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Where the camera stood: another way to travel
Some archives do more than record where a film was shot; they place the original frame beside a photograph of the same spot as it looks today. From Davinotti in Italy to ReelStreets in the United Kingdom, and from L2TC in France to Scouting NY, these tools suggest a different way to plan a trip: a few stops, chosen shot by shot, and observed with the eye of someone who notices the details.
Vienna, Schiele, and Rubens: how I put the pieces of my memory back together
A return to Vienna to say goodbye to Erni Mangold becomes a journey into the objects that describe us. From Egon Schiele's personal display cabinet to the Rubens drawings at the Albertina, Isabella Goldmann explains why a true souvenir is bought only for love, and why those who travel with their senses wide open bring home colored tiles for the mosaic of our memory.
The patron, the mill, and the salt deposit
Beneath Sigüenza lies the salt of a sea two hundred million years old, salt that in the Middle Ages paid for an astonishing cathedral. Today, Sigüenza is a candidate for UNESCO World Heritage status and one of the most active centers for the arts in Spain. Isabella Goldmann tells the story of Blanca Moreno, director of the Relais & Châteaux Molino de Alcuneza, who has replaced the word “sustainable” with “responsible” and who protects the producers and artists of her region. It is a lesson in far-sighted patronage.
The museums opening in autumn and winter 2026. Among them is an empty room.
The Louvre has reopened a gallery without its stolen jewels and, for the first time, invites visitors to see nothing but the room that once held them. From a 1795 bank in Santander to a Citroën garage in Brussels and the Guggenheim's cones in the Abu Dhabi desert, these are the museums of autumn and winter 2026, each seen through what makes it distinctive.
While everyone goes to Venice
September belongs to Venice and its grand stage of fine craftsmanship. But in Florence, on those very days, a garden welcomed one hundred makers you could talk to, one by one. Isabella recounts the fair she prefers, and why the true privilege is noticing the details.
Nonnamaxxing: the objects from grandmother's home worth bringing back
The Financial Times has given a name to the desire running through the most conscious homes: nonnamaxxing. But while social media reduces it to a photographable lifestyle, Raremood draws the distinction that matters; a grandmother is not a style, but a provenance. From the linen tablecloth to the decorated porcelain service, from the cast-iron pot to the cherished animal ceramics: the real objects, each with a biography, to bring back to the center of the home.
The return of the landline: when an analog object reshapes the rhythm of the home
The international design conversation has an unexpected new protagonist: the telephone handset. Dwell has devoted two articles in three days to the return of the landline and the practice of anchoring the smartphone to a precise spot in the home. Raremood raises the phenomenon to a broader conversation about how we live: putting the phone back in a place, instead of carrying it on us, redesigns the gestures of home life, restores hierarchy to our spaces, and turns analog objects into the new protagonists of contemporary privilege.
The object that chooses you: the story of my raku vase and why Raremood exists
I was twelve when I gathered my courage and walked into that shop in Rome. And I saw it. A small raku vase. It had a flat, circular form, a gray-blue crackle glaze that looked like a map of unknown territories, and hand-incised concentric circles that created a kind of geometric hypnosis. I didn’t know what raku was. I knew nothing about Japanese ceramics, low-temperature firing, or unpredictable glazes. I only knew that I had to have it.
The art of solitude: designing personal sanctuaries for inner silence
Returning from vacation, where we (perhaps) experienced a little more inner silence, it helps to know how to recreate it at home in a stable way, whenever we need it. The contemporary home celebrates sharing and forgets retreat. Yet the need for solitude is not a whim; it is a physiological necessity that architecture can and must design for. There is a bio-architectural grammar of the personal sanctuary: the space in which to exist without witnesses, without producing, without performing.
Ten ways to make the air in your home healthy again after the summer break
Three weeks of closed shutters turn a house into a saturated environment: stagnant humidity, accumulated volatile compounds, dry drain traps, and fungal spores in the plant pots. The return from vacation is the most valuable diagnostic moment of the year, because the house is still empty and no daily habit is masking anything. Isabella Goldmann, bio-architect, sets out ten concrete actions to take before you unpack, from cross ventilation to the choice of fabrics, to give a home air that is genuinely healthy.
Ten Italian house museums to visit, and why (none of them were ever meant to be visited)
Ten Italian house museums, from Turin to Palermo, all of them open through the summer months. These are not minor museums; they are the only places where you can see what happens when one person chooses every object in a home alone, over decades, with no consultants and no delivery dates. A considered guide to authored living, and to the criterion each of these houses hands back to those who walk through it.
