TRAVEL
Hateruma, Japan
Today the world becomes more populated and inhabited. Nevertheless, there are places where the sun, sand and sea gusts are the only one friends….Welcome to Hateruma, located near the Tropic of Cancer, part of the Yaeyama Island group, Japan. This coral island is clothed in banyan trees, Indian almonds, bamboo orchids and colourful hibiscus. Somehow […]
Bali, Indonesia
Few destinations have benefited from modern tourism quite like Bali, Indonesia. It makes them so sad: hundreds if not thousands of years of cultural evolution undone by a few decades of modern, Western-style development, much of it of the globalized […]
Lisbon
Years ago Lisbon was a manufacturer of weapons and grenades. Today they are replaced by concert rooms, art studious, exhibition spaces, bookstores, restaurants and various bars.
Singapore Fashionable Paradise
Haji Lane in the heart of Singapore is a historic Kampong Glam neighborhood, which become a meeting place for the city’s anti-mall crowd who buy upscale vintage clothing at fanciful boutiques.¬†
ARCHITECTURE
Hotel Fasano Boa Vista, Brazil
Just a few months ago, Fasano Hotels opened a sprawling property in Sao Paolo, Brazil, that highlights the natural beauty of the area. It’s so easily accessible from the city that guests are shocked at how quickly they are transported into what seems […]
The Green School
Environmentalists and designers John and Cynthia Hardy wanted to motivate communities to live sustainably. Part of that effort was to show people how to build with sustainable materials, namely bamboo. They established the Green School, and develop plantations of bamboo […]
LIFESTYLE
FlashBackFriday
DESIGNSIGH is dreaming of a bohemian golden autumn today with hot chicks having a strong connection to nature. Those feelings lead us to the warm landscape of “Goin’ Up the Country”, a flashback in 2008 with Ruby, Alisa, Alexandre, Andreas & […]
POP
Norwegian model Kat Hessen is on the rise, and she’s determined to make it on her own terms. The enigmatic beauty first landed on our focus this summer. We were impressed by the 20-year-old’s raw yet sensual face; it was […]
DESIGN
Katharina Grosse Rockaway
Katharina Grosse is a contemporary German painter known for her brightly colored acrylic paintings and installations. Made with an industrial air brush and mounds of pigmented dirt, her work attempts to create a bodily, psychedelic-like experience for the viewer in […]
The Choreographer Of The Wind
Janet Echelman is one of the best choreographer of the wind! She builds living, breathing sculpture environments that respond to the forces of nature — wind, water and light — and become inviting focal points for civic life. Exploring the […]
INTERIORS
Idaho Desert House
This magnificent house was created by Jan McFarland Cox, who is an artist and designer, spent nearly a decade of her life building the house in the Idaho Desert. The house is built around a single large room that mixtures […]
Australian Paradise
DesignSigh is very excited today to share something a little different!Take a long look at this tropical paradise nestled among lush treetops in Cairns,North Queensland, Australia! The owners are Jesse Bennett, and his wife, interior designer Anne-Marie Campagnolo. You can […]