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Your Staircase Is Sabotaging Your Success 🪜 aesthetics & elegance Sep 03, 2025

 

Last time I indulged in some exploration on the topic of air travel and airport design.

Those weren’t the only architectural thoughts I had on that day of my arrival in Paris.

During the flight and on my way to my apartment I was reading a book called How to be French by Janine Marsh – I know, ...

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The Secret Way Buildings Control Your Emotions 🎢 aesthetics & elegance Aug 31, 2025

 

The morning of my departure for Paris I realized once again the important effect architecture has on our lives.

I arrived at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport at the crack of dawn and was welcomed by the light and airy design of the recently renovated terminal building.

I've always loved airports, bu...

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How to Feel Light and Airy 🪭 aesthetics & elegance Aug 27, 2025

 

Here are the most light and airy songs I've discovered so far in my life:

  • Drip-dry waltz composed and conducted by Henry Mancini for the 1963 film Charade with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant
  • One Day I'll Fly Away – Randy Crawford
  • La Gioconda, Op.9, Act III, Scene 6: Danza delle ore (Amilcare
  • ...
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The Only Reasons to Watch Sports 🎾 aesthetics & elegance Aug 20, 2025

 

We talked about the sleekness of Formula 1 the other day.

You know which other sport is very cool?

Tennis.

This year's British Open at Wimbledon happened a few weeks ago and I must confess I didn't follow the matches much this time.

Last summer when I was living in Paris, I saw a couple of ma...

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A Masterclass on Sleek Aesthetics 🏎️ aesthetics & elegance Aug 10, 2025

In the last email I told you about channeling Brad Pitt's swagger on my walk home from the F1 film.

If I may, I'd like to hype the film just a bit more. 🙊

It was EPIC, and I cannot stress this enough. It's just as epic as the whole sport.

Besides being an EPIC sport, maybe the best word to descri...

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The Motivating Force of Inspiration aesthetics & elegance Feb 27, 2025

"Nothing comes from nothing – nothing ever could.

But somewhere in my youth or childhood I must have done something good."

Yes, all my fellow The Sound of Music fans know where these words come from, but let's clarify for the rest of you that these lines are from a beautiful song called Someth...

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A Conundrum of Operatic Taste👂🏻 aesthetics & elegance maria callas Nov 17, 2024

Salut !

I must admit I’m facing a conundrum of sorts at the moment with my ears. We often talk about taste when it comes to music, even though we don't refer to our physical tastebuds, but to the sort of music that each of us feels is 'music to our ears' (pun intended😜). As you well know, I have ac...

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