June 2012
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Bach to the Beach
Dwell: Bach to the Beach With authenticity and simplicity as their rallying cry, a Kiwi architect and his wife have built a modern beach house that puts a fresh spin on the local vernacular.
“If the beach is at the core of the island nation’s identity, so too are the humble vacation homes erected on shorelines during the middle of the last century. These back-to-basics dwellings are...
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Super Modern Supermodels
Wmagazine: Joan Smalls & Karlie Kloss: Super Modern Supermodels
“‘When somebody recognizes me, I’m always a little shocked—like, Wait, really?’ Karlie Kloss says. ‘Hang on…me?’ But the girl, it must be said, is noticeable, waving animatedly from a stool at One Lucky Duck, a raw-food shop in Manhattan’s Chelsea Market, all six feet one inch of her unfolding...
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Smart and Sexy Second Homes
Details: Smart and sexy second homes Luxury prefab with innovative, eco-friendly design? You bet.
“Build your own weekend retreats with all the trappings of innovative, eco-friendly design.”
Author: Monica Khemsurov / @details
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The Paparazzo of Paris
Brigitte Bardot and constable, Saint Tropez, 1975.
Catherine Deneuve on the Manon 70 movie set, Paris, 1968.
Prince Rainier aboard his yacht, Monaco, 1973.
Aristotle Onassis aboard his yacht, Monaco, 1973.
Catherine Deneuve with her daughter Chiara in her arms, Paris, 1978.
Vanity Fair: The Paparazzo of Paris
Nestled in the heart of the City of Light on the famed Avenue Hoche,...
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Prada Collaboration
Vogue: Prada Collaboration
“PRADA has teamed up with graphic designer and artist Vahram Muratyan to make a one-off T-shirt collection for men and women, inspired by creations from the spring/summer 2012 collection - from heels with flame detailing to statement sunglasses. It will land in stores in mid-July.”
Author: Ella Alexander / Photography: PRADA / @britishvogue
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London Festival of Architecture
London Evening Standard: Dream city: London Festival of Architecture From pop-ups at the new Pleasure Gardens to visions for King’s Cross, London Festival of Architecture may be all about fantasy but it serves up food for thought.
“London Festival of Architecture will bring an explosion of architectural activity to the capital through lectures, debates, exhibitions and temporary...
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London Collections: Men
The Guardian: London Collections: Men
“It’s being dubbed the first London men’s fashion week, a schedule tightly packed with British design talent that includes Margaret Howell, Jonathan Saunders, Pringle and many, many more. To celebrate London Collections: Men, Guardian fashion asked designers to supply us with one image which summed up their spring/summer 2013...
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Design Miami/ Basel 2012
Wallpaper: Design Miami/ Basel 2012
“Last week, one of the world’s biggest art fairs flung open its doors to collectors, curators and the otherwise curious in their tens of thousands in Basel, Switzerland. And for the seventh year its glamorous younger sibling, Design Miami, proved that the appetite for 20th century and contemporary design collectables is as hearty as ever.”
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Which Way to the (Hidden) Beach?
The New York Times: Which Way to the (Hidden) Beach?
“On the southern shore of Queens, away from scolding lifeguards and crowded boardwalks, a former military base has become one of New York’s great hidden beaches. There at Fort Tilden, some beachgoers go topless and some forage the dunes for driftwood with which to build makeshift shelters with sheets and blankets.”
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Big City, Little Loft
Dwell: Big City, Little Loft New York City is the nation’s capital of cramped quarters. But for a select lucky few, scant square footage adds up to a cozy home to call one’s own.
“The goal of the renovation, says Choi, was a balance between density and porosity: ‘We set out to maximize the space—to make full use of every cubic inch of this volume—without blocking anything...
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Kate Upton: American Bombshell
GQ: Kate Upton: American Bombshell From Mansfield to Monroe, from Farrah to Pam, the U.S.A. is pretty good at bombshells. Let’s all welcome Kate Upton to the canon.
“In the past fifteen months, Kate Upton has melted YouTube, transformed her Twitter feed into a product-placement bonanza, sparked a series of censorship controversies, acted in a couple of movies, made her Saturday...
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Largest Solar Farm in the World
The New York Times: A Bet on the Sun
“Out in the Mojave Desert in California, a power plant that could eventually generate enough electricity for 140,000 homes hopes to get its moment in the sun soon. When the $2.2 billion solar thermal plant known as Ivanpah is completed — sometime next year, if all goes according to plan — nearly 350,000 mirrors on 3,600 acres will reflect light onto...
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Container Coffee Shops
The Starbucks Reclamation Drive-Thru in Tukwila, Washington
La Boîte Cafe in Austin, Texas
Smithsonian: Coffee Retailers Reinterpret the Container Store
“More than $15 billion worth of coffee is exported each year. That makes it the second most traded commodity in the world, behind only oil. The majority of this coffee grows between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, but most of the...
