The Keeper’s Work | 08.31.23
DESIGN
Australian designer Dion Hall’s work for Her Melbourne is absolute best in show. Total mastery of detail and originality - look at the way the wood wall panel is slightly canted; this creates extra shadow line for depth & interest AND makes space for concealed, moody uplighting. Also the framed caned panels acting as window treatments AND as a textured drop ceiling? (next time you’re at a restaurant - look at the ceiling. great indicator of a well-designed space) The banquette, the decorative light fixtures; all feel fresh in their poetic placement but still nod to something we’ve seen before. Click for more and don’t miss the lower level walnut-clad music room - inspired by Japanese listening rooms.
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READ
Issei Poetry Friday is a weekly series that features poems from the "Los Angeles Issei Poetry Collection Digital Edition, an ongoing archival project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and The John Randoph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.” I love these easily digestible poetic nuggets.
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EAT
Have you ever eaten something at a restaurant that blew your mind, and you remember it forever and try to recreate it on your own, but it never checks out? Happened to me in Italy’s Alpine region. It was a pasta dish - spaghetti - with…onions. They were caramelized? All my attempts fell flat. Until Rachel Roddy’s post advised to ADD ANCHOVIES. Of course! And if you say, ewww grossss I hate anchovies, I’ll say no you don’t. Because they are secretly cooked to invisibility in many a successful Italian dish. Recipe on her Instagram or on page 28 of her amazing cookbook.
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DO
Artist Laina Miller has been popping up her Creative Cafe all over LA this summer, and I’m dying to go. At the cafe, you select from a menu of activities like collage, or dried flower arranging, and get the supplies delivered to your table. I love the idea that creative playtime is just as important to adults as to kids, and that someone is creating the (adult) space for it to happen (with drinks!).
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READ
Just finished reading Four Thousand Weeks. Absolutely not a typical “self-help” book. As you might suspect from the title, if you live until you’re about 80, your life will only be four. thousand. weeks. long. This may terrify you, or put you ambitious overdrive, but Oliver Burkeman’s philosophical approach to the problem of our very, very short existence was pretty liberating for me.
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LOOK
Albarran Cabrera is a collaborative photography duo based in Barcelona. Each work in The Mouth of Krishna is already mesmerizing, with visceral textures and high-contrast, but this dynamic presentation of the series is a real treat.
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