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carnevale di nizza, 12-28 fevrier, http://www.nicecarnaval.com/it/

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by paolo rinaldi

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voyages

marocco, le cascate d'ouzoud

viaggio alla scoperta del deserto e dei tre atlanti

marocco.evolutiontravel.it

once called “the grandest scenic trip on earth,” the mount lowe railway transported passengers through miles of mountainous vistas high above southern california. conceived by american inventor thaddeus lowe in the late 1800s, the short-lived venture was forced to permanently close in 1936 after it failed to draw the crowds needed to keep it in operation. lowe eventually went into bankruptcy and lost the railway and, now, rusted gears and abandoned tracks are all that’s left of the historic transit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39-blSIsiqI

architecture

residential building in milano, project dap studio, ph barbara corsico

http://www.dapstudio.com/

dutch firm unstudio has completed its first project in belgium, a mixed-use scheme located on brussels’ avenue de la toison d’or, conceived as a hybridization of a traditional building-block typology and a mixed-use development with podium, in collaboration with jaspers-eyers architects

http://www.unstudio.com/en, http://www.jaspers-eyers.be/

on the grid è una guida online, realizzata da uno studio di design (hyperakt, di base a brooklyn) chiedendo a tutta una serie di agenzie creative di raccontare i luoghi più interessanti del proprio quartiere, andando così a creare un’enorme mappa/lista (tuttora “in progress”) delle varie zone della città

http://www.onthegrid.city/, http://hyperakt.com/

interiors

 an apartment  designed by ki design studio in kharkiv, ukraine, that includes a slide from the second floor to the living room

http://www.kidesign.com.ua/

catarina and claudia soares pereira from the studio casa do passadiço see life in pink. in their latest work, a glacier on the banks of the tagus in lisbon and a jeweler in the heart of porto, they have highlighted their girly -touch

http://www.casadopassadico.com/en/

hotels and bars

aloft bangkok, l’hotel supertecnologico della capitale thailandese

 http://www.aloftbangkoksukhumvit11.com, http://www.tatnews.org

http://www.turismothailandese.it

located in the basement of a tenement house in poznan, poland, the zródlo bar is a brand-new whiskey bar on one of the most popular streets in the city center. designed by adam wiercinski architekt, the once-empty space took a lot to get it to where it is today. during the process, original brick walls and wooden/brick floors were discovered so they chose to preserve the charm while adding a new independent structure

http://www.adamwiercinski.pl/

design

wallhouse by roberto paoli for ligne roset

http://www.robertopaoli.com, http://www.ligne-roset.it/

sebastian herkner's outdoor mbrace chair collection for dedon at imm cologne

http://www.sebastianherkner.com/, http://www.dedon.de/en/

http://www.imm-cologne.com/imm/index-2.php

farwaste experiments with bikes to activate folding partition walls, ‘b*wall’ is a project involving the realms of architecture, mechanics, and up-cycling. it is a folding wall, activated by a mechanical system, linked to a bike

http://www.farwaste.it/

japanese designers at the hoshinchu team have created a bonsai named ‘air bonsai’, that appears to magically float above its base. made from a handcrafted japanese porcelain, the base or bottom half is “energy base”, with the floating ball being the top half or “little star”

http://hoshinchu.com/

nendo combines diverse textures and distinct flavors for ultimate chocolate dessert experience

http://www.nendo.jp/en/

lumières

http://www.formafantasma.com/filter/home/news

installations

following the wild popularity of his ‘urban safari’ in paris, french artist julien nonnon continues the series the other side of the atlantic, bringing digital street art to orlando, florida

http://www.juliennonnon.com/home/

   american artist janet echelman has suspended a billowing woven sculpture based on data captured from the 2011 japanese earthquake and tsunami above london's busy oxford circus junction

http://www.echelman.com/

la artista alemana regine schumann, conocida por sus trabajos de luz, regresa a la galería rafael pérez hernando (madrid) con la exposición 'who’s afraid of glow?'