Bread Is Gold, the novel that lives in my kitchen (every summer, and not only then)
A book that has lived in my kitchen for years and that returns to the table every summer. Massimo Bottura's Bread Is Gold gathers one hundred and fifty recipes signed by some forty-five international chefs, all of them born inside the Refettorio Ambrosiano in Milan during the 2015 Expo. It is a cookbook that reads like a novel, a manifesto against food waste, and an object whose royalties fund the community kitchens of Food for Soul. A book to keep and a book to give.
Traveling with wabi-sabi: why the imperfect object is the most authentic souvenir
The perfect souvenir does not exist, and that is not bad news. The Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi teaches that imperfection is the most reliable certificate of authenticity: the trace left by the hand, the time, and the passion the artisan has poured into the object. From the markets of Fès to the ateliers of Kyoto, here is a compass for those who travel and choose what no machine will ever replicate.
Summer hygge: Danish happiness knows no season
Hygge (pronounced “hoo-ga”) is the secret of Danish happiness: creating welcoming atmospheres, savoring the present moment, and sharing it with the people you love. It is usually told as a winter story, but the Danes cultivate it twelve months a year; in summer, it lives in the bonfires of Sankt Hans, in garden dinners, and in the sommerhus on the coast. Meik Wiking of the Happiness Research Institute defines it as a break for the stressed adult, a space of serenity to be woven regularly into our days. The ingredients are few but carefully calibrated, in every season.
The Mediterranean diet of the home
Look around you this summer as you travel, wherever you go, and seek out the traditional houses of each place. They will tell you that the home, exactly like your body, needs balance. No miracle material can guarantee wellbeing on its own. Designing a home is like preparing a good meal; it calls for variety, attention, and measure. Clay regulates the humidity of the air, untreated wood scents it with natural essences, and natural stone, in the right light, becomes a surface that cools and connects us with nature. A bio home is not made of magic ingredients but of coherent choices. As in the Mediterranean diet, what counts is the overall structure, not the single food. It is an elastic, measured, and adaptive logic, one that calls for a deep form of common sense, closer to rural culture than to the fashions of the moment.
The place where you can stay only after writing them a letter by hand
A unique (and splendid) place to stay has abolished online booking; to be welcomed, guests must write a handwritten letter of motivation. Isabella Goldmann takes this news as a starting point to reflect on a gesture we have stopped making, and proposes a custom for the summer: writing again, by hand, to someone we love or with whom we wish to open a new way of conversing.
Augsburg, the city that understood water five centuries before we did
An idea for a trip this summer: Augsburg, in Bavaria, preserves a water management system that UNESCO has recognized as World Heritage. Medieval canals, monumental fountains, and a separation between drinking water and industrial water introduced in 1545, three centuries before microbiology. A journey that teaches us to see water as a matter of design.
10 ways to make the vacation home you just rented feel welcoming
A rented home is someone else's space. Yet a few light, reversible gestures, from the light to the threshold, from the textiles to the water, are enough to turn it into a refuge in which we recognize ourselves. Here are ten sustainable moves for dwelling deeply, even for a single summer, and for returning the home more alive than it was found.
The ingenious indigenous techniques against a runaway climate
While the West confronts the climate crisis with artificial intelligence and the most advanced technology, some indigenous communities have governed drought, flooding, and extreme heat for millennia, with systems that remain fully operational. Julia Watson’s book Lo-TEK Water gathers this forgotten knowledge and overturns a deep-rooted belief; the boldest innovation does not look forward but listens back.
Have you ever seen the Zisa in Palermo? You’ll understand air conditioning in an instant, and why the Zisa does without it.
There is an ancient way of building that is becoming the future of how we live. I discovered it many years ago, when I began my career as an architect, restoring historic palaces. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, the Roman architect of 50 BC, had already sensed it; buildings fare well when they take into account the regions and latitudes in which they rise. Almost two thousand years later, with bioclimatic architecture, we are bringing that wisdom back to the center of design and turning houses into living organisms that can converse with the climate.
5 UNMISSABLE TITLES TO TRAVEL INSTANTLY THROUGH DOCUMENTARIES
When departure is not possible, you can still live beautiful journeys through images. Travel documentaries are knowledge tools, windows on distant cultures, sustainability lessons. A curated selection from main streaming platforms to educate the gaze and prepare the soul for conscious travel.
GUIDE: Ten hotels around the world where air conditioning isn’t needed
Some sustainability is not declared; it is lived. In ten places around the world, from the Japanese ryokan to the masseria of Puglia, air conditioning is simply unnecessary, whether by climate or by cultural choice. This is a guide for the traveler who seeks true comfort, the kind that comes from materials and design rather than from a motor.
Mental photographs and archetypes: how you train your eye every day
Learning to choose means learning to see. From mental photographs to childhood memories, discover how to train your gaze to build environments that truly resemble you. Living archetypes are born from experiences that formed us. Recognizing them is the first step to create your home.
