Category Archives: Art

Hugo Toro: Redefining the Language of Hotel Interiors

At just 35, Franco-Mexican designer Hugo Toro has emerged as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary hospitality and interior design. His projects—ranging from Provençal hotels to Roman palazzos—carry a singular blend of narrative, texture, and cultural depth. For Toro, interiors are not backdrops; they are stories waiting to be told. A Designer BetweenContinue reading “Hugo Toro: Redefining the Language of Hotel Interiors”

Villa Borghese: Rome’s Most Cultivated Escape

There are few places in Rome where history, art, and nature fuse with such elegance as the Villa Borghese and its surrounding park. More than a green lung in the heart of the city, this is a cultivated landscape — a place where cardinals once entertained, where artists found inspiration, and where today, Romans andContinue reading “Villa Borghese: Rome’s Most Cultivated Escape”

Bridget Riley: The Discipline of Vision

As an art student in the UK in the 1990s, Bridget Riley stood as the grande dame of abstraction to me. She has now spent six decades bending perception into form — distilling line, color, and rhythm until they transcend into something more elemental: pure visual sensation. Born in 1931 in Norwood, London, Riley emergedContinue reading “Bridget Riley: The Discipline of Vision”

Monthly Pick: Pulp & Suede — Britpop Elders, Future Tense

Two 1990s powerhouses return with records that feel resolutely now. I am currently listening to both on repeat. Maybe because I came of age in the 1990s, but more so because they are that good. Pulp’s More is the first studio album in 24 years — Jarvis Cocker’s wry surveillance of middle age set toContinue reading “Monthly Pick: Pulp & Suede — Britpop Elders, Future Tense”

Gordon Parks: A Life in Light and Shadow

When you look through Gordon Parks’ photographs, you see more than what’s in the frame. You see longing—for justice, for dignity—behind a lens that knows both tenderness and confrontation. Parks (1912–2006) was many things: photographer, filmmaker, writer, musician. But at the core of all these roles was a mission: to see, to show, to challenge.Continue reading “Gordon Parks: A Life in Light and Shadow”

La Casa Azul: The Frida Kahlo Museum

This is one of those museums that feel intimate, and lived-in, of course because Frida Kahlo did live here before it became the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City. Known affectionately as La Casa Azul for its cobalt-blue walls, the house where Frida was born, lived, and died is more than a shrine to anContinue reading “La Casa Azul: The Frida Kahlo Museum”

David Lynch’s Hollywood Hills Compound: Architecture, Interiors, Creative Life, and Night Blooming Jasmine

David Lynch’s longtime Hollywood Hills estate—newly listed for sale—reads like a maker’s campus more than a single home. Across five contiguous parcels, it fuses a pink-hued mid-century residence by Lloyd Wright with a concrete-forward studio house that doubled as a film set, plus a third residence adapted for post-production, screening, and editing. The result isContinue reading “David Lynch’s Hollywood Hills Compound: Architecture, Interiors, Creative Life, and Night Blooming Jasmine”

David Hockney: The Artist Who Made Modern Life Look Effortless

Few living artists have captured the spirit of modern life as vividly as David Hockney. Yorkshire-born, Los Angeles-made, Hockney transformed swimming pools, sunlit interiors, and intimate portraits into icons of art history. His works, defined by crystalline blues, acid yellows, and unflinching intimacy, stand at the intersection of fine art, architecture, and lifestyle — makingContinue reading “David Hockney: The Artist Who Made Modern Life Look Effortless”