NORTHLETTERS MAGAZINE throws a light on the Nordic, its stories, nature, culture and soul.

Our homes, our gardens and our home landscapes can change our habits, minds and feelings. They respond to our emotional needs, they are touching our souls, they communicate with us. Home is the place where we belong. Belonging is a deep reassuring emotion. Our homes, gardens and landscapes are a symbol for the process of growing, of leaving something incomplete, they help us to learn to let go, to rest, to accept, to find some peace finally. And thus growing a garden or a home is an ever evolving process, and at the same time with a grounding and peace bringing effect. We learn to live the process, instead of becoming blind while staring at the result. Understanding and creating a home is a lesson for life, where we can practise to give up perfectionism, to accept setbacks and where we can adapt humility, when things turned out beautifully in a way we haven’t ever expected or planned.

The NL3 writers and photographers were seeking out solace in the beauty of our homes, gardens & landscape, looking for the comfort and ease our homes are giving to us. At home we set the atmosphere for our lives, the rhythm of our days, we restore our human balance and emotions, far away from the hectic outside world. Our homes are our favourite places, full of items with a special meaning to us, secure places where we can relax and reenergize, a space where we never feel lost.

A home is like a vessel carrying memories. Especially old houses or those we have fond remembrances of, have voices, telling us intriguing stories about former dinners, owners, hours full of joy or tears or wonderful days still to come. A home can balance us with a deep sense of security, when we encounter it with a soft respect and understanding. Smell of wood, smoke of a fireplace, fading afternoon light, the evolving morning peace and quiet in the garden- we learn what the place is all about and why this now is our place and our home.

Home always is landscape as well, the one we derive from, the one we belong to or the one we found one day, instantly feeling at home….

Let us explore with our Nordic Writers and Photographers this magic home feeling….

Publisher & Creative Direction: Melanie Kettner
Creative Director: Thomas Kettner
Publication Design: Rowan Collins
Cover Photography: Norbert von Niman
Tree Hotel Front & Back Cover: www.treehotel.se/en/

Printed by Druckhaus Waiblingen
Remstal-Bote GmbH

April 2021 Global Interiors Issue of Wallpaper*

Welcome to our annual Global Interiors issue. Good design can enable, inspire and elevate our lives. This has been magnified over the last year, as circumstances have required us to stay at home, with more opportunity than ever to contemplate the stuff that surrounds us. Marking a year since the pandemic turned the world upside down, this Global Interiors issue salutes the design pieces that have brightened our days, and the luminous talents behind them.

We’ve broadened the scope of our headline interiors story, featuring designs from six continents, rather than focusing on six specific countries as we did in previous years. Our head of interiors Olly Mason worked with Berlin design studio Form & Rausch to create a visual feast, setting standout furniture pieces against escapist backdrops that are modern while rooted in geographical context.

We also bring you a trio of midcentury Californian homes that have been given a new lease of life. In Malibu, Kelly Wearstler transformed a long-neglected beach house with an illustrious pedigree into a striking surf shack. In Los Angeles, meanwhile, just below the Hollywood sign, Studio Shamshiri’s take on the former home of Robert Kennard (a leading Black architect of his generation) is an exercise in thoughtful luxury. Nearby, we revisit John Lautner’s Garcia House, an icon of American architectural history that was featured in Wallpaper’s January 2009 issue (W*118). Owners John McIlwee and Bill Damaschke, architects Marmol Radziner, interior designer Darren Brown and environmental designer John Sharp offer us a masterclass in sensitive reinvention, presented over 12 pages and also starring on our newsstand cover.

Further alluring homes in the issue include a converted barn in Norfolk, by London-based 31/44 Architects, and a family home in the Hamptons that pays homage to the area’s farmhouses, by New York’s Young Projects.

We call on three visionaries who have changed architecture in very different ways. In a conversation with our architecture editor Ellie Stathaki, Rem Koolhaasdiscusses Boompjes, his first commission for Rotterdam and an early expression of his now-famous vision for urban living. ‘Towers are the expression of capitalism and slabs are the main expression of socialism. In the 1980s, it was very interesting to try and create a hybrid shape,’ he says.

We take a deep dive into the work of Anupama Kundoo, which is at once elegant, resourceful, environmentally sound, and celebratory of local knowledge. Above all, she believes that architecture should be a conduit to happiness: ‘There is no other aim: to be alive is to be happy.’