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Jeff Koons Interview
The Telegraph: Is Jeff Koons having a laugh?
The Willy Wonka of art barely touches his own pieces, spends millions making ‘precision-engineered’ sculptures, and hopes to hang a steam train above the streets of New York. Is he serious? Very, it turns out.
“Before I met Jeff Koons, the warnings came in torrents. He plays at holding court. He will neutralise me with his special brand of...
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495 square-foot L.A. House
Los Angeles Times: Mini Modern: New 495-square-foot L.A. house
“Designer Louis Molina of Good Idea Studio calls it ‘the smallest new house in Echo Park,’ an L.A. house that uses its 495 square feet quite creatively for maximum effect on a minimal footprint. The goal: ‘enriched living, not impoverished living.’”
Photography: Brian van der Brug / Los...
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Emma Stone Vogue Cover Debut
Vogue: Emma Stone Makes Her Vogue Cover Debut
“This summer finds 23-year-old Emma Stone dangling from the rooftops in her blockbuster breakout as Peter Parker’s brainy blonde girlfriend in The Amazing Spider-Man—and gracing her first-ever cover of Vogue. With photos shot by Mario Testino, Stone cultivates a persona all her own, an innate, antic glamour that’s inspired as much by Diane...
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Return of the Polaroid
In October 2008 The Impossible Project saved the last Polaroid production plant for integral instant film in Enschede (NL) and started to invent and produce totally new instant film materials for traditional Polaroid cameras. In 2010 Impossible saved analog instant photography from extinction by releasing various, brand new and unique instant films.
Impossible started with a small team of the...
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The New Breed of Designer Hostels
Wallpaper: The new breed of designer hostels
“The lowly hostel has long since started to clean up its act. But even the most discerning budget travellers have never seen anything like these high-impact, low-overhead design-led hostels - not to mention the new wave of pod hotels that provide a more private, low-cost alternative to bunking en masse.”
Author: Lauren Ho /...
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113 Stars in One Photo
Vanity Fair: The Paramount Picture To celebrate its 100th birthday, Paramount Pictures assembled 116 of the greatest talents ever to work at the studio. Aw, look: it’s those cute kids from Love Story top and center! Indiana Jones and Jack Dawson must be in here somewhere … Mouse over the photo to see who’s who.
“This year marks the 100th anniversary of the storied Paramount...
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Ferragamo at the Louvre
The Wall Street Journal: Ferragamo Mixes Fashion With Art at the Louvre
“High fashion has tangoed with art for decades as a way to boost its cachet. Yves Saint Laurent made his Mondrian dresses, Louis Vuitton had a best-selling line of bags by Takashi Murakami, and Hermès just released a line of €7,000 scarves of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Polaroids. And many houses, from Prada to Max Mara,...
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Vuitton’s New Great
Vogue: Vuitton’s New Great
“Muhammad Ali is the new face of Louis Vuitton’s latest Core Values campaign, which will appear in the international press from June 15. The three-time world heavyweight boxing champion was photographed with his grandson in his Arizona home by Annie Leibovitz.
“‘Muhammad Ali is the epitome of an outstanding personality - a true living legend...
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A Mod, Mod World
Elle Decor: A Mod, Mod World
A clean, well-lighted space in a Manhattan tower gives Robert Couturier the chance to put a contemporary spin on his trademark flair for luxury.
“While the decorator is known as a master of mixing periods and styles, he was thrilled to push his work in a new direction. “Although what I usually do is very different from what she wanted, she...
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Linea Chair by Jeni Tu
Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles freeways inspire Jeni Tu’s curvy new Linea chair
“Few would revel in sitting in gridlock a single moment more than necessary, but Jeni Tu’s new Linea chair just might bring a little appreciation for L.A.’s freeways. Introduced recently at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, the Linea chair takes its inspiration from...
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Take On Summer With Gin
The New York Times: Take On Summer With Gin From Experienced Hands The spirits panel tasted 20 bottles of gin, mostly made by young distilleries. The lesson was clear: making gin is not for amateurs.
“Ah, gin. Brisk, peppery gin. Once, it epitomized summer elegance. It was the cool-breeze component of martinis and gimlets, rickeys and slings, fizzes and Collinses. It was the soothing...
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A Rustic Laguna Beach Retreat
Architectural Digest: A Rustic Laguna Beach Retreat When a coveted lot in Southern California beckons, an entrepreneur and his family turn to KAA Design and Atelier AM to create an oceanfront villa with simplicity and soul.
“Well before Orange County, California, became inescapably known as the O.C.—that is, eons before reality TV discovered its telegenic virtues—the coastal landscape...
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Blake Lively: Savage Blonde
Marie Claire: Blake Lively: Savage Blonde Fueled by her scorching turn in Oliver Stone’s Savages, Blake Lively unleashes on fashion, fellas, and her future.
