space.

the longer you're alive, the more places you visit, right?  makes sense.  it also means you start developing your own personal aesthetic taste.  i was thinking about the places i've been recently (and not so recently) that have left some sort of impression on me.  they all have the same look, which is something i've heard called 'contemporary industrial.' below i've posted photos only of places i have been, [because it's hard to get a feel for a place unless you visit it] that have inspired me.  i would like my home to be much softer than the looks below, but if i were to open ny own... something... i would go this route.

1. mass MoCA; berkshires, ma: i visited the moca in november and was honestly breathless.  it's an old mill building with distressed bricks, great big windows and ceilings. it looked really raw. i fell in love.

2. intelligentsia; venice beach, ca: it's a coffee shop.  they are in california and chicago. autumn de wilde is doing a book signing here for her death cab photo book this weekend. i want to go.

3. elsa bar; east village, ny: it's especially great in person. oh, and they somehow serve beer from that sewing machine.

4. drink; boston, ma.

5. ica; boston, ma: specifically the mediatheque room. the architects designed this room so that while inside, the only view from the glass wall is water.  you can literally see nothing else but a wall of water that's ever changing.  in the second photo, the mediatheque room is that small box that pokes out of the belly of the building.