Fifteen Minutes
Hi everyone. I’ll keep this short. Here are this week’s links to boost your mood and/or inspire you. Thanks to everyone who either sent in links, subscribed or opened this email in the first place. Without further ado…
Just when I thought every new apartment building in NYC looks the same, this gaudi-inspired building with a hand-laid brick façade pops up out of nowhere
Say goodbye to midcentury modern and hello to cocaine decor and the conversation pit (thanks Ellen)
Take a look inside an amazing $1,300 pre-war rent-controlled apartment in NYC (!!!)
An apartment in Stockholm merges traditional and contemporary styles
An apartment for readers in Italy
A minimal apartment and a recent renovation both located in Valencia, Spain
Another minimal home located in London
This chic London townhouse belongs to an antiques aficionado
Step inside a historic home in Portland, another beautiful East London townhouse and a British mansion that was built in 1680
A slow bed & breakfast in a 19th-century Tuscan villa
Love the openness and bold material selections in this Australian home
A 1960s home renovation in Australia
Architect John Wardle's stunning home
In the Netherlands sits this tranquil home in the woods (thanks Marc)
A rural Portuguese home becomes a humble yet modern retreat
An Australian house designed for modern living
Discerning elements for an intelligent kitchen
Multicolored London kitchen feels like a tropical vacation
A bright house in London designed for a gardener
Sunlight and trees are the major focus of this house in Ho Chi Minh City
A home in Melbourne connects heritage and landscape
A simple, minimal home in Tokyo is a mix of Japanese and Western influences
This modern Sag Harbor hideaway
The Boomerang House in Denmark
A Chilean cabin shines like a gemstone
A cedar-clad cabin on an English farm
Texas man builds tiny house village with salvaged materials (thanks Youn)
Build tiny architect-designed houses at your desk
Mass timber in the age of mass extinction
These compact a-frame cabins come fully assembled
First 3D printed homes are for sale in Austin, Texas (thanks Adam)
Hotel in Austin filled with art designed to emulate a Texas lake house
Japan’s Kiro Hiroshima Hotel
Isamu Noguchi’s Stone House
Residents lose coastal vistas to fortress-like tsunami walls in Japan (this is just sad)
A concrete home in Phoenix for a ceramicist
Ceramicist Jess Choi
MoMA creates a set of elaborate stand-ins in preparation of Alexander Calder’s exhibition
Calder’s 1400-work archive goes online
Umberto Riva’s mushroom lamps (thanks Faye)
A space age hair salon in Beijing and this hamburger shop in Milan
Virgil Abloh blings out iconic Dieter Rams hi-fi wall system for Braun
Artist creates architectural renderings as NFTs
The world's first digital NFT home
Was Beeple’s $69M NFT a marketing stunt?
Reports of stolen art on NFT marketplace raise issues for crypto collectors
NFTs are so hot they’re affecting Earth’s climate
Analog architecture photographer says digital photography is too much to digest
Lessons from the world’s best architectural photography studio
An intimate view of artist Yves Klein’s world by Shunk-Kender
NY-based photographer captures the idea of America in latest project
Aperture is hosting a conversation with photographer Jamal Shabazz on March 30th
Photographing a love letter to Harlem
The Drawing Center is currently showing Bruce W. Talamon’s photos of David Hammons
David Goldblatt has a show up at NYC’s Pace Gallery right now
Magnum Photos is launching their $100 square print sale on Monday March 22
How to get inspired again and work from home indefinitely
How to avoid bad decisions
Now you can listen to IKEA’s 2021 catalog (seems like a bad decision)
An online archive of every IKEA catalog
Next month a Netflix series will investigate the unsolved robbery of $500M in artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Right now you can watch this true story about fake art currently on Netflix (looks like I may need to reinstate my account)
That’ll do it for this week. I hope you found something worth reading. I’m really fortunate to be allowed to creep into your inbox every week. Thank you. If you enjoy most of the links please consider sending them to a friend. If you want so submit a link or say hello I can be reached at capa@bloodandchampagne.com. Easy peasy. Bye.
Thomas