Today, it's Kazakhstan 's largest city and the second biggest in all of Central Asia, with a population of 2 million people exceeded only by 2.6 million people in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. At the foot of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains, Almaty is a vibrant center of commerce and culture, known for how it blends Soviet-era architecture with trendy neighborhoods, glitzy boutiques, and celebrations of time-honored crafts on street corners beside fashionable cafés and dining establishments.
You're cordially invited: Come see "Everyday Heirlooms: Exquisitely Designed Wooden Objects of Use" in Rockland, Maine, co-curated by Remodelista editor in chief Annie and furniture maker Heide Martin. Annie will be at the opening reception on Friday, September 26 from 5-7; come say hi. Speaking of heirlooms, have you heard of Hetta? The new furniture co. launched this week, featuring pieces "made to grow with, pass down, and gather around."
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Welcome to The Editors' Cut, our monthly column dedicated to beautiful and useful finds for all over the house. In this installment: Maybe it's the state of the world, or the proliferation of AI and its uncanny creations. But lately we've found ourselves drawn-pun fully intended-to markings, illustrations, and sketches, the doodle scrawled in the margins while daydreaming or in a meeting or on the phone.
The new Sunbrella textile collection is inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Hollyhock House in Los Angeles, known for its "California Romanza" or pre-Columbian Mexican architecture.