, the movie features Michel Rojkind, Es Devlin, Kelly Hoppen, Studio Drift and many more.

Li Edelkoort manifesto launch: we then exclusively published trend forecaster Li Edelkoort’s new “hope” manifesto, which looks to a new future for society after coronavirus.

Li Edelkoort interview: this was followed by a live interview with Edelkoort (above), who spoke to Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs from Cape Town in South Africa in the first of our regular series of Screentime interviews during VDF.


Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein of Klein Dytham Architecture speak to Dezeen as part of Virtual Design Festival

Thursday 16 April

PechaKucha live stream: early risers were treated to a live stream of a series of PechaKucha talks featuring creatives around the world including designer Yves Behar, visual artist Shantell Martin and architect Peter Exley.

Klein Dytham Architecture interview: Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (above), who founded PechaKucha and run Tokyo studio Klein Dytham Architecture, spoke live with Marcus about their work and what’s happening in Japan in this Screentime session.

One Minute Architecture: we’ve big fans of Tokyo YouTuber Martin van der Linden’s One Minute Architecture movies, so we asked him to curate a series for us. In this specially filmed introduction, van der Linden explains who he is and why he took to video blogging. We then published his short film about Kengo Kuma’s SunnyHills cake shop in Tokyo.


Friday 17 April

Forward Festival: today we teamed up with Vienna conference Forward Festival. Since this week’s real-world event has been cancelled, they’ve put together a virtual conference for VDF featuring five of their most popular lectures from the past.

The lectures feature MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli (above), Erik Spiekermann, Freitag creative director Pascal Dulex, artist Sarah Illenberger and graphic designers and rock ‘n’ rollers Snask.

One Minute Architecture: today’s mini-documentary sees YouTuber Martin van der Linden visiting Kengo Kuma’s Kuwait Embassy.

Video message: today it was the turn of Milanese architect and designer Fabio Novembre, who called for “a new world order”.

Schools: with student and graduate shows cancelled this year, we’ve created a simple platform to allow shows to take place virtually. Our first show features the work of Master of Architecture students at the University of Brighton.


Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 April

We’re mostly going to be taking it easy over the weekends! But we’ll be running a couple more One Minute Architecture movies.


Next week

To find out what’s happening in week two, check out the VDF schedule. Enjoy the weekend!

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Pearson Lloyd creates tubular steel flat-pack chair for Takt

Cross Chair Tube by Pearson Lloyd and Takt

London studio Pearson Lloyd has designed a steel flat-pack chair, called Cross Chair Tube, for Danish furniture brand Takt.

Cross Chair Tube is an update on the original Cross Chair, which Pearson Lloyd created as Copenhagen start-up Takt‘ first product. Along with the steel chair the studio has designed a flat-pack wooden table for the Cross Collection.

Cross Chair Tube by Pearson Lloyd and Takt
The original Cross Chair and the Cross Chair Tube

Cross Chair takes its name from the cross structure, which was made of solid oak, that forms its four legs. For the updated Cross Chair Tube Pearson Lloyd replaced these oak elements with recycled tubular steel for the frame.

“We developed the Cross Chair Tube to share a visual language and assembly method with its predecessor, but incorporated recycled tubular steel – a less-expensive material than oak, allowing the chair to be sold at a lower price point,” Pearson Lloyd co-founder Tom Lloyd told Dezeen.

 

The Cross Chair Tube
The chair is available in three plywood finishes

The black powder-coated steel creates a material contrast against the plywood seat and backrest, and the design allows the chairs to be stacked as well as taken apart and flat-packed.

The Cross Chair Tube comes in three ply finishes and can be customised with Kvadrat wool fabrics and aniline leathers.

The Cross Chair Table
The Cross Table seats four people

Another addition to the Cross collection is the Cross Table, a version of the classic Danish dining table made using the same design concept as for the chair.

It is made from a solid-oak frame with an oak-veneer plywood surface and available in one size, a square version that is 75 centimetres wide.

“The Cross Table began by determining the smallest square table that could comfortably seat four people, and fine-tuned the frame and legs so that the same parts could be used in larger versions,” said Lloyd.

The Cross Chair Tube
The Cross Chair Tube can be customised with Kvadrat fabrics and aniline leathers

Like the rest of the Cross collection, the designs are easy to assemble straight out of the box, and made so that any part of the chair or table can be replaced and recycled. All wood comes from forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

“Although our Takt furniture is designed for a long life, and includes a five year warranty, we considered afterlife too,” Pearson Lloyd co-founder Luke Pearson told Dezeen.

