Beditorial: Let’s Take Sleeping Seriously
Clients often get us involved in designing and fabricating beds. This can lead to insomnia for all of us, including the end users of the beds. Conclusion: bed design is a nightmare. Most beds we see out there are designed for a “look,” but with little regard for how a bed is used. A bed should be comfortable to get into and arise from, especially in the dark, and in states of altered consciousness. A bed should have no sharp corners or gratuitous hard surfaces. This seems obvious. Then why are platform beds so wildly popular at present? They are ankle bangers, shin scrapers, knee-de-cappers and toe compactors. Show of hands: Who has never stumbled or banged themselves on the edge of a platform bed? Read more…
Where to go when you already live in Paradise? Santorini.
Life is complicated. We just finished (almost) building a house. Building a business. Building a gallery. Bali can be stressful. Imagine that.
I rarely long to go anywhere in particular. When you live in Bali, the travel bug doesn’t bite so hard. But now, after all this stress and the complexities of making and decorating a house, I really want to get away to something completely different. And simple.
The Perivolas in Oia on the Greek island of Santorini looks exactly right. Simple. Without the formality and rigour of a modern-minimalist tropical house, which is what I live in. That’s a change I could welcome right now. Read more…
“Indonesia ‘War Crimes’ General Seeks Election” – Times Headline
I’m not very interested in politics in Indonesia, or anywhere else. However, sometimes things seem so wrong that I feel compelled to comment. This is one of those times.
1998 pro-reform demonstrations: Prabowo “wanted” . . . but not for vice president.
Many Balinese voters feel an emotional attachment to Megawati, because one of her grandparents was Balinese. Although her religion is Islam, and her partial “Balinese-ness” is irrelevant to the issues the country and the province of Bali face in the years ahead, still large numbers of voters in Bali feel empassioned support for her.
Riots targeting ethnic Chinese, Jakarta, 1998
Her running mate, Prabowo, was a key Soeharto crony and a man implicated in a variety of abuses of power, including of having a role in the massacre of thousands of ethnic Chinese in May 1998. Read more…