http://www.regineschumann.de/startframe.htm http://www.rphart.net/

art

tavolozza, a replica of painter table of joan mirò

photos

foto enrico martino

http://www.enricomartino.eu

livres

left, lidia bramani, la musica scorre a berlino, editore bompiani

right, giuseppe f.macrì, sulle tracce di persefone, laruffa editore

exhibitions

chema madoz, recent works, galerie esther woerdehoff, paris

http://www.ewgalerie.com

sebastiao salgado, genesi, palazzo ducale, genova

http://www.palazzoducale.genova.it/

giulio cassanelli, first view, l’inde le palais men’s store, bologna

http://www.giuliocassanelli.com/, http://www.lindelepalais.com/

mode

issey miyake, new pleats

http://www.isseymiyake.com/en/

miroirs

left, the balance series of mirrors are supported on the wall in a unique way. designed by kutarq studio, the mirrors stay put thanks to a set of colorful pegs, which not only serve a function, they add a fun element to the overall design

http://kutarq.com/works

right, danish studioelkeland creates their line of gorgeous mirror mobiles deep within the countryside in denmark. made of geometric shapes, the hanging sculptures subtly dance light around the space they’re in through their minimalist design

http://elkeland.dk/

roberto paoli per ligne roset

http://www.robertopaoli.com/, http://www.ligne-roset.it/

et caetera

fashionably dressed flowers by miguel vallinas display their budding personalities

http://www.miguelvallinas.com/

happy new chinese year

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by paolo rinaldi

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voyages

salalah, oman

http://www.originaltour.it

architecture

villa méditerranée, marseille, project stefano boeri, ph carlo alberto mari

studio@stefanoboeriarchitetti.net

junsekino architect and design, bangkok, thailand, ph spaceshift studio

http://www.junsekino.com/

interiors

in the brazilian city of são paulo, studio mk27 has completed the design of ‘ramp house’, a residential dwelling connected — as the name suggests — by a 25 meter incline. ph fernando guerra

http://studiomk27.com.br/en/

hotels and restaurants

vimar villa d'arte, marostica (vi)

http://www.vimar.com

a narrow alley in adelaide, australia, which was once a place where garbage cans lived, is now home to the pink moon saloon, a recently opened bar and restaurant, designed by sans-arc studio

http://sansarcstudio.com.au/

https://www.facebook.com/pinkmoonsaloon/

located in the basement of a tenement house in poznan, poland, the zród%u0142o.bar is a brand-new whiskey bar on one of the most popular streets in the city center. designed by adam wiercinski architekt

http://www.adamwiercinski.pl/

http://www.adamwiercinski.pl/ZRODLO-BAR

design

philippe starck partnered with brazilian shoe brand ipanema on a new spring/summer 2016 collection of footwear called ipanema with starck

http://www.starck.com/fr/design/categories/design_industriel/vetements_accessoires_et_parfum.html#ipanema_with_starck

a seguito di un incontro con vito nesta e l'esperienza maturata lavorando il legno, pennini e caracciolo decidono di dar vita ad un nuovo marchio dal nome cadriano, da cui nasce la prima collezione "vegetable collection"

luca pennini e nicola caracciolo, http://www.tlglegno.com/

http://www.vitonesta.com/

speaker wireless portatile e radiosveglia firmati rubik’s

http://www.bigbeninteractive.it/

wallpepper racconta un mondo di fiabe per bambini

http://www.wallpepper.it/

lumières

exploring the idea of mobile lamps, designer tommaso caldera created elma, an indirect floor lamp produced by incipit

http://www.tommasocaldera.eu/, http://www.incipitlab.com/

    at the netherlands-based design studio named truly truly, australian husband and wife design team, joel and kate booy, have made a collection of lights that use a flexible led loop as part of the design

http://www.studiotrulytruly.com/

"live & let dye", a limited edition of aqua creations' designs

http://www.aquagallery.com

art

wolf d. prix and sophie c. grell of coop himmelb(l)au have designed a sculpture to be erected in front of the vienna state opera, one of the austrian capital’s most prominent sites. the piece will be built by the alban berg foundation for the composers of the viennese school – alban berg, arnold schönberg, anton webern – and the composer and court opera principal gustav mahler

http://www.coop-himmelblau.at/, http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at

katherine bradford, “surf party” (2015), acrylic on canvas, images courtesy canada, new york

https://www.canadanewyork.com/

left, studio swine gave the phrase “fishing expedition” a whole new meaning with gyrecraft, where they traversed 1000 nautical miles collecting plastic trash. Using this trash, they created fine objects for modern consumption

