Listening, Reading, Thinking, Shopping, Watching / 26
A home in Paris, and one in Berlin; a new brasserie has opened in the 8th arrondissement, weekday market, sporting life, and butter yellow...
I was listening to David Duchovny’s podcast recently, where he was interviewing Graydon Carter, and something the latter said caught my attention. He spoke about the first magazine he created while at university, which didn’t do well. In hindsight, he realised it failed because “it didn’t really have a point.” His second magazine, Spy, succeeded, and he credited that success to its sense of purpose. “It was because it had a point,” he said. “My first magazine did not have a point. And so, if you want to be noticed, everything has to have a point.”
Now I find myself wondering what the point of everything is.
This week’s edition includes reflections on disappearing and the pull of the weekday market; an extravagant home in Paris and a more understated one in Berlin; a new brasserie in the 8th arrondissement; sporting life, butter yellow, and more.
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MOOD BOARD 001 /butter yellow






Butter yellow is the colour of soft light slipping through café windows at mid-morning, of linen coats shrugged on over crisp shirts, and sun-warmed vintage cars parked beside old stone façades. It’s the pastel table of a sidewalk café where baguettes and croissants will be torn with fingertips and chocolat chaud will be sipped; it’s in the pale light that pools across unmade beds where silver trays hold the promise of leisurely mornings, the colour of warm spaces and slow moments. Warmth without intensity, it lingers—soft, nostalgic, sophisticated. Butter yellow doesn’t announce itself; it rests in memory like the warmth of a hand you hadn’t realised you were still holding.
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