Sloft #10

With your Sloft magazine Edition 10, you'll receive our free Sloft City Guide Biarritz Edition!

And that makes ten! Some issues are more symbolic than others. They encapsulate a journey and the milestones that have marked it. This tenth issue is therefore an anniversary issue. And every anniversary comes with a surprise: we're including a little brother with this issue, our first City Guide , dedicated to Biarritz and its special connection to cinema within the context of the Biarritz Film Festival – New Waves . It was in this city that the New Wave was born. It's also where a certain Mademoiselle C. opened her first couture house outside of Paris to dress summer visitors. "With extravagance, you don't just dress, you costume," said Gabrielle Chanel. The same goes for decoration: you become part of the scenery.

In this tenth issue

• 8 Exclusive Guided Tours : This commitment to creative, innovative, beautiful, and sustainable simplicity guides and inspires us. A bioclimatic apartment in Madrid, a tower-like house in Seoul, a traditional "mazet" reinvented as a country house… our new collection of homes paints a delightful picture of how we bring our desires, needs, and constraints into dialogue to create unique solutions that are reshaping our era.
• A special report on “shared housing” : Whether due to precarious living conditions or loneliness, individual housing certainly has its limitations. But what if there were initiatives to reinvent it from a collective and solidarity perspective? Welcome to UTOP, a cooperative building in Paris, which is the focus of our special report.
• An exclusive interview with Simon Johannin : “If you want to redesign your life, I suggest you do it here.” This is how the writer and poet describes his encounter with his Marseille apartment, the culmination of a long quest to finally find a space where he felt at home. It speaks volumes about the importance of a suitable shelter, without which life lacks quality. In his books, Simon Johannin explores the limitations of our time and also seeks ways to transcend them.

In our Sloft City Guide Special Biarritz Edition

• 2 Exclusive Guided Tours
  Biarritz is a city of architecture. Its extensive built heritage testifies to this. It is also a city of interior design where local talents adapt the "Biarritz" style to the sea air and the times!
• An interview with Jean-Marc Lalanne : A Biarritz native by heart and by choice, the film editor of Les Inrocks and commentator on Le Masque et la Plume explains why the city was the birthplace of the New Wave. And also the special place it holds in French cinema.
• A fashion shoot inspired by Éric Rohmer's The Green Ray : This key filmmaker of the French New Wave set one of his finest films on the Basque coast, and particularly in Biarritz. As Jean-Marc Lalanne said , Biarritz is the city of miracles, where the impossible becomes possible. We had fun recreating the close bond between Delphine and Lena .
• An interview with Jérôme Pulis : The president of the Biarritz Nouvelles Vagues Film Festival tells us about the specific nature of this festival and the place it gives to young talents of the seventh art.
• An artistic stroll through Biarritz : Beyond cinema, the city of Biarritz buzzes with an artistic scene where design, fashion, and contemporary art bring their creative touch.
• A Surf Portfolio : It's hard to talk about Biarritz without mentioning surfing! We follow in the wake of surfer Margot Arramon-Tucoo who takes us to her favorite spot.

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