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By The Hands of Men

Issue 10 Editor's Letter

I’ve always had a bone to pick with myself of why I don’t use my hands more. It seems like a new year’s resolution, that each December I realize I still haven’t done.

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Bless at the Neutra VDL

Living Together by Design

The Bless residency at the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences is part installation/exhibition, part educational programming and part social experiment.

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A Modernist Masterpiece Opens Up

The Margaret Esherick House was built by an American master, and its splendor cannot be understated. A recent renovation and gracious new owners have once again made it a welcome destination.

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Folch Studio

Building Together a New Identity

We spoke with Camilo and Allie, designers of both digital and printed identity of Openhouse, about the process of working on this new stage.

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Schloss Hollenegg

Mixing Heritage

The beautiful courtyard that opens the view onto stairs and round arches with medieval gangways covered in ivy exceeds all expectations.

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Gatherings out in the Fields

Days out with MA Hidden Kitchen

If you ever get the chance to attend a Gatherings out in the fields, you won’t regret it. It always begins the same way, with a warm welcome from those running the event: Melissa, Lele, Laurel and Emilio.

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From Art to Alchemy

Alex Carro

There’s one woman who has been a true inspiration to me since the first day we met: entrepreneur Alexandra Nodes.

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Els Comellars

John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin

A towering and meditative villa nesting amongst the trees yet striking in contrast to the backdrop of the sky, it was designed and built by John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin.

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Nature’s palette

Dining with Alexandre Gauthier

An elegant sixteenth century farmhouse on the edge of a quiet river lined with aromatic plants and centenarian trees.

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MAKR + Openhouse

A Hands-on Touch

At Openhouse we have a love for quality, that is why we knew we had to work with Jason Gregory, the driving force behind MAKR.

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Casa Privata

A Private Paradise on the Amalfi Coast

Hidden from the madding crowds but still within easy reach of Amalfi Coast’s many attractions lies a private paradise: Ca’ Pa’.

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Many Lives Under One Roof

Richard Neutra’s VDL House

Being handed the keys to a Modernist architectural icon is no easy feat for any mustering design enthusiast.

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A Salon to Call Home

Nes Creative

Where does work life end and home life begin? For Natalie Shirinian and Elizabeth Baudouin there is no answer.

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Studio Ødegaard

The Art of Sharing Thoughts Around a Table

Quietly set in Lisbon’s thrilling Príncipe Real neighbourhood, Peter Ødegaard’s home away from home is a sight for sore eyes.

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LaPenya24

The Stage Makes a Comeback

As the staircase rises, the house becomes a theatre, concert venue, flamenco tablao, or whatever it needs to be.

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Issue No. 9

A Woman's Touch

We called issue Nº9 “A Woman’s Touch” for the strong and inspiring women we have met along the way.

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Curated with Kindness

Going with our instinct, we simply went ahead and filled the store with all our favourite things and follow our true personal style because, well really, where’s the fun in that?

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Kyodo House

The Art of Living

In a Tokyo suburb this Kohei Nawa-inspired family home is a living statement on art, environmentalism, and a return to Japan's communitarian values.

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At Home With Mies Talks & Dinner

Launch of Issue No. 9

Openhouse celebrated the launch of issue Nº9 with a private dinner and hold a series of talks with great names in architecture, art, and design.

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Making Magic

Francesca Sarti & Food

Francesca has developed forms of experimentation that push and blur the boundaries of food design since she founded Arabeschi di Latte.

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Luca Longobardi and the House Concert

The group turned into an audience by the simple fact of sharing the wait for the music, winds up exchanging opinions, drinking and reading short stories.

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A Home for all in the Heart of Oxford

In 2007, a group of Oxford University students launched Student Hubs Oxford, a charity that enables students to volunteer and make a difference.

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Between the Rocks

Casa Pedregal

When Barragán first walked into El Pedregal, a barren land of volcanic rocks in the suburbs of Mexico City, a utopia came to mind.

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Valerie Traan Gallery

Collecting subjects and objects

In what used to be an old convent in Antwerps historical centre, Valerie Traan Gallery is constantly exploring the boundaries of art, design & architecture.

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Casa Canvas

We are open

Thayse Viegas & Maurizio Bergo decided to turn their private home into a innovative art gallery & design studio aiming at promoting emerging talents.

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Casa Mãe

Creative Escape

Creative souls combined their talents in the genesis of Casa Mãe, which reflects the best of modern Portugal with a simple beauty.

