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Chloe Fall 2017
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A Sense of Space Relaxation at it’s finest
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jennie Cho EXECUTIVE EDITOR Matthew Segal
Alignd Magazine was founded in 2016 by Jennie Cho with the purpose and goal to spread inspiration and experiences.
DESIGN DIRECTOR Steven E. Banks
MANAGING EDITOR Ann Herold PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Julia St. Pierre EDITOR-AT-LARGE Amy Wallace
Inspiration is everywhere and sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones to inhale fresh inspiration from learning about different cultures and norms as we intertwine to find a common ground.
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Editor
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Align is a word that intrigues me because I believe everything in design aligns. Everything in the world aligns and intertwines somehow. Design is literally everywhere you look and part of everyday life.
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“Champions are made from something they have deep
inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will.
But the will must be stronger than the skill � -Muhammad Ali
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PINK CLAY Illuminating floral mask
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Extraordinary desserts
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travel
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° Waterbom waterpark ° Tegallalang rice terraces ° Bali elephant camp ° Lombok island ° Monkey forest ° Sunrise hike at Mt. Batar
Bali
Bali is an island and province of Indonesia. The province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan. It is located at the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. Its capital, Denpasar, is located in the southern part of the island.
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° Munduk Moding Planation ° Ubud hanging gardens ° Private villas ° Hotel Tugu Bali ° Ametis Villa Canggu ° Four Seasons (Jimbaran Bay) ° Bambu Indah hotel
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windows into the surreal Fidm’s 5th floor windows celebrate the surreal work of Elsa Schiaparelli BY Hamish Bowles
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adder and more original than most of her contemporaries, Mme Schiaparelli is the one to whom the word ‘genius’ is applied most often,” Time magazine wrote of its cover subject in 1934.[1] Coco Chanel once dismissed her rival as “that Italian artist who makes clothes.” (To Schiaparelli, Chanel was simply “that milliner.”) Indeed, Schiaparelli—“Schiap” to friends—stood out among her peers as a true nonconformist, using clothing as a medium to express her unique ideas. In the thirties, her peak creative period, her salon overflowed with the wild, the whimsical, and even the ridiculous. Many of her madcap designs could be pulled off only by a woman of great substance and style: Gold ruffles sprouted from the fingers of chameleon-green suede
gloves; a pale-blue satin evening gown—modeled by Madame Crespi in Vogue—had a stiff overskirt of Rhodophane (a transparent, glasslike modern material); a smart black suit jacket had red lips for pockets. Handbags, in the form of music boxes, tinkled tunes like “Rose Marie, I Love You”; others fastened with padlocks. Monkey fur and zippers (newfangled in the thirties) were everywhere. love of trompe l’oeil can be traced to the faux-bow sweater that kick-started Schiaparelli’s career and brought her quirky style to the masses. “Dare to be different, is the advice she offered to women. Pace-setters and rule-breakers waved that flag through the sixties, the seventies, and beyond.
Photocredit Portrait: Irving Penn / Windows: photographed by Carlos Diaz
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Sunnies! You can never go wrong with these Dior aviators
Because who doesn’t need a cute & convenient way to drink wine (or straight vodka)
Time is money, especially when it’s this gorgeous Movado piece
Capture as many pictures as possible with the Canon DSLR for memories!
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Kicks like Adidas ultra boosts for all those hikes and tourist attraction visits
Cute notebooks from Anthropologie to jot down thoughts, useful information, etc. (That healthy self-reflection!)
Very necessary chic Chloe purse to keep it light for certain travel plans
Keep the sun away with this dad hat from Dimepiece
Louis Vuitton duffel bag to travel in style
Last but not least, because you literally cannot go anywhere without this
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SANTO Jennie Cho writer
Kimonas Patiniotis photographer
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine
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antorini is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Greece’s mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago which bears the same name and is the remnant of a volcanic caldera. It forms the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73 km and a 2011 census population of 15,550. The municipality of Santorini includes the inhabited islands of Santorini and Therasia and the uninhabited islands of Nea Kameni, Palaia Kameni, Aspronisi, and Christiana. The total land area is 90.623 km. Santorini is part of the Thira regional unit.
