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'Making A Museum Out of a Mountain'

image_manager__content_rendering_corones_cmyk Cool piece in the NY Times that I recently discovered which dates back to November of 2015. The magnificent mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who calls South Tyrol, Italy his home and became a world-wide sensation when he climbed Mount Everest without using bottled oxygen, has cleverly created six high-altitude museums known as the Messner Mountain Museum. Each museum is its own architectural gem and respectfully devoted to a certain theme Messner identifies with. The Corones Museum (pictured above) is devoted to alpine history and "the supreme discipline of mountaineering" for example. Messner is truly one of a kind and highly decorated with a whole slew of accolades and accomplishments in the outdoors. (To physically show for it, he only has three remaining toes from frostbite). The piece is absolutely a worthwhile read.

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Vert

image1 I love touches of green and also have a mild obsession with ferns - they remind me of Cedarside, my Grandparents' old camp in the Adirondacks. As such, I've loved this capture by Elle Decor that has seemed to float around for some time. I just wish I knew who is responsible for the space.

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Bill Ingram

Screen Shot 2016-01-08 at 7.48.03 AM Screen Shot 2016-01-08 at 7.48.17 AM Screen Shot 2016-01-08 at 7.48.38 AM Screen Shot 2016-01-08 at 7.49.01 AM Bill Ingram, (dapper southern gent-meets-architect extraordinaire) is one to follow. His "Lake Martin House 1" project remains one of my favorites. To view his portfolio, visit here.

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