For @tmagazine’s latest design issue — out now — I wrote about the Balinese escape that @studio_jencquel made for @gildaskitsune, the co-founder of the brand Kitsune, who was both charming and honest about the fact that he wanted to build the place because his life had become too stressful. 

I guess it’s a house story masquerading as a mental-health PSA: “His hearing and eyesight started to go: ‘You get to a limit, and you decide to be outside the scene,’ he says. He watched his friend Virgil Abloh die of cancer at 41 after giving all his waking hours to his career as a fashion designer. Meanwhile, other businesspeople — Loaëc mentions Kanye West and Elon Musk — were boasting about sleeping in their offices, treating their employees badly or, worse, attempting to get involved in politics and change society. ‘I think it’s all ego: “I want more stores, I want bigger stores, I want to fly private” — or other things that’re terrible for humans,’ he says. ‘But what’s the pleasure in that journey?’”

Photographs by @joshrobenstone.
For @tmagazine’s latest design issue — out now — I wrote about the Balinese escape that @studio_jencquel made for @gildaskitsune, the co-founder of the brand Kitsune, who was both charming and honest about the fact that he wanted to build the place because his life had become too stressful. I guess it’s a house story masquerading as a mental-health PSA: “His hearing and eyesight started to go: ‘You get to a limit, and you decide to be outside the scene,’ he says. He watched his friend Virgil Abloh die of cancer at 41 after giving all his waking hours to his career as a fashion designer. Meanwhile, other businesspeople — Loaëc mentions Kanye West and Elon Musk — were boasting about sleeping in their offices, treating their employees badly or, worse, attempting to get involved in politics and change society. ‘I think it’s all ego: “I want more stores, I want bigger stores, I want to fly private” — or other things that’re terrible for humans,’ he says. ‘But what’s the pleasure in that journey?’” Photographs by @joshrobenstone.
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