For the next issue of @tmagazine , I wrote about @casamilana , the endlessly adaptable, very beautiful family apartment of @mmariomilana , @gabriellamcampagna (and their children), for which they filled an old, wonderfully worn space in the Brera design district with prototypes of his colorful, body-responsive furniture. “Everything happened very organically,” says Mario Milana. “We needed a credenza, so I did a credenza. We needed a sofa, so I did a sofa.” Photographs by @danilo.scarpati .
For the new issue of @tmagazine , I wrote about the French designer @francoischampsaur ’s environmentally influenced home — and ethos — in the Tramontana mountains of Majorca, which his wife, a former journalist-turned-medium named Catherine Baudet, told me are sometimes called “Drama-tana” by the locals, for the chaotic way they make people feel.
The home, however, made in collaboration with local artisans from materials like plaster and straw, is supremely calming — one of the most beautiful and relaxing places I’ve ever visited.
“Humans are in a position where we have to work with nature,” Champsaur told me. “If not, we burn. But I don’t want to be political. I don’t want to fight. I just want to make something good. Because we need to have a vision for the future that’s simple, cool and inspiring.”
A world, in other words, that still allows us to dream. The photographs are by the singular @francoishalard .
Gujarat, the last leg of my India trip — and the most visually inspiring. I was able to see Louis Kahn’s 1960s brick IIM campus, Le Corbusier’s Mill Owners’ Association Building (1954), the pols (Ahmedabad’s historic communal housing blocks), some of the country’s most intricate stepwells and so much else. All of this would’ve been impossible if not for @dheeraj138 , with whom I’m also working on something nice for the magazine that I’ll post when it publishes 🤓
Boys’ trip to… the Taj Mahal! Ha. We were talking about how, sometimes, seeing the world’s greatest sights can feel underwhelming. How can any structure live up to a sense of myth and wonder that’s accrued since 1632, when the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan began building it as a mausoleum for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal? In person, however, it was no less than incredible. (Maybe because it wasn’t too crowded.) As one of my friends said, “Imagine loving someone that much.”
Wild animals, ancient Kama Sutra temples, palace grounds and crepuscular, foggy landscapes everywhere we looked.
Would tag all the animals if I could (in order): langur, @tonynikolla , bengal tiger (!), sloth bear, mugger crocodile, vultures, chinkara, chital. (In other words, lots of monkeys and antelopes and deer.)