“The first time I laid eyes on Blake Lively, she was in a skirt so tiny it could have doubled as a turban. The occasion: Chanel’s resort 2012 show in the south of France. Lively’s impossibly long legs did a great...
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Finnish Lines
Dwell: Finnish Lines Design enthusiast and Alvar Aalto expert Juhani Lemmetti has transitioned his love of vintage Finnish furniture into a thriving furniture shop in Helsinki.
“I traveled extensively when I was younger, and after visiting countless museums abroad, I realized the importance of Finnish design in the larger context of history. I began collecting native Finnish 17th-...
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Cameron Hughes: Wine Négociant
The New York Times: Bypassing the Grape but Enjoying Its Fruits
“Cameron Hughes sees nothing romantic about being a winemaker. Having a rolling vineyard to call his own? Taking that first sip of a homegrown pinot noir? He can live without it, thanks — and he does, even as he has become a prominent name in the California wine industry.
“Mr. Hughes, who started by selling wine out of...
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Underground Leisure Lair
Domus: Mi5 + PKMN: Underground Leisure Lair A new underground space seeks to revitalize and foster urban activity, while reclaiming public space in a small Spanish city. A news report from Teruel.
“Mi5 Arquitectos and PKMN Architecture have completed a new underground leisure space in a public square of Teruel, Spain, close to the location where, in 1987, the first dinosaur remains in...
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Aaron Sorkin Interview
Interview: Aaron Sorkin
“The Newsroom, which premieres in June, marks Sorkin’s first foray into series television since the cancellation of his last show, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, in 2007, and represents his third venture into the self-reflexive waters of making a TV show set in the behind-the-scenes realms of TV. He also recently signed on to adapt Walter Isaacson’s...
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Corsica: Rock Star
W magazine: Rock Star Corsica’s unspoiled, untamed beauty has turned it into a bastion of stealthy chic. As Christopher Bagley discovers, though, that authenticity comes with an edge.
“This 3,400-square-mile chunk of geological eye candy just north of Sardinia has long held an irresistible allure for in-the-know Europeans, even if its sternly independent natives haven’t always returned...
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A Rebel Spirit's Confederate Motorcycles
Businessweek: A Rebel Spirit’s Confederate Motorcycles
“After 13 years arguing cases as a New Orleans trial lawyer, Matt Chambers, now 57, felt like the courtroom was closing in on him. ‘I was devolving, becoming the man in a box,’ he says. ‘I wasn’t doing something that someone else couldn’t do.’ So in 1994, using seed money from a settlement won in a...
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Wallpaper's Home Workout
“Furniture has always exercised us. So we teamed up with Nathalie and Tom from exclusive personal trainer agency Bodyism to bring you a film by Ridley Scott Associates director Christian Larson, who playfully domesticates the gym regime. Together, we devised a home workout that includes exercises such as step-ups on Rodolfo Dordoni’s ‘Sled’ sofa for Cassina and tricep...
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The Dream Will Never Die
GQ: The Dream Will Never Die: An Oral History of the Dream Team Magic. Bird. Jordan. Legends at every position on the floor. Hall of Famers filling the bench. They were the greatest team ever assembled—in any sport—and twenty years ago in Barcelona, they put on a show the world will never forget.
“It was always a silly rule. According to international basketball guidelines in place for...
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The Olympians
Nadia Comaneci - “I went home and there were 10,000 people at the airport”
Michael Johnson - “I believed that I could do it, but if I wasn’t successful life wasn’t going to end for me”
Larisa Latynina - ‘No one has won more medals than me’
The Financial Times: The Olympians FT Weekend Magazine interviews 24 living legends from every Olympic Games since 1928. Simon Kuper...
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Vibe Moved to Brooklyn
The New York Times: The Latest Vibe Moved to Brooklyn More than 500 artists took part in the annual Bushwick Open Studios festival in Brooklyn. “For artists New York City has always had unaffordable neighborhoods. Now it has an unaffordable borough, Manhattan. There, in the past, blue-collar areas like Greenwich Village, SoHo and the Lower East Side offered cheap living for the no-collar...
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Cognac’s Identity Crisis
The Atlantic: Cognac’s Identity Crisis How the liquor’s marketing success among both rappers and codgers has blinded consumers to its subtler pleasures
“This year marks the 10th anniversary of a seminal moment in the history of cognac: the release of rapper Busta Rhymes’s ‘Pass the Courvoisier Part II.’ The hit triggered a boomlet in sales of Courvoisier and other cognacs and...
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Amanda Peet's Place
Vogue: Amanda Peet’s Place Amanda Peet has created an oasis of outdoor living for her family in Los Angeles.
