Pin-Up #39: Domesticity

PIN–UP 39. Guest-edited by Frida Escobedo. This issue brings together critical work by Escobedo’s friends and colleagues and her own research on domesticity, its theoretical implications, and its material challenges. From intimate conversations about family rituals to beautiful interiors that defy how we think about comfort and luxury, the question remains: How do the larger structures that shape our world mirror themselves in our most intimate spaces? Who cooks? Who cleans? And what kind of sofa do we want to sit on?

Also in the issue: A scrapbook of references tracing Frida Escobedo’s thinking on domesticity — from ORDOS 100 to contemporary migrant women’s refuges; an essay on the architecture of domestic labor; a meditation on Donald Judd that collapses the boundaries between architecture, art, and design; a conversation with José Esparza Chong Cuy on Storefront for Art and Architecture’s storied past and bright future; a visual tour of artist José León Cerrillo’s Mexico City home; Sheila Hicks’s revived Andean textiles; an architectural reading of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s period rooms; a Postmodern gem on Fire Island getting a second, salt-air-kissed life; design icon Peter Saville musing on his career and creating textiles; Sam Chermayeff’s practice continues to test (and tease) the limits of domestic norms; and so much more.

ALSO IN THE ISSUE: Tertulia! A gathering of ten Mexico City cultural practitioners with whom Frida Escobedo shares a creative kinship, featuring Magalí Arriola, Alessandro Arienzo (LANZA), Montserrat Castera, Ana Castella, Minerva Cuevas, Graciela Iturbide, Andy Medina, Ana Segovia, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, and Elena Reygadas.