When his roommate died, all that remained was a box of clothes. Adrien Van der Mierde stitched a first flower from those fabrics — something that could stay when a person cannot. Today, in his small Antwerp atelier, he creates lasting textile bouquets for families in mourning.

In the mountains of Japan, a wooden carousel from the Edo period is rebuilt every fifteen years – not to preserve it, but to let it breathe. Im Zentrum eines Museums, das sich einmal pro Generation um sich selbst dreht, steht Das Pferd des Kaisers: unbewegt, erleuchtet, und doch das Herz einer Bewegung, die Erinnerung heißt.

In the quiet light of a Lombard morning, Cecilia Moriano sits surrounded by sketches, fabric swatches, and the weight of a legacy she never expected to inherit. When her brother walked away from the family textile house, Cecilia returned—on one condition: she would save it her way. The result is a revival born of rebellion, memory, and the vibrant orange of her great-grandmother’s lost fabric.

The Beauty of the Flaw tells the story of Contessa Ludovica di Brera, a Milanese collector who turns kiln accidents into art. Her world is one of elegance and collapse — a reflection on imperfection, beauty, and time. Created by Daniel Weiss as part of his DWHH series of post-documentary narratives, exploring design, decay, and the truth within fiction.

In the mountains of Nagano, Japanese designer Hideo Mori builds nature drones from bamboo, hemp, and resin. His fragile creations awaken when water rises or the ground trembles — silent guardians that listen to the landscape and return to it once their purpose is fulfilled.

At the edge of Europe, where the land breaks into sea, a yellow star rises—built from a hundred thousand scaffolding bars on a former NATO base. Nikos Salda’s 13th Star turns a site of defense into a beacon of peace, a monument for what remains unfinished.

Above the Parthenon, a vast black canopy hovers like a woven shadow — an act of preservation and provocation at once. With Shading the Cradle, Nikos Salda reimagines democracy not as a ruin, but as a structure that still breathes, fragile and unfinished beneath the Athenian sun.

In the underground garages of Tokyo, a new Kabuki is emerging — raw, minimal, beautiful. A generation of artists is transforming Japan’s oldest form of theatre into an urban movement between fashion, ritual, and identity. And at its centre: Ren Sato, the face of a tradition learning to breathe again.

In Paris, within the marble halls of the Hôtel de Clémence, pastry becomes philosophy. Apolline Faure, 26, leads the Institut National des Desserts Nominatifs — a commission that decides how desserts are named. Between stainless steel and silence, she turns recipes into reflections on identity, structure, and the language of taste.