Paustian magasinet

Be inspired by our editorials stories about design, architecture and trends. Interviews with exciting profiles like Pernille Teisbæk and Marianne Goebl, Managing Director of Artek and the amazing Danish artist duo Wang & Söderström who have collaborated with Nike, Burberry and Selfridges – click here to read the magazine.

This first bi-annual issue of Paustian Magazine that you’re about to embark upon is a tangible extension of Paustian; a display of pioneer-ship told through resounding voices of the past, present and future, and a platform for engagement and a source of inspiration for the game changers of tomorrow.

Frantz Longhi
CEO, Paustian

There’s just something about the works of Wang & Söderström. It’s hard to put your finger on exactly what it is, but it leaves you with an overpowering urge to dive headfirst into their alternative universe of shapes, sizes, colours, anti-gravity, et cetera. The Swedish duo is tightroping the fine line between chaos and control, and so far they’re keeping perfect balance by questioning everything, both in the ‘real’ and digital world, creating a perfect, un-perfect blend of hyperreality. It all makes very little sense in all the right ways.

Assuming the roles of puppet masters, pulling the three-dimensional strings, are Anny Wang & Tim Söderström. Since setting up shop together in 2016, the visionary pair have created their very own, idiosyncratic style that is set in a hyperrealistic (the inability to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality) world without rules or limitations, but often inspired by the imperfections of the ‘real’ one, inhabited by you, me and anyone but Anny & Tim, who still visit occasionally. Read more >