Garrett Morris - CUSH Real Estate

The Holidays are upon us and I think its time we mix up the classic holiday decor with some maximalist out of pocket style. What are your thoughts on christmas? Classic or reimagined?

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This Oakland Cocktail bar decided to create a space that celebrate Oakland’s Culture and History. Named after Oaklands official bird a black-crowned night heron, Night Heron is bringing instagram worthy cocktails to downtown Oakland. Sequoyah lee of Honor Bar and Cory hunt of First Edition are the founders of this soulful lounge where their style and expertise are showcased. Check them out and make sure to share you beautiful cocktail on Social Media.



Photos - Hardy Wilson

“Amusement parks are for the young. At least that’s the conventional wisdom. Job Smeets, however, has never put away childish things. For the founder of Studio Job, the provocative product-design firm, youthful recollections of Efteling—the largest theme park in the Netherlands—form the DNA of his defiantly kitsch creations. Imagine an armchair in the form of a ham-burger, a punching bag that appears to be made of red brick, and a table lamp that mimics a half-peeled banana. “If I can visualize those memories, I can explore new shapes and forms,” explains Smeets, who launched Studio Job, headquartered in the Dutch city of Tilburg, in 1998; it also has an outpost in Milan and is now represented by New York City gallery R & Company. “Not everybody needs to live in a modernist white box.”

That would include Rolf Snoeren, one half of Viktor & Rolf, the Amsterdam fashion house famed for surrealistic haute couture that would not look out of place in Efteling’s mock castle. “We try not to lose the inner child,” he explains of his and creative partner Viktor Horsting’s fantastical ensembles. “What they do in fashion,” Smeets responds, “I do in design.”
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The results? Call it a temple to tomfoolery. After an 18-month renovation that was challenged by nightmarish permit mishaps and discussions largely conducted via WhatsApp, Snoeren and O’Dell settled into a gleeful Gesamtkunstwerk where nearly every element—from checkerboard--pattern glass panels to the button-tufted daybed where the couple like to gaze across rooftops in the company of their miniature dachshund, Little Rose—was conceived by Smeets. “It’s a celebration of our friendship,” Snoeren says, noting that the apartment was finished in March 2020, days before Amsterdam went into lockdown. “We moved in, and then we couldn’t leave.””



Source- Architectural Digest

Photos- Kasia Gatkowska