“All the pieces have been awarded the EU Ecolabel, which vouches not only for the sustainability of the materials used, but also the lifetime environmental impact of the products.”

The Cross Chair Tube
All wood used comes from forests certified by the FSC.

All components have also been designed to pack into the smallest space possible to minimise CO2 emissions when shipping.

“We hope in the future this type of product, which does not ask users to compromise either aesthetics or ethics, will be both increasingly popular and readily available,” said Pearson.

Other companies producing flat-pack furniture include London start-up Swyft, which launched a flat-pack sofa that can be assembled without tools, and Danish start-up Stylla, which introduced a cardboard desk for people working from home during self-isolation.

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This week Dezeen launched the first ever Virtual Design Festival

Virtual Design Festival launch movie

This week on Dezeen we launched a Virtual Design Festival featuring a live video interview with Li Edelkoort and messages from architects and designers from across the world.

Virtual Design Festival, the world’s first online design festival, launched this week to help unite and uplift the industry during the coronavirus pandemic.

The event kicked off with a compilation of video messages sent in by scores of creatives from around the world sharing their situations and their hopes for the future.

Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort sat down for a video interview with Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, discussing her new manifesto for how hope can change the world. Klein Dytham Architecture also dialled in from Tokyo to talk about PechaKucha, which they founded.

Burning Man 2020 update
Burning Man will go digital for 2020

Burning Man festival in America has cancelled its event in Black Rock City and will host a virtual alternative this year due to the pandemic. Organisers revealed that Virtual Black Rock City will be going ahead with the original theme of the Multiverse.

With America now the epicentre of Covid-19, the American Institute of Architects has cancelled its annual conference. The crisis has also revealed the deep issues with New York’s housing, local architects told Dezeen.

Tokujin Yoshioka shares three-step template for emergency face shields
Anyone can download a template for Tokujin Yoshioka’s face shield

Face shields have become an essential part of the front line in the fight to contain coronavirus. In an interview with Dezeen, US physician and epidemiologist Michael Edmond said that everyone should be wearing one outside of the house as they could be more effective than masks.

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has released his design for an easy DIY face shield that anyone can cut from a piece of flexible plastic and slot through the arms of a pair of glasses.

Nike Air Max 2090 interview
Nike Air Max 2090 is a futuristic take on a classic

In non-coronavirus news, Nike has unveiled the “shoe of the future”. The Nike Air Max 2090 will have a sole designed to mimic the feeling of walking on air, and has been redesigned to be as lightweight as possible.

Another update to a classic is architecture studio SO-IL’s plan to introduce a shortcut to Amanda Levete’s Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology. Called Beeline, the installation will connect visitors to Lisbon’s waterfront via a secret back door.

Parasite film interview with production designer Lee Ha Jun
Dezeen spoke to Parasite’s production director about creating the sets from scratch

It was a week for film buffs on Dezeen. Readers responded to a list of 10 films with exciting architecture with recommendations of their own, which we compiled into another movie guide.

Dezeen interviewed the production designing of Oscar-winning film Parasite Lee Ha Jun about creating the film’s set.

MA House by Timothee Mercier from Studio XM
Architect Timothee Mercier turned an old farm in France into a house for his parents

This week Dezeen readers also enjoyed a concrete guesthouse overlooking the sea in South Korea, a French farm conversion with minimalist interiors, and a light and airy house extension in London.

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Midea Debuts The First-Ever U-Shaped Window Air Conditioner

This new design lets you open or close your window with the unit installed

We love when innovation instantly changes product design for a whole category, as Midea has done with their new U-shaped air conditioner. Solving real usability, design, performance and sound issues that most every window air conditioning owner faces, the new U-shaped air conditioner separates the compressor from the fan relocating the air ducts to a thin channel across the unit’s bottom.

This new design permits your window to open and close in between the two parts of the unit, allowing fresh air in when desired and shielding you from all of the compressor’s noise (plus outside ambient noise) when in use. The company states that through a closed window the compressor noise registers at a 42dB level, which is around the sound of whispering or gently moving water. Delivering airflow as far as 20 feet/6 meters, the unit should easily cool most spaces. WiFi, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and its own iOS and Android app make it easy to operate.