And we look back on the career of Italian postmodernist master Paolo Portoghesi, a creator of Baroque-inspired buildings and advocate for the first Venice Architecture Biennale. Going against the currents of his era, he championed ‘a bit of noise and colour in architecture’, a call for greater creative freedom that has proven prescient when we consider the plurality of contemporary architecture.

As 2021 gathers momentum and optimism, this is a timely celebration of design. We hope you enjoy the issue!

Sarah Douglas
Editor-in-Chief

Issue No. 25

Crossing Borders Again

Europe’s Best Travel & Art Destinations after deconfinement

Cover: Picasso leaving exhibition, Vallauris 1953, Cover by Andre Villers, © Andre Villers

Holiday – Issue 387 (Ethiopia)

Spring/ Summer 2021

The Ethiopia Issue

After a trip to Saint Petersburg, Holiday magazine heads for Ethiopia. Photographers Sean Thomas, Paul Kooiker, Matthieu Salvaing, Quentin de Briey, Krisztián Éder, Douglas Irvine and Oliver Hadlee Pearch offer unique visions of the land of 13 months of sunshine and its people, while Karim Sadli captures the elegance of the Ethiopian model Liya Kebede, founder of the fashion foundation Lemlem.

On the writing front, French novelist Oscar Coop-Phane goes on his first-very memorable-journey to the Horn of Africa; Ethiopian writer Gabriella Ghermandi writes about her return to a country she left when she was 14; Nicolas Zeisler digs up the story of Lucy's discovery; Bridget Cleary investigates the links between Ethiopia and the Rastafaris; Jean-Christophe Collin tells us about the extraordinary Dibaba family; Mariam Senna Asfa Wossen, the granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie, walks us down memory lane; and American writer Thomas Chatterton Williams meets Olivier Rousteing for a deep conversation about race, origins and more.

Vol. 33

Collective

BEIRUT • GUATEMALA • IRAQ • JAPAN • NORTH AMERICA • VERONA • ZANZIBAR

At a time when togetherness has perhaps never felt more important, we're exploring the concept of community around the world. From ancestral groups to contemporary clubs, local networks and relationships that span space and time, this issue celebrates global connections through the lens of travel.

Robb Report ist das einzige multi-thematische Magazin in Deutschland über besondere Erfahrungen und Momente, herausragende Produkte und einen außergewöhnlichen Lebensstil. Hochkarätige Autoren und Fotografen spüren der Frage nach, wie sich ein zeitgemäßer Luxusbegriff definiert – kenntnisreich und unterhaltsam inszeniert.

In jeder Ausgabe erfüllt sich der hohe journalistische Anspruch an Qualität und Exklusivität der Themen, die alle Facetten eines anspruchsvollen, genussfreudigen aber auch individuell ausgerichteten Lebensstils widerspiegeln.

Die Marke Robb Report ist seit Jahrzehnten die ideale Plattform für anspruchsvolle Brands weltweit – seit Oktober 2016 auch in Deutschland.

Yolo Journal – Issue 6

Spring 2021

Spring 2021 is our Reawakening Issue. We’ve all had to push down so many of our natural instincts over the last year, and our hope is that these stories reignite a spirit of (safe) spontaneity, like Molly Berry’sThelma & Louise-ish family pandemic road trip, Lucy Laucht’s winter sea swimming, and Stephen Ringer and Aly Michalka’s decamping in Belize. We’re thrilled to have Liya Kebede not just gracing our cover, but also to share her transpersonal work in St. Barths. And we are in research mode, so we’re ready whenever we get the green light (Armchair Traveler). A road trip in South Morocco, a long weekend in Brussels, and an annual trip to Lamu, are just some of our other stories that are making us dream….and plan! 

In the travel journal BOUCHE À OREILLE recommandations are used as a strategy to illuminate the creative scene of cities away from the design mainstream. In a sensual way, the travel journal conveys a glimpse of thriving places and its people. Off the beaten tourist track, BOUCHE À OREILLE invites you to discover hidden talents, points of views and places.

Issue 1 (Marrakech) Second Edition

Marrakech. A symbol of European fantasies of the Orient, the location of the Arabian Nights and at the same time the home of fashion designers and artists. The city of style, pomegranates, camels and hidden gardens. But also the product of occidental business sense, an exotic projection and divided by tourism. Marrakech is a melting pot of different cultures and home to a vibrant creative industry. 

