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Ark Journal has established itself quickly as one of the must-have architecture and interior design magazines of the last decade. Although the first six issues are out of print, th ese early issues were randomly distributed the UK and, we suspect, mostly to the wrong outlets. Subsequently Ark was an under-the-radar magazine for its earliest releases which are now very scarce and highly sought after. But you don't come to Ark Journal for the globetrotting. Already one of the definitive Scandinavian interior design magazines, packed with sleek, minimalist and cool imagery, we think it's the seamless integration of personal, philosophical and cultural thinking around design that is attracting new readers in droves. Explaining the magazine's 'Spaces, Objects, People' tagline, the publisher says, 'we explore the spaces around us, the objects we put in them and the people who make them. Bridging architecture, design and art, we show them as interplay rather than in silos, and with a sense of enduring Scandinavian values and aesthetics.' We're working hard (but largely failing, it seems) to keep all available issues of Ark in stock while they're still in print. If this is your thing, you'll be floored. Ark is generally released in three or four covers. Copies distributed through the UK supplier network will inevitably have barcode stickers. Those imported directly by us are not stickered, but we have not factored this into our pricing, both with Ark and with regard to back issues in general. Magazines are not books and barcode and distributor stickers are part of their story. About Volume XVI, from the publisher: Every home begins before its present inhabitants arrive, and will continue after they leave. Previous lives remain in its rooms and materials bear the evidence of time, giving architecture a permanence that is never entirely fixed. Ark Journal Volume XVI considers impermanence through this continual exchange, looking at what is inherited and how a place changes through the act of living in it. Ramdane Touhami found his Roman home within Palazzo Borghese, where centuries of history offered fertile ground for the deeply personal universe he has created inside. In Brittany, Ronan Bouroullec’s house in Quimper lives with the conditions of the Atlantic coast, photographed by Bouroullec himself as a meditation on what home means to him. Nicolas Trembley’s 14th century priory in the south of France retains the marks of its long existence, while Teemu Kurkela’s renovation of Akola in Finland brings the architect back to a house embedded in his own childhood. For Athena Calderone and Danielle Siggerud, working on Calderone’s TriBeCa apartment began with studying the building closely and developing a shared idea of atmosphere. At Oda House, Mayuko Aizawa considers how historical awareness can remain active within contemporary architecture. Minjae Kim takes us into his idiosyncratic world of furniture and objects, where the unresolved has a place of its own. The scale becomes more intimate through a conversation about the table between Dung Ngo, Laila Gohar, Paula Gerbase and Natalia Criado, followed by a portfolio devoted to cutlery and the particular pleasure of an everyday object made with care. Volume XVI also looks back on the extraordinary seven decade practice of Tobia Scarpa, whose work resists an easy definition. Volume XVI considers a home as part of a much longer continuum, one in which we are temporary custodians rather than final authors. Its pages invite closer attention to what a building has already lived through, what we contribute during our time within it and what might remain after we have gone. Show more