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Intel:
Doctors are writing prescriptions for nature.
Strategy beats willpower when it comes to phone use.
Beautiful architecture for modern, slow living from Retreat House.
Important to sweat every day, however you can.
Building cabins in the countryside helped me feel at home.
If you can make it in Mallorca, why go anywhere else?
Inspiration:
What: House Oskar
Where: Kamenná Lhota · South Bohemia
About: A 2025 holiday home in the South Bohemian highlands an hour southeast of Prague, designed by Prague architect Jan Žaloudek on land that once belonged to the neighbouring Baroque castle, combining rural vernacular typology with a sacred concept of space, with a tall vaulted interior, an apse in the kitchen, a rose window in the gable, and floor-to-ceiling folding shutters with ornamental cutouts.
What: Bergraum
Where: Mittelberg · Kleinwalsertal
About: A 2015 holiday home in the Austrian Kleinwalsertal valley of Vorarlberg, designed by Stadtmüller Burkhard Graf Architekten as a modern interpretation of the traditional Alpine barn, reduced to wood, concrete, and glass, with a double-height living area, a gallery sleeping platform under the eaves, and an 8-metre western window with a seating bench framing views across the surrounding peaks.
What: Pantelleria Nikà
Where: Nikà · Pantelleria
About: A pair of dammusi above Nikà bay on the volcanic island of Pantelleria, restored in 2000 by architect-collectors Massimo Ghisi and Vanna Bernardelli of Studio DISEGNO, comprising an 18th-century main building and an early 20th-century secondary building connected by stone paths, with a separately rentable third dammuso suite, all reduced to volcanic stone, polished concrete, African acajou wood, and a sequence of seaward terraces with palm-leaf pergolas.
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