tokyo glass

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in the aoyama area of tokyo  comme des garçons store (flag­ship with aspi­ra­tions to star­ship; the store was designed by the label’s chief designer and …

blue sky thinking

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paris by polaroid

citroen

pre-digital, armed only with my polaroid cam­era — i’m tempted to revive it. you will find here: picasso,brancusi,  jean paul sartre, simone de beau­voir, jean seberg, henri …

granada

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the alham­bra palace hotel. could have been designed by cecil b. de mille. maybe it was.

city

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the city, how­ever, does not tell its past, but con­tains it like the lines of a hand, writ­ten in the cor­ners of the streets, the …

teppan-yaki izakaya

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teppan-yaki-ya are usu­ally asso­ci­ated with flashy upmar­ket slightly tacky pepper-mill twirling wise­crack­ing steak chefs in lon­don and new york epit­o­mised by ‘beni­hana’.  this place was …

龍安寺(ryoan-ji)

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うらやまし美しう成て散る紅葉 uraya­mashi utsukushuu natte chiru momiji how envi­able becom­ing beautiful falling maple leaves  

tokyo 21_21

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21_21 is a new design museum near rop­pongi, and tokyo ‘mid­town’ new devel­op­ment. the build­ing is designed to be dra­matic whilst not over­whelm­ing the sur­round­ing …

tokyo ikebukuro mono

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not the most glam­ourous part of tokyo, with a rep­u­ta­tion for sleaze and bad taste, it nev­er­the­less boasts one of tokyo’s biggest rail­way sta­tions, two …

bali dance iv rabbit dance

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