Art Find: Noguchi Museum NYC
The Noguchi Museum was created and designed by internationally and critically acclaimed, Japanese-American sculptor, Isamu Noguchi (1904”“1988), for the installation of masterpieces he deemed to be characteristic archetypes of his life’s vision. Noguchi constructed the Museum conglomerate as an open-air sculpture garden ensconced within architecture that encloses ten galleries. In its entirety, the Museum emanates visceral, meditative amplitude in which to appreciate […]
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Concept Store Find: Playtype Copenhagen
Typeface, to the untrained eye, can be mistaken as entirely functional ”“ just a vessel for words on a page, which tell a story. But any designer will argue that a simple change in typeface can change the face and meaning of an artwork ”“ it can modernize, romanticize and most of all it will […]
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Design Hotel & Restaurant Find: Chiltern Firehouse London
In 2005 a firehouse in Marylebone, dating from 1889 was decommissioned. In 2011 it was bought by André Balazs (Chateau Marmont, The Mercer) and since opening in 2014, became the most talked about destination in London. Countless reviews have celebrated the level of attention paid, with the help of Paris-based Studio KO, to its creation. […]
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Restaurant Find: Almanak Copenhagen
Claus Meyer, the founding father of New Nordic cuisine (not to mention the co-founder of Noma) has joined forces with Danish jazz music legend Niels Lan Doky to convert a 1937 Art Deco customs house into The Standard, now a stylish dining and jazz music destination. With only one eve left in Copenhagen, regrettably, we […]
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Restaurant Find: Kura NYC
1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) Whether you’ve eaten sushi in Japan and experienced the pain of being unable to find such quality sushi in the US at an affordable price or not, Kura is a welcomed surprise on St. Marks Place. If you have eaten in Japan, you’ll recognize familiar elements even before […]
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Restaurant Find: Riley St Garage Sydney
The team behind Bondi’s “Stuffed Beaver” is all grown up now with its latest restaurant offering, Riley St Garage. Enter a non-descript building off Williams St and into a dimly lit expansive space, which can only be described at industrial-chic. The backdrop consists of stripped-down brick walls, exposed metal beams which hang from the lofty […]
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Boutique Hotel Find: Duane Street Hotel NYC
Old New York meets European sensibility at Duane Street Hotel, a classy monochromatic boutique hotel in Tribeca, New York. I settled in the Executive King room for a couple of days and it was a delightful experience. The décor is bold, intelligent, modern, and chic, accented with a bit of savoir-vivre. I was quite fond of the interior […]
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Cocktail Bar Find: Lidkoeb Copenhagen
When the owners of Ruby, Copenhagen’s most renowned cocktail institution found a free-standing, heritage listed building (once an 18th century apothecary lab) hidden in a back alley behind a supermarket, they turned it into Lidkoeb ”“ now one of the city’s most stylish watering holes. Situated in Copenhagen’s boho neighborhood Vesterbro, Lidkoeb begins with a […]
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Restaurant Find: TÃ¥rnet Copenhagen
TÃ¥rnet, which translates from Danish into “the tower,” is the restaurant situated inside the uppermost section of the Danish Parliament’s tower, affording one of the most spectacular views of Copenhagen. Just over a year ago, before Danish chef Rasmus Bo Bojesen (a fixture in Michelin star level restaurants across Europe and Japan) took the reigns […]
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Restaurant Find: OPSO London
When the translation of a restaurant’s name is “a delectable morsel of food”, it sets your hopes pretty high. Enter OPSO, and its menu of award-winning cocktails and updated Greek classics that are designed to share. And to confirm: Yes, this Marylebone restaurant thankfully blows the translation of its name out of the water. The […]
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