Installation is easy too; the compressor side is supported by (an included) bracket. The unit sits in your windowsill, and its sidearms extend to close the gap between it and your window frame. In addition to its design and functional benefits it’s the first window unit to receive the ENERGY STAR most efficient certification for 2020, using 35% less than similarly powered units thanks to its patented inverter technology.

Available in 8,000, 10,000 and 12,000 BTU sizes at Amazon, pricing and availability are expected to be updated quickly.

Images courtesy of Midea

The Cosmos lamp is inspired by the absolute beauty of the Milky Way galaxy!

Inspired by the shape of our galactic home, the Milky Way, the Cosmos lamp uses an eye-catching concentric design that captures the hypnotic beauty of watching linear clusters of stars and planets that dot our universe.

The lamp’s gyroscopic design comes with four separate axes of rotation that take it from being a flat, two-dimensional lamp to a complex 3D piece of lighting that shines its halo in all directions. Arrange the lamp’s different ‘arms’ in chaotic patterns and it captures the chaotic forces of gravity that form beautiful yet unplanned patterns of starts and satellites across the sky. At any given point in time, the Cosmos lamp always remains concentric, just like a galaxy’s own bright center! The Cosmos can be used as a hanging pendant lamp, or a standing lamp… although the former seems more apt, given that it allows the cluster of LEDs to float in space like a real galaxy, and compels you to look upwards to admire it – like you would the stars in the night sky!

Designer: Nathaniel Ng

Augmented-reality exhibition launched to sell artwork during pandemic

All Show augmented reality exhibition by Sebastian Errazuriz

Designer Sebastian Errazuriz has created an online exhibition that allows collectors to preview artworks in their home using augmented reality tools during the coronavirus pandemic.

With museums and galleries closed, and design and art fairs cancelled or postponed due to the crisis, Errazuriz and artist Zander Eckblad developed the platform called All Show so that artists can self-publish their work, and buyers can preview them at home.

Viewers can peruse artworks on the website on their smartphones. Once they find one they are interested, they can chose to preview them in the accompanying “See in AR” toggle, which launches a new page with a moving hand and phone icon.

AR allows for socially distanced exhibition

A prompt cues the user to find the ground level and to click the icon, triggering the artwork to appear inside their home. If they are interested in purchasing, they can contact the artist.

Among the works is New York designer Joe Doucet‘s Social Distancing Installation, which features a series of black statues. Doucet said that not only is All Show a commercial platform, it also allows people to enjoy artwork while remaining at home.

All Show augmented reality exhibition by Sebastian Errazuriz
All Show allows collectors to view artwork from their homes

“There are extreme inefficiencies plaguing the art industry that AR can alleviate,” said Errazuriz. “Collectors are hurting financially but will always be open to art investment opportunities, especially if these could help the very artists that inspire them.”

Other works on show include Eric Cahan’s “I’d kill for a Noble Peace Prize” graphic, Irene Soyfer’s line-drawn women and Errazuriz’s proposal to turn Notre-Dame cathedral into a rocket launchpad.

“The pandemic will usher the next wave of creative expression”

Errazuriz, who was born in Chile and raised in London, believes that the problems caused by the pandemic will encourage new ways to be creative.

“The pandemic will usher the next wave of creative expression,” he said.

All Show augmented reality exhibition by Sebastian Errazuriz
Joe Doucet’s Social Distancing Installation inserts dark human figures

He believes that augmented reality will continue to have an impact on the type of art people make, and the way it is viewed, following the crisis.

“Augmented reality will disrupt the art and design world in the same way digital platforms disrupted the entire music industry or the news media industry or the film industry,” he continued in a short film posted to his Instagram account.

“The future is here,” Eckblad added “With the arrival of 5G, 3D scanning technology and augmented reality glasses; art as we know it will change forever. We are looking at the beginning of a new artworld.”

Errazuriz controversially predicted the demise of the architecture profession at the hands of artificial intelligence.

“I think it’s important that architects are warned as soon as possible that 90 per cent of their jobs are at risk,” he said in a series of movies posted on his Instagram account.

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Spanish design brands "optimistic" as factories reopen after lockdown

Andreu World makes masks as Spanish factories reopen during coronavirus pandemic

Manufacturers in Spain are reopening their factories after two weeks in total lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus, with brands to promising to “bounce back”.

Companies across Spain, including lighting brand Marset and furniture makers BD, have announced they are reopening their factories following the easing of lockdown restrictions in the country, which began on 14 March 2020.