http://www.studioswine.com/gyrecraft

right, domenic bahmann personifies everyday objects as whimsical scenes. the artist has been developing his ongoing ‘stop, think, make’ for more than two years 

http://stopthinkmake.com/

using colorful thread and vintage tennis rackets, cape town-based artist danielle clough forms vibrant floral compositions interwoven between the mesh of nylon cord

http://www.danielleclough.com/

livres

alejandro aravena, pritzker prize 2016, electa editore

http://www.electaweb.it/

photos

prima visione 2015, i fotografi e milano. galleria belvedere

http://www.belvederefoto.it, http://www.facebook.com/belvederefotografia

french-moroccan photographer leila alaoui dies after ouagadougou attacks. the artist was in burkina faso in working visit to take photographs for amnesty international

http://www.leilaalaoui.com/

exhibitions

occhiomagico, col fiato sospeso, inventario 1971/2011, sabina raffaghello art gallery, milano, 18 febbraio

http://www.occhiomagico.com/

http://www.sabrinaraffaghello.com/

yugen, contemporary japanese ceramic, officine saffi

http://www.officinesaffi.com/

charlemagne palestine, divinitusssanimalusssacr%uFFFDusssorganusss (2014), at experimental sound studio, photo: dan mohr

http://www.wdw.nl/

left, frida kahlo, foto di leo matiz, ono arte contemporanea

http://www.onoarte.com/

right, umberto nariani, la forma celata, mariani chez capucci, villa bardini, sede della fondazione parchi monumentali bardini e peyron

http://www.bardinipeyron.it/

li hongbo hand carves school children from textbooks at klein sun gallery

http://www.kleinsungallery.com/

no curves, geometric journey, tape art, poliambulatorio giardini margherita in collaborazione con spazio san giorgio arte contemporanea

http://www.spaziosangiorgio.it

body ornaments

satellite paris, brand francese di gioielli creato circa trent’anni fa dalla coppia globe-trotter sandrine dulon e daniel ouaki, aprirà a febbraio il suo primo monomarca italiano a milano

http://www.satelliteparis-boutique.com/

gioiello contemporaneo. from left, chiara scarpitti, martha pachon, oki izumi, fabio cammarata. officine saffi, milano

http://www.officinesaffi.com/

et caetera

ph spencer tunik

http://www.spencertunick.com/

david bowie

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by paolo rinaldi

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voyages

eastern island, rapa nui, isola di pasqua

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island

http://www.chile.travel

architecture

pritzker prize 2016 alejandro aravena, quinta monroy  housing

http://www.elementalchile.cl/en/

wespi de meuron romeo architects, switzerland, ph hannes henz

http://www.wespidemeuron.ch

architectural practice kientruc-o transformed an old monolithic space, into a bright, exuberant, and full of vitality kindergarten, a place that fosters the new generation of vietnamese people, ph oko hiroyuki

http://www.kientruco.com/

claire & max turn the city of paris into a fake movie set

http://menilmonde.com/

musées

egypt's minister of antiquities, mamdouh al-damaty, has announced plans to move forward with an underwater museum project in the eastern harbor area of alexandria's abu qir bay, according to a report by the smithsonian magazine.in the works since 1996, the project not only seeks to bring historic sunken artifacts and structures into public view, but also to preserve the site, which is at risk of damage from pollution, fishing boat anchors, and poaching by divers

http://www.egypt.travel

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/underwater-museum-egypt-could-bring-thousands-sunken-relics-into-view-180957645/?no-ist

giorgio lupattelli, the dark side of the moon, marca, museo delle arti catanzaro

http://www.museomarca.info/

hotels and restaurants

     adventure hostel, bangkok thailand, designed by integrated design office,       ph boonchai tienwang sitthisak nakham

https://www.facebook.com/integrateddesignoffice/

situato nel centro di utrecht, il nuovo eye hotel

http://www.eye-hotel.nl; http://www.visit-utrecht.com; http://www.holland.com

spa

aqua dome, tirol therme laengenfeld, austria: percorso sensoriale tra piscine, saune e trattamenti

http://www.aqua-dome.at

magasins

boutique christian dior, seoul, corea del sud, project christian de portzamparc

http://www.portzamparc.com/fr/

design

left and center, kengo kuma's triangular block set. light, wooden and soft to the touch, each four by four inch component is made of cedar from japan's miyazaki prefecture and notched at the tips for easy stacking

