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Lifestyle

Next Stop: DESIGN DESTINATIONS

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Forget the columned entryway, the stately pillars, and the rooftop pool. The latest destinations are twisting and turning, curving and swerving everything we’ve come to expect from traditional hotel design. The result? A series of architectural adventures guaranteed to jolt the senses into a new dimension. By Alexandria Abramian Costa Rica: TREETOP DOWNWARD DOG Downward dog perched high above the treetops? That’s the concept at Origins, an ultra-boutique wellness lodge nestled within the high valley […]

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Design

NEO NAUTICAL

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Designers bring on a new wave of coastal-inspired décor. Seashells, shiplap, and beach signs not required. By Alexandria Abramian Art Alert! Then: Aerial Ocean Shots Now: Highly personalized, occasionally abstract, sea-leaning imagery serendipitedesigns.com | brophyinteriors.com | morrisoninteriors.com A Classic Combo Now: A New Play on Pattern Then: Blue & White Stripes TRUE BLUE Then: Same Old Navy Now: A New Take on the Nautical Hue  Beach Regency Then: Coastal Casual Now: A New Wave of […]

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Architecture, Lifestyle

Iconic OC: MCAS TUSTIN HANGARS

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What are the most important buildings in OC—the most historic, architecturally significant, and the most beautiful? What built spaces and public places make us unique? These are the questions that Blue Door Magazine explores as we tour Iconic OC. The two World War II-era blimp hangars in Tustin are arguably Orange County’s most striking and superlative structures. Built in 1942-1943, they remain two of the largest freestanding wooden structures on the planet, according to the […]

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Art

THE FEMALE GAZE

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Images of women and the world as seen by female fashion photographers Fashion photography produced by women, often unduly neglected, is the focus of the exhibition Female View: Women Fashion Photographers from Modernity to the Digital Age, which debuted at Kunsthalle St. Annen gallery in Lübeck, Germany, last spring. The exhibition opens September 24 at Museum Schloss Moyland in Bedburg-Hau, Germany. The medium of fashion photography has been shaped by women for decades, but most […]

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