Journal

Bookstores Rewrite Communities

More than just what you see on the shelves, bookstores have the power to be the pulse of neighborhoods and dictate the discourse of cities. They bring communities together. A place for the young an...

The Most Instagramable Bookstore In The World

A former bank left derelict for decades after the communist revolution, Cărturești Carusel is the bookstore every eight-year-old dreams of growing up, and now a reality for the city of Bucharest....

Reverie In Charlotte Taylor’s Serene Digital Worlds

While the resulting spaces are often fantastical in their settings, with a soft, utopian world view, Charlotte Taylor hopes one day to realize her designs. “My work is gradually moving towards actu...

A Stately Sculpture Garden in Sydney

Shortlisted in the 2019 Houses Awards, the Superba Entrance Courtyard in Sydney is an exemplary use of space to transform an environment. Ushering in a new lease cool green, Abbye Churchill talks u...

The Streamlined Surrealism of Carlo Mollino

The limitless ability of Carlo Mollino is what separates him from other designers of the mid-century era of utopian visions. A renaissance man whose oeuvre embraced the cultural and technological w...

The Impossible Architecture of Dreams

Architectural and interior dreams of the world's leading digital creators are creating a new design language bound to utopian hopes and surreal visuals. In the preface of the book, Rosie Flanagan d...

Marc Martin Paints The Perfect Bookstore

With a lucid painting style that plays on climatic atmospheres and contrasting shadows, Marc Martin makes the ordinary, extraordinary. By combining hand-drawn and digital techniques, his style is r...

George Nakashima’s Home Is a Timeless Modernist Relic

The 1950s were all about optimism, a postwar carpe diem. Design icon George Nakashima was a progressive master of architecture and interior. Known for crossing over modern societal visions with Jap...

A Mid-Century Garden Finds Its Wild Roots

The mid-century modernism movement took hold of Los Angeles like no other place in the United States. Houses were made translucent, the focus shifted from the street to the backyard. Abbye Churchil...

The Mellowing Aesthetic of Sarah Ellison

“My aim is to craft a uniquely Australian aesthetic with an international influence.” To Ellison, this is expressing her influences—which span from Italian living rooms to Moroccan walls—in a disti...