Author: My World of Interiors
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Castle Howard Revisited: Remy Renzullo’s “21st-Century Renaissance”
When Remy Renzullo first walked into Castle Howard during a blizzard, he was led on a whirlwind tour of rooms stripped bare, silence echoing through corridors, and snow drifting outside the windows. The client — a stately English house drenched in centuries of art, architecture, and family lore — was asking not simply for renovation,…
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Five Films with Incredible Style III
Film has the unique power to shape aesthetics. A well-cut suit, a cinematic apartment, the colour of a lipstick on screen—these details ripple outward into fashion, interiors, even identity. These five films show how style can define an entire cinematic experience. Casablanca (1942) – Michael Curtiz Humphrey Bogart’s trench coat and fedora, Ingrid Bergman’s tailored…
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The Novel Rediscovery of Old Favourites
On returning to E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View and Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes — two novels about the terrible and liberating cost of desire. There is a particular kind of reading that only happens the second time around. The first encounter with a great novel is, of necessity, an act…
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Affordable Style: Inns and Guesthouses of Japan’s Countryside
Beyond Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan’s countryside reveals an older rhythm: wooden farmhouses surrounded by rice paddies, mountain villages with steaming hot springs, and inns where tatami mats and sliding screens define the architecture. Here, hospitality is deeply cultural, rooted in ryokan (traditional inns) and minshuku (family-run guesthouses). Many remain remarkably affordable, offering warm welcomes, regional…
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Ms. Magazine: The Voice That Redefined Feminism
When the first issue of Ms. magazine appeared on newsstands in 1972, its impact was immediate and electric. On the cover was a striking illustration of a many-armed woman — part Hindu goddess, part suburban housewife — juggling a typewriter, an iron, a frying pan, and a baby. Inside were essays, manifestos, and reports that…
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Hemingway’s Cuba: Following the Writer’s Footsteps in Havana and Beyond
Few literary figures are as bound to a place as Ernest Hemingway is to Cuba. The American novelist first visited in 1932 and soon made it his base, writing some of his greatest works under the Caribbean sun. From the fishing village of Cojímar to the streets of Old Havana, Hemingway’s presence still lingers —…
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Jesse Jackson: The Prophet Who Told America to Keep Hope Alive
The Rev Jesse Jackson, who has died aged 84, was never merely a witness to history. He was one of its great interrupters. For more than half a century, Jackson stood at the charged intersection of race, religion and American democracy – sometimes welcomed, often derided, always impossible to ignore. From the balcony of the…
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The Absurd Heroics of ¡Three Amigos!
There are comedies that chase the gag, and there are comedies that build a world so ridiculous that the gags feel inevitable. John Landis’s ¡Three Amigos! (1986), starring Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short, belongs squarely in the second camp. Part parody, part homage, it takes the bones of a Hollywood Western and dresses…
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Where To Eat in Copenhagen
I live here, so I should know… Instead of giving you my own guided tour, I am going to suggest you watch this Vlog, as this guy gives excellent and thorough advice to my native city’s culinary hotspots! Enjoy! 🙂
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Jazz: The Sound That Shaped the Modern Century
Jazz has always been more than music. It is improvisation, rebellion, conversation, and seduction — the soundtrack of the 20th century’s upheavals and freedoms. Born in the crucible of Black experience in America, it spread across continents, infiltrated fashion, cinema, literature, and politics, and became the lingua franca of modernity. To trace the history of…
