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Daily Dose Pick: Dark Nostalgia

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A new tome by design correspondent Eva Hagberg, Dark Nostalgia coins a nickname for the cozy vintage trend in interiors.

Bouncing from New York to London to Portland, Hagberg presents 25 projects by the likes of Roman & Williams, Julian Schnabel, and AvroKO to illustrate how cutting-edge designers are now working on an intimate scale. The glass skyscrapers and sleek white boxes of the early 21st century have put on a few layers — mainly polished leather, velvet, reclaimed wood, and heavy metals. Read More »

Design

Debating the Pleasure Principle + 12 Beloved Buildings

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We ripped in to Sam Lubell’s merry architecture article “The Pleasure Principle” in last week’s edition of T: The New York Times Style magazine, and it got us thinking about how the a-word informs and affects daily life. Alain de Botton has written extensively on the quality of environment, arguing that architecture is far from frivolous or esoteric because it influences our fullest potential for emotion, good or bad.  It’s fairly simple: happy space makes a happy person. Read More »

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