Interior designer François Champsaur signed the new extension of the Hôtel du Ministère in Paris. The deluxe boutique hotel has recently unveiled 18 new suites, including two in a duplex.
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American photographer Steve McCurry is having a retrospective covering his 40 years career. The exhibition called Oltre lo Sguardo is held at Villa Reale di Monza in Italy.
This Layer-Lapse of Boston Julian Tryba is very different from the other traditional time-lapses or hyper-lapses: each part of the scene is lighted during a different time of the day.
National Geographic has just announced the winners of its 2014 photo contest. The grand prizes were given to three winners for their submissions to following categories: people, places and nature.
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Michael Kenna donated 42 of this photographs of Paris to the city’s Musée Carnavalet last year. The museum already holds 17 other Kenna prints and is now exhibiting a selection of some fifty of their Kenna photographs.
Watchtower of Turkey is a video by Leonardo Dalessandri of his trip to the country. He traveled over 3500 km in 20 days, capturing a great variety of landscapes, from Pamukkale to Cappadocia, the all passing by a great variation of colors, lights and weathers through six other cities.
Some retail experiences are better than others and the Leica Store in Kyoto takes this to a different level. The space is situated in a typical renovated 100 year-old two-story townhouse, a Machi-ya, in the Gion neighbourhood of Kyoto, Japan.
Jaime Hayón has redesigned a room inside the iconic SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. The hotel was originally created by Modernist architect Arne Jacobsen, using furniture pieces from Republic of Fritz Hansen.
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Christopher Thomas is an artist who has a reputation of being a city portraitist. His last exhibition “PARIS CITY OF LIGHT” at the Bernheimer Fine Art Photography capture the great cultural capital and the first metropolis of the modern age.
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Djerbahood is a street art project aimed to create an open air museum in a small village of a Tunisian island. The initiative was led by artist Mehdi Ben Cheikh and Galerie Itinerrance.
The video “Paris through a Pentax” features two things I like; Paris and medium format cameras. French advertising agency Maison Carnot has captured the streets and sights in a distinct perspective: through the viewfinder of a Pentax 67 camera.
Barcelona in Flow-Motion is a time-lapse video by Rob Whitworth. Unlike the usual timelapse we got used to see, the “fast moving short film” is a hyperlapse that took more than 363 hours work.
Sextantio Le Grotte Della Civita is a unique hotel, built by Swedish-Italian hotelier Daniele Kihlgre into the caves of Matera, Basilicata in Southern Italy. Known as “la Città Sotterranea” (the Subterranean City), the small city is also a UNESCO World Heritage site.
American photographer Steve McCurry was invited to the remote Omo Valley region of Southwest Ethiopia by a local charity called Omo Child. The charity founded by Lale Lubuko and photographer John Rowe aims to provide a safe home and education for children and infants who are considered by their tribe to be mingi.
Photographer Maia Flore got a carte blanche from Institut Français and Atout France to capture the country’s most iconic places from Château de Versailles to Pont du Gard or The new Mucem in Marseille.
The recently opened restaurant in the basement of the Standard Chartered Bank landmark in Central, Hong Kong, has been earning rave reviews, as much for its modern Cantonese food as its dramatic interiors.
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François Champsaur has just finished the renovation of The Hôtel Vernet in Paris revealing impressive interiors of 30 revived rooms with Hermès toiletries and a contemporary restaurant beneath a stained-glass ceiling designed by Gustave Eiffel himself.
January in Japan is a project by director and photographer Scott Gold. He documents his travel through different parts of Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto and Yudanaka) in the winter. Japan is usually more celebrated for it Spring Sakura but it’s as beautiful and dreamy in January.
Tiny Sydney is a short film by photographer Filippo Rivetti. The time-lapse presents a striking tilt-shift landscapes of the Australian city.
Studio Jouin Manku have designed the interior of the restaurant at Les Haras Hotel located in Strasbourg, France. The firm converted this former royal equestrian academy from 18th century into a contemporary brasserie with a dramatic staircase at the center of the stage.