Graph coffee

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If you come to visit Thailand, you have to stop by Chiang Mai. It’s a cute city with a lot to offer. Cool trendy bars, restaurants and coffee places. Even though Thailand isn’t exactly famous for their coffee, I can say the dark battery acid did me good. While preparing my trips I always make a Pinboard on Pinterest with places to go in every city & town. So every morning – afternoon and evening I choose a new place to eat – drink or chill out.

While walking through Chiang Mai you can find the cutest mini coffee places, but one just stuck to me. Graph is a small industrial looking coffee cafe with great coffee, hot and iced. With it’s intimate atmosphere and vintage interior you can chill here for hours. Hearing the sound of the fresh beans going into the coffee machine and smell the homemade baked goods.

Address:
Ratvithi Lane 1 Alley, Chiang Mai
Thailand

Open:
Everyday from 09:00 – 17:00

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Trendy City Hub Amsterdam

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If you travel to Amsterdam, this is the place to stay. The new kind of traveler is searching for a trendy way of discovering city’s. Wondering the street of Europe, the ‘digitale native travelers’ wants to stay connected. That’s when CityHub come in, picks up the upcoming internet connected generations!

When you stay at CityHub you will experience the best of both worlds; the sociability of a hostel and at the same time the privacy of a hotel. You will sleep in a cabin, just big enough for you and your company. Each ‘cabin Hub’ has a double bed, wifi, app-controlled lighting and a personal audio streaming system. And that for less than 50 euro.

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Slurp – Salad & Soup Bar

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Some cool design in this little Salad & Soup bar at Cloister’s Arcade in Australia. A black and white checkered wallpaper and floor, marble counter and a nice atmosphere. Slurp serves fresh salads & soups with decent amount of fillings made by scratch. Both are available for take away..

TAQUERIA CANALLA

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I have a little crush on this Mexican restaurant for lunch and dinner. Canalla is so cute, you just want to fly to San Pedro to eat here. Every little object is designed and has had a great modern look&feel. The beautiful combination between light wood with the dark background gives a nice touch to it!

Beauty academy in Melbourne

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The Beauty EDU’s The Salon created a more inspiring space to teach. The Salon located in West Melbourne has a fresh interior, designed to give the students and customers a real-world experience. A clean space with white washed floors, beautiful mint green design furniture and inspiring copper accessoires. The designers at Techné architects created a place where everybody would love to work and go to school. Adding contemporary elements for a customer-friendly beauty academy.

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The Loft

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the-loft-entertheloft-amsterdam-interior-design-furniture-popup-store-lifestyle-openhouse Giving the Pop-up store a twist, last summer The Playing Circle organized a conceptual pop-up store in a Loft in Amsterdam. The apartment was fully furnished with trendy decor, unique objects and design. You will get inspired only by walking through the space. And the best part is that each piece you see, is for sale. It’s a totally different shopping experience, where first of all you would love to live and secondly your house will get a makeover after visiting this shop. the-loft-entertheloft-amsterdam-interior-design-furniture-popup-store-lifestyle-openhouse-the-playing-circle-vaudeville-theatre-loft-amsterdam-9-750x500 Continue reading →

Amazing Classified Repulse Bay

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The comfy Repulse Bay, located in Hong Kong, is the latest outpost of Classified series of cafés. Showing a new industrial-chic look, redefining the standard coffee shops. The firm Substance got inspired by the cafés at the seaside, using the marine blue tiles, rustic timber flooring and lobster-pot inspired ceiling lights. On the menu you can find shrimp, chorizo jambalaya and organic Thai quinoa salad. Or enjoy a cup of coffee and enjoy a spot of watching people in one of the two swinging sofas.
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YEEZY x ADIDAS

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Yesterday Kanye West showed his new Autumn/Winter 2015 collection for Adidas Originals. YEEZY SEASON 1 is a collection of apparel and footwear that cherishes universality and timelessness. Described by West as the world’s first “solutions-based” clothing line, the individual pieces define a style that matches the relentless pace of contemporary lives. The show was conceptualized by West in collaboration with contemporary artist Vanessa Beecroft.

Starring in the show is the little sis of Kim Kardashian West, Kylie Jenner. Walking her first runway show.

The Foreign Japanese Kitchen

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The-Foreign-Japanese-Kitchen-By-Moe-Takemura-food-cookbook-kitchen-desserts-design-ingredients-recipes Cooking japanese can seem like a lot of work or the ingredients are not available in your country, but with the cookbooks of Moé Takemura, you get recipes that can be made in your area. She lived in Sweden at the time working on her MA. She wanted to prove that the Japanese kitchen can be cooked in Western countries, with the ingredients that can be bought locally.

The Foreign Japanese Kitchen introducing the world of Japanese cooking, with fresh ingredients put in 7 full dinner recipes. Creating a modernistic design to make the recipes easy to follow. The cookbook is beautifully designed to explain all the ingredients and how to make the dishes easily.

Coming out with a new cookbook “Foreign Japanese Sweets” for Japanese sweets, how to make traditional desserts also using ingredients available in Western countries. Do you enjoy desserts? Try some delicious and healthy Japanese sweets for a change. A lot of desserts are often gluten free and vegan friendly. Using rice flour in stead of wheat flour, and bean paste instead of cream and chocolate, creating more options than wheat, butter and egg-based cakes and cookies. Continue reading →

An Iconic Argentinian Restaurant in Paris

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La Jeune Rue first project: Anahi, the argentinian restaurant is located in Marias, a backstreet in Paris. This restaurant was created 20 years ago by two sisters: Carmina and Pilar, who sold the place to the French Cédric Naudon. Naudon not only bought Anahi nu also 35 other businesses in the area, to create an entire village of design restaurants, bars and boutiques. And the first step is the cosy Anahi, designer Maud Bury added an incredible chic and modern interior with cool items. Using a lot of Gold to create an extra cosy atmosphere and filling the cracks in the wall. The restaurant has a lot of antique elements and an impressive ceiling.

Address: 49 rue Volta, 75003 Paris, France.
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