I must spill my mind … I will claim what it is I really crave … the concepts … I don’t care about the bullshit that comes after … I crave that precise impact …... Read more >>

Classic Japanese houses are the envy of the world, or so the story goes. Frank Lloyd Wright was a big fan of the Imperial Villa of Katsura and the spare, simple beauty of the 17th century building... Read more >>

I don’t consider myself an expert, just an expert surfer and a mid-century enthusiast. So this past weekend, I spent some time putting together a couple of definitions pages. The first is... Read more >>

“Three coins in a fountain …” goes the famous song, and anyone who’s ever visited Rome, Paris, or just about any other ancient city knows that if you tried to... Read more >>

Salem is the county seat of Essex County in Boston’s historic North Shore; a city but feels more like a small New England harbor town, replete with a clipper ship in its harbor. Read more >>

Your long soak in a hot tub just got more luxurious. Read more >>

Sometimes architects can get a bit carried away. These staircase designs are truly incredible.   Read more >>

JetBlue recently cut the ribbon at its new $740 million, seventy-two-acre terminal at New York’s JFK Airport. Called “JetBlue T5,” it’s quite a futuristic, twenty-six-gate sight to behold. Within… Read more >>

In an attempt to create a more sustainable domicile, some homeowners use energy-efficient light bulbs, swap out normal showerheads for low-flow ones, or put on a sweater so they can turn down the… Read more >>

I arrived in Barcelona a fan of Gaudi and left with the relationship in tatters. I’m not sure what the turning point was. His erratic and changeable design? His perfectionism and the time it... Read more >>