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Rosa Orrantia

An avant-garde heritage

Rosa Orrantia is the owner of Persuade, one of the world’s top fashion boutiques located in Bilbao.

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A house of light and history

Villa Tugendhat of Mies van der Rohe

It’s June in Brno and we are outside the Villa Tugendhat, Mies van der Rohe’s modernist house in the leafy neighbourhood of Èerná Pole, not far from the centre of town.

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Thread, Senegal

Threading Cultural Bridges

Thread was set up as a dynamic artist residency program where International and Senegalese artists can meet, exchange and create.

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Kettle’s Yard

A Way of Love

In Cambridge, close to the University, four tiny cottages were meld together in 1957 by painter H.S. Jim Ede and turned into a beautiful house-art gallery.

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House of Toogood

Faye Toogood

House of Toogood resides on a once neglected corner plot, where now this home has taken root as a place of nurturing under the care of a very special design family.

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Breaking the Boundaries of Convention

Solo Office

Ideas are intangible. They have led us to design cities and establish ways of life from the beginning of time.

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The Sleeping Home

Roy Carpenter's Beach

It’s been 100 years since Roy Carpenter purchased the large parcel of land that stretches south towards the sandy shores of Matunuck, Rhode Island. 

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Brick by Red Brick

Gutshaus Rensow

With the aid of animals and friends alike, Knut and Christina cook up a storm in the tiny village of Rensow, changing the world in the process, brick by red brick.

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Joana Biarnés

A Keen Photographic Eye

Truly great people tend to stand out for their humility. At least that is the case of Joana Biarnés, Spain’s first female photojournalist.

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At Home With Mies

Exhibition by Openhouse & USM

Openhouse together with USM transformed the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe into a house.

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The Rebirth of Plants

Hida

Hida is an area known for its master carpenters, the Hida-takumi, whose distinctive and impeccable technique made them highly sought after throughout history.

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Iberital

Forward-looking vision

This Catalan brand does not aspire to follow market trends but to set them, and the creation of a healthy eco-friendly coffee-maker forms part of this goal.

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Kirasagi

Surrounded by the Northern Alps, the mountainous Hida region of the Gifu Prefecture is in the centre of the archipelago, 90 percent of which is forested.

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Commitment in its purest form

Teixidors

The community is at the heart of Teixidors, improving the economic independence and social integration for people with learning difficulties.

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Quality, perfection & timeless elegance

There's a type of knowledge that can only be acquired through experience and wholehearted devotion to a practice.

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Tradition Through Time

There is poetry in the ancient crafts that makes its home within artists who work by hand to synergise tradition with modern methods.

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Masseria Moroseta

New traditions

Sharing the local traditions and Italian passion for simple living and quality of life.

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Solo Houses

Building houses with Christian Bourdais

We drove for two hours through the grape vines that surround either side of the highway down to Tarragona, ascending the the mountain range and the Parc Natural Els Ports.

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A Touch of Class

Brand Editorial Issue 9

Selected pieces of Hermès, Loewe, Mykita and Ochre among others.

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Passion for Classics

Few objects bring together excellence from the fields of art and science the way that cars and watches do.

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Reality and Desire

Casa de Blas by Campo Baeza

Two opposing elements, a glass box resting on a concrete volume, both parts blend seamlessly into the landscape.

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Nido

A Collection of Precise Proportions

The balance between restfulness and stylish elegance in the precise proportions that Javier Pastor seeks to attain in each of his projects.

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Total Internal Reflection

For Stefan Díez, the starting point for the creation of the Guise lighting collection was to explore the link between luminosity and transparency.

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Passion Never Sleeps

The daily rise and set of the sun was used to create the notion of days, reminding our ancestors when to get up, work, eat and go to sleep, leading to the invention of weeks, months and years.

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The Varda Artists Residency Program

SS Vallejo

Carla, Tolo, and their cat, Tora Prince Rama, host this program at the S.S. Vallejo, a floating incubator for the radical ideas of Ginsberg and Kerouac at the height of the counterculture hippie movement of the 60s.

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More Than a House

A morning with Xavier Corberó

He lights a cigarette; the smoke is dense and it curls among the sculptures that surround him.

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TAGOMAGO

Collected Life

Far from dogmatism, Valérie and Vincenç's home is a true reflection on what is a collection, what it serves, and how to bring it to life.

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Delicious & Sons

In the Kitchen with Mónica and Ricky

One cold winter morning in Barceloneta, almost 15 years ago, Mónica and Ricky decided to devote themselves entirely to gastronomy.