Pallasmaa: a precious and uncommon read worth packing
There is an author you should pack before your clothes. Juhani Pallasmaa, the Finnish philosopher and architect, restores the sensory nature of dwelling: the play of light on walls, the roughness of surfaces, and the silence of a threshold. A slow read, for those who believe that space shapes identity and that the objects we choose speak to the senses before they reach the mind.
The circadian home: questions and answers for living better
Do you sleep poorly, wake up still tired, and feel your concentration wavering? The problem may be your home. A natural, biocompatible home designs spaces that respect the body’s biological rhythms rather than working against them. It maximizes natural light through well-oriented glazing and integrates variable-spectrum lighting: cool blue light in the morning for energy, and warm tones in the evening for melatonin and sleep. Each room follows its own strategy. The benefits are measurable: it improves sleep, increases productivity, and reduces stress. Here, bio-architecture is a return to an ancient principle, that of living in step with the sun.
Ten European summer destinations where sustainability has already happened
In parts of Europe, the green transition is no longer an intention; it is a condition already met. Ten summer destinations stand out: car-free cities, islands that live on the wind, valleys built in timber, and untouched craters. They were chosen not for what they promise but for what they have already done. These are territories, architecture, and landscapes, all of them meant to be crossed slowly.
We should build our homes the way birds build their nests
Every bird builds a different nest because every bird is different. And we humans are exactly the same. Everyone has completely different habits, needs, cultures and desires. Yet we live in houses all the same, copied from Instagram or magazines. Home is where we mature emotions, where we recharge batteries, where we take refuge. It is the den of your soul. It deserves to be built custom for you, not copied. Stop following fashions. Ask yourself: does this choice respond to a real need of mine or am I just copying? Listen to what really makes you feel good.
Home as a den: why we have lost the sense of refuge
An intimate editorial on the home as a refuge for the body before the soul. The shell, the hollow, the den are spatial archetypes that our primitive brain still recognizes, the inheritance of millions of years of mammalian evolution. And yet thirty years of open-plan aesthetics have produced oversized, undifferentiated homes where the nervous system never relaxes. Returning to the den isn’t about renovating; it’s about recognizing what the body has always asked for.
The home that remembers. Sentimental Value and the weight of objects
Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Grand Prix at Cannes, centers on a Dragestil villa in Frogner as the family’s final character. Layered wallpapers, a Bruno Mathsson Pernilla chair, a red spiral vase that recurs as a focus of memory; the home is not a backdrop, it is a witness. An editorial that begins with the year’s most discussed film, and reflects on the objects we keep close and on the rooms that still console us.
Ten ways to turn your home into a garden that purifies the air
The air we breathe inside the home is, statistically, more loaded with pollutants than the air on the street. A considered guide, in ten steps, to turning the home into a botanical device that works quietly on the quality of the air passing through us every day.
The '70s soul is back: why every cool home in 2026 wants its orange zone
From conversation pits to sunset-colored velvets, the '70s aesthetic is back, lighting up the most refined interiors of 2026. But behind the retro charm of terracotta, rust, and persimmon lies a deeper truth: orange is one of the most powerful colors for home wellbeing. A chromatic revolution that brings together memory, color therapy, and a new conviviality.
Le Marche: the new Tuscany has already arrived (and it goes by its own name)
My mother was born in Pesaro, and her mother came from Urbino, as her family had for a thousand generations. I passed my childhood summers within the stone walls of my grandmother’s palazzo and along the same streets where Raphael once walked, among silent portraits of Renaissance ancestors and books on the Duchy of Montefeltro. On Le Marche, I am not objective, and that is precisely why I am writing about the region now: The Aficionados covered it in May, Italia Squisita in April, and Italy’s most reserved region is quietly entering the international circuits of cultured travel. An editorial on the land that does not shout.
The garden as a room of the home: lessons from seven botanical installations at Salone 2026
At Salone del Mobile 2026, greenery stopped serving as a backdrop and became the protagonist. Seven botanical installations, from Gucci to Molteni, from Kohler to Marcin Rusak, transformed Milanese cloisters and courtyards into open-air rooms. The garden is no longer a frame but a fully-fledged room — a bioclimatic lesson (at last!) that the contemporary home can no longer postpone.
Ten natural wall finishes you may never have considered
The walls of your home are not neutral surfaces; they are living organs that breathe, regulate humidity, and protect against bacteria. Industrial plastic paint seals them shut. Mediterranean building tradition, by contrast, has handed down a repertoire of breathable finishes that contemporary bio-architecture is now rediscovering. From Moroccan tadelakt to flower-pigment stucco, from beeswax on fresh lime to potassium silicate paint: ten techniques, each with a name, an artisan, and a history; each still working today — and better than one might expect.