MilK N°71

Gender Issues

MilK Magazine is a contemporary children’s fashion and lifestyle quarterly magazine based in Paris, France.

Süddeutschland, das gibt es überhaupt nicht. Nicht als zusammenhängende Landschaft. Nicht als Einheit. Zu sehr zerrten die einstigen europäischen Großmächte über die Badener, Schwaben und Bayern hinweg, als dass man Zeit gehabt hätte, sich zusammenzuraufen. Oder gar eine gemeinsame Identität auszuknobeln. Wer quer durchs Land unterwegs ist, wird verblüfft sein über die manifesten Unterschiede. Sprache und Kultur, Essen und Religion, Temperamente und Wertekataloge sind äußerst vielfältig. Die ehemals kleinen Fürstentümer, die den Südwesten Deutschlands zu einem unüberschaubaren Flickenteppich machten – sie sind immer noch präsent. Das von Adeligen vererbte und vom Klerus verschacherte Land Badens und Württembergs ist kleinteilig, es gibt keine klare, große Geschichte, nur sehr viele kleine Geschichten. Ganz anders verhält es sich beim bayrischen Südosten, der historisch in einer Hand war und dem man dies auch heute noch durch eine durchgehende Grundstimmung abspürt. – All das macht Süddeutschland ungemein reizvoll und spannend. Wer hier mit offenen Augen unterwegs ist, stolpert über dicht gepackte Vergangenheit, und er hat es mit einem Menschenschlag zu tun, der ein Spiegelbild dieser turbulenten und bewegten Geschichte ist.

Southern Germany actually doesn’t exist – at least not as one landscape. Not as one unit. The former great powers of Europe clawed at Baden, Swabia and Bavaria so much that the folk didn’t have time to rally themselves – or even to figure out a shared identity. Anyone traveling across the country will be amazed at the glaring differences – the extreme diversity of language and culture, cuisine and religion, temperaments and values. The former tiny principalities that made southwestern Germany a confusing patchwork still exist. Inherited from the nobility and bartered away by the clergy, the land of Baden and Württemberg was divvied up into small parcels. There is no one clear story, just a lot of chapters. The situation is completely different in Bavaria’s southeast, which was historically under one rule – a mood that still lingers today. All this makes Southern Germany extremely appealing and exciting. If you travel with your eyes wide open, you will stumble across a densely packed past and encounter a kind of people that reflects this turbulent and eventful history.

Transhelvetica #63 «Büffel»

Weil heuer das chinesische Jahr des Büffels ist, haben wir die hiesige Prärie nach den Fährten der archaischen Kolosse und seiner Verwandten durchstreift. Gefunden haben wir gutmütige Wildtiere, friedliche Hausgenossen und gehörnte Zottelpelze, die Gepäck über über die Berge tragen und wild und mächtig durch die heimischen Wälder trotten.

Begleiten Sie uns in der aktuellen Ausgabe Transhelvetica #63 Büffel auf den Spuren der kräftigen Landsäuger und deren Verwandten.

Volume Seven: Abandoned

The stories in this issue explore the theme of abandoned; places once full of life and meaning left empty and forgotten. 

Through ‘Abandoned’ we showcase neglected motels, deserted cities and derelict monuments. With visual stories from Pripyat, Svalbard, and the Furka Pass, our pages evoke both a depth and range of emotion; nostalgia, wonder and despair. Through written stories and essays, we consider the difference between what it means to abandon, and what it means to forget. We journey to Bodie along a deserted dirt track, wander through the silent streets of an empty city and visit a derelict amusement park. After a year that left us largely lacking in inspiration, we realised it can be found in the most unexpected of places. 

• This publication is 144 pages, perfect bound and printed on uncoated, heavyweight paper.

• Featuring photography by Linus Bergman, João Bernardino, Yura Borschev, Lydia Harper, Joel Hyppönen, Michael McCluskey, Arnaud Montagard, Gareth Munden, Mirko Nicholson and Gergő Szilágyi.

• Featuring writing by J R Patterson, Laura Pendlebury, Jennifer Smith and Thomas Wensma.

• Printed and published in London, December 2020.

Our ninth issue is here! The Asturian Issue is devoted to a hidden and magical region in the North of Spain.