“Santorini’s white hues
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It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago which bears the same name and is the remnant of a volcanic caldera. It forms the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73 km and a 2011 census population of 15,550. The municipality of Santorini includes the inhabited islands of Santorini and Therasia and the uninhabited islands of Nea Kameni, Palaia Kameni, Aspronisi, and Christiana. The total land area is 90.623 km. Santorini is part of the Thira regional unit. A L I GN D
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A mythical ancient island that endured one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, Santorini feels like no other place on earth. Here, everything is brighter: the whitewashed cube-shaped houses, the lapis lazuli sea, and the sunsets that light up the caldera. It has the best views, particularly from the vertiginous terraces at the luxurious Katikies Hotel. If you prefer to trace the footsteps of countless fishermen from centuries past, opt for an unobstructed vista from one of the Spitia Houses, two traditional cave dwellings that Athens designer Panos Zaverdinos has updated with marble sinks, kitchenettes, and platform beds. From there, a staircase corkscrews 300
Athens was 5 hours. Granted maybe there are faster ones but that is the one that was bought for us. Aegan airlines flies you in between all the islands and will take you directly to Santorini, Greece. Great resource here on the travel aspect. Once you are there how do you get around? It all depends on where you stay. If you take the ferry into Santorini you will arrive at the new port. Our hotel arranged for a pickup. There are taxis at the port as well. I would recommend trying to pre-arrange your pick up because I have a feeling they are very expensive at the port. Read down further about ways to get around the island.
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine steps down to Amoudi Bay, where you can swim to the church of St. Nikolas Peramataris, on a black rock only 40 feet away. Now let’s chat about how to get there. You can take the “high speed“ ferry or fly. I put high speed in quotes because it wasn’t. Our ferry from
What to wear Definitey bring sneakers. You will need them if you are hiking along the caldera. Santorini feels like it is uphills both ways.....I’m not joking. I also brought a sturdy pair of sandals. Bathing suits, cover ups and something you can get sweaty in walking. Also, bring a hat to shield the sun because that sun is strong.
What to bring Sunscreen. I cannot stress that enough. Since you are so high up, you get great breezes but you will burn. Sneakers for your hike and the most important your camera to capture all the once in a lifetime sites. What to eat Everything. Our hotel had a hefty breakfast every morning. Insiders tip you may laugh but pack ziplock bags with you. Those chocolate croissants at breakfast??? Yeah you know when they taste great? At 2 in the afternoon after a 45 minute hike. Trust me, it is perfect snack to hold you over to dinner. It was pretty far from our suite and we just ran out of time.
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Do a boat tour of the volcano and the small islands in the caldera
volcano boat tour
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Large crowds assemble every evening to drink wine and watch the sun disappear. Sunsets Cafe has beautiful views if you prefer to sit and drink.
Sunset from Oia
Swim at Amoudi Bay beneath Oia. There is no beach here but jumping from the rocks is the best swimming spot on Santorini.
amoudi bay swim
Walk the path from Fira to Oia along the caldera’s cliff. It takes about 2 to 3 hours and has incredible views. This is many people’s highlight of their visit to Santorini.
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top hotels
+ Dreams Luxury Suites Overlooking Santorini’s iconic caldera, this upscale, all-suite hotel in century-old buildings is a 15-minute walk from the Santorini cable car to the island’s port and 2 km from the Archaeological Museum of Thera. The 6 suites feature a chic take on traditional island styling offering balconies/terraces with hot tubs. All provide flat-screen TVs, iPads and iPod docks, plus minibars and coffeemakers. Freebies include Wi-Fi and in-room champagne breakfast. Most villas have private pools and/ or pull-out sofas.
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+ Santorini Kastelli Resort Featuring a modern take on traditional, island-style architecture, this upmarket resort is a 6-minute walk from the black sands of Kamari Beach, and 3 km from the antique city of Ancient Thera.
+ Adronis Luxury Suites Overlooking the sea and a volcanic crater, this plush all-suite hotel is 11 km from the Santorini cable car and the Archaeological Museum of Thera.
