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The good life, with chefs Daniel Humm and Alice Waters

Life and Art from FT Weekend

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The Myth of the Pink House

The story is that a couple were splitting up and the wife demanded that e husband build an exact replica of the house they were living in at the time he biuld herself. The husband built the house, but he built it on a salt marsh which was borderline uninhabitable. So it's a house haunted by its origin. Myt it seems like all spite architecture. I mean, it's in the name, but it's just so mean. And i'm wondering, like, are there some quality to these buildings that you see across them? Are there things in common that these spaces have? That's a really interesting question. One of the odd things is how resilient these spite houses

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