Spain, which is experiencing one of the worst outbreaks of Covid-19, lifted restrictions to allow some industries to restart production to help ease the economic impact of the pandemic. A partial lockdown will remain in place until 26 April.

“A new world and a new spirit”

Marset, a lighting brand with a factory in Terrassa, has reopened at half production capacity after closing for three weeks.

“The brand and the company is actually as strong and positive thinking as ever, although everything has dramatically stopped,” Marset CEO Javier Marset told Dezeen.

“We have not been able to present the new collections as we had expected but we will have to re-imagine new ways to bring our creativity to the design community,” he added.

This week Dezeen launched a Virtual Design Festival to help brands launch their new collections digitally.

Demand is down as projects are postponed, but the CEO remains positive. “We hope that in few months a new world and a new spirit will flourish again,” he said.

Lockdown “will almost have no impact on our customer’s orders”

Barcelona-based furniture makers BD said the brand was “really happy” to be able to restart its factory after being closed for two weeks.

“We will bounce back from the lockdown pretty quickly since all our staff and suppliers are 100 per cent operative and the manufacturing shutdown has been only two weeks,” said BD manager Jordi Arnau. “It will almost have no impact on our customers’ orders.”

However, many other countries in Europe and overseas remain in full lockdown and many borders are closed. In Italy, design brands have warned the government of an “economic catastrophe” if factories are not allowed to reopen soon.

The main issue for us, and I guess for all the companies in this business, is the lockdown of the markets,” Arnau told Dezeen. “We have many orders ready to ship that we can’t deliver to the retailers because they are closed.”

“The coronavirus is a humanitarian crisis but also economical, as we all know,” Alejandra Gandia-Blasco, director of Valencia-based outdoor furniture manufacturer Gandia Blasco Group, told Dezeen.

“Most of our suppliers are closed or have cut its production so we can’t develop our collections and new designs as quick as in normal conditions,” said Gandia-Blasco, whose grandfather founded the company in 1941. “But we are optimistic with a special economic plan to overcome these days of confinement.”

Spanish government aims to boost economy

Spain’s government has implemented “a wide range of measures” to help businesses and individuals said head economic councillor at the Spanish Embassy in London Alvaro Nada, including grants, loans and tax breaks.

“Like other European countries, the strict limitations on mobility within the country has created a shortage of manpower, raw materials and components,” Nada told Dezeen.

“On the demand side, the forced closure of companies and retail establishments as well as restrictions on the movement of people has caused a temporary decline in domestic consumption.”

It is still too early to tell what the long term economic impact will be, said Nada, and much depends on how long the lockdown in Spain and other countries continues.

“We need less and less flags and borders”

Furniture manufacturer Viccarbe was only forced to close their factory for a total of two days before the Spanish government granted an exception for companies who export their goods and had contracts to honour abroad. Viccarbe exports 85 per cent of the designs it makes.

“Our Mediterranean character has always helped us to see the brightest side,” Viccarbe‘s founder Víctor Carrasco told Dezeen.

“I believe that this has been a fortunate parentheses for taking a breath and reflecting, but overall to realise that we needed more than ever a unique voice which could coordinate us and avoid future problems,” he added. “We need less and less flags and borders.”

Employees volunteered to sew face masks 

Sancal, a Spanish brand that makes sofas and chairs in the south of Spain, closed their factory before the Spanish government insisted “as a precautionary measure” before reopening to help manufacture personal protective equipment (PPE).

“During the shutdown our sewing and cutting departments volunteered to return to make face masks following a request from the local authorities,” Sancal‘s managing director Esther Castaño told Dezeen.

Spain, along with many countries, is struggling with a shortage of PPE for healthcare workers during the pandemic.

Furniture makers Andreu World has also turned their factories in Valencia and Navarra over to making face masks, becoming an official supplier. The upholstery departments have manufactured 12,000 masks from waterproof and hydro-repellent material for local heath centres and care homes.

Spanish company Nagami Design, which makes 3D-printed furniture normally, has turned its robotic arm to making face shields for medical workers.

Main photo courtesy of Andreu World.

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Florence + the Machine: Light Of Love

Originally recorded for Florence + the Machine’s 2018 album, High As Hope, “Light Of Love” didn’t end up making the cut despite its transformative structure: gentle beauty amasses orchestral and choral support. From lockdown in south London, vocalist and songwriter Florence Welch released the track to raise awareness for the UK’s Intensive Care Society COVID-19, a charity organization where she’ll donate her proceeds from the track.