http://kkaa.co.jp/

right, with the goal of combining several functions into one design that gives birds a place to call home, katia tolstykh created orator, an ergonomic bird feeder, bird’s nest, and a “speaker” to project the sounds of the birds singing

http://katiatolstykh.com/

left, you never know where you’ll be when inspiration hits. for artist and designer sebastian errazuriz, this happened when he was walking down a street in santiago, chile, and came across this branch

http://www.meetsebastian.com/

right, new york-based artist jongyoon choi‘s work ranges from fashion to photography to design and to art. with ‘no bond to bond’, the designer wanted to experiment with stability, and the result is a chair composed of two laser-cut discs that work as the body and twelve sticks that support them

http://jongyoonchoi.com/

left, brazilian design curator, journalist, and writer allex colontonio partnered with architect guilherme torres to design his first piece of furniture. bar/sotti is multifunctional in that it could work as a credenza-type storage piece or it could be a really cool home bar

https://www.instagram.com/allexcolontonio/ http://guilhermetorres.com.br/

right, based in portland, oregon, harkavy furniture was launched by two young brothers Dylan and Wesley Harkavy who craft clean, modern furniture. the cortado coffee table is made of walnut and powder coated steel and looks as if the diagonally placed wood is slicing the piece in half

http://www.harkavyfurniture.com/

http://www.harkavyfurniture.com/cortadocoffeetable

left, firm herzog & de meuron has created a growing number of design objects: lamps, stools, and even coathangers

https://www.herzogdemeuron.com/index.html

right, designed and produced in hong kong by italian designer andrea ponti, ‘kanban’ is a side table that pushes the boundaries of form and aesthetic, past and present. the project’s aim was to capture hong kong in a product: to convey the spirit of this cosmopolitan metropolis at the crossroads between east and west

http://www.andreaponti.com/

left, mark for linteloo by sebastian herkner

http://www.sebastianherkner.com/, http://linteloo.com/

right, dublin-based notion, made up of ian walton and marcel twohig, began a collaboration with heritage hand-weaving brand mourne textiles out of northern ireland

http://designbynotion.com/, http://mournetextiles.com/

lumières

the lux helsinki light festival in finland has just ended, but here are some photos of the installations that were displayed during the the festival. the aim of the festival is to offer inspiring light artworks and a festival atmosphere during helsinki’s darkest time of the year. The free event includes works from over 500 artists from all over the world. ph lauri rotko

http://www.luxhelsinki.fi/en

     gabriel dawe weaves 60 miles of rainbow thread through renwick gallery,       ph ron blunt

http://www.gabrieldawe.com/, http://renwick.americanart.si.edu/

tissus et tapis

a collection of artist-designed products inspired by the night sky

https://society6.com/

using only soft urethane foam,rotterdam-based nightshop is making some really cool “carpets”. showdown is a series of carpets that are created by “drawing” with foam-filled syringes full of colors they mix themselves

http://www.intothenightshop.nl/

installations

a group of dutch entreprenuers and designers from mothership, spotted an art piece named ‘in search of habitus’, by artist jorge bakker, and were inspired to create a life-size version for the city of rotterdam, by installing 20 trees that will bob in the water, just like a fishing float

http://www.enterthemothership.com/

http://www.onderwerper.nl/

photos

patrick willocq, i am walé respect me/forever walé, studio clelia belgrado, vision quest, contemporary photography

http://www.visionquest.it/

exhibitions

"métamorformes" par sacha walckhoff , verre soufflé. édition galerie gosserez

http://www.galeriegosserez.com/

fondation beyeler, jean dubuffet, metamorfosi del paesaggio

http://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/

food

jaime oliver

http://www.jamieoliver.com/

et caetera

come si ride nella tua lingua

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/laughing-on-social-networks?utm_source=Una cosa al giorno&utm_campaign=68c1fa852a-Come_si_ride_nella_tua_lingua1_6_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_170e3ab091-68c1fa852a-190614257s

macbeth, un film di justin kurzel

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by paolo rinaldi

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voyages

pompei

http://www.pompeiisites.org/

the new domus opened to the public

agli scavi di pompei aperti al pubblico sei edifici restaurati dalla sovrintendenza speciale: la lavanderia fullonica di stephanus, la casa del criptoportico, la casa del sacerdos amandus, la casa di fabio amando, la casa dell'efebo e quella di paquis proculus