“When dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker Amanda Peet was finally persuaded by her husband, screenwriter David Benioff, to put down roots in Los Angeles, her first impulse was to bring a bit of Tribeca loft to the Hollywood Hills: Her architect, Brad Floyd, built her the same...
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Interview With a Royal Portrait Artist
The Telegraph: Queen’s Diamond Jubilee: interview with a royal portrait artist Alastair Sooke talks to German photographer Thomas Struth about his new portrait of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
“Having overcome concerns about portraying the Queen, though, he set to work. He considered celebrated portraits by Titian, Bellini, Warhol and Freud. He read Ben Pimlott’s biography of...
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Marc Jacobs Interview
“That was the stupidest thing I ever heard because first of all I was never a fat heroin addict, I was a skinny heroin addict, and I got over that luckily…I was fat when I stopped doing drugs, not fat while I was doing drugs. I don’t know anyone who’s fat when they’re doing drugs.”
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Takeshi Miyakawa Has Returned
Candelier is made from candle wax
Rabbit Chair
The New York Times: A Would-Be Christo’s Hard Lesson Out of jail, but not out of the woods, the Brooklyn furniture designer Takeshi Miyakawa has returned to the studio.
“Mr. Miyakawa, a soft-spoken, courtly man with a sweet smile who is also a model maker for the global heavyweight architect Rafael Viñoly, has become something of a cause...
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Q&A: Richard Phillips
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Harper’s Bazaar: Q&A: Richard Phillips’s “First Point” Stars Lindsay Lohan as Surfer Girl
“Richard Prince has found a muse in Lindsay Lohan — releasing his second film starring the actress. On June 11, the pop artist will premiere his new short “First Point” at Art Unlimited at Art Basel in Switzerland, presented by Gagosian Gallery....
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Louis Vuitton So Last Season In China
Reuters: Louis Vuitton so last season for China’s super chic Daisy Liu epitomizes China’s obsession with luxury brands: her shoes are Guiseppe Zanotti, her brooch Chanel, a floral Hermes scarf is stylishly knotted over one shoulder. She won’t, however, tote a monogrammed Louis Vuitton handbag ever again.
“Wealthy shoppers like Liu are increasingly turning up their noses...
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Giulio Cappellini Interview
Los Angeles Times: Cappellini hits sweet spot with Candy table, Lace lamp
“In the past, people would buy furniture like it was a piece of art, something more to show off than to use. Now consumers can buy product designs from all around the world and are moving away from this image of the total coordinated look. Now everyone wants to be contrary. Decoration is a game of creating the right...
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Innovations That Will Change Tomorrow
The New York Times: 32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow An abridged guide to the many ways that your day is about to get better.
“That’s what this issue is about: all the little failures, trivialities and not-quite-solved mysteries that make the successes possible. This is what innovation looks like. It’s messy, and it’s awesome.”
Author: Maggie Koerth-Baker / Cover...
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Hong Kong: In China’s Shadow
National Geographic: In China’s Shadow Fifteen years after the handover to mainland China, Hong Kong residents worry that their identity—and their freedoms—are slipping away.
“At the edge of the South China Sea, the metropolis of Hong Kong flickers and glows, its iconic skyscrapers like molten columns, the bay reflecting all the cool blues and fuchsias of the city’s desire. With little...
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Bauhaus: Utopia for the better-off
The Financial Times: Utopia for the better-off That the Bauhaus is the most famous design school in history is not in doubt. Its legacy, however, is a different matter.
“Like the architects and craftsmen of the Arts and Crafts movement before them, the Bauhaus designers ended up “ministering to the swinish luxury of the rich” (as William Morris put it). In fact, despite the socialist...
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Color Jam by Jessica Stockholder
The New York Times: At a Busy Intersection, Going Beyond Red, Yellow and Green ‘Color Jam’ by Jessica Stockholder Opens in Chicago
“In 2009 the multimedia artist Jessica Stockholder used brightly colored plywood platforms and metal bleachers to turn a section of Madison Square Park in New York into a kind of abstract painting, ‘Flooded Chambers Maid.’ Children instantly...
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Designer Inspired by Kate Bush
The Wall Street Journal: A Designer Draws Inspiration From a Rare Book Italo Zucchelli, creative director of Calvin Klein Collection men’s, splurges on a rare photo book of British singer Kate Bush.
“Italo Zucchelli, menswear designer for Calvin Klein Collection, says he is ‘kind of obsessed with Kate Bush,’ the unconventional and reclusive British singer of orchestral...
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Bruce Willis Interview
Esquire: The Collected Wisdom of Bruce Willis, 1:32-3:45 P.M., Thursday He has appeared in sixty-one movies, many of them blockbusters, and has five more this year. He has raised three children, all of them grown, and had one more this year. He has a lot to say, but it’s tough getting it out of him, especially when he keeps getting up to take a leak. But stick around. It’s worth it.
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