Tiny Living
July 4, 2025

Airstream Trailer Combines Frank Lloyd Wright’s Exquisite Design With Sleek Functionality

Modernist architects may often have touted that form follows function, but Frank Lloyd Wright cautioned that this was a phrase prone to being misunderstood. “Form and function should be one,” he once clarified, “joined in a spiritual union.” That “spiritual union” couldn’t be more evident than in a new collaboration between the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation (FLWF) and Airstream, an Ohio-based manufacturer of recreational vehicles.

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Inspiring
July 4, 2025

Hear Albert Camus’ Grateful Letter to His Teacher After Winning the Nobel Prize

In 1924, two decades before the publication of The Stranger, author Albert Camus was a boy growing up in poverty in Algeria. Noticing his potential, a teacher named Louis Germain took him under his wing, even giving him free lessons to help him secure a scholarship. That's why, when Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Germain was one of the people who came to his mind.

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Installation
July 3, 2025

Dazzling Thread Art Installation Stretches String To Create Luminous Indoor Rainbows

Artist Gabriel Dawe is creating rainbows indoors again. Continuing his dazzling Plexus series, the renowned creative has recently installed Plexus no. 46 as part of a group show at Villa Manin in Italy. The exhibition is titled Transparent Architectures (Architteture Trasparenti) and features Dawe’s work alongside incredible artists, including Christina Kubisch, Robert Irwin, Pat White, and Jeppe Hein.

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Video
July 3, 2025

Record-Breaking Drone Show Lights up the Night Sky in China’s Tech-Forward Metropolis

Chongqing is one China's largest cities, and has emerged as its most futuristic metropolis over the last few years. Boasting ultra-modern skyscrapers and the world's largest monorail network, the city is also home to dazzling, record-breaking drone shows. Recently, a light show featuring over 10,000 individual drones broke the Guinness World Record for the Largest aerial image formed by multirotors/drones. “Today, the target to beat was 10,197 drones.

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My Modern Met

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