‘Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under different conditions’
— Mark Twain
‘Tread lightly with respect for the past, present and future’
— Aesop
‘Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly’
— Saint Francis de Sales
‘The sunrise, of course, doesn’t care if we watch it or not. It will keep on being beautiful, even if no one looks at it.‘
— Gene Amole
‘Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity‘
— Dieter Rams
‘Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful‘
— John Maeda
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Architect: Turner Architects
Engineer: Bini Struct-E ltd
Kitchen: West and Reid
Photography: Adam Scott.
‘It is your duty in life to save your dream.’
— Amedeo Modigliani
‘Look at nothing, Listen to nothing, Feel everything, Understand everything, Alone with yourself, Lookup, Love and give, And also create a laboratory of pure creativity’
— Philippe Starck
‘Within you is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time.’
— Hermann Hesse
‘How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but how well we are understood‘
— Andrew Grove
lacquered paper-objects
By: Nendo
Photographer: Masayuki Hayashi
‘The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.‘
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