Asturias provides its green landscape with the smell, and the sea with transcendent density. Its almost intact nature makes of Asturias a unique place to preserve traditions that fuse in the dawn of times and that have been transmitted almost intact until recent times. Nowadays, the origin of its name keeps being a mystery. Nevertheless, according to Enrique Cabrejas, History of the Language researcher, Asturias, in the contemporary Spanish language, would mean “estuaries”, meaning “Sea’s arms”. It is an expression whose origin may be Iberian and of Hellenic ancestry. The term might have already been used since the Bronze Age and it is the result of combining the words “aster” and “rías” -estuary-. The towns belonging to the Cantabrian Ledge have always been resistant to any invasions. It was because of its wild orography that Roman and Muslim people could not subdue the towns. Asturian people were widely known for being courageous. Not many written references have arrived to our days for the Roman people destroyed every source that may be previous to their arrival and one belonging to Geographica 1.

Good things take time, and we really took our time creating the eleventh volume of your favorite adventure and cycling magazine. Consider your patience rewarded.

FEATURING

– Everest
– Sustainable Cooking
– Trailblazers of Afghan Women’s Cycling
– Riding Through Times Past
– Richard Sachs
– Taylor Phinney
– Mexico City
– Thereabouts
– Seoul to Busan
– Chasing Future Swells
– Forward Motion

PRINT DETAILS

Size – 120mm x 170mm
Pages – 168
Printing – offset printed and sewn bound

The Weekender Magazine Issue 35

The Weekender in a nutshell is all about lifestyle - from telling stories about people to places. The Weekender is an independent magazine full of stories relating to living, traveling, eating, handicrafts and nature.

Slimi Magazine Issue 13

Dear Slimi magazine Aficionados,

With great pleasure we share the passion behind hundreds of hours of work to present you with The Culture issue.

Let’s step forward together as we take you on an amazing dream brought to life then captured wondrously within our pages. 

Our journey was inspired by all the artistic talents we’ve been delighted to come across and brought together in our shoots, stories and interviews, combined with all the love that allowed us to present you with such creative and live content within these pages. Every great artist and photographer we have teamed up with in this difficult year has contributed to the 9 wonderful covers for this issue.

We celebrate wonder, diversity, cultures, as well as up and close interviews with aspiring artists that shine so bright you cannot help but want to sit down with and have a chat and document their light and color within these pages. 

Beloved reader, we hope that our modern interpretation of the Culture Issue is well conveyed, and our content will Inspire you further to appreciate and understand our vision at Slimi mag.

Finally lets ask ourselves, “What would our life look like without Culture?”

Enjoy the Culture discovery, happy reading, Sleiman Dayaa

MilK N°70

La famille pour tou.te.s

168 pages, textes français

En couverture, Pauline, Sarah et leurs filles Bertille et Irène. L’amour n’a pas de genre. Regard sur une parentalité nouvelle qui revendique les liens du coeur.

At Work With, à Paris chez la céramiste Marion Graux.

Education, transmission culinaire, ce qui se joue en cuisine.

Reportage, Doulas, les accompagnatrices à la naissance.

Mode, du maxi col Claudine aux plus beaux imprimés, 50 pages inspirantes pour des Fêtes en beauté.

Tourisme, Dors avec les loups : séjourner dans un lodge face aux majestueux animaux au parc animalier de Sainte-Croix.

Food, deux recettes de saison par Gaëlle Bonnieux et Claire Wills Diquet, co-fondatrices de la micro-ferme biologique GonneGirls.

Stoned Magazine – Issue #4

Tri-annual, Seoul-based publication. Printed in English and Korean.

"Made by surfers, for surfers, to surfers. Aspirational surfers are more than welcome! Our ethos is all about surfing and its lifestyle. We delve into not only the lifestyle of surfers but shed light on motorcycles, skateboard, contemporary artists, filmography too. Lifestyle is portrayed via in-depth interviews and stories visualised through candid and documentary photography."

- 220mm X 300mm , 192p

- Beautifully printed on high-quality paper.

Yolo Journal – Issue 5

Fall/Winter 2020

We call our Fall/Winter 2020 issue the Dream Issue, because when we were putting it together, we discovered that so many of our contributors were writing about places that makes them dream (Tangier and Oahu), places they dreamed of when they couldn’t travel (Amalfi, Biarritz, Goldeneye), or places that had always been a dream until they made it a reality (Botswana, Joshua Tree, Namibia). There are also great stories from Barbados, a secret island in New England, and many more!