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As a (lapsed) industrial designer, this object is fascinating to me, in the same way certain EDC objects are. This Geimori GU Series coffee grinder, by a Chinese startup called Wirsh, has been designed with both modernist looks and an obsessive attention to UX. Targeted at true coffee nerds, the […]
The Kew home at 25 Studley Park Road has only been home to a handful of lucky people since it was built in the late 1950s. Known as the Krongold House, the three-bedroom abode was built by the Krongold family (who today run a building company of the same name) and designed by notable architect […]
Durham, North Carolina-based George Smart spent three decades as a management consultant for Fortune 500 companies like Boeing, Microsoft, and Cisco. While he was well-compensated, it was less than fulfilling work for someone who wanted to make a difference. “There were some wonderful smaller clients, but most of the large organizations wanted to say that […]
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the English architect who was born in 1869 and died in 1944, that is. Although a famous name, Lutyens was not an architect I had much familiarity with before I received a review copy of the first volume of The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Flipping through it prompted me to do a […]