Turkey as a style setter (and the Turkish article that features us)
For years, we saw Turkey as a storehouse of exotic material. Today, it is the voice posing the questions. The interview that HOME ART, a leading Turkish interior design magazine, devoted to Isabella Goldmann and the Green Circle project in its April 2026 issue confirms it: Istanbul has stopped following and has become a style setter. From the rugs of Dhoku, handwoven on the looms of Anatolia, to the "Earthy Vibrancy" direction that serves as the magazine's manifesto, here is why Turkey is now setting a direction that the rest of the design world must learn to recognise.
Who makes an object matters more than the object itself
The 2026 Monocle Design Awards overturn a century-old dogma. Design no longer lives in the object; it lives in the people who make it, in the places where they make it, and in the community that makes it possible. Six continents, seventeen countries, twenty-five awards, and a single lesson that changes how we choose every object for the home.
The vase I did not buy (and why, sometimes, not buying is the most cultured choice)
In a small shop in the souk of Marrakech, I saw a beautiful vase. I did not buy it, and today I am certain it was one of the most cultured choices of my life. Here I share the three-stage test I use to distinguish the enthusiasm of a moment from a genuine relationship with an object.
Outdoor furnishing: garden beds, deck chairs, vases and candles
At Salone del Mobile 2026, the outdoors was not a section: it was the conversation. Canopied garden beds, reinvented century-old deck chairs, raw vases, handcrafted candles, potted plants as bio-architecture. The new grammar of open-air spaces is written through objects, not through furniture. And the true luxury of 2026 has changed address: it speaks of hands, of soil, of endurance.
Ten immediate solutions for a cooler home without air conditioning
Air conditioning is not the answer; it is a surrender. Ten immediate actions, all achievable by this evening, to bring freshness back into the home without starting any building work. Shading, films, cross-ventilation, green islands, light surface interventions: ancient bioclimatic wisdom placed at the service of those who would rather not switch on the system. From an architect and a journalist, a practical guide for those who want serious solutions, not stopgaps.
The third skin is called home: my thesis at the InsideOut panel
At the ‘New generations of values’ panel during Milan Design Week 2026, organised by C.L.A.S.S. Eco Hub at Palazzo Lombardia, I presented a thesis I have carried with me for years: the body, the garment, and the home are three overlapping skins. Sustainable together, or not sustainable at all.
Dump decor: the home rediscovers layering
At Salone del Mobile 2026, sterile minimalism is dealt its decisive blow. In its place, dump decor emerges: the home returns to being a stratigraphy of treasured objects, journeys and inheritances. Patina becomes value, and the coexistence of styles becomes an exercise in taste. It is not chaos, it is a discipline of lived experience. A considered guide to a countertrend that is not a fashion, but a return to normality.
GUIDE - Slow, sustainable colour palettes
Color is not something one looks at; it is something one inhabits. It carries provenance, a supply chain, and a maturation period. A slow, sustainable palette is not chosen from a screen: it is built starting from the earth, from mineral pigments, from finishes that air and light will keep working on for years. Ten concrete gestures, from the choice of silicate paints to the reading of ceramics as a chromatic element, from lime white to the olfactory essences that complete a room. Because in bioarchitecture, color is, first of all, substance: the difference between a house that ages with grace and a house that simply expires
I don't look for places, I look for people.
Forget the maps. Places are no longer enough. A journey, when it is a serious one, is always a story of encounters. In her new editorial, Isabella Goldmann crosses Spain and Portugal during Holy Week and returns carrying four faces. Toño and José, forty years together, three Michelin stars in Cáceres and two medieval palaces saved one stone at a time. Elsa, guardian angel of a brutalist villa by Aires Mateus in the Alentejo, with recipes no book can save. Blanca Moreno, guardian of the territory at Molino de Alcuneza, who fights Spain's rural depopulation every single day. In between, three silent Holy Week processions, the sacred architecture of Rafael Moneo, the fleur de sel of the Tethys Sea. True luxury, today, is not somewhere far away. It is the care we give to the treasures right around us.
When a yacht becomes home: the objects that cross the water
Salone del Mobile is over. Six days of sofas, lamps, ceramics. But the most interesting discovery was something else: the same objects furnishing Milanese apartments are now making their way onto yachts. The nautical interiors market is worth four billion dollars. And the boat has become a villa on water — one that demands beauty, comfort, and the feeling of home.
Home Design Trends 2026: What to Expect from Salone del Mobile and the New Luxury of Living
A preview of the most significant home design trends for 2026, mapped ahead of Salone del Mobile. From bio-based materials and evolved biophilia to the return of decorative depth and a new culture of durability — a guide to what will define the future of living well.
