TRAVEL
Navajo Weaver
Navajo land and nation covers 27,000 square miles of unparalled beauty. This unearthy resembling teritory is home to more than a dozen of national monuments, tribal parks, spectacular views over the day and night sky, crystal lakes and small ponds.
Antigua
When you are on vacation in Antigua everywhere you look it seems to be yet another exhilarating view of sea, cliff or tropical landscape. You will find a more gorgeous combination of white sand and thrashing surf than Half Moon […]
Peru
This is a meteorite that came to rest on the desert floor in Peru, western South America.
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). […]
ARCHITECTURE
A Platform for Living
Setsumasa and Mami Kobayashi’s weekend retreat, two and a half hours northwest of Tokyo, is “an arresting concept,” photographer Dean Kaufman says, who documented the singular refuge in the Chichibu mountain range. “It’s finely balanced between rustic camping and […]
Luxury Houses
This is a 6,772-square-foot contemporary house, with five bedrooms and five and a half baths. The spectacular home is located on .75 acres in Aspen, Colo, just in the residential enclave of Pitkin Green, five minutes north of downtown Aspen. […]
LIFESTYLE
Prism of Threads
Prism of Threads is a vehicle for Tracy Conti McCarty to share vintage, handmade, & ethnic wearable art with the world. She was raised by a retail mama who took her on thrift store expeditions more regularly than most people go […]
Mira Mikati
Mira Mikati creates animated art on fabric in a very skillful way. DESIGNSIGH fall in love in the Lebanese designer, based in London. Mira Mikati, began her fashion career in 2007 as co-founder of the Middle East’s leading concept store, […]
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 […]
Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami is frequently called the Japanese Andy Warhol, is an astute manipulator of visual languages, artistic mediums and business models. The show which I present was organized at Brooklyn Museum, last year, New York City.
INTERIORS
Unhibited Color
Welcome to the eye-popping penthouse apartment of the designer Mischa Woeste, the creator of the Smeilinener label, and her husband, Eghard Woeste, an architect, that much more remarkable. “I’m a child of the ’80s,” Mrs. Woeste said. “I grew up […]
Project Space
“I used to be really scared of this area,” says the artist Francis Upritchard of London’s Hackney district, where she and the furniture designer Martino Gamper share a charmingly quirky three-story apartment in a public housing project — what the British call a council […]