Ideas

A short argument about fabric

Why the thing you can feel matters more than the thing you can see, and how it changed the way we shop.

observed · 3 min read

Photographs flatten everything. A good linen and a bad one look identical on a screen and behave nothing alike in a room.

This is the quiet reason so much of what we buy disappoints: we chose it with the wrong sense.

We have started asking a single question before buying anything textile — would I want to touch this in five years? It has saved us a considerable amount of money and one sofa.

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People · Copenhagen

The architect who edits before she adds

Copenhagen architect Mette Lind builds by subtraction. We asked her what she keeps, where she eats, and the one hotel she returns to every spring.

sought · 6 min

Hotels · Mallorca

A hotel on Mallorca with eleven rooms and no ambition to grow

It has no spa, no restaurant guide entry and no rooftop bar. It has lime-washed walls, a fig tree, and a woman named Nuria who remembers how you take your coffee.

preferred · 4 min

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