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I love hotels, and gatekeeping… but this is one of my favorites in the world. It’s not about a fancy spa, or a posh gym or endless views. It’s just a classic city hotel, in one of the top 3 best cities in the world. Half is historic, half is refinished. I can’t wait to design a hotel.
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Specifically this one in Sheffield that is so stuck in time. it’s like objectively probably not a very good hotel for its price but I just love how liminal it is. I love how hotels feel removed from reality, from time, from responsibility. Everything is deliciously suspended.
Mar 6, 2025
we are all anti air b&b but I’m boldly, violently also pro hotel. the housekeeping, restaurants, lobby bars, spas etc… they could never make me hate you.
Mar 22, 2024
The Proper is beautiful, has a sweet view on the roof + a good lobby for working w/ free counter culture coffee in the morning. but..the street it’s on has a pretty extensive encampment going on so you wanna uber in at night. Nikko is fancy and has an indoor pool but felt almost too fancy, like I couldn’t talk in the elevator.
Aug 28, 2024
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Car brands forgot how to make a beautiful car. What gives? The new tech is great functionally, but the forms suck, they are all too damn slick or showy or bubbly. I really can't find a modern car or truck that looks good. I don’t understand it. There are endless beautiful old cars. I especially love the boxy old jeep XJs (pre 2001), and old range rover classics (pre 1996). The best new car I’ve seen is the one new model of the Toyota Land Cruiser, you of course can’t get in the US. On a recent trip to Tokyo, I fell in love with the old sedan taxis, mainly the Toyota Century (pre 2017), incredible. I’d love to design a car one day.
Mar 7, 2025
Turns out nature is cool. Especially with a big dog who loves to swim and smell dirt. Every summer I find great little hidden swimming holes and hikes and stuff not on google. It’s really well designed too. Go find a hole and take a hike.
Mar 7, 2025
There’s something mystical about the game. It’s a deep puzzle with ancient roots, and an international language of sorts. It’s simple and complex. I’’ve been destroyed by 7 year olds, people who likely can’t spell the word “February”. In New York we're spoiled with great chess: Chess Forum on Thompson St - a sacred shop to buy boards, great players in Washington Square Park you can play anytime for 5 bucks, (ask for my favorite guy, David). But perhaps my favorite place to play in NYC is the Marshall Chess Club, founded 1915, occupying an entire townhouse on West 10th and 5th Ave, where Duchamp would play. Then there’s the mind boggling Shannon Number, 10^120, the number of unique chess games. This number is so large, it exceeds the number of atoms in the universe, 10^80. There are more possible chess games than atoms in the universe. Unreal.
Mar 7, 2025