BLUE ZONES: LONGEVITY SECRETS
In Sardinia's Ogliastra men reach hundred years with frequency perplexing demographers. In Okinawa women are world's longest-lived. In Ikaria one in three inhabitants exceeds ninety. Five places scattered on planet where genetics counts only for twenty-five percent and rest is done by lifestyle. No gyms or supplements needed. Other things needed.
SEAWEED IN KITCHEN: NEW NUTRITIONAL FRONTIER
Atomix NYC chef (#8 World's 50 Best) says they smell like truffle. Gregory Gourdet blends them in vinaigrettes. Evan Hennessey dives with scissors to harvest them. Seaweed is leaving sushi roll and colonizing European and American menus: starred restaurants, trattorias, and home kitchens. Nobody exempt anymore.
TEN INTELLIGENT GESTURES FOR NEW TECH HOME (BEAUTIFUL AND SUSTAINABLE)
Sustainability isn't just eco-rhetoric: it's digital accessibility, concrete energy saving and beauty that lasts. Ten actions to make home smarter without sacrificing aesthetics: from beautiful iPhone charger to naturally warming wool mattresses, up to intelligent circuit breakers talking with phone.
Our IGBI Method for perfect home: dialogue in Salamanca
An unexpected meeting with architects in Salamanca becomes a dense dialogue on perfect homes. Forty years of Goldmann & Partners’ activity condensed in concrete questions: environmental comfort, internal-external climate coherence, breathing materials. And our method, considering people, where they are, light, materials and natural rhythms.
Hotel rooms: use cinema to make them yours
Have you ever entered hotel room and not recognized it? Cinema teaches us every room has soul. Holly Golightly, Richard Gere, Sofia Coppola: all bring something of their own. Detail transforming four anonymous walls into home. You can do it too.
GUIDE - 10 EUROPE RESTAURANTS visited incognito: what we discovered
From Norwegian ex-stable where you enter directly into kitchen to French auberge raising its pigs, from Roman trattoria opened in 1518 to Dolomite restaurant where chef observes roe deer having breakfast. Mystery clients, no announced reservation, zero declared preferences: ten European venues stunning us for something unrepeatable.
How private jets decide what luxury will become
At forty thousand feet, inside Gulfstream and Bombardier cabins, the future of luxury is decided. Aesop took twenty years; Augustinus Bader, seven. The mechanism is identical: reach five hundred UHNW passengers first, then conquer the world. Longevity tech and sleep optimisation are next.
Sailing without noise
From 2026 IMO regulations transform yachts: hybrid propulsion, hydrogen cells, materials like mycelium and cork become normality. Now sustainability at sea is no longer experiment but increasingly close goal. For those wanting to experience it truly next summer, best thing is book now.
GUIDE: 10 Rules to plate Easter like chef (without being chef)
Plating isn't decoration. It's edible architecture: balance, void, height, color. Ten principles to compose dish telling spring, rebirth, freshness.
I'm Leaving Again. Now Going South...
Tomorrow ship from Genoa with Jiji, first time at sea for her. Ten days in Spain between silences and processions, young chefs and plating, brutalist villa in Portugal. Leaving to collect emotions and beauty. To bring them to RAREMOOD and share them with you.
Kiefer and the Forgotten Alchemists
At Palazzo Reale, Anselm Kiefer gives body back to women erased from history: alchemists. Those who, centuries before Lavoisier, transformed matter into knowledge. And he does it with art that is itself alchemy: stratification of materials, fusion of colors, beauty born from chaos.
10 ways to bring Pantone 2026 "Cloud Dancer" home
Cloud Dancer is Pantone 2026: an airy white promising clarity. But bringing it home sustainably doesn't mean repainting everything. Means understanding this color already exists, in natural materials and objects you forgot you have.
Female Photography in Mantua: where the gaze inhabits the threshold.
IV Biennale of Female Photography in Mantua (March 6-29, 2026) chooses "liminality" as theme, meaning "being threshold". It's not by chance. Female gaze has always lived in thresholds: places of passage where style governs but rules change and future is not yet defined.
Ghee: the return of ancient wisdom that's not only indian
In Bormio (Italian Alps) at Ciuk alpine pasture, shepherds already prepared ghee: clarified butter preserving months without fridge. Same millenary wisdom of Indian Ayurveda. Not cultural appropriation but universal intelligence. Today ghee returns in artisan dairies: smoking point 250°C, lactose-free, rich in butyric acid protecting intestine, perfect for ketogenic diets. Star chefs use it, science confirms it.
GUIDE: 10 Destinations for Easter 2026 (Where to Really Go)
Most searched destinations aren't always right ones. For Easter 2026 it would be nice to also seek sustainable balance: perfect climate, but also cultural authenticity and respect for places. We selected ten (beautiful) destinations that unite what not everyone knows yet with what you (if you're here on Raremood) certainly would like to know better.
