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Weekly Design Roundup – Art Nouveau seashell lamps, a magical Neapolitan palace, and an intro to the Greek Picasso
🌀🌀🌀 A very Mediterranean themed week. So get your bathing suit, pour a Campari, and enjoy the seaside offerings.
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ON THE GROUND: The Isokon Building
🌐 A private tour of London's best Modernist man cave
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Weekly Design Roundup – Korean brutalism in Berlin, contemporary classicism in London, and French modernism in Indiana
🌀🌀🌀 Globetrotting through Berlin, London, and Columbus, Indiana on an architectural expedition
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Casa Malaparte: Fascism, frescoes, and the French New Wave
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Weekly Design Roundup – Dima Srouji's glassware, artist-drawn wine labels, and a slice of Swedish design history
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Pieter Bruegel's winter landscapes
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DISPATCH FROM: Sicily
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Weekly Design Roundup – 100 years of Art Deco, solar system sculptures, and An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration
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ON THE GROUND: The Isokon Building
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DISPATCH FROM: The Basque Country
📮 A tour through the architectural, artistic, typographic, and sporting history of the beautiful Basque Country
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Weekly Design Roundup – 100 years of Art Deco, solar system sculptures, and An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration
🌀🌀🌀 The week we take a tour through the art historical archives, stopping in Ancient Egypt, Mughal India, and Paris in the 1920s
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DISPATCH FROM: Sicily
📮 Bit of archaeology, bit of the Baroque, more than a bit of Mediterranean inspiration
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Weekly Design Roundup – Dima Srouji's glassware, artist-drawn wine labels, and a slice of Swedish design history
🌀🌀🌀 Instagram reel inspiration falling thick and fast this week
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DISPATCH FROM: Tallinn & Helsinki
📮 The Alvar Aalto House & Studio, Helsinki central station, and Moscow Olympic modernism
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Weekly Design Roundup – Enzo Cucchi, space-age lamps on France's TGV, and trompe l'oeuil tablecloths
🌀🌀🌀 Modernist trains in France following the mushroom lamp craze
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Weekly Design Roundup – The White Lotus opening sequence, British modernism in Hampstead Heath, and chantilly-scented candles
🌀🌀🌀 The White Lotus opening sequence, British modernism in Hampstead Heath, and chantilly-scented candles
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Weekly Design Roundup – The Alvar Aalto Route, new discoveries at Pompeii, and historical dress posters
🌀🌀🌀 The Alvar Aalto Route, new discoveries at Pompeii, and historical dress posters
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Weekly Design Roundup – Constantin Brâncuși, West African modernism, and medieval details
🌀🌀🌀 Constantin Brâncuși, West African modernism, and medieval details
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