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Refrigerator Magnets • Personal mementos or just a mess? Our readers decide whether these polarizing trinkets should be seen as charming curios or utter clutter.
What Collectibles Crazes Can Tell Us About an Entire Era
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Biohacking Has Come for Our Homes • AI-powered toilets. Diagnostic mirrors. In the age of “looks maxxing” and even “poop maxxing,” the craze for self-optimization is closing in on where we live.
Paints by Number • Using two different European color systems to satisfy her exacting standards, Karina Soors filled her home in Ghent, Belgium, with blues, pinks, and loads of red.
Worth the Paint • After being displaced by a fire, Michelle Erfer and Theresa Mershon filled their new pad with beloved shades from the last place plus some bold new hues.
You Can Never Go Home Again. But You Can Spend a Lifetime Trying • While preparing for a move, one writer reflects on where her late father’s design philosophy ends and hers begins.
Cabin Fever • PHOTOGRAPHER CRISTÓBAL PALMA HAS CAPTURED DECADES OF ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIMENTATION IN CHILE’S RUGGED COUNTRYSIDE. HERE, HE RECALLS SOME OF THE STANDOUTS—INCLUDING ONE BY THIS YEAR’S PRITZKER PRIZE WINNER.
UNDERGROUND PARTY • WHERE’S A GLOBE-TROTTING CREATIVE TO GO FOR A GOOD MOVEMENT WORKSHOP THESE DAYS? TUCKED INTO A HILLSIDE OUTSIDE LISBON, A LITTLE PLACE CALLED FOOLS’ VALLEY OFFERS ECLECTIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE OFFICELESS JET SET.
Going Rogue • DIONISIS SOTOVIKIS IS PRESERVING GREEK ARCHITECTURE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
The House Always Wins • A professional gambler hedges his bets as he builds a home on Australia’s Gold Coast.
Escape Pod • An adventurous couple set out for surf breaks, climbing crags, and hot springs in their homemade camper named Daisy.
sourcing • The products, furniture, architects, designers, and builders featured in this issue.
one last thing • After newly married San Francisco haberdashers Ben Ospital and Nathaniel Anderson gifted themselves one of artist Constance Hockaday’s disaster-scenario side tables, deciding what items to take in case of a crisis helped bring them even closer together.