+ Canaves Oia Hotel Carved into a cliffside overlooking the Aegean Sea, this polished all-suite hotel is 10 km from the Santorini cable car and 11 km from the Museum of Prehistoric Thera. Featuring minimalist decor, the airy suites come with free Wi-Fi, iPod docks, and flat-screens with DVD players. All have minibars, balconies, and tea and coffeemaking facilities. Upgrades have living/dining areas; some include private plunge pools. Room service is available.
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Photographer Julius Schulman’s photography spread California Mid-century modern around the world. Carefully composed and artfully lighted, his images promoted not only new approaches to home design but also the ideal of idyllic California living — a sunny, suburban lifestyle played out in sleek, spacious, low-slung homes featuring ample glass, pools and patios.
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he subject is the power of photography,” Shulman explains. “I have thousands of slides, and Juergen and I have assembled them into almost 20 different lectures. And not just about architecture—I have pictures of cats and dogs, fashion pictures, flower photographs. I use them to do a lot of preaching to the students, to give them something to do with their lives, and keep them from dropping out of school.” It all adds up to a very full schedule, which Shulman handles largely by himself—“My daughter comes once a week from Santa Barbara and takes care of my business affairs, and does my shopping”—and with remarkable ease for a near-centenarian. Picking up the oversized calendar on which he records his appointments, Shulman walks me through a typical seven days: “Thom Mayne— we had lunch with him. Long Beach, AIA meeting. People ALIGND
were here for a meeting about my photography at the Getty [which houses his archive]. High school students, a lecture. Silver Lake, the Neutra house, they’re opening part of the lake frontage, I’m going to see that. USC, a lecture. Then an assignment, the Griffith Observatory— we’ve already started that one.” Yet rather than seeming overtaxed, Shulman fairly exudes well-being. Like many elderly people with nothing left to prove, and who remain in demand both for their talents and as figures of veneration (think of George Burns), Shulman takes things very easy: He knows what his employers and admirers want, is happy to provide it, and accepts the resulting reaffirmation of his legend with a mix of playfully rampant immodesty and heartfelt gratitude. “The world is my onion”, he proclaims. Tr avel / Fashion / L i fes t yl e
himself has seen. Transfigure—glamorize, dramatize with lighting, time of day. Translate—there are times, when you’re working with a man like Neutra, who wanted everything the way he wanted it—‘Put the camera here.’ And after he left, I’d put it back where I wanted it, and he wouldn’t know the difference—I translated. And fourth, I transform the composition with furniture movement.” To illustrate the latter, Shulman shows me an interior of the Abidi house that looks out from the living room, through a long glass wall, to the grounds. “Almost every one of my photographs has a diagonal leading you into the picture,” he says. Taking a notecard and pen, he draws a line from the lower left corner to the upper right, then a second perpendicular line from the lower right corner to the first line. Circling the intersection, he explains, “That’s the point of what we call ‘dynamic symmetry.’ ” When he holds up the photo again, I see that the line formed by the bottom of the glass wall—dividing inside from outside— roughly mirrors the diagonal he’s drawn. Shulman then indicates the second, perpendicular line created by the furniture arrangement. “My assistants moved [the coffee table] there, to complete the line. When the owner saw the Polaroid, she said to her husband, ‘Why don’t we do that all the time?’”
Shulman is equally proud of his own lighting abilities. “I’ll show you something fascinating,” he says, holding up two exteriors of a new modernist home, designed for a family named Abidi, by architect James Tyler. In the first, the inside of the house is dark, resulting in a handsome, somewhat lifeless image. In the second, it’s been lit in a way that seems a natural balance of indoor and outdoor illumination, yet expresses the structure’s relationship to its site and showcases the architecture’s transparency.“The house is transfigured,” Shulman explains.
