FYI #31
from Haute Bohemians: Greece, by Miguel Flores-Vianna
Inside Patrick Leigh Fermor’s beautiful, book-filled house in the Peloponnese, via House & Garden. Details of the house on the Benaki Museum website.
Review of Olivia Laing’s new book, The Garden Against Time: in search of a common paradise, via the New York Times.
Andrew O’Hagan’s Bonfire of the Vanities, via the New Yorker
Dua Lipa interviews Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Say Nothing, for the Service95 Book Club.
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates, (via Kottke), due out in October, sounds very interesting.
Our critics pick their favorite new books for your summer reading list, via PBS Newshour
ABC Chair Kim Williams AM delivers the 2024 Redmond Barry Lecture at the State Library of Victoria
Talking Never Too Small’s New Quarterly Magazine with Editor Elizabeth Price. A new printed thing offering inspiration for living in small spaces.
the shape of the pocket: subtlety, insight, and beauty drive a whole world of adaptive fashion, by Sara Hendren
A Slow Stroll, via Slow Stories, by Rachel Schwartzmann. On a grey rainy morning in Sydney, photos of a walk under blue skies made me happy.
Everyone's talking about taste, by Sari Azout, via Sublime
Meet Alfred Lowe | 2024 Shelley Simpson Ceramics Prize Recipient, via Mud Australia. Lowe practices daily at the APY Studio Adelaide.
Photos by David Gurzhiev, on The Angel, a publication about the Los Angeles food scene, mostly written by Emily Wilson… Our Favorite Pictures of 2024, pt. 1.
Anna Iltnere, keeper of the wonderful Sea Library, shares a tour of her house…. ‘This house is my island, my surfer’s hut, my ship, my home.’
It was well worth venturing into the chill to hear the talented young singers from Pacific Opera Studio perform the Mozart Requiem at St Stephens last night.
Podcast listening highlights this week:
‘Tim Ross: the Australian broadcaster on the life-enhancing effect of modest, modernist buildings – and tinted moisturiser’, on Homing In with Matt Gibberd, co-founder of The Modern House.
Composer John Williams, on Smartless
Author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates (forthcoming book mentioned above) was a guest on one of the last episodes of Longform.
Scott Dadich in conversation with Debbie Millman on Design Matters