Why we need beauty
Beauty is not decoration, it's daily nourishment. From North Sea in storm to Vignola Castle frescoes, from Kanaal contemporary art to ikebana celebrating flowers' old age. A personal editorial on how beauty reminds us who we are, challenges us to look better, teaches us art of wonder. Because in era where everything seems possible, biggest risk is anesthesia of thought - which etymologically means precisely "without beauty".
The hands that create: march on RAREMOOD is woman
RAREMOOD was born from women, to tell also other women's work. In this March dedicated to all of us, a journey among artisans and artists who are redefining what it means to create with your own hands. From Sara Federici's ceramics to Stefania dei Rossi's jewelry for home, from Marta Moretto's cosmic essences to Maria Livia Pellicano's design bags: thirteen stories of those who chose to do, and do well.
Quality sustainable travel: complete 2026 guide
A scientific guide to build quality sustainable travels: from destination choice to structure selection, from authentic experiences to conscious return. Every question answers a real search to help you plan travels that leave true memories, and not only ecological footprints.
Del Bello: seems written today and is essential
In 1867 Niccolò Tommaseo, Italian linguist, wrote an astonishing book. Reading it today you immediately understand its power: he was already negatively reviewing 90% of what you find on social media. His "Del Bello" distinguishes with surgical precision between authentic beauty and empty decorative. Proportion vs accumulation, substance vs performance, grace vs rigidity. A manifesto against contemporary overload written 160 years ago. And it works better than any minimalism guru.
LIST: 10 things to look for on labels to eat safely
Reading food labels seems complicated, but 10 quick checks are enough to know what you're really buying. A practical guide to transform food shopping into conscious choices, without having to become nutrition experts.
That lightning strike that tells you: I'm bringing that thing home
There are objects you buy and after six months you don't even remember having. And then there are those that look at you every day and make you smile. The difference? It's not in price or design. It's in something much simpler and much harder to explain: they feel good with you. A reflection on how to populate the house with things that have a soul, without need for rules or style manuals.
Did you know your house can make you feel much better? PRACTICAL GUIDE to what you can do right now to make it truly healthy
Your house can heal you or consume you. This guide answers the most common questions about how domestic spaces concretely influence physical and mental health, with practical and immediately applicable solutions based on bioarchitecture method.
GUIDE: 10+ objects to throw away today to breathe better
It's not aesthetic minimalism. It's respiratory minimalism. There are objects at home releasing substances into air every day. You keep them because "they've always been there" or because "they cost too much". But you pay price with allergies, headaches, disturbed sleep. What to eliminate now.
Ukraine's most beautiful house is bio with a thatched roof
In Ukrainian countryside, YOD Group studio created one of the most photographed contemporary architectures of the moment. Hata-Mazanka reinterprets rural tradition with a 10-meter high thatched roof and completely transparent walls. It's not nostalgia: it's radical bioarchitecture teaching us principles applicable even in our own home.
Two Women Geniuses of AI reinvent visual poetry and give us so many ideas
There are two Instagram profiles that are redefining in my opinion what "AI art" means: @kelly_boesch_ai_art and @gudinne. The first creates videos of great cinematic sophistication, the second images of imaginary scenographies unreachable in elegance. Both are women, both are absolute geniuses of AI art. It's not technology imitating art. It's a new form of expression that can teach us a lot about volumes, atmospheres, chromatic palettes. And how to apply this vision also to spaces we live in and how we dress.
GUIDE TO THE PERFECT COMPLIMENT for World Compliment Day
March 1st is World Compliment Day. But if we keep saying "you're beautiful" or "good job" without really looking at who's in front of us, we're wasting one of the most powerful tools we have for building authentic relationships. A serious guide – from literature to practice – on how to give compliments that matter.
The domes I brought with me (and why objects are never just objects)
There's a moment in life when you understand that things surrounding you are not furnishings. They are roots, memory, belonging. Today I want to tell you about thirteen plates that hold much more than thirteen Italian domes. And why I stopped being ashamed to admit that some objects keep me standing.
Plagiarius: the award for knockoffs most fun at the design fair
In Frankfurt, during AMBIENTE fair, since 1977 they award the Plagiarius: a prize to whoever copies others' products most brazenly. Next to originals they display identical copies. The result? You discover that half of what you buy might not be what you think. And that every time you choose the original, you're literally keeping alive companies that truly design.
When a broken object is worth more than a new one: the japanese lesson of Kintsugi
Kintsugi is the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with lacquer mixed with gold, silver or platinum powder. Born in 15th century, this technique transforms fractures into precious decorations, making the repaired object more beautiful and precious than the original. A philosophy of sustainability, beauty and acceptance that today can teach us everything about living spaces and objects with authenticity.
