TRAVEL
Points West
For Yodit Eklund, the 26-year-old designer behind Bantu swimwear, the beaches along Africa’s West Coast are a source of inspiration — so she photographed her recent collection there (including the suits above, on the road to Assinie-Mafia in Ivory Coast). […]
Peru
This is a meteorite that came to rest on the desert floor in Peru, western South America.
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 […]
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
A Jungle Home
I present the most breathtaking 110-foot-long traditional house, built by John Hardy, a jewelry designer, and his wife, Cynthia. The house sitted on the Ayung River valley on Bali, an island in Indonesia.
Villa Ronde
By the Japanese coast, this building includes a private museum, a guest house and a resort. It is thought as a wide free organic space in which rooms can be closed or in continuity to each other around a patio,You […]
LIFESTYLE
Afrobeat
”Fela”! Is a new Broadway musical about the Nigerian bandleader Fela Anikulapo Kuti who died of AIDS in 1997.
New York Fashion Week
Twice a year – in February’s snow-covered chill and then again in September’s sunshine – New York’s streets overflow with models, buyers and fashion editors alike. For both the spring / summer and the fall / winter collections, New York […]
DESIGN
Towada Art Center
Due to recent move-outs and downsizing of government offices, Kanchogaidori, the central avenue of the city which literally means “government office street,” has noticeably become desolate despite its name.¬† In an effort to revive the street, Towada City has begun […]
Rio Streets And Museum Walls
RIO DE JANEIRO is a place with jungles, forests and all kind of plants, flowers and trees. Today the Brazilian Landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx came along and organizing native plants in accordance with aesthetic principles, especially Cubism¬† and abstractionism. […]
INTERIORS
Big Island House
Along the coastline of Hawaii‘s Big Island, an architect and his family exchange the fast city life for different kind of flow. They hired Builders WA, to build them a beautiful home. Outside, the white haze rising from the horizon […]
Open House
DESIGNSIGH is proud to present Nathália Favaro, a very talented architect who constantly works with the cash home buyers to buy new houses and renovate them. She ventured in Buenos Aires to complement her training. After receiving her diploma, she worked with […]