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Plan week by week with this Francophile notebook

Combining their love of French tendance with clean and playful design, Tokyo stationery brand Mark’s Inc. aptly call their striking weekly planner “Le programme de ma semaine.” Each page features a blank calendar with the days divided into two sections, while the unprinted reverse side provides ample room for jotting down notes. The spiral-bound style helps both for laying it open on a desk or for times like Fashion Week when you’ve got to stay on task but your adorably tiny purse won’t allow for the full notebook.

I happen to love this vibrant raspberry color, but the planner comes in a variety of colors from their online shop Mark’s Tokyo Edge (¥420) as well as from Papernation (£5) in the U.K. If you’re in Barcelona or Madrid, you might find it where I did (thanks Maite!) at the great bookstore
La Central.

The Global Village Construction Set is an initiative to develop, “an advanced industrial economy-in-a-box” that can be replicated inexpensively anywhere in the world. Described by the team as a “Lego set of modular building blocks,” the 40 proposed machines will work together for creating sustainable, regenerative, resilient communities. Check out their video on the project below and support this great open source project!

GVCS in 2 Minutes from Adam Mitchell on Vimeo.

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Siete sicure di volerle regalare queste Moffole a mo’ di riccio?
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This boutique in Antwerp by Van Halewyck & Marco Architects features glossy white surfaces in a raw concrete shell.

Called Y. Di Cassanova, the shop at the base of two towers has white backlit shelves to display stock and a tree in the middle of the space.

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The following details are from Van Halewyck & Marco Architects

The new shop Y. Di Cassanova is located under the recently built towers of Diener & Diener Architects on “t’ Eilandje”. The semi-transparent aspect of the building is subtly mirrored in the interior with white glowing translucent panels.

The concept of a softer layer within the rough concrete concrete shell continues the white effect in the overall materialization. Under the white veil one finds surprising textures like coarse-grained wood and fiber board. Through careful manipulation of the different interconnected volumes a varied “parcours” is created with both intimate corners and free open space.

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Clothes store Y. Di Cassanova
Location: Westkaai 45, Antwerp, Belgium
Client: Joli bvba
Stage: built (1st phase)
Date: 2010

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Aesop Aoyama by Schemata Architecture Office	9 Department Store and Gallery by Case-Real	Ahoti by Studio Lama

No, quante volte te lo devo dire che con questa, non ci puoi venire all’Eroica!
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