Kanaal: the place in belgium nobody knows that will change how you see spaces
In Wijnegem, near Antwerp, Axel Vervoordt transformed a 1857 industrial distillery into an ecosystem where contemporary art and daily life coexist. With permanent installations by Anish Kapoor, James Turrell and Marina Abramović, Kanaal is Europe's unmissable cultural destination. And it teaches you everything about inhabiting spaces with authenticity.
Botanic sanctuary Antwerp: where style meets perfect hospitality
The most beautiful hotel in Antwerp: Maryse Odeurs owner and Rebecca Verstraete, student of Axel Vervoordt, create impeccable design and hospitality. An urban village where to regenerate.
5 unmissable titles to travel instantly through documentaries
When departure is not possible, you can still live beautiful journeys through images. Travel documentaries are knowledge tools, windows on distant cultures, sustainability lessons. A curated selection from main streaming platforms to educate the gaze and prepare the soul for conscious travel.
The Year of the Fire Horse: when East and West celebrate the same symbol
February 17, 2026 inaugurates the Year of the Fire Horse in Chinese lunar calendar. But what makes this animal so universal? From ancient China to Mediterranean cultures, the horse represents freedom, nobility and progress. An opportunity to rediscover shared meanings between different cultures and bring into our lives the values of courage, movement and renewal that this ancestral symbol has embodied for millennia.
Returning to the North Sea: where I find my compass again
Every time I return to the North Sea, I find the essential lesson again: formal balance, "void" as value, soft colors. It's where I was born, and where sometimes I must return to nourish myself. This year it was for Valentine's Day: there could be no more beautiful gift.
The first computer in history calculated the olympics: a timeless design lesson
Two days before Milano Cortina 2026, at Milan Planetarium Professor Moussas told about the Antikythera Mechanism: the computer from 2000 years ago that calculated in advance the exact date of the Olympics. A beautifully designed object even today.
Circular design: gifts that don't become waste
Gifts that last and tell stories. Circular design: artisan ceramics, refill candles, natural textiles. Each gift gently educates those who receive it.
Hosting at home like starred restaurants: the new art of domestic plating
Haute cuisine enters home: small ceramics for amuse-bouche, different plates for each course, mixture of styles and services. Instagram and social media have democratized starred plating, but how to navigate without falling into excess? From choice of tableware to plate composition, from calibrated portions to wise mix of textures and colors. The new informal etiquette that privileges sensory experience over formal rigidity.
When cinema becomes style manual: set designs that inspire our taste
From brutalism of The Brutalist to Nordic minimalism of Ex Machina, 2025 films become style manuals for contemporary home. Parasite uses windows as social language, A Single Man teaches wise overlap of materials, Saltburn explores narrative maximalism, Challengers proposes American preppy aesthetic. Each film demonstrates that interiors don't decorate but tell: exposed concrete speaking of honesty, wood and travertine dialoguing, spaces building meanings instead of filling voids.
How to sleep better at home: complete 2026 guide
Complete guide to improve sleep at home: from ideal temperature (16-18°C) to bed orientation, from natural materials like hemp and linen to air quality. Discover how to create the perfect bedroom through concrete questions that intercept your searches. Temperature, humidity, fabrics, lighting, noise: every element counts for regenerating rest.
Black thumb: when you love green but green doesn't love you back
Love plants but kill them all? Semi-serious guide for black thumbs: from indestructible plants to self-watering pots that do the work for you. Sansevieria, Pothos and hydroponics for those who forget they have green at home. Technology meets botany: intelligent pots, systems that release water gradually, survival kits. It's not about green thumb, but right tools. You too can have an urban jungle.
One of our projects: made like raising a child
Two and a half years to create a bio-climatic loft where every detail was chosen with the same dedication with which you raise a child. Four different whites calibrated on light, prototype parquet unique in the world, internal garden inspired by Carlo Scarpa. A secret house that demonstrates how biological architecture can be elegant, technological and profoundly human. The story of a total project.
We are exactly like birds, have you ever thought about it?
Every bird builds a different nest because every bird is different. And we humans are exactly the same. Everyone has completely different habits, needs, cultures and desires. Yet we live in houses all the same, copied from Instagram or magazines. Home is where we mature emotions, where we recharge batteries, where we take refuge. It is the den of your soul. It deserves to be built custom for you, not copied. Stop following fashions. Ask yourself: does this choice respond to a real need of mine or am I just copying? Listen to what really makes you feel good.
Mental photographs and archetypes: how you train your eye every day
Learning to choose means learning to see. From mental photographs to childhood memories, discover how to train your gaze to build environments that truly resemble you. Living archetypes are born from experiences that formed us. Recognizing them is the first step to create your home.