Shulman’s remark references one of his signature gambits: what he calls “dressing the set,” not only by moving furniture but by adding everyday objects and accessories. “I think he was trying to portray the lifestyle people might have had if they’d lived in those houses,” suggests the Los Angeles–based architectural photographer Tim Street-Porter. “He was doing— with a totally positive use of the words—advertising or propagandist photographs for the cause.” This impulse culminated in Shulman’s introduction of people into his pictures— commonplace today, but virtually unique 50 years ago. “Those photographs—with young, attractive people having breakfast in glass rooms beside carports with twotone cars—were remarkable in the history of architectural photography,” Street-Porter says. “He
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indoor/outdoor room.” Shulman opens the door leading to an exterior dining area. A bird trills loudly. “That’s a wren,” he says, and steps out. “My wife and I had most of our meals out here,” he recalls. “Beautiful.” When I ask Shulman what Neutra saw in his images, he answers with a seemingly unrelated story. “I was born in Brooklyn in 1910,” says this child of Russian-Jewish immigrants. “When I was three, my father went to the town of Central Village in Connecticut, and was shown this farmhouse—primitive, but [on] a big piece of land. After we moved in, he planted corn and potatoes, my mother milked the cows, and we had a farm life. “And for seven years, I was imbued with the pleasure of living close to nature. In 1920, when we came here to Los Angeles, I joined the Boy Scouts, and enjoyed the outdoor-living aspect, hiking and camping. My father opened a clothing store in Boyle Heights, and my four brothers and sisters and my mother worked in the store. They were businesspeople.” He flashes a slightly cocky smile. “I was with the Boy Scouts.”
“I tell people in my lectures,‘If I were modest, I wouldn’t talk about how great I am.’ ”Yet when I ask how he developed his eye, Shulman’s expression turns philosophical. “Sometimes Juergen walks ahead of me, and he’ll look for a composition. And invariably, he doesn’t see what I see. Architects don’t see what I see. It’s God-given,” he says, using the Yiddish word for an act of kindness—“a I ask Shulman if he’s surprised at how well his life has mitzvah.” “He took that to a wonderfully high level.” turned out. “I tell students, ‘Don’t take life too seriously— don’t plan nothing nohow,’ ” he replies. “But I have always “Most people whose houses I photographed didn’t use observed and respected my destiny. That’s the only way I their sliding doors,” Shulman says, crossing the living room can describe it. It was meant to be.” toward his own glass sliders. “Because flies and lizards “And it was a destiny that suited you?” would come in; there were strong winds. So I told Soriano At this, everything rises at once—his eyebrows, his I wanted a transition—a screened-in enclosure in front outstretched arms, and his peaceful, satisfied smile. “Well,” of the living room, kitchen, and bedroom to make an says Shulman, “here I am.” -------------------- - 31 ----------------------
RELAXATION at it’s FINEST
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A Vacation from your vacation Photography by KT Merry
Written by Jennie Cho
Have you ever said: “I need a vacation from my vacation?” I hear this statement a lot from clients, colleagues and friends. Why do we over-plan, over-schedule, and overdo our vacations? These are the two common reasons: We have a fear of missing out and we are used to over functioning in our regular lives, so we take this same energy on our vacations. As a result, we create lengthy itineraries, schedule many locations to see, and try to visit too many people. But what we often need is less, not more. One study found that female participants were happier and more productive after a relaxing vacation. Another study revealed that if the vacation is relaxing, participants’ happiness levels will last two weeks after the trip is over before returning to back to their baseline level of happiness. If you want to boost health, happiness and productivity, take a relaxing vacation. The following tips will show you how. -------------------- - -
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So much of our lives are spent running from one thing to the next, and this is the time to slow down. Set an intention to savor your vacation time, foster connections with your family, and do things you might not normally do (get a massage, take a nap, etc.). This is likely an experience that will never happen exactly like this again. One of my mentors, James Baraz, often says, “This is your life, don’t miss it.” Research indicates that having pleasurable and relaxing experiences on your vacation, and savoring those experiences, are important for remaining happier for a longer period of time after a vacation.
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Starting with a homemade sangria
Savor the moment
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STRAWBERRY DRAGONFRUIT SANGRIA Yields 4-6 servings 1 Bottle Sauvignon Blanc or any white wine 1 cup straweberry-flavored vodka 1/2 cup sliced Dragonfruit 1/2 cup sliced strawberries 1 cup apple juice Sprite Instructions: Add wine, strawberry-flavored vodka, brandy, apple juice, and fresh strawberries to a pitcher, stir well and place in refrigerator for at least one hour. Add sprite and the sliced dragonfruit right before serving on the rocks. --------------------- -
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