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Likely the best place I’ve ever taken a conference call and happy @distresseddesign arrived at the end and snapped this 📷
The way we organize ourselves fascinates me. How cities are a representation of the form and function of humans. How we interact with one another. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of visiting Pompei. This city was buried in ash after a volcanic eruption from Mt. Vesuvius in 79AD. Naturally, I had arranged a group tour with an archeologist so we could understand more about Pompei. How did this city, these people organize themselves 2000 years ago? As we entered through the city’s gates, we first came across the remains of a small restaurant. Nothing more than a stone counter with terra cotta pots where soup and legumes were sold. In Roman culture lunch was always eaten out and dinner was at home. It was essentially an ancient quick service lunch. The next door over was a home. The restaurant was owned by the home our guide explained and the one on the other side of their door as well. That’s one of the ways they earned income. Nowadays, we talk about this concept of live-work and it can be hard to get zoning to allow it for a professional office firm, let alone the health department to allow a live-work restaurant. As we explored the remains of the homes they typically had 6-8 bedrooms because they had more than one generation living in the home. Multigenerational households have long been a staple in human civilization. America has more assisted living facilities than any other country because we don’t practice caring for the older generations or having them care for younger generations. My mom grew up with her grandmother living with them, cooking dinner every night and caring for them as kids while her parents worked (yes, I’ve been asking for her to move in with us for about 3 years to get this amazing child care benefit). It’s funny that I advocate for these things like live-work and multigenerational households on a weekly basis as though they are ‘new’ when in fact they are a time tested basis of how we function. Before zoning codes and automobiles and suburbia, the building blocks of how we organize ourselves was to keep your occupation and your loved ones close to home.
Our #airbnb is built into the side of a cliff 😳 this 400-year-old home requires an old tunnel system to gain access
Details details details 🥰
An apartment tucked into a hillside with a view of Capri 😍 #timeforpizza
#1 step to a great street or alley is cleanliness. Honestly, I didn’t feel safe or great on this street. No different from the others except they had people who respected and cared about them
It’s the Barbie dream house of Rome 💕
There’s nothing exceptional about these buildings. It’s good lighting and framing a storefront with planters that makes this side road special

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