{"product_id":"sloft-8","title":"Sloft #8","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this eighth bilingual French-English issue:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e8 Exclusive Guided Tours\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether in \u003cstrong\u003eTokyo\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMadrid\u003c\/strong\u003e, or \u003cstrong\u003eParis\u003c\/strong\u003e, our new harvest of interiors tends to defy the ongoing homogenization of urban landscapes by asserting their singularities. Indeed, a new financialized architecture \"smoothes\" constructions to make them \"exchangeable,\" like products in a portfolio. This vast movement further anonymizes territories by chasing away the specific. It creates a dilution of landmarks that the scattered creation of a few major projects conceived as \"signals\" is not enough to counteract. What if the antidote to our external disorientation was the creation of unique interior worlds? Like the daring combination of materials, colors, and patterns in designer \u003cstrong\u003ePia Chevallier\u003c\/strong\u003e's apartment? Or the radical functionality of \u003cstrong\u003eEduardo Mediero\u003c\/strong\u003e's apartment in \u003cstrong\u003eMadrid\u003c\/strong\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOur first \"Fashion Essay,\" combining a literary reflection with a fashion series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother remedy to the feeling of evanescence in the urban landscape could lie in the notion of scale. Indeed, in an era that aims for ever-greater size, it seems illusory to hope to grasp a city, a palace, or a village in one go. Or even a holiday home. One must tirelessly revisit places to remember their features, their particular geography. At best, we retain sensations, impressions. Habitats that are too large elude us, living their immobile and indifferent lives as soon as their occupants turn their backs. This is the experience that \u003cstrong\u003eUlysse Josselin\u003c\/strong\u003e recounts in \"\u003cstrong\u003eL'appartement Fantôme\u003c\/strong\u003e\" (The Phantom Apartment).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn interview with the artist duo Xolo Cuintle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet, in the end, it is the decors that remain when we are gone. Concrete decors that would have definitively expelled us? This is the universe that \u003cstrong\u003eRomy Texier\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eValentin Vie Binet\u003c\/strong\u003e develop within the duo \u003cstrong\u003eXolo Cuintle\u003c\/strong\u003e. They consider concrete – their material of choice – as a kind of barrier between nature and human beings, allowing for sterilization, for control over the environment. For them, it is a material that suffocates the surface and prevents dialogue. In an era where architecture is turning to new, more natural construction methods, they give it roots, inject it with the organic, as if they wanted to conjure it, to re-anchor it in a connection with humanity. Fascinating.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bonjour Jacob","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51130938753362,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0999\/0171\/files\/sloft8.webp?v=1779369173","url":"https:\/\/bonjourjacob.com\/en\/products\/sloft-8","provider":"Bonjour Jacob","version":"1.0","type":"link"}