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Thanks to Alge of interactive online magazine Llamas’ Valley for sending over photos of their new summer issue. It looks fab! The edition includes an exclusive interview with one of the world’s top architects, Teresa Sapey. It also pays a visit to the home of British film director and actor Dexter Fletcher, and talks with Dutch entrepreneur and co-founder of Mars One Bas Lansdorp about his ambitious project to establish the first human colony on Mars.

There is something very still about the work of photographer Chris Tubbs. Like time has stopped between the lub and the dub of a heart beat. Poised, considered, centred, quiet. A gentle celebration of beauty and the beautiful life. Like the man captured in time, cantilevered over a stream, suspended forever in a canopy of green. A wonderful way to spend eternity. 

I’m trying to come up with a witty intro to these wonderful photos by photographer Joseph Keller but I just played the video I put up on my page for my husband and I was laughing so hard I’m having a hard time seeing through the tears. So here you go. And there are more from way back when here.

Rethink: the way you live by Amanda Talbot.   Photos – Mikkel Vang.  Published by Murdoch Books.

Day after day Kim and I bring you inspirational and aspirational homes. At times I wonder if we are peddling an unsustainable dream. The vast majority of us will not live in a large house, on a large block of land with interiors outfitted with a large amount of money. High end is not the real end for most of us. And there is nothing wrong with that. Most o f us will live in apartments. We will share bedrooms and facilities. We will not  have $450 a drop wallpaper or even brand new furniture. But we will all strive to create family homes that are beautiful and sustainable and real. In fact it is liberating to know that throwing money at a house isn’t necessarily the way to go or grow.

Rethink: the way you live by Amanda Talbot. Photos – Mikkel Vang. Published by Murdoch Books.

Amanda Talbot is an internationally renowned authority on interiors, style and design. She has worked for some of the biggest decor magazines and design firms on the planet. Think British ELLE Decoration and Livingetc to IKEA and WGSN. She’s a trend forecaster and the author of Rethink: The way you live. Published by Murdock Books in 2012, and know in its second reprint, the book explores and celebrates the way people are starting to live, to redesign and redefine what they need to live well (and well informed). Homes are were we live and create, where we struggle and strive, where we love  and where we celebrate. Ritual, dreams and design. But Rethink: The way you live isn’t a dry and crusty manifesto. Amanda travelled with Copenhagen based photographer Mikkel Vang to Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Paris, London, New York, Japan, and Australia to document global design trends within our homes and our communities. What resulted is a book of inspiring ideas and gorgeous images. A little subversive don’t you think? Beauty and brains and bucket loads of reality. Having already struck a cord with readers in the UK and Australia, Amanda’s view needs to be read by a wider audience. It’s inspiring. So if you can’t find it in your bookstore there is always Amazon 😉

Rethink: the way you live by Amanda Talbot. Photos – Mikkel Vang. Published by Murdoch Books.

Rethink: the way you live by Amanda Talbot. Photos – Mikkel Vang. Published by Murdoch Books.

Rethink: the way you live by Amanda Talbot. Photos – Mikkel Vang. Published by Murdoch Books.

Rethink: the way you live by Amanda Talbot. Photos – Mikkel Vang. Published by Murdoch Books.

Rethink: the way you live by Amanda Talbot. Photos – Mikkel Vang. Published by Murdoch Books.

Rethink: the way you live by Amanda Talbot. Photos – Mikkel Vang. Published by Murdoch Books.

P.S. The amazing book design is by Kate Dennis of This is Ikon and you can see more on Bettina Winkler‘s site.

I really appreciate great photography, and it is so evident that Ross Honeysett is a photography genius. His portfolio is absolutely magical – and of course I am particularly fond of his selection of spaces….especially this first grouping. He works with dim lighting like no other. Amazing.