Carl Kleiner’s Short Film Elevates Dying Tulips Into Art.There’s something especially beautiful about the way a tulip’s stem arcs and droops. Totally at the whim of the universe, it stretches gracefully towards the heat and light of the sun for a brief moment before succumbing to gravity and...
Daniel Shipp’s Photography Exhibition ’Botanical Inquiry’.‘Botanical Inquiry’ is a darkly beautiful series of photographic studies by Daniel Shipp, a Sydney-based fine art photographer. If Tim Burton, with his dark, romantic, gothic aesthetic were to take photographs of plants, no doubt they...
Emiliano RJ Hotel in Rio de Janeiro by Studio Arthur Casas.Having already achieved phenomenal success in São Paulo, the Emiliano hotel brand has arrived in Rio de Janeiro. Situated on the iconic Copacabana beach, Emiliano RJ Hotel been designed by Studio Arthur Casas, the same architects who...
TABLEAU Flower Shop in Copenhagen by Studio David Thulstrup.Set within a 19th-century building on Store Kongensgae in the heart of Copenhagen is TABLEAU, an ambitious, gallery-like space where flowers are arranged as sculptures, falling out of bespoke vases or poured over custom-made...
Iranian Abandoned & Overgrown Homes Captured by Gohar Dashti.Wartime and the displacement of people from home and landscape permeate Iranian photographer Gohar Dashti's images. Her most recent series of work is Home—a collection of abandoned spaces now taken over by nature. Taken in her native...
This House with Plants in Japan by KamakuraStudio Is Not What You’d Expect.Indoor plants have loads of health benefits. As well as looking pretty nice, they’ll reduce carbon dioxide levels, diminish levels of pollutants like nitrogen dioxide and benzene, and even keep air temperatures down on warmer days. The...
Portraits of Indian Flower Men by Danish Photographer Ken Hermann.To most of us, fresh flowers are a short-lived pleasure—a simple luxury that tends to fade away a little too quickly. In India, flowers are loaded with meaning, tradition, substance, and spirituality. From the symbolic lotus to ribbons...
Sony Music Entertainment Amsterdam HQ by Space Encounters.Of course Sony Music’s Amsterdam HQ needs a vinyl boardroom table that doubles a DJ booth, and a stairway that is also a bar. It’s work made a bit more entertaining, and I for one, would not mind that meeting being added to my diary....
Marble-Made Tent in the Galaxy: Romola Restaurant in Madrid by Andres Jaque.Bursting from the former garage space of a 40s-era Luis Gutiérrez Soto building in Madrird, Romola Restaurant immediately reminds me of the jade powder room in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz. Its futurist...
