BEAUTY: Interior Design--Sarah Vaile

This traditional, neo-classical Georgian home in Hinsdale, Illinois designed by interior designer Sarah Vaile is a delight. I love the dedication to pattern and color...it makes an interior interesting, interactive, inviting...hello Granny Smith green lacquered dining room walls! I especially love the photo of Cher, Elton John, and Diana Ross above the fireplace in the wood-paneled Library. Although the plaid-clad Tasting Lounge adjacent to the basement wine cellar is pretty amazing, too.

https://www.sarahvailedesign.com/

BEAUTY: Clothing--Tíscar Espadas

For Milano Moda Uomo, Spanish fashion designer Tíscar Espadas (previously here) showed a fascinating Spring Summer 2022 collection that seems to riff on cuts, silhouettes, and details of ancient traditional Spanish clothing with echoes of Medieval garments. She calls the collection "Capítulo III" (her last two collections being the first and second installments of the series) and says it "is the entrance and meeting point between two different worlds. The transit and the valance between imaginary and reality. The divine and the earthly. A story loaded with symbolisms, searches and reminiscences of what the eternally human is."

https://www.tiscarespadas.com/

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BEAUTY: Architecture--Twisting Courtyard House

What a phenomenal reinvention of a traditional courtyard house in China by architecture studio Arch Studio. Courtyard houses, called siheyuan, date back many centuries and are made of four houses arranged around a central area connecting the structures with a series of pathways and plantings. But this courtyard house got a 21st century makeover with planes of grey brick in the courtyard caressing and invading the houses, insinuating itself onto the architecture, and becoming flooring and walls as it slithers around. It's simple but the results are arresting. It feels like a slice of the future but this kind of biophilic design is bringing the future to now...

http://www.archstudio.cn/en/