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Lyon / Attraction

Take a leisurely stroll and check out the cars from yesteryear. Near Lyon, and once a year, old car enthusiasts gather for a day to present their vintage cars. Picture of an old French RENAULT 12 TS from 1970.

Barcelona / Botanical Garden

it is a cactus garden!

London / Pub

Hidden away in the backstreets of Finsbury Park, I used to share a house opposite this pub, where it assumed the role as our second living room. A real north London gem, I still go there these days for the tree-house-like, leafy terraced beer garden, which is perfect for summer evenings.

Ax-les-Thermes / Creative Space

A Château in the south of France, an abandoned ruin upon a forgotten hilltop under restoration… The ancient heart of Château de Gudanes extends not only through the past, but with the tender care of the Waters family from Australia, along with worldwide support, into the present and infinitely through the future.

Hong Kong / Cafe

A 'cha chan teng' is Hong Kong's answer to the UK greasy spoon cafe, there are regional equivalents across China but what makes a cha chan teng unique is it's product. Toasted white bread rolls with condensed milk, deep fried chicken wings, pork chop sandwich…the list goes on. There aren't many of these types of establishments left in Hong Kong, but there seems to be a revival in this old-skool way of chilling out over a cup of 'silk stocking tea' (my favourite). I stumbled across the newly opened Lan Fong Yuen in Tsim Sha Tsui's Woodhouse mall, though it also has some small locations dating back to the 1950s.

San Jose / Shop

Manley’s has good donuts, the couple that run the shop are real nice, it’s open until mid-afternoon, and it’s very low key. You can get a crumb donut, a cup of coffee, then sit and let your mind clear on a Sunday morning if you wanted. It’s also soothing to watch all of the old people come in, read their newspaper, and grumble to themselves.

Cologne / Bar

Very nice and cozy pub in the heart of Cologne’s Südstadt. Apart from the magnificent Kölsch (“offering a smooth journey of sensations that may be unremarkable individually but are extraordinarily pleasant as an ensemble”—The New York Times) they have a great program of life music and local DJ's.

New York / Place

I have been watching this house deteriorating and transforming for years. I shot this last summer and was completely captivated with how many shades of luminous green vines had taken it over. If you want to see this house you better go quickly---it is supposed to be demolished by March 1 2012.

Tokyo / Museum

Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art is located in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture. It has a wide collections, from Rembrandt to Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. In the past, there have been exhibitions of famous artists like Gerhard Richter. It's not just that it has a wonderful collection, but also that structure of the building shows the paintings and sculptures in a way that lets you consider freely whether or not they are great. Around the museum there is space to stroll, and some shopping. It's a place you can enjoy without getting tired. The museum is approx 50 min from Tokyo.

Zürich / Shop

Motto stands for independent, rare and beautiful books. Specialised in art, design and photography, Motto offers a wide selection of books, magazines and artists' publication. Beside the book shop, also the so called Corner Collage has its home in this room. Corner College is a platform for lectures, workshops, exhibitons and other kind of academic stuff with a lot of experimental energy.

Singapore / Studio Spaces

Located somewhere off the beaten path, surrounded by rustic vibes and lush greenery, JBCS is a place for ceramic enthusiasts. Besides housing a community of potters and artists working with clay, this place has a gallery, sells pottery related materials and equipment and offers classes for anyone who is interested to get acquainted with pottery. In here also lies a part of Singapore’s pottery heritage, one of the last two remaining dragon kilns.

Paris / Bookstore

So much inspirations in this beautiful bookstore at Palais de Tokyo museum. Hours and hours to spend there before or after a visit at the exhibitions.

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Mexico City / Art Director

Orly Anan is a visual artist and set designer interested in the intersection between ritual and contemporary art. Her research has led her to explore the traditions of various countries, The work of Orly Anan is born of the mysticism implicated in everyday life, in which spirituality is defined as the consciousness of the energy that unites and interweaves everything. She decontextualizes objects as an act of awareness, exchange, and feedback, giving rise to a highly personal aesthetic. She focuses mainly on scenography and space intervention, using everyday objects as tools of exploration.

