08/28/14
Dane Shitagi has given a strong voice to dance and to photography. His brilliant work, embodied in the Ballerina Project, weaves the art of dance, fashion, culture and architecture into one very emotive symphony.
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08/25/14
Opened earlier this year, Streamsong Golf Resort, designed by Florida based architect Alberto Alfonso, sits at the heart of 16,000 acres of land that used to be phosphate mines known as Bone Valley. The land has long since been reclaimed by nature wi
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08/20/14
Richard Brendon cares about bone china, the quintessentially British form of porcelain, perfected by Josiah Spode in around 1790. He cares so much that he scours antique stores and dealers, for the finest examples of the craft.
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08/18/14
The problem of living with known design icons is that you they tend to suck the air out of a space. They lose their identity as functional pieces, and become Objects with a capital “O”. It’s a little like having that designer handbag: what a lot of p
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08/13/14
The eyes are the windows to the soul, as they say, so perhaps that means that a window, a beautifully designed shop window in particular, bares the soul of that shop? We certainly like to think of it that way as we unveil, month after month and from
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08/11/14
The stretch of Manhattan’s West side between Chelsea and the West Village was not always the trendy area known today as the Meatpacking District, on the contrary. Up until the mid 1980's the area was home to car repair shops, derelict warehouses and,
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08/07/14
In this periodic series for Decade XV magazine we will identify various forms of furniture deemed “classic” and explore what underlies their appeal. First up, the Knole sofa, sometimes called the Knole settee.
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08/04/14
Don’t get me wrong: I am a huge advocate of true sustainability. But so often designer / makers tout environmental sustainability while completely ignoring great design and true craftsmanship. And that makes no sense, since shortchanging design and c
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