PIN–UP 2024

From New York to Chengdu, from print to film, and from readings to parties — not to mention the latest from PIN–UP's own home line — 2024 just wouldn’t stop. Now, as the year's final hours tick away, here’s a chronological roundup of everything that kept us busy (and kept you architecturally entertained) throughout the past twelve months.

2024 kicked off with the release of PIN–UP 37’s special Emilio Ambasz Cover, followed by a MoMA screening of Built Ecologies, the six-episode series PIN–UP produced for the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment, featuring Hawaiʻi Non-Linear, James Wines, Mary Miss, Peter Chermayeff, Joyce Hwang, and Emilio Ambasz. Watch the full episodes on the MoMA YouTube channel, read Michael Bullock's interview with Emilio Ambasz here, or simply cop an issue now (low stock).

In February 2024, PIN–UP launched Design Drafts #: Manifestations, a 16-page publication in partnership with Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam that promotes new writing in design and architecture. Read the pieces by Ibrahim Kombarji, Alfonse Chiu, Liara Roux, Michael Andrés Forero Parra, Angela U. Shyaka at pinupmagazine.org

PIN–UP Conversations, a three-day series of design talks, unfolded in February 2024 during the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Hosted by PIN–UP founder Felix Burrichter and Stockholm-based curator James Taylor Foster, it featured exchanges with luminaries such as Patricia Urquiola, Bethan Laura Wood, and Formafantasma, among many others. Read more here. 

Paris was on the menu in March 2024, for the inaugural edition of MATTER & SHAPE, the new Parisian design salon at the heart of the Tuileries. PIN–UP HOME launched its new sofa collection DS-2011 HARLEQUIN for de Sede, and PIN–UP co-hosted the opening night party at FVTVR, with music by Bill Kouligas, Norman Nodge, and Bobby Beethoven. Full party report here.

In May 2024 PIN–UP launched its 36th edition, UNDER CONSTRUCTION, featuring Shohei Shigematsu, Anupama Kundoo, Michael E. Reynolds, philosopher Emanuele Coccia, and many more. Order the entire issue here.

During Frieze New York, PIN–UP invited Emanuele Coccia and select guests to Swiss Institute for a reading from his new book (with Jing Liu from SO–IL), and to celebrate the launch of the latest issue, UNDER CONSTRUCTION. For Victoria Camblin’s interview with Emanuele Coccia click here.

Also in May 2024: The New York launch of PIN–UP HOME’s sofa collection DS-2011 HARLEQUIN, hosted at Patrizio Chiarparini’s Duplex gallery in Brooklyn. Learn more about the collection at PIN–UP HOME.

Meanwhile in Copenhagen in June, PIN–UP founder Felix Burrichter welcomed Michael Anastassiades for an intimate conversation in the FLOS showroom, followed by a summer picnic in the park. The event was part of Flos’s HOSTING series initiated by Burrichter in 2021. For more FLOS content, click here. 

September marked PIN–UP’s first exhibition in Chengdu, China. Upon the invitation of Erni Creative, and with the help of Office Ben Ganz, PIN–UP transformed a gallery in Chengdu’s buzzy Luxelakes Eco-City development into a retrospective of sorts, complete with a Barbie-themed room. Titled Under Construction, the exhibition is on view until March 2025. 

In October PIN–UP released a Special Smell Edition in collaboration with the artist and smell researcher Sissel Tolaas. Known for her work and research merging organic chemistry, mathematics, visual art, and linguistics, Tolaas paired a blank cover of PIN–UP’s Under Construction issue with a sticker containing the molecular reconstruction of the smell of ozone in the air. The limited Smell Edition is available to order here.

November 1 was the opening of Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt in New York. PIN–UP contributed to the exhibition with Dream Homes, a 30-minute documentary on queer communal living in the U.S.A. Directed by Michael Cukr and Michael Bullock, Dream Homes chronicles three contemporary LGBTQ+ communal living structures across the nation, exploring daily life in these rural and suburban sanctuaries. Read Ibrahim Kombarji’s review of Making Home here.

November also saw the launch of PIN–UP 37. Our latest issue is guest-edited by architecture curators Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, directors of gta exhibitions at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zürich. Fischli and Olsen, who have curated numerous exhibitions on art and architecture together, selected a subject close to their hearts: MUSEUMS. The issue features nine distinct covers and interviews with architects Itsuko Hasegawa, Smiljan Radic, artist Martine Syms, a special portfolio on the new Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and so much more. Get your copy here. 

On the occasion of Art Basel Miami 2024, PIN–UP HOME’s USM NYC collection by Ben Ganz made a welcome return to South Beach thanks to Sarah Andelman and her new Art Basel Shop concept, also featuring PIN–UP 37. Check out the full collection here.

Also in Miami, PIN–UP paired up with Paris’s superclub Silencio and Perrotin gallery to party for a night at Basement at the Miami Beach EDITION featuring sets by M Bootyspoon and Eartheater. Read the full review here.

PIN–UP closed out 2024 with a lounge installation at PRESS PLAY, the second edition of Pioneer Works’s new weekend-long fair of books, records, art, ephemera, talks, and workshops. The PIN–UP “conversation pit” was designed by Katharina Sauermann and Ibrahim Kombarji with the support of The Norwegian Consulate. Read more about the installation here.

SEE YOU IN 2025!!!