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Kirchner’s Kitchen: A Meditation on Colour and ScentTo step into Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s “Alpine Kitchen” (1918) is to enter a threshold where exterior landscape and interior life are wo …

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What Scent Taught Me About AttentionMaking the Familiar Strange Again Self-love is a phrase that’s heard everywhere these days.  It’s become so routine that it sometimes feels …

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Space Is Felt Before It Is Measured:  Lessons from Do Ho SuhI'd been waiting to visit Do Ho Suh's Walk the House at Tate Modern since it opened in May.  Not because I coul …

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Topography and Landscape: the two maps of homeA 12-minute read. Worth saving for when you have space to think.You know the feeling of walking into your kitchen in the morning and somethi …

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The texture of a room's airMood is mostly brief. It moves through a home like weather: a lightness at the window, a sudden ease in the kitchen, a hush in the hallway. None of it lasts, y …

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The air remembersYou walk into your kitchen on a quiet morning. The light has not filled the room yet, but you catch the faint trace of rosemary from last night's cooking, still there, a …

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