Milk Decoration – Number 57

Style and inspiration for contemporary tribes

What's it like to move to the places that inspire us? To transform these fantasy territories—often associated with summer, vacations, and a beautiful escape—into a real, everyday life? Places to escape, never to stay, and yet... The personalities in this issue didn't just ask themselves the question. They crossed the threshold, swapping seasonal escapes for year-round life in these secret havens.

Like the German-Scottish gallery owner, curator, and designer Katharina Marie Herold who, after growing up in Hamburg, settling in London and then Berlin, opened her gallery on the German island of Sylt, discovered Majorca one day and never left. Here, she has made a townhouse with a marvelous aura her own, transposing her taste, her work, and her projects into it. Just like Rhiannon Pickles, head of her public relations agency, and her husband Taco Dibbits, director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, who, in their fast-paced lives, chose to turn a 20th-century Sicilian farmhouse, perched on fertile volcanic soil, into an authentic and charming family pied-à-terre. Similarly, artist Dan John Anderson left the wooded lands of Oregon with his family for the California desert.

This issue explores these impulses. It tells stories of being anchored in beauty. Not the kind that freezes, but the kind that reveals and transforms.

Language: French (with English translastions on the back)