Vitra Design Museum & Schaudepot: A Living Archive of Modern Design

What makes the Vitra Campus unique is its broader architectural context. Alongside Gehry and Herzog & de Meuron, buildings by Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Nicholas Grimshaw, and SANAA turn the site into a kind of open-air design anthology.

V&A East Storehouse: A Backstage Pass to the World’s Great Collections

That old model is changing – and nowhere more boldly than at the V&A East Storehouse, which opened in May 2025 in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

EMST Athens

I wasn’t expecting to fall for an industrial building in Athens, but the former FIX brewery has a way of winning hearts. Once a post-war brewery, this modernist landmark is now home to the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), a bold cultural hub where creativity thrives.

African American Music

As part of my deep dive into the history of the United States of America, and my recent Deep South obsession, as well as love for music, and modern music history, I have been endlessly listening to Mississippi Delta Blues (see post image of the legendary Robert Johnson) and Motown. If any of this isContinue reading “African American Music”

Elvis Never Left the Building!

This may seem a little kitsch, but we love Elvis Presley at MWOI HQ!

-It was not always that way, I can assure you. I grew up in a household where Elvis was frowned upon as very much not the sort of cultural icon we, as intellectually minded high class individuals, embraced.

We LOVE!

Our latest obsession is GOODNIGHT LIGHT. Beautiful lighting made in Spain. You can find a wonderful selection of their products here! Here at MWOI HQ we have bought everything from the The Piña Colada to the Eden lamps. In more than one colour, as it was just too hard to decide which one was moreContinue reading “We LOVE!”