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Julianne Moore’s Love of Imperfect Design

MyProperty Life — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:00:15 +0000

Julianne Moore welcomes Architectural Digest into her New York City apartment filled with vintage furniture, handmade ceramics, and imperfect design.
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A 1908 Japanese Prison Finds New Life as a Luxury Hotel

MyProperty Life — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:42:24 +0000

Constructed in 1908 by government architect Keijiro Yamashita, the landmark Nara Prison is the only complex among Japan’s monumental “Five Great Prisons of Meiji” to survive almost entirely intact. More than a century later, Hoshino Resorts has transformed the former…

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A New Book Preserves the Lost Interiors of Ebony and Jet’s Chicago Headquarters

MyProperty Life — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:11:02 +0000

For decades, Ebony and Jet were among the most important publications documenting Black American life and culture, making Johnson Publishing Company the era’s most influential Black-owned media corporation. Completed in 1972, its headquarters at 820 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago…

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