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Beauty Plant: Lavender

admin — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 04:54:20 +0000

Lavender is a fragrant shrub native to southern Europe. Abundant lavender bushes with purple fragrant flowers are especially common around the Mediterranean. In aromatherapy, lavender is used for its calming and relaxing benefits as the scent relieves anxiety and stress. The Romans added lavender to their bath water for which the plant is also named. […]

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Axel Vervoordt’s wabi spirit

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 05:59:38 +0000

Belgian art & antiques dealer and interior designer Axel Vervoordt was one of the first names that came up when I started investigating wabi-sabi. Vervoordt has borrowed the term Wabi from Japanese and created his own personal concept around it. “Elegance in natural materials, nobility without sophistication and timelessness within tradition” are the principles of […]

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Dream stay

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 05:54:13 +0000

Created with their signature Wabi style by designer Axel Vervoordt and architect Tatsuro Miki, the giant penthouse at the Greenwich Hotel in TriBeCa, New York, is like a dream. Even more than the hotel’s visuals online, I fell in love with the details in Garance Doré’s photo story posted two years ago. You might have […]

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