London / Writer

I'm a writer and Associate Editor of Oh Comely Magazine

Melbourne / Photographer

Ward Roberts was born in Australia, and after living abroad in Hong Kong for a number of years, he relocated to Melbourne in 1994. Ward graduated with distinction from RMIT university in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in photography.

Paris / Artist

Louise Enhörning is a Swedish artist and photographer. After completing a degree in art history from Uppsala University, as well as studies at Stockholms Universitet and Konstfack, Louise Enhörning moved to Paris, where her career kicked of as a photographer. Her work explores closeness in her relationships with her subjects as well as the physical environment, approaching still life, abstraction, portrait and landscape with the same sensitivity. Her work investigate the world like an scientist. Louise Enhörning has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at Saatchi, Stockholm; Loyal Gallery, Stockholm; 0fr Gallery, Paris; and Bon Gallery, Stockholm as well as many group exhibitions internationally in Tokyo, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Kansas City, Mexico City, New York and Stockholm. Enhörning has worked with clients such as Another Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Vanity Fair and VOGUE, as well as Hermès and Agnes B. She has also contributed to several books including Shoot: Photography of the Moment, Nylon Street Style and Vice Photo Book.

Antwerp / Architect

Architect-Designer

Lisbon / Architect

Architect by formation and motif, that follows the pursuit of exploring the world.

London / Photographer

Still life Photographer

Berlin / Photographer

Lisa Wassmann born and raised in WestBerlin, Germany in 1981, where she still lives and works. She has been a professional photographer for over six years. While during the last few years she traveled the globe for her photoshots, she now puts her focus on a new photographic project which contains her intimate personal view in and about the extremly fast changing city Berlin, which is beautiful and sad at the same time.

Kiel / Graphic Designer

Kristin Rosch is a graphic designer and art director currently based in Kiel, Germany with a special passion for Editorial Design and Typography. She is interested in printed and digital projects, especially within field of culture and art.

New York / Graphic Designer

A little bit witchy

London / Artist

Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee is an artist, researcher and writer. Her practice is guided by the iterations of slow violence and the dynamic between the ‘near’ and ‘elsewhere’. In attempting to disarm instruments of knowledge production, her practice shies away from reduction and completion. Steering away from essentialisms, she is interested in once-forgotten micro and muted narratives. By revisioning fractured traditions, she engages with visual and textual interventions to navigate the nuances of perception and retention. Lee also runs XING, a research platform centered on the poetics and politics of Southeast and East Asian art practices. Assuming form of a shapeshifter, it morphs between localities and temporalities; with(in)flux. A domain of not-yet possibilities, the platform attempts to dismantle matrices concerned with the region from non-dominant perspectives.

Paris / Designer

Product designer

Cologne / Photographer

Marcel Boer is a photographer & creative developer based in Cologne, Germany. He was born in 1993 in Freudenberg (Germany). His photography work is about nostalgic moments and the beauty of the world, all with a dose of endless hedonism. He is also focused on building clean and well designed websites with modern frontend technologies & has a good eye for web/ux-design.

New York / Art Director

Charlotte Strick is a principal at the multidisciplinary graphic design firm, Strick&Williams, founded in 2014 with her longtime friend and colleague, Claire Williams Martinez. The studio collaborates with cultural institutions and clients in the arts, publishing, education, non-profits and everything in-between. For 14 years prior, Strick was a designer turned art director at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, where she designed book covers for much-loved authors like Jonathan Franzen, Roberto Bolaño, and Lydia Davis. Her work has been featured in the AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers show, the TDC Annual Exhibition, Print Magazine, and in many books about cover design. The proud owner of a coveted Silver Cube from The Art Directors Club, Charlotte is also Art Editor of the distinguished literary magazine, "The Paris Review". Her writings on art and design have been published by "The Paris Review", "The Atlantic", and "The Huffington Post". A graduate of Parsons School of Design, Charlotte lives with her husband and their twin boys in Brooklyn, New York.

Copenhagen / Designer

Anders Arhøj is an illustrator and product designer heading the Copenhagen based studio Arhøj, founded in 2005. The studio works on a myriad of projects from character design, interiors, fabric prints, publications to concept ideas and styling.

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