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Washington Post - Bungalow Hotel Feature
Something looked strikingly familiar about the photos on Page 242 of “Home by Novogratz,” the fashionable coffee-table tome about the HGTV design couple. Studying the images, I felt as if I’d seen that rug before: black-and-white with interlocking gender symbols. And that bed: custom-made platform with built-in side tables and a single-stripe blanket draped over your 10 little piggies. And that wall art: a handcrafted flag of Jamaica, a puckish twist on patriotism.
Wait a minute: That’s my room. The space that I was reading about was the same one that I was currently inhabiting. Reality TV, are you filming this meta-moment?
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Read the full article here - Washington Post: Bed Check
CASA - A Wooden House in Brazil
When American design couple Robert and Cortney Novogratz fell in love with Brazil, they decided to buy a property in Transcoso. The beautiful wooden house is very different from their concrete home in Manhattan. Here their seven (!) children can walk barefoot, swim in warm water and run free. Although they work hard, having fun is essential for this inspiring family.
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The Magazine as 'Portable Museum'
The recent sale of Newsweek offers just the latest sign that it's tough times in the magazine industry. But that doesn't mean new periodicals aren't popping up. Among the more intriguing is Vintage, an eclectic, highly tactile arts and culture biannual founded by Ivy Baer Sherman, whose very name sounds like it came off a masthead from the golden age of magazine publishing. “What better time to launch a publication than when all eyes are focused on the destiny of print?" she asks. "You’ve got everyone’s attention.”
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Read full article here: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the-magazine-as-portablemuseum/278483/