Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
There comes a time when visiting places has less to do with touring space and everything to do with touring selves.
Caroline Cala Donofrio • The Places That Save Us
space of places.”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The invisible and the small is rapidly spreading as a desirable, status-signaling social experience beyond Tyler Brûlé’s world, Japanese bars, and menswear forums.
Ana Andjelic • How Micro-Communities Transform Aspiration
Shout out to Bemelmans, an inarguable treasure. And shout out to the immensely & similarly charming Tosca , in San Francisco, where Erin & I had dinner the other night and which never disappoints.
BUT these places are not U.G.H.Z. because they are highly grammable and therefore susceptible to invasion by annoying hordes, screaming out to be
... See moreJonah & Erin • Too Many Places Are STERILE and TORCHED — Let’s Make Them COOL and FUNKY
just the right combination of distinctiveness and ordinariness.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
When the traveler wants a big experience, he goes to a big city to see big things. But when he wants an “ authentic” experience, he must eschew the most well-trodden places, possibly the cities themselves, to find it. He must seek out places that have not yet been touched by “tourism”, he must find the people and places that still have remoteness —... See more
Simon Sarris • Small Spaces
Taste comes in lanes. To quote Susan Sontag again, “There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion — and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good vis... See more