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O Apartamento

Too Close Is Never Close Enough

A place where artists from anywhere in the world, who wish to know Lisbon better, come to stay and share the city from this unique point of view.

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Oneiric Brutalism

Brand Editorial Issue 6

Selected pieces from Enea, Zuzunaga, Lobster's Day, Marset, Teixidors, Carl Hansen & Søn, Gebrüeder Thonet Vienna and Usm.

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Cap Moderne

The Life of Eileen Gray

Between Monaco and Menton, Cap Moderne has witnessed the complicated relationships of several seminal figures in the history of architecture.

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Sunday Suppers

Tea Time in Brooklyn

Sunday Suppers started six years ago when a few friends gathered at the apartment of Karen and Genieve. From there, their dinners have evolved and expanded beyond their expectations.

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Casa Wabi

A wall uniting art and community

A line drawn across a piece of paper turned Casa Wabi into a reality when Tadao Ando first sketched.

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Oficio Studio

Leather, love, etc.

The story of Melia Carranza and David Iglesias is like an screenplay: a girl goes to fix her bike at boy’s workshop and so begins a love story.

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Rooftop Smokehouse

The Many Flavours of Smoke

It started in Barcelona, when a group of friends who missed the food from their home countries, began to cook.

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At Home With Shukri & Viveca

If you think Shukri and Viveca's shop is beautiful, wait until you see their studio/home. It is a haven for designers and makers with a light that streams through the windows and a great view of the sea.

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HK Farm

Farming Wildness at Hong Kong

The passion for nature of Michael Leung reminded me that there are things we are obliged to care about as humans.

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A House for my Family

Rose Seidler House

He was only twenty-five when Harry Seidler built his first house, bringing Bauhaus modernism to Sydney’s North Shore.

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An Artist’s Life at Villa Lena

The contrasts of Villa Lena are both in its life and its design, serenity and wildness in equal measure, whichever you require.

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Santa & Cole

Editing Design from Barcelona

The first instinct of Santa & Cole founders was to explore the usual structures of the book industry and apply them to the world of design.

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At Home With Toni Arola

Toni & Ester

Product and interior designer Antoni Arola, together with partner Ester Rovira, took us on a tour of what used to be a large open warehouse.

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Bless Home Shop

At home with Mira Schröder

I first knew about Bless in London many years ago, but it wasn’t until I was working in Persuade in Bilbao that I understood the complexity of their work.

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Malatesta Maison

Perched on a hillside

The difference here is the people who know how to welcome you, who make you feel at home and experience something truly unique.

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Casa Helsinki

A Home from Home

After months dealing with fear of the new and the unknown, I decided to allocate the spare room I had o accommodate travellers.

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The home of Philip Johnson

The Glass House

The property and the décor capture the original design, including the daybed designed by Mies Van Der Rohe.

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Cinema Flora

Catching a film with Attilio and Paola

Apart form the orange sign above the door you wouldn’t think at all that is a cinema.

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NIKI ROBINSON

Her home, her Work, her Parties

Niki and her boyfriend Joe have a wonderful house in Raval, that regularly rents out rooms, but this is no ordinary stay.

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Jo Nagasaka’s

Happa in Nakameguro

This Japanese architect set up the space named Happa in Nakameguro, Tokyo, where he has his own studio and very special shares mates.

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In residence at Can Lis

The home of Architect Jørn Utzon

This building is modern, yet had the feeling of a roman bath house, ancient, and set to its cliff top position.

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La Ricarda

Casa Gomis

Designed by architect Antonio Bonet Castellana, disciple and collaborator of José Luis Sert and Le Corbusier, for Agnes Bertrand and Ricardo Gomis.

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Reflections on light

Marset

‘Reflections on light’ is part of a series of conversations with architects, designers and artists who work with and think about light every day.

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Sunday Dinners With Jim Haynes

Regulars, new-comers, travelers, writers, photographers, local Mayors, painters... it is impossible to define a profile of the people who usually join in Jim's feast.

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Yanira

The Beautiful Lady Of The Sea

Take charge of a wooden sailboat would entail a great responsibility. I wanted to pick up the phone and calling home, but I refrained.

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Palau de Casavells

Interview to Luis and Jacobo

They met three years ago through common friends, and soon after decided to set up a business that joined their different interests together.

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Laundry Living

Lea, and Rob's home in Fiskars

It is by the river bank that you will find the home of designer Lea Sarasjoki and first mate Robert Dreakman.

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