architecture

edificio a milano, architects modourbano, ph simone bossi

http://www.modourbano.it/

palermo soho by fernando mosca archtect

http://www.architettofmosca.com/

the scarcity and creativity studio has just completed a new project called the wave

http://scs.aho.no/

‘eye of rock’ is a conceptual design for the viewpoint in pulpit rock competition hosted by rethinking architecture. the proposal would sit atop preikestolen — english: pulpit rock — some 600 meters above lysefjorden near forsand, norway. fly architecture, creator of the project, based their concept on salvador dali’s famous ‘the persistence of memory’ painting

http://www.flyarchitecture.net/

pelli clarke pelli architects' buerger center for advanced pediatrics

http://pcparch.com/

víctor enrich twists and bends buildings into contorted city landscapes

http://victorenrich.com/home

hotels and restaurants

situated in the middle of the koggala lake in sri lanka, lies tri, an island vacation resort, designed by architecture firm a00

http://azerozero.com/#zone1, http://trilanka.com/

angama mara is a new safari lodge, balanced on the rim of africa’s great rift valley, overlooking kenya’s maasai mara. designed by architects silvio rech and lesley carstens, and interior designer annemarie meintjes

http://silviorech-lesleycarstens-ink.blogspot.ca/

mezcal bar by ezequielfarca arquitectura y diseno, ph jaime navarro

http://www.ezequielfarca.com/en

design

cyprus based designer stelios mousarris has realized the ‘wave city’ coffee table that bends a landscape of buildings in half, using the overlapping surface as the tabletop. made from wood, steel and 3D printing technology

http://www.mousarris.com/

svetlana ko%u017Eenová's collection for czech home goods retailer lauriger ushers czech cubism into the 21st century

https://lauriger.com/

adeas podracky brings traditional chinese bamboo chair into a contemporary context

http://tadeaspodracky.com/

nuno ladeiro has reimagined the infamous ‘portuguese chair’ for italian furniture manufacturer colico. the design features a few slight changes to the original — mostly to increase comfort — but stays as close to unchanged as possible. ph steve stoer

http://www.nunoladeiro.com/

http://www.colico.website/dev/it/home.html

seoul-based yoonki lee is currently a sophomore at hongik university, majoring in woodworking and furniture design. for a small chair-making project he has designed the ‘raw chair’, a seating object made of tree branches sticked together with liquid epoxy

http://yooonki.tumblr.com/

keisuke fujiwara designs flower vase that swings as petals fall

http://www.keisukefujiwara.com/

lumières

marcin rusak creates intricate flora collection using resin & flowers. the small series of bespoke furnishings utilizes flowers and their natural characteristics to form durable, valuable pieces that engage rusak’s dual interests of botanical aesthetics and material significance

http://www.marcinrusak.com/

coral & anemone lights by maurizio galante & tal lancman for veronese

http://www.maurizio-galante.com/index.php/interware

http://verone.se/en/designer/galante-lancman/

art

matisse, la leçon de piano

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse

liubov popova, “subject from a dyer’s shop” (1914), oil on canvas,  the riklis collection of mccrory corporation, museum of modern art (image ©moma/licensed by scala/art resource, ny)

http://www.moma.org/

installations

blaffer art museum is presenting in real life by san antonio-based artist kelly o’connor as the next installment of its window into houston series

http://blafferartmuseum.org/

glowing trees, new installation by spatial practice, hong kong

http://www.spatialpractice.com

exhibitions

kara walker, masks, 2015, victoria miro mayfair

http://www.victoria-miro.com/

jan macko, serie skin, organic latex, dox, praga

http://www.dox.cz/cs/

body ornaments

nazan pak's 'essays' showcase her new enamel work

http://ecnp-jewelry.com/

et caetera

the colossus of rhodes, a thirty-metre high sculpture depicting the greek titan god helios that once stood guard at the entrance to the city's harbour, may be realised once again. standing for only 54 years until it was destroyed by an earthquake in 226bc, its position in the ranks of seven wonders of the ancient world has become almost mythological. plans to construct a new, much larger inhabitable statue—that will stand almost four times taller at 122 metres—have now been put in motion by a small collective of architects, engineers, and tourism agents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Rhodes