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Things that inspire us: 

Petstools by Hanna Emelie Ernsting

“The desire to relax at home, to cuddle up on the couch and put your feet up serves as a constant inspiration for the designs of Hanna Emelie Ernsting.

With Pets she transforms the purely functional, everyday footstool into a delightfully cozy companion enhanced with new aspects. You can put your feet up…or plunge them into the soft material to warm them. Pets are true eye-catchers and can add a humorous and playful contrast to more conventionally furnished living spaces.

With few details enhancing the minimalistic shapes, Pets evoke associations with animals and irresistibly invite you to “pet” them and be amused. The many different animal forms offer creative combination possibilities and will spark the collector’s passion.”

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Crown House, Cuba,

Concept Design by Veliz Arquitecto

module K blends indochine and modernist elements for a mixed use building in vietnam

“Metamansion” by Veliz Arquitecto

REAR WINDOW (1954) (The ultimate movie for a summer in Quarantine)

It has been said that this film evokes summer in the city like no other, and it feels particularly apt for one in which many of us have been confined to our homes. Windows in London are currently flung open due to a heat wave, and I’m finding myself much more conscious of my neighbours, of the routines of the street, and of the inherently communal nature of urban life. This emphasises the effect that climate can have on the way we experience and behave in buildings and cities - something which is often overlooked by designers. Another aspect of being confined to an apartment is that the details of the interior, and of the limited space visible from the windows, can seem to expand to comprise your entire universe. Few of us have had as absorbing a world to observe as Jimmy Stewart does here, however, as a photographer holed up in a small Manhattan residence with a broken leg, and nothing to do all day but spy on neighbours with his telephoto lens.  Architecture often played a central role in Hitchcock's films, and several commentators such as art historian Steven Jacobs have written about this at length .He discusses the symbolism of Rear Window’s set design in this essay and in the book The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock.  (Poster by Adam Simpson via missedprints)

“Have you heard the love story

of the blue Cloud and Sea?

They were always together as one

until separated by the yellow Sun.

Cloud drifted into the sky slowly.

Sea cried until she became salty.

Cloud grew big enough to block Sun

but nothing could be done.

Sea became enraged and drowned everyone

but still nothing could be done.

Cloud’s heart ached and he became grey,

watching his beloved from far away.

He was too proud and tried to stop his tears

but they fell and fell for what felt like years.

Losing himself drop by drop, he became empty

and was once again reunited with his beloved Sea.”

― Kamand Kojouri

Artist: Mariusz Lewandowski

“The Texture of Light,” Private Garage, Hong Kong, China,

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