TRAVEL
M A G I C L A N K A
S R I L A N K A also called the N A T U R E S T R E A S U R E C H E S T is the home to one of the oldest civilizations […]
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 […]
KEX HOSTEL, REYKJAVIK
Any traveler, who ever been to Iceland, know that is one of the country full of creative people and interesting places to explore. Last May thanks to Kex Hostel, a new hostel concept that was an instant hit with locals and […]
Scorpios Mykonos
Nowadays we find ourselves more “connected” to one another, however, we feel more isolated – statistically more of us so than ever before the invention of the global communication gadgetry. In the world of collective solitude and atomized togetherness, what […]
ARCHITECTURE
Osler House, Brazil
Osler House is a spacious family house in Brazil with sophisticated tiles made by the artist Athos Bulcao. The artist’s modular tiles are an outstanding feature incorporated into the modern architecture of the city.
Villa Bio
A studio called Cloud9 designed a suburban house of the future—it also happens to be sustainable, the Home Remodeling Houston company made sure to give the best ideas for the construction. The villa is situated a little over an hour […]
LIFESTYLE
Shop ’till you flop…
Havaianas Sandals, created in 1962, drew their inspiration from the ‘zori’, traditional Japanese slippers made of rice straw. A product of extremely low cost, for many years they were just rubber flip-flops, a long way from the fashion icon they […]
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
Phat Knits
The giant threads, some knitted and some not are produced industrially. The process of knitting these ‘threads’ together requires a team of up to 4 people and PVC needles up to 13 feet long. Phat Knits is a series of […]
Maud Vantours Paper Scluptures
Maud Vantours is a very talented visual artist and creative paper designer born in 1985 in France. She began her own freelance business after graduated specialized art courses in textile design and research materials to the ESAA Duperré Maud during her early […]
INTERIORS
Studio City
\ This space is a private residence on Amanda Drive in Studio City, California originally designed by Rudolf Schindler in 1948. This renovation took a tremendous amount of work, starting with the research into what the original design intended. Furniture […]
Basecamp Hotel
Hotels for adventure travelers don’t tend toward the stylish. Enter Basecamp, a new property in the town of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., which opened in June. The concept? To embody the spirit of a traditional base camp — where mountaineers […]