Popeye #947
236 x 296 mm, 140 pages
Tokyo, Japan (Japanese-language)
Published monthly
First published 1976
Editor-in-chief: Yuji Machida
Art director: Taro Kambe
‘Magazine for City Boys’
The Japanese favourite returns with its annual ‘Interiors’ issue, featuring Emily Adams Bode Aujla—American fashion designer and founder of the eponymous New York menswear label Bode—and her husband Aaron Aujla on the cover. Inside, discover ten apartments spread across seven cities, showcasing distinctive spaces and lifestyles around the world—from Denis Olgac’s colourful home gym in Berlin, to TIWA Gallery founder Alex Tieghi-Walker’s unusual open plan loft ‘mixing public and private’. Elsewhere, Popeye visits the ateliers of artists Philippe Weisbecker and Andreas Samuelsson, captures the dwellings of twelve original City Boys and Girls, and asks: ‘What makes a good room?’. The issue concludes with an extensive guide on ‘ideas for a better room’, compiling carefully curated objects that contribute to an aesthetically refined home life—an inspiring companion for anyone mid-renovation or simply craving a spatial reset.
According to the editors:
‘Popeye magazine is the “Magazine for City Boys”. The founders printed this on the cover of the magazine when it debuted in 1976. What’s a “city boy”? The term doesn’t appear in the dictionary and no expert panel could define it. So we felt we should explore every aspect of what this “city boy” might be. After decades of debate, it still makes for a topic of lively discussion. It can be a style or a way of thinking. To get an idea of what makes a city boy, read Popeye magazine.’