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Intel:
Extreme AI is creating extreme analog.
Little red cottage in the Swedish countryside.
Why the wellness industry loves rest, fears idleness.
Calm tech: technology that works with human attention, instead of against it.
The only way to book this house is via handwritten letter.
Inspiration:
What: Radar
Where: Dungeness · Kent
About: A home for two on the wild headland of the Kent coast, built by the architects Johnson Naylor and MS-DA on the site of a pair of 1960s sheds once used to test radar equipment. Wrapped in corrugated zinc, it keeps a low, working profile outside and opens to a calm, pale-oak interior within, with a wall of glass framing the sea and sky, a wood burner, a sauna, a sunken bath with a sea view, and two terraces facing the sunrise and the sunset. It sleeps two, and welcomes dogs.
What: Casa Keçe
Where: Haravilliers · Vexin
About: A nineteenth-century barn, an abandoned farmhouse and its old outbuildings, joined together and remade into a modern family home in the forests of the Vexin park, about an hour from Paris, by the design studio The Refreshment Club, who own it. It sleeps fifteen across seven bedrooms and two separate guest suites, with a greenhouse, a wood-fired Nordic bath under the pines, a pizza oven and a pétanque court in the garden.
What: Haus Kienzerleweg
Where: Bad Kohlgrub · Bavaria
About: A minimalist holiday house built entirely of solid timber at the foot of the Hörnle, in the Ammergau Alps of Upper Bavaria, designed by the local architect Clemens Böhmer. The 178-square-metre house has four double bedrooms that are split between the upper floor and the lower level, with a small reading room and its own view tucked upstairs, sleeping eight. You can reach it by train and a fifteen-minute walk.
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