Sequential Photos © Shinichi Tanaka（タナカシンイチ）
Imagine you were a kid living in a house like this. Everyday would be a party, don’t you think?
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House in Nakameguro: Happy dwellers
Patrick Roger: Sugar Daddy
Photo © Estelle Hanania
The French Chocolatier Puts a Provocative Spin On Valentine’s Day
“I eat between 40 and 60 chocolates a day,” confesses Patrick Roger, the Vendôme-born chocolate artist. “Am I sick of it? Of course not. It’s like being in love—do you ever get sick of it?” Passion equals success for Roger. In addition to his Saint-Germain-des-Prés outpost, where NOWNESS photographed the artist, he has seven boutiques throughout France, and one opening in London in 2012.
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Tahari Courtyards by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (2003)
via Landezine
Every company should have a courtyard like this for employees. Oh well… only in our dreams.
Fashion designer Elie Tahari hired MVVA to add a soothing landscape to a windowless suburban “box” he was renovating to relocate 300 warehouse and accounting staff. Mr. Tahari’s work spaces in New York City are renowned for their sensuous materials and unusual uses of landscape; he sought to recreate that feel in an otherwise hostile suburban building.
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Finca Bellavista, Costa Rica
via TheCoolist
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Not far off the Pacific coast in the Costa Rican jungle, a community has taken to the trees to craft a new, sustainable life off the grid and away from urbanity. Finca Bellavista is a community of long-term residents and travel guests housed in a network of tree houses built right into the rain forest canopy. Perched above the forest floor, these tree houses are connected by zip lines and sky bridges, accessible by stairs and ladders from the ground level.
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El Garzón: Languid Vacation
Photo © Gemma Ingalls
Francis Mallmann’s Uruguayan Hotel is a Calm Culinary Paradise
Chef Francis Mallmann’s move to Uruguay’s rustic Garzón has transformed the one-time ghost town into a jetset hideaway. In 2004, the acclaimed Latin American culinary talent eschewed the glitz of his 1884 and Los Negros establishments (located in Mendoza and José Ignacio, respectively) to open El Garzón, a boutique hotel and epicurean restaurant.
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