la petite bibliotheque ronde

a library for children located in clamart and built in 1965 by the architect members of the atelier de montrouge, and furnished with alva aalto and arne jacobsen's items.

the building is made up of 9 concrete cylinders surrounded by a community garden.

photos via wiki commons & bibliotheque kandinsky

blue

. arne jacobsen, charlottenborg lounge chairs (1936)

. terrazzo

. via north magnetic pole

lately

enjoying :

warm weather
coconut water + lime

afternoons at the beach

dinners by the sea

random encounters with old friends

modernist sandcastles

NY-based calvin seibert's been building sandcastles inspired by brutalism and modernism for 50 years !

who said sandcastles were for kids ?!

interview to read on archdaily - here

happy to be on vacation tomorrow ~

summer

summer

- off my phone

paris, paris

aki & nanashi café

--

one song

one book

//

on july 15th i woke up from an (almost) sleepless night

the eyes focused on what was happening in nice

a lump in my throat

and fear and anxiety.

the only place i wanted to be, where i would feel safe and appeased, 

was la maison la roche,

at the end of this tiny dead end street.

alone in the house, surrounded by soft colors.

lately

early mornings outside

coffee coffee coffee

& Asian meals

read // 

listen //

colors shapes things

gerald summers

rennes

via maud hannart's blog

claire cottrell's home - via 

*** pins

zagreb, again

in the streets of gornji grad, the upper town of zagreb

and ivan mestrovic atelijer (former home and studio)

- the woman by the sea, 1926

my favorite

lately

"can a house be haunted by a disappointment, by expired love, curdled, lending an imperceptible perfume to the halls and rooms. it is the whiff we catch at open houses and estate sales, whose occupants have divorced. according to 1 corinthians, love is patient, love is kind. according to joy division, love will tear us apart. what happens when a couple outgrows a house, when they wake in a beloved room to realize they don't belong there, that they've been living an illustration of a dream?"

the home that love built - before it was gone

three homes, three love stories

a beautiful article by leanne shapton on the new york times

into japanese food

:: some japanese pastries from aki boulangerie

wearing colors - rare thing

a song that makes me happy :)

volte-face

christ statue in rio de janeiro, lenin's tomb in moscow, colosseum in roma

- the opposite view of famous landmarks by oliver curtis

i did the same at north cape :