The everyday / Katie Lockhart

Everyday Needs is a store for people who want to make informed decisions for their way of living. Carefully sourced and personally curated by stylist and interior designer Katie Lockhart, Everyday Needs offers products that please the eye and are made for everyday use, with a thoughtfulness and quality that will last the test of time. Everyday Needs is a New Zealand owned and operated store.

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Kintsugi

Kintsugi (Japanese: golden joinery) or Kintsukuroi (Japanese: golden repair) is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with lacquer resin dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy it speaks to breakage and repair becoming part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.

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House of the week 06 / Residéncia Cavanelas / Oscar Niemeyer.

Residência Cavanelas in Brazil, was built in 1954 by Oscar Niemeyer, one of the key figures in the modern architecture movement. Best known for his state buildings, the Brazilian architect designed a number of mid-century houses.

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Daniel Carlsten / Osteria Fransescana

Osteria Fransescana, located in Modena, Italy, is considered one of the world’s foremost restaurants, and have been honored with three stars, the highest possible level, from the world’s most revered restaurant guide, Guide Michelin. Commissioned by Nowness, Erik Wåhlström and I went there to capture a day at the restaurant, along with their founder and head chef Massimo Buttura.

• Daniel Carlsten 
• Erik Wåhlström
• Read the article at Nowness

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New York Living rooms / Dominique Nabokov

New York Living Rooms is not exactly about interior decoration. Although it represents a special stylistic and aesthetic approach, it is above all a document. No rearranging, no adding of bouquets, no use of floodlights. I approach the living rooms like I approach the people I photograph: a portrait as close to reality as possible.
I have always been an advocate of photography free of heavy equipment; if I can avoid strobe, flash, and even a tripod; I do. I believe in mobility. For this book I used the Polaroid camera 600 SE, this time with a tripod and the Polaroid Colorgraph type 691 film, which provides a full color positive transparency in 4 minutes (exactly the time it takes to boil my eggs)–what a thrill and relief it is to have the result right away! Color photography is rarely a satisfying medium–too beautiful or too ugly, and mostly banal. With this particular film I like the accidental, eccentric colors. The color tones do not alter the impact of the image.This lightweight, unobtrusive, and fast approach to shooting, with itsaccidental and immediate results, gave me the wonderful feeling of being a sleuth-voyeur. I could easily go on and on, opening the doors of New York City for years–what fun! Unfortunately it seems impossible: this film has been discontinued.

Dominique Nabokov 

New York June 17, 1998

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Calder at home

All Images from

"Calder at Home The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder"

by Pedro Guerreo. via mondo-blogo

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Ettore Sottsass and Aldo Cibic, Munari Apartment, 1983

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