The year of 2024 has been somewhat of a revival of adding back colour into our homes. A white and bright kitchen will forever be a classic but in the past few years as we’ve spent more time at home people are craving personalized spaces that feel lively and inviting.
Read MoreIncorporating current interior design trends into your living room does not mean complete overhaul. Let me tell you how to seamlessly infuse elements of casual elegance, vibrant colours, mixed textures, bold contrasts, and a love for life into what you already have.
Read MoreAlmost any property can be converted, from a three-bedroom home to an entire apartment building. In France, the concept has taken on. Fully furnished apartments are provided with or without other amenities, while some options come with tailor-made services for tomorrow's digital nomads.
Read MoreInterior design is one of the greatest modes of personal expression. Over the past few years people have spent more time at home than ever before. In turn, they have started to hone in on their personal aesthetic, and create rooms that feel right to them. By focusing on the pieces that bring joy, colours and textures that contribute to a peaceful space, and functional living, we can create interiors that truly feel like home.
Read MoreWhen Malinowski coined the ubiquitous term in the 1920s, nuclear families had been at the root of most societies for more than 500 years. Yet it has not always been so; in history, we see other constructs that have been much more successful in delivering a wide range of impressive lifestyle benefits as precursors of this now prevalent reality. Nuclear families, even by definition, are proponents of exclusion. A nucleus is compactly closed, not open. It hardens its barriers to the rest of the world rejecting fluency. Indubitably a suitable environment for the very young, for young adults and beyond, nuclear families are not enough.
Read MoreMost things in our lives are on the go. Seldom can we see a chapter fully closed and when we do, that probably isn't the most interesting chapter we have anymore. Our attention focuses on the next thing. We all get more excited with projects on the go. They have an enticing potential which the closed ones don’t.
Read MoreHotels are amazing places. They are our palace-home, away from home. We all, if we get there, no matter from what economic bracket, are pampered, serviced and treated with full attention. As hotels compete for an increasingly selective traveller, new trends will emerge in hospitality that will be bound to please the famished globetrotter in all of us: we will likely see an increase in service offerings, rooms will have an added personal touch and select VIP packages will offer unique and extra-memorable experiences.
Read MorePeople always did and always will want more than what they have, better things, more happiness, less pain and more pleasure. But in 2022 when the wounds of severed lifestyles are fresh in our minds as we have yet not healed, this will be the finest filter through which everything will be sifted.
Read MoreInundated by ideas and possibilities, our minds are now ripe with the excitement of change as opposed to the fear of it. Design only follows; in that it creates a time-capsule universe by giving all these important trends an aesthetic form and a visual framework.
Read MoreRE-SHAPE YOUR LIFE from what you do, to where and how you live, to who you spend your time with. READ MORE….
Read MoreWhat is personal? What is not? This past year has been challenging at drawing the line between the two and, made everything, even the bites that were not, personal.
Read MoreHealth above all else is what shaped pretty much everything this past year.
As much as this is a fact at any point in life for anyone and in every century, this year we've been globally reminded of our own mortality. The solidarity that ensued, even with its systemic flaws here and there, stood proof of humanity's power to direct itself as species. Independent of you agreeing or not with local policies, the psychological impact that this global lifestyle catastrophe has generated has touched and will continue to touch all aspects of life.
Read MoreMy letter to the wine traveler in you..
Wine travel can teach you a lot about how to live well while welcoming you into a cult-like no other. It sets you up for experiences that move imagination and fuel creativity in a way that no other travel does. Exploring wineries, with their magnificent settings, highly focused tasting rituals, and carefully manicured grounds can offer a deep lesson of personal growth.
Read MoreIn antiquity, this beautiful colour was praised in the form of the Lapis Lazuli, a semi-precious stone with deep, dreamy blue tones. Egyptians believed it had the power to give you immortality and open the heart to love. They produced what it is believed to be the first blue dye dating back to over 6000 years ago and they are credited with the invention of the blue pigment eponymously called “Egyptian blue” or cuprorivaite. Need I say more? …
Read MoreA new kind of casualness
What is casualness but the relaxed and unconcerned manner we inherently have without the filter of conventions and care of others?
Have you defined what this is for you? How are you most comfortably dressed? What’s your “thing”, that which does it for you, that which you indulge in that relaxes you? Is that a solo activity or one that you like sharing? Are there more?
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