Let's do it the S.P.A. way
2__KAT FISCHER Co-founder of S.P.A. wines, Basel, Switzerland
Let's do it the S.P.A. way
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area is an ever evolving roadmap. I am here to share and celebrate good places, people, experiences, ideas, products, concepts and arts. Mostly it’s about true food+wine, places+spaces, art+books, fun+joy. Ah, and about birds.
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Moods + quotes that feel like area
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People who say, "The system we have isn't perfect, but it's the best we're going to have," are people who don't have or can't imagine utopias.
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The art market's mild self-reflections, be they regarding its white-male dominance or its role in the late-capitalist state of the world, are performances of self-criticism.
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„Zuzanna Czebatul (born in 1986, Poland) lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the Städelschule Frankfurt in 2013, and later attended the MFA Program at Hunter College, New York as Fulbright Fellow. The artist operates mainly in the field of sculpture, creating pieces that blur the lines between commercial product, architectural relic, and artistic production. Her work investigates complex relationships between the viewer and the viewed. She produces her own materials and creates works that deal with different themes representing strength or weakness, depicted in their opposed …
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„unpredictability is what makes natural materials so special. Working with the unexpected to resolve the challenges that these materials present is often where the most interesting moments of a piece are found.“
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NEIGHBOURHOOD STUDIO (by Lucas Wearne) is a Melbourne-based studio working across a variety of materials, techniques and styles. Best known for his natural limestone sculptures and hybrid objects that balance form, materiality, and process, Lucas’ experimental approach to object construction is process-driven and centres on the use of the hands and body.
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Antwerp based roastery and coffeeshop Andy Roasters All 📸 © @andyroasters WHO’S ANDY? „Rather than a person, Andy is a philosophy: seeing the art in everyday things. Coffee is consumed daily by so many people and is often not valued for the amazing flavour bomb it actually is. With Andy we try to get coffee’s true identity to a wider audience.“
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Mexico City based @casabosquespension above @casabosques bookstore by @savvystudio / @rafaelsavvy 💘 „Casa Bosque Pensión, a three room guest house, is an intimate accommodation for one or two persons, individually furnished with objects and artworks made by Savvy Studio and the artists who have called the guest house a home. Situated above the quiet charm of the Casa Bosques bookstore and the soothing hum of the chocolate atelier, each room embraces unique architectural features of the former single-family home, like a Juliet window overlooking the quiet, tropical street below, vie …
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‘The idea is to do as little as possible for a lot of money so that I can get back to my own stuff’
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Photographer @benoit_paille ❤️🔥 „I’ve been homeless for the last 10 years, moving from friend to friend’s house every three months. During this time, I document my life, their kids, and my friends. My photography is a tribute to love, a question of the aesthetic of documentary, and a humorous play on an anti-capitalist setup. I use the power of representation to showcase my friends from lower social classes, the queer community, and our shared rage.“ From @noicemag
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#Land Acknowledgement As part of the Catskills community and representing Corners, we extend our deep gratitude for this land and reverently honor the generations that have safeguarded it before us. Recognizing the enduring significance of these lands to the Lenape nations, both past and present, we stand on the ancestral territories of the Haudenosaunee and Munsee Lenape, which are intertwined with the histories of several Indigenous communities; lands and waterways connected to the vast traditional areas of the Haudenosaunee, Esopus Lenape, Munsee Lenape/Monsiyok, and Mohican/Muhhek …
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(think with your eyes) Corners, an art & design store in the Catskills upstate New York. Recommended by Malte Müller.
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Starting in 1965, Mieko Shiomi conducted a series of nine events that she called Spatial Poems. Each one began with an invitation to a large number of friends and colleagues to respond to a simple instruction, which often took the form of an intimate action poem that anyone could perform. The responses she received in the mail would then constitute the work. In 1975, Shiomi published a booklet documenting the nine Spatial Poems and including a collection of responses to each of these works. The accumulated responses give a glimpse of the wide network of artists who were connected throu …
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Absolut no intervention wine from Basel downtown by @spaspaspa.ch 😍
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Published over three years ago but forever one of the most important books I‘ve ever read. Why we matter by @emiliazenzile
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We have decided not to die. BIOSCLEAVE HOUSE (LIFESPAN EXTENDING VILLA), REVERSIBLE DESTINY LOFTS—MITAKA (IN MEMORY OF HELEN KELLER), SITE OF REVERSIBLE DESTINY—YORO PARK. The (realised) architecural work of artist duo Arakawa+Gin. All copyrights belong to Reversible Destiny Foundation. https://www.reversibledestiny.org
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A Daisugi is an entire forest growing on a single tree.
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Modern piment @maempi_ 🟧🔪
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Epic summer sound by @kidfrancescoli 💙 fav song „Le retour en bateau“ from Azuro OST 💙
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From @stephen_gill_ THE PILLAR BOOK available from nobodybooks.com
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@zerozero.marseille ➡️ vins vivante et vinyl 🤝 …. and tees.
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@desiredlandscapes a magazine reading into cities, from Athens, Greece. Ready to walk, always
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Handcrafted ceramics and furniture by @dea_domus 〰️🔹🧢
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💦💦 @traga.it glasses 🧴
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Furniture by @frederikfialin 🍦
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Food maps for the people by @itcouldbeworth
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Goood food: @luckyyoustudios supper clubs and creative culinary studio 🫶🪷💜🍳
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Fungi photography by @cho_fungi 🪻
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Amazing artworks of cake by barcelona based cake artist from kyiv @cou.cou______ 🌹
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this fun and vibrant place: @casa.lawa Sicily🦋❤️🔥🌄 ☑️https://www.casalawa.com
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mondays blue hour at @amberbottleshop / Antwerp 🌀
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Goals.
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Simone Weil
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yoga a manual for life - by @naomiyoga has profoundly changed my relationship with yoga with its holistic approach. For life.
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Weekend-music: take some time to listen to @orokoradio - broadcasting from Accra and beyond 🙏 ☑️ https://oroko.live This is what they say about themselves: Oroko is a not-for-profit independent internet radio station based in Accra, Ghana. We aim to connect, inspire and empower through conversation, collaboration and community. We seek to reclaim and recenter narratives from the African and Diasporic artistic communities with a particular focus on local perspectives in Accra, in addition to cultivating and nurturing relationships with like-minded projects across the globe. Oroko Ra …
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simple and bold products of danish brand @service.projects for your everyday use. And I love their recipes and travel guides, too! ☑️ https://shop-serviceprojects.com
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The map lists places close to our hearts
The area map is an every-growing collection of good places run by considerate humans all over the world. Find restaurants recommended by our interview partners, places we felt at home and the best bubbles and coffees across this blue planet.