Amazingly beautiful Gothic Office ...

 I adore  Helgerson work ,she and her team at JHID in Portland create spaces that somehow manage to be both welcoming glamorous .Her life in Europe and her travels in India ,Mexico Morocco, and the far East have strongly influenced her.

     If only all offices could be this cool ....it's a luxurious private office located in  an 1870s historic revival building downtown Portland. 

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All photos by  Lincoln Barbour

'Monteverdy' ...under The Tuscan Sun

Spring and Friday ....it becomes even harder to keep undercontrol my daydreaming mood.

Now my mind is somewhere under the Tuscan Sun ...

 Monteverdi ...A retreat in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Val d’Orcia, Tuscany .Exquisitely restored rental villas and a boutique hotel in the village of Castiglioncello del Trinoro, Tuscany. Located equidistant between Rome and Florence, Monteverdi is a haven for the mind and the senses. It is a landscape both warm and mysterious, calm and wonderful. Its green mountains, a deep valley and an enveloping sense of peace that are older than history.This living stone village of images and shadows, built in the 12th Century, offers a sense of privacy or community, depending on your desires. Rustic effects and sophisticated comforts. Art and Architecture. Food and Wine. Music and other muses.  A haven of intense beauty, quiet and serene, where both body and mind are nurtured and stimulated.  A “lay monastery” as Bernard Berenson might say.  In one word, Monteverdi. 

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"Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one."

-Under the Tuscan sun '