Vacant.

Sometimes the moment we don't pay attention at all is exactly the one we're going to like the most. It happens quite a lot when I'm photographing, or rather clicking my camera's button. This is a perfect example of that. The detail grabbed my attention and clicked! As I'm downloading the pictures on my computer I felt in love with it.

Got it all: blurred reflection, vertical lines, round forms and rough textures. All VACANT.

Door detail at the Rough Luxe Hotel.

Stay tuned. Soon I'll post a few more together with few words.

1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces @ The V&A. Sou Fujimoto.

This structure creates a space where notions of "inside and outside" and "nature and artificiality" are inverted and convergent. It explores the crucial duality and "in-betweenness" that defines traditional Japanese architecture. - V&A


Retreats and refuges harness and protect us, as they share the close and intimate scale of the user. They engender our most intimate imagination. They are the first other. This is why they are interesting. - Sou Fujimoto

Spell It Out, If You Must.

Windows are those little spaces where dreams start, specially when it comes to fashion.

Selfridges windows display is indeed one of the best in London. Always simple yet right straight to the point. The other day, quite late though, I passed by and couldn't resist to snap a few shots.

Get inspired. Start dreaming and spell it out loud. Sometimes is the only way to be heard.








Any special fashion wish?

1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces @ The V&A. Terunobu Fujimori.

Have a Classy WeekEnd.

Any ideas for the weekend?
I always find inspiration walk around classic (and classy) spaces absorbing the energy.

Dale Chihuly's Chandelier (right).

1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces @ The V&A. Rintala Eggertsson Architects.

By now you've probably realized I love the V&A and Spatial Installations. To get them both together is close to go to paradise, I guess.

For two months and an half the Museum has been hosting an amazing exhibition (today was the last day, I'm affraid). They’ve invited nineteen architects to submit a concept design for a building informed by ideas about retreat and refuge. Seven of these proposals were selected for construction at the Museum.

I’ve visited all of them, but there are two with which I relate quite a lot. The first, the one I’m posting today, was designed by Rintala Eggertsson Architects from Norway.

Situated by the National Art Library (and bookshop), this free-standing wooden tower re-evaluates the concept of the “archive” - REA


The walls are made of hundreds of books (about our environment) and the building materials come from the forests of Finland.


The tower is experienced via a spiral staircase and each floor includes a secluded reading chamber. The moment you sit down, you realized to tower shakes from top to bottom, which to me recalls the idea of how fragile Nature and manmade building can be.


V&A – What do you hope we will experience when we visit your building?
REA – The building is a reference to Nature (…) we hope the visitor will experience a balance joy – using body and mind to travel to unknown spaces.

Soon I’ll post my other favourite small building in this exhibition, The Beetle’s House by Terunobu Fujimori.

Other Spatial Installations you might like.

Space By Richard Serra.
Richard Wilson 20:50
Square The Block By Richard Wilson
Wallpaper* Chair Arch 2
Wallpaper*ChairArch.1
Inspired By Light Installations

(Apologies for photos colour quality, but flash option was even worst).

Stairs Somewhere In Chicago.

Following my "A Bar In Chicago" post I want to share another dramatic space from the same American show I've mentioned last time: these stunning stairs.
Classic style is not what I would chose to live on, but I find these stairs amazing: the form, the way they dance in space, banister details and the spectacular stone floor pattern in the hall.

Very good images to get inspiration from, don't you think?

Stairs are these kind of space no one spends time on, but they are indeed the key element to make any spatial journey breathtaking.

Look at the marble on the walls and the stained-glass window - two completely different materials yet both so harmoniously living together.

And because we are talking about detail and materials, this wooden floor couldn't be missing here. Simple pattern, perhaps hand crafted, giving such volume to a flat surface.

Images from "The Good Wife".

Gold Dreams.

Eclectic as I am.
Colour rich as I like.
Simple forms as I understand.

My old bedroom:
- Inherited chest of drawers from my grandma;
- Inherited bedside table and stool from my mum;
- Bespoke velvet lamp shade, silk curtain and golden wood mirror.

A Bar Somewhere In Chicago.

I'm an American shows addicted. Love (almost) them all. Interesting telling stories, I always find something to learn about. But not only stories are the key to watch these shows. In general they're all set in beautiful houses, charming hotels, interactive offices and dramatic bars and restaurants.

This picture is from "The Good Wife", a show about law, attorneys and the power of telling ambiguous stories.

A moment after work, over a drink talking banalities.

Inspired By Dreams.

Aren't we all inspired by dreams?


Sometimes the simplest deco is the best way to pull together the energy we're looking for. These cartoons pinned on the wall (an habit I have since I first started to style my teenage bedroom) and the clouds hanging from the ceiling make this space so special and unique.

Space by Interlübke, Germany.