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Issue 59 - The Life Outside Issue

Issue 59

The Life Outside Issue

Introducing the Life Outside issue of Habitus magazine. With life increasingly being absorbed into a digital space, there is never a more important moment to hold something tangible. In this context, the power of nature to have a physiological impact on our sense of wellbeing has never been more important. So how can we cultivate the benefits of the our natural environment in the most intimate of places – our homes? This was the question that helped to bring this issue of Habitus to life.

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Design Hunter™ Q+A with Alexander Lamont
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Design Hunter™ Q+A with Alexander Lamont

Bangkok-based designer Alexander Lamont shares his orientally-informed design favourites with habitusliving.


Your name: Alex Lamont

What you do: I have ideas for objects, lighting and furniture and then I make them

Your latest project: Tiny rock crystal pots with woven lids

What is your favourite…

travel destination: Istanbul

hotel/place to stay:  Hotel Le Royal, Phnom Penh

airline: British Airways

magazine: Private Eye

watchmaker: Ikepod

luxury goods company: Codognato

design classic: Bowler hat

new design:  Aston Martin One-77

favourite type of chair: Jacob Kjaers UN Chair

meal: My wife’s apple crumble

restaurant:  Soulfood Mahanakorn, Bangkok

drink: Burrow Hill Cider, Somerset

bar: Zuk Bar at the Sukhothai Hotel, Bangkok

gallery/museum: Musee Guimet, Paris

book: Nostromo, Joseph Conrad

item in your studio: Collection of Khmer bronze bracelets

artwork: Japanese female Shinto spirit, Asian Art Museum San Francisco

artist: R B Kitaj

piece of technology: Photoshop

What inspired you to be a designer? The theatre and spirit of great shops

Who are three people that inspire/excite you:

     1)  Yanagi Soetsu

     2)  Barbara Hepworth

     3)  Paul Simon

What is your creative philosophy? Make things that people want to touch and treasure

What does the term Design Hunter mean to you? A frame of mind always open to accidental and obscure references


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Issue 59 - The Life Outside Issue

Issue 59

The Life Outside Issue

Introducing the Life Outside issue of Habitus magazine. With life increasingly being absorbed into a digital space, there is never a more important moment to hold something tangible. In this context, the power of nature to have a physiological impact on our sense of wellbeing has never been more important. So how can we cultivate the benefits of the our natural environment in the most intimate of places – our homes? This was the question that helped to bring this issue of Habitus to life.

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