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Aesthetic Journeys

Fleeting moments, collected. The places, objects, books and ideas that catch our eye, and sooner or later find their way into our work.

All

Here & There

The Edit

Art

Design Insights

Design Literature

Pretty Things

Shopping

Travel Stories

A dark pyramid on a pink plinth in a concrete gallery

Travel Stories

Mexico City

A tennis racquet leaning on a green railing above clay courts

Travel Stories

Monte Carlo to Sanremo

The gold-leafed Haunted House at Fondazione Prada in Milan, against a blue sky

Here & There

Fondazione Prada, in the Ideal Order

Sculptures on stone plinths in a sunlit gallery at Castelvecchio, Verona

Here & There

Carlo Scarpa’s Veneto

A red lacquer bowl mended with gold, beside a fine brush and a tin of gold powder

The Edit

The Beauty of the Mend

A narrow stone lane with potted flowers and shuttered windows

Travel Stories

Whitewashed Puglia

A vintage car parked beside a rail of clothes at an outdoor market

Shopping

The Art of the Flea Market

Slivers of window light on a pale plaster wall

Design Insights

Designing with Layers of Light

Three pale, hand-built clay vessels on a stone plinth

Pretty Things

The Quiet Power of a Stone Vessel

A grey painting of two soft colour fields on black

Art

Living with Large-Scale Art

An armchair in a deep arched window alcove looking out to trees

Design Literature

The Poetics of Space, Revisited