A recent trip to Italy - our honeymoon, in fact - brought us on a whim to Palermo, the ancient capital of Sicily, whose deeply layered history can be read through stone, chipped paint, Arab-influenced mosaic, stunningly lush greenery. The city has a subtle, almost...
No one can deny the impact of a stunning and complete interior environment, but I find I derive the greatest inspirations from ruins. It is at the feet of destroyed buildings - crumbling cities - that my imagination truly runs wild, mentally reconstructing what must once have...
Something must be said for a nation's capital where the music hall is larger than any government building, and whose national bank centers around a public sculpture garden. Rekyavik, a city surrounded by some of the world’s most arresting - and most perilous - natural beauty, celebrates life...
For all its couture ostentation, Milan is a city of secret places. Most striking are the hidden moments left for discovery beyond each palazzo gateway: an imposing courtyard, a stunning urban garden oasis, an aspirational entry to luxury shopping meccas. Here are a collection of spatial moments I encountered - quite unexpectedly...
Here's a little video blogging test run...
I am deeply honored to have had the opportunity to design a capsule collection with Quintus this Spring, introduced to the design world this past week in Los Angeles during the Spring West Week 2017 show. These pieces are inspired from my time living in Rome, and by...
I’ll keep this one light on text, and let you just take in the images… A quarry visit outside Munich in mid-January this year gave me the opportunity to show Roger Thomas two of my favorite spots in Germany. This first post includes photos of the...
Mr. Edward Codish, a much admired teacher of mine once began a history class by suggesting that the social rank of Aristocrat (in this context, the nobility of pre-revolutionary France) evolved over centuries, from ruthless strongmen who established feudal dynasties, to increasingly refined generations that focused...
The contrast between this space and John Piermont Morgan’s Library can be found not in material or eloquence of design, but in intentions. Whereas the Morgan Library served to impress the financier’s power upon his visitors (literally intending to stop them in their tracks and...
The magnificent Sainte-Chapelle on Paris’s Ille de la Cite is hailed as one of the greatest works of Gothic architecture. Completed in the mid-Thirteenth Century, it is perhaps most famous for its soaring stained glass windows, which were meant to dapple the floor in so...