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Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world’s finest crop of new homes. This cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-coming names like Aires Mateus, Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa. Here, there are homes in Australia and New Zealand, from China and Vietnam, in the United States and Mexico, and on to less expected places like Ecuador and Costa Rica. The result is a sweeping survey of the contemporary house and a revelation that homes across the globe may have more in common than expected. Among guava trees and abandoned forts in Western India is a sanctuary designed for and by Kamal Malik of Malik Architecture. The House of Three Streams is a sprawling spectacle with high ceilings, verandas, and pavilions, perched atop a ridge overlooking two ravines. A medley of steel, glass, wood, and stone, the house weaves along the contour of the landscape, almost as an extension of the forest. Encina House by Aranguren & Gallegos, an elegant, sloping structure reminiscent of a gazebo, similarly inhabits its surrounding vista. Ensconced in a pine forest north of Madrid, the lower level is embedded in rock and connected to the upper by a natural stone wall. Shinichi Ogawa’s Seaside House is an immaculate two-story minimalist marvel in Kanagawa that overlooks the Pacific. Its living area spills onto a cantilevered terrace and infinity pool, almost dissolving into the ocean as one seamless entity. In Vietnam, Shunri Nishizawa’s House in Chau Doc exudes tropical sophistication with exposed timber beams, woven bamboo, plants, concrete panels, and inner balconies and terraces. Its corrugated iron panels act as moveable walls and shutters, ushering in views of surrounding rice fields. These homes―along with more than 50 others―are each remarkably distinct in design. They all, however, toe the line between inside and outside, each one symbiotic with its surroundings.

In Sri Lanka, Palinda Kannangara created the Frame Holiday Structure on a budget of $ 40,000. Built from steel scaffolding, exposed brick, and wood floors, the house can be easily disassembled and moved, adapting to the reality of the nearby floodplain. Luciano Lerner Basso’s Fortunata House in Brazil accommodates the surrounding nature: it was built around a tree of an endangered species and sits upon stilts so as not to disturb the forest floor. Miller Hull’s Loom House near Seattle has been called “the world’s most environmentally ambitious home renovation” because of its reliance on recycled materials and its efficient energy use.

A mediados de los sesenta, la música popular norteamericana dio un giro copernicano cuando la fábrica de hits de Nueva York se vio desplazada por los himnos aterciopelados y edénicos que empezaron a brotar de Los Ángeles de la mano del genial productor Phil Spector y grupos como los Beach Boys, los Byrds o The Mamas and the Papas. A partir de ese momento, una serie de artistas, que empezaron a reivindicarse como cantautores de sus propios temas, encontraron en las colinas californianas de Laurel Canyon y en sus alrededores un paraíso virginal —en plena naturaleza pero a un paso del fragor de la gran ciudad— donde establecerse, echar raíces y dar rienda suelta a sus canciones de corte intimista y reivindicativo. Locales como el Troubadour, en La Cienega Boulevard, empezaron a ser frecuentados por la nueva horda de músicos, que aspiraban a tocar sus canciones en directo frente a la exigente audiencia, formada en buena parte por los propios músicos y aspirantes a estrellas. Se iría así fraguando una de las eras doradas del rock norteamericano, que empresarios de la música como un joven y aguerrido David Geffen y su socio Elliot Roberts convertirían casi de la noche a la mañana en un emporio. De este modo, sellos como Warner/Reprise, dirigidos por los linces Mo Ostin y Joe Smith, o Asylum, del tándem Geffen/Roberts, apostaron por un repertorio de folk rock y nuevo country que vio nacer a cantautores y grupos de la talla de Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Gram Parsons, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Eagles o Fleetwood Mac, entre muchos otros, que se convertirían en el nuevo canon del rock y el folk de la música norteamericana a base de música introspectiva y de raíces. Sin embargo, el idealismo, la solidaridad y el talento no tardarían en dar paso a un pandemónium de celos, consumo exacerbado de drogas y sobredosis, relaciones sentimentales tormentosas, éxitos clamorosos y caídas en picado que convirtieron el paraíso en un infierno de egoísmo y capitalismo desbocado que preconizó las maneras que la industria musical desarrollaría a partir de ese momento. Esta es la historia de los artistas de aquella generación, que alumbraron algunas de las mejores canciones de todos los tiempos y cuyo legado sigue más vigente que nunca.

Founded in 2014 by the design ingenue Harry Nuriev, Crosby Studios is one of the buzziest furniture, interior design, lifestyle, and architecture brands of this day and age. With instantly recognizable viral pieces, Crosby Studios is behind some of today’s most original interiors that exude aspirational fantasy, conceptual artistry, and effortless cool—as well as being at the forefront of the metaverse revolution. Presenting Crosby Studios’ most popular interiors and newest metaverse spaces, this original volume is a must-have reference for the firm’s myriad fans. From private residences and commercial venues to daring creations specifically designed for the metaverse, the featured projects showcase all aspects of Nuriev’s signature style: monochromatic touches of bold colors that enliven interiors along with his original blend of Eastern European–inspired design and contemporary references to the digital world. A vibrant publication that celebrates one of the most enthralling names working in design today, this book is bound to appeal to interiors and digital enthusiasts everywhere.

India in Fashion explores the beautiful and sophisticated history and aesthetics of traditional Indian fashion, dress, and textiles and their profound impact on European and American fashion from the eighteenth century to today. This intoxicating and visually rich volume—with texts by experts from India, Europe, and North America—is published to accompany a major exhibition that celebrates the long historical contributions that Indian dress, textiles, and embroidery have had on Western fashion. From the introduction of chintz dressmaking fabrics in the eighteenth century to the early nineteenth-century vogue for light Indian fabrics, paisleys, and chikan embroideries to larger realities of empire and cultural appropriation, this volume features paintings, fashion magazine editorials, and portraits of influential people who championed Indian style throughout history.