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Jetsetter and Partners & Spade have teamed-up to launch Bon Voyage, a large and luxurious “kit” that includes a book of photography from the travel site’s best trips of the last year, a certificate for a Jetsetter concierge consultation and a travel journal to record it all.

As difficult as it may be to let go of the impeccably photographed volume edited by Jetsetter’s own Nikki Ridgeway, Cool Hunting will be giving away one Bon Voyage set today on Twitter (see below for more details).

From the fairy chimneys of Cappadocchia to the white walls of Santorini, Bon Voyage chronicles Jetsetter clientele on their customized trips to exotic locales. The photography appeals to even the most hardened traveler, providing ample inspiration for the next international jaunt. The massive book isn’t itself suited for travel but you can grab the pocket-sized journal from its pages and set off on an adventure as the tome quietly stands guard over the coffee table.

Bon Voyage retails for $199 (the concierge service is sold à la carte for $200), at Jetsetter and Gilt, and drops at The Shop at the Standard New York on 2 November 2011. Read more about Jetsetter in this Cool Hunting interview from last winter. To win, Tweet @coolhunting with the link to your favorite Cool Hunting travel piece
before midnight EST tonight, 31 October 2011. We’ll pick one winner to receive the complete kit with book, journal and concierge consultation certificate.

You say “Gwathmey”! We say “Siegel”! Gwathmey! Siegel! The storied architectural firm, which was acquired by architect Gene Kaufman back in June, is the subject of an exhibition opening on Monday, November 14, at the Yale School of Architecture. Organized by the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina, and retooled for New Haven by Yale’s Brian Butterfield, “Gwathmey Siegel: Inspiration and Transformation” examines the close relationship between art and architecture in eight of the firm’s residential and institutional projects, ranging from the iconic house and studio that Gwathmey designed for his parents in the mid 1960s and the Bechtler residence in Zumikon, Switzerland to the renovation of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the makeover of Yale’s own Paul Rudolph Hall (née the Art + Architecture Building). You may recall that last year, Gwathmey’s widow, Bette-Ann Gwathmey, agreed to donate the Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects archives to the Yale University Library, and the exhibition will also showcase some more personal artifacts, including Gwathmey’s scrapbook from a family tour of Europe in 1949-50 and a selection of his student work at Yale, where he studied under Rudolph.

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This top-heavy house by Japanese architect Kota Mizuishi overlooks a river in west Tokyo.

The steel-clad upper floor of the two-storey House in Horinouchi cantilevers forward to create a small sheltered car parking space below.

This upper floor houses a bedroom, a kitchen/dining room and a living room, where two projecting windows integrate a narrow desk and a balcony.

A ladder leads up from this floor to a mezzanine loft.

A master bedroom and bathroom are located on the ground floor.

We’ve published a few popular stories about residences in Japan in recent weeks, including one screened by a grid of timber louvres – see all our stories about Japanese houses here.

Photography is by Hiroshi Tanigawa.

Here’s a little more text from Mizuishi:

River side house / House in Horinouchi

This is a very small house built on the triangle site where the river and the road were crossed and made to the acute angle.

For the dead-end road, it became a plan in various regulations for obtaining special permission.

Residents are husband and wife and a little girl.

Although it was a novel site of a limited area, since a river was faced through a bank and a promenade, I would like to design various relations with the river.

The building is the form that cut an acute angle part on a triangle plan derived from the site. Furthermore,it got the maximum volume of hip roof of three planes in restriction of setback-line.

Although the level 0 floor was a private space, it limits for dividing with the curtain of a race in the door, stairs, storage, etc. except for a bathroom. It enabled it to feel a spread.

The level+1 floor is devided into small areas by structural narrow walls, being connected with one by the ridgeline of a roof. So there are different open feelings and the relations with the river each.

That is

1. dining&kitchen / The west side space up the stairs is the largest planarly, and has high ceiling with a feeling of rise towards the roof top.

2. living / The central space is low ceilinged,and has full-opening windows on both sides as a balcony and the bay window that spreads outward with a feeling of floating

3. spare room / The east side space in the deepest is a form which is narrowed down to the direction of flow of the river, and is a space watching the light to insert earlier of the abyss.

4. loft / The space with two skylights is a space looking down at the river and looking up at the sky.

The limited volume snuggles up to the river, and I think that I was able to make various space that can live while looking for a favorite place to stay.

Project info:
Location: suginami,tokyo,japan

Type: residential house
Architect: Kota Mizuishi / Mizuishi Architect Atelier

Structural engineer: Kentaro Nagasaka
Lighting designer: Tatsuoki Nakajima

Contractor: Hirano-Kensetu
Site area: 52.14m2

Building area: 29.07 m2
Total floor area: 55.24 m2

Structure: wood
Story: 2

Build cost: 15,500,000 yen
Period: March,2010 – April,2011

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Double House by Tsuyoshi Kawata	Hi House by Yosuke Ichii	Near House by Mount Fuji Architects

Une très belle vidéo résumant l’aventure et le voyage de Klara Harden avec ces vues très impressionnantes du pays de l’Islande, shootées en Canon 550D. Le tout sur une bande son composée de Mumford and Sons, Fleet Foxes, The Tallest Man on Earth, et Bon Iver.

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It’s Free Candy Night, do you know where your costume is? We’re going to bathe in glitter and baby oil, throw on some Jimmy Choos, and go as a Marilyn Minter work. That should bring in a respectable haul of Hershey’s. Those still in the brainstorming phase should consult the “Spooky Sketches” that Chelsea Zalopany has rounded up for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, which invited fashion designers including Sophie Buhai and Lisa Mayock of Vena Cava, Peter Som, and Bibhu Mohaptra to turn everyday objects—yarn, clothes hangers, fake flowers—into killer Halloween costumes. Pamela Love scored the meta-material: candy. The New York-based jewelry designer, known for fierce creations inspired by everything from astrology and the American Southwest to the work of artists such as Hieronymous Bosch and Joseph Cornell, seized upon the humble gummy bear. Love reimagined the Haribo favorite as a gummy grizzly in a sassy shade of blue. “I upped the volume to design a slightly sinister, carnival-esque version of the classic gummy bear,” she told T. “It’s very me—a little dark, but still whimsical and fun.”

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