The most beautiful museum in the world
When color dances on water and architecture listens to the sea: the Simose Art Museum by Shigeru Ban demonstrates that eternal beauty is born from dialogue between essential sign and territory
The circadian home: questions and answers to live better
Sleep poorly, wake up tired, concentration falters? The problem could be your home. A natural biocompatible home designs spaces that respect biological rhythms instead of contrasting them. Maximizes natural light with oriented glazing and integrates variable spectrum lighting: cold blue light in morning for energy, warm evening tones for melatonin and sleep. Each room has specific strategy. Benefits are measurable: improves sleep, increases productivity, reduces stress. Bioarchitecture as return to principle of living following the sun.
Home objects 2026: what are the trends and what to buy
What is fashionable for home in 2026? What objects to buy for original gifts? From golden finishes replacing steel to natural scented candles, from room diffusers with crystals to artisan ceramics for daily use. Complete guide trends home objects emerged from The Green Circle for those seeking exclusivity, sustainability and intimate atmospheres. How to furnish with taste without following Instagram fashions.
Watching films with an architect's eye: when cinema teaches design
Cinema is a great source of inspiration for those who design the environments in which we live. It is not only about spectacular sets, but real lessons on how space dialogues with those who inhabit it. Dune by Denis Villeneuve builds a visual universe where architecture, matter and light tell the story. Set designer Patrice Vermette was inspired by modern Arab architecture by Ammar Khammash and Sahel Alhiyari. The Brion Tomb by Carlo Scarpa becomes key location. Cinema is full of masterpieces where architecture and design are protagonists.
The Mediterranean diet of the home: everything is in the mix
Home like body needs balance. There is no miraculous material that guarantees well-being alone. Designing is like preparing good meal: variety attention measure needed. Clay regulates humidity untreated wood perfumes air natural stone with light becomes surface that refreshes connects. Bio home is not made of magic ingredients but coherent choices. Like Mediterranean diet overall structure counts not single food. Real sustainability is elastic measured adaptive requires deep common sense closer to peasant culture than moment's fashion.
Farewell total-beige: the new chromatic trends in interior design
The great exodus from beige is officially underway. After a decade of cold neutrals dominating interiors, 2026 embraces color. Sun-baked terracotta, deep forest green, rich chocolate replace cold grays. Pantone 2026 Color: Cloud Dancer, warm versatile white base. Pinterest reports +260% vintage maximalism, +550% thrift finds among Gen Z. Gray sofas yield to rich leathers and deep velvets. Polished nickel returns. Not playing safe anymore but answering deep need for domestic authenticity. Color becomes response, not risk. Homes rediscover soul, character, story.
Design as self-care: when home becomes well-being
Home is the first physical and emotional refuge where we seek balance. Design is not only aesthetics but daily care. Cocooning transforms dwelling into welcoming cocoon, trend born in the Eighties more current than ever today. Biophilic design brings nature into interior spaces: studies demonstrate that five plants increase air quality by 75% and mental health by 60%. Organizing spaces with harmony reduces visual disorder that becomes mental disorder. Taking care of oneself through design means recognizing importance of daily environment.
Traveling through Europe: in search of hidden excellences the World must know
Today I depart for a long journey through Europe in search of new excellences and wonderful unknown artisans, both for home and in the world of sustainable food. From Flanders to Zurich to revisit the Mongolia exhibition, then Antwerp, Amsterdam and my native dunes, up to Frankfurt and Florence. After the success of The Green Circle where we brought Raremood's world from digital to real, I want to continue my mission: give visibility to very talented artisans who deserve recognition and help them also become capable entrepreneurs. Our commitment for an ambitious just project.
Bioarchitecture Aboard Superyachts
Bioarchitecture is not only for land. On superyachts, where indoor pollution can be 5 times higher, designing for wellbeing becomes urgent. Natural materials, circadian light, ventilation. New luxury is respect.
Three pioneers, one certainty: sustainability is recognized by slowness and emotion
Today at The Green Circle I experienced an important meeting: three veteran women of sustainability in dialogue. Simona Roveda organic pioneer with Fattoria Scaldasole and LifeGate, Giusy Bettoni founder of C.L.A.S.S. for sustainable fashion, and I with Raremood for ethical home. We shared the battles of the '80s against indifference. But above all we found two compasses for the future: revalue slowness as guarantee of quality and seek emotional connection with things.
Sustainable retail for the home: Isabella Goldmann's lectio at The Green Circle
During The Green Circle, Isabella Goldmann held a lectio on sustainable retail applied to home objects. As coordinator of the Master in Sustainable Retail at the Italian National Fashion Chamber, she shared the experience of designing the official CNMI guidelines for retail sustainability. She explained that a bioclimatic store increases well-being and revenue by up to 1.3%, that sustainability is not accessory but must be integrated from the first sketch, and that every space is opportunity to express values through air, light, sound, temperature.