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Enter the Habitas Clubhouse

Jesse Dorris — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 14:52:45 +0000

Images: Habitas. The jet-set lifestyle of luxury escapes is fine and all, but sometimes you just need a home away from home. Somewhere to see old friends and make new ones, with the comfort of a dream house and the amenities of the grandest hotel—a clubhouse, in other words. Fresh from finishing a glass-box-and-palapa resort

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Kartell’s Plastic Fantastic History with Claudio Luti

Jesse Dorris — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:45:28 +0000

Images: Kartell. A see-through Louis XVI armchair, nearly invisible, yet unignorable. A bookcase that spirals across a wall like a snail’s shell, and threatens to send its contents to the floor. A corrugated, shaded table lamp, whose base is baroque and the deepest black. These plastic-fantastic confections are the work of renowned Milanese company Kartell,

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A look at Morpheus, Zaha Hadid’s Final Achievement

Jesse Dorris — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 15:08:38 +0000

Images: Morpheus Hotel. When Zaha Hadid, the revolutionary designer and first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, passed away in 2016, she left a hole in the world of contemporary architecture. Her unmistakable creations mixed rationality with surreality: from the Messner Mountain Museum Corones, which set jewel boxes of glass-reinforced fibre concrete into the peak

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Park Avenue Boogie Woogie

Jesse Dorris — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:54:43 +0000

Images: Mondrian Park Avenue. In 1940, the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian left Europe for America. His famed grid paintings had already established him as a master of minimalism, but New York City inspired a more maximalist vision. His work became bolder as he began translating the dizzying chaos and glamor of the city into paint.

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