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Report from LA: Legends of La Cienega Recap
Every May, a consortium of designers and showrooms in LA splash out a three-day design event called LCDQ Legends (for La Cienega Design Quarter). Julie and I made the pilgrimage a week ago to take in...
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Macramé Revisted: Cafe Gratitude in Downtown LA
If you watched the last episode of Mad Men and/or groovy is a word you're ready to put back into play, you're likely in the perfect mood for Cafe Gratitude's latest branch in Downtown LA. As the signs...
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Current Obsessions: A View of One's Own
Here's what's been piquing our interest this week. Above: Next week, we're exploring the life aquatic. First stop: an Amsterdam houseboat, wallpaper included. The future of sustainable materials....
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The Off-the-Grid Riverside Cabin, Rental Edition
After decamping from London for life in the country, designer-maker Rupert McKelvie established Out of the Valley, his Devon, England, workshop devoted to building sustainable, off-the-grid, "efficient...
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Westward Ho in Seattle
Channeling Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic mixed with a dash of vintage yacht club, chef Josh Henderson and designer Matthew Parker of the Huxley Wallace Collective have created Westward, a restaurant...
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Oaxen Krog & Slip: A Marine-Inspired Restaurant in Stockholm
Almost exactly two years ago, Magnus Ek and Agneta Green opened Oaxen Krog & Slip, their twin restaurants on the island of Djurgården in the center of Stockholm. Since then, both establishments...
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The Oyster Inn: Three Guest Rooms on a Remote Island in New Zealand
Andrew Glenn and Jonathan Rutherfurd Best are two Brits who, fed up with their careers in marketing and event management, escaped to Waiheke Island in New Zealand to open a boutique hotel. Glenn and...
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Weekend Guide with Petite Passport: 5 Happening Spots in Historic Stockholm
I'm a professional browser, and if you ask me, Stockholm is the best shopping city in Europe. Why? Chalk it up to notable fashion brands that have their roots in Sweden (among them, Acne, Hope, and...
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A Tax Agency Transformed: Restaurant Usine in Stockholm
We've been following Swedish interior designer Richard Lindvall's work since he concocted a Stockholm Bistro that Doubles as a Museum. His latest trick? Usine, a modern French restaurant invented in a...
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9 Ideas to Steal from the Scandi Summer House
Some of my fondest memories of growing up in southern Sweden include visits to my best friend's summer cottage in Skummeslövsstrand, on the coastline of southern Sweden. The red cottage has an open...
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An LA Mom-and-Pop: Ostrich Farm in Echo Park
All our friends in LA's Echo Park are abuzz about their new favorite hangout, Ostrich Farm, chef Jaime Turrey's restaurant debut (he formerly manned the popular Monsieur Egg pushcart). Turrey...
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Gritty Glamour at the Palladian Hotel in Seattle
Nicole Hollis drew upon Seattle’s rich history of lumber, gold, and sea trading for inspiration in her design for the interiors of the new Palladian Hotel. Housed in a 1910 landmark in happening...
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Low-Key Luxury: The New Old Homestead in Provincetown
Designers Kristin Hein and Philip Cozzi of Hein+Cozzi "dumped our sandbox upside down," as they say, and "moved life and studio from the Hamptons to Provincetown, Massachusetts" not too long ago....
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Story Restaurant: The New Chapter for Helsinki's Old Market Hall
Admired in the heart of Helsinki's newly revived Old Market Hall: Story, a trim cafe-restaurant with waterfront views and a surprise overhead installation of fish trap lights. The design is the work of...
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Shopper's Diary: Meta44 in Millerton, NY
A few years ago, San Francisco–based design aficionado Charlotte Tracy needed an architect for the renovation of her summer house (see Before & After: A Summer Cottage on the Connecticut Coast)....
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New Paris Boîte: Fish-and-Chips à la Francais
It was during a weekend in London with his fiancé that Olivier Gampel decided someone ought to bring fish-and-chips to Paris. An interior designer with a background in fashion retail, Gampel, though an...
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Expert Advice: Lyon Travel Guide, Design Edition
The ultimate job for a Francophile? Laurie Furber, Bay Area–based founder of online housewares emporium Elsie Green, travels to Lyon, France, three times a year to scout for vintage wares. Lyon, the...
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Silo in Brighton: A Zero-Waste Restaurant for the Future
Douglas McMaster, a veteran of forward-thinking international kitchens such as Greenhouse by Joost in Melbourne, Australia, and St. John in London, is on a crusade to create the world's most...
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Lord Stanley: SF's Prettiest New Restaurant?
Husband/wife owners Rupert and Carrie Blease (he's a Brit, she's a Californian) met in the kitchen of Michelin two-star restaurant Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons in Oxfordshire, England, more than a decade...
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Jury: A Cafe in a Converted Prison
Melbourne, Australia's former Pentridge Prison is now Pentridge Village, a housing and shopping complex with a cafe that's a celebration of economy—and design freedom. Photography by Martina Gemmola...
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