Monday, May 16, 2011

THE WAY I LIKE IT...

Online magazines are starting to really come into their own and Collected magazine has got it just right. Launching with an issue devoted to 'Secret LA',  the founders' hometown, and with both very decent photography and writing, as well as none of those seemingly minor glitches that always annoy me like embedded links that are too easy to mistakenly click on and zoom that jolts all over the place. All of that is ironed out, which makes enjoying the features so much more pleasant. We've already caught a glimpse of Claire Cottrell's LA home on Jeana Sohn's Closet Visit, seen her work in the first Closet Visit film and now I've revisited the feature on her house in Collected about sixteen times in the past day.





My only question is, when can I come and stay? The feature also led me to Claire Cottrell's not-marketing company Academy of Archivists, which is a great idea and also my idea of the perfect website: clear and clean, but emanating personality and inspiration. It has a section called Confidence Albums: featuring people like Ana Kras and Martin Parr - and Field Trips: photographic records of London, Cap-Martin and Big Sur among other places. The whole site is well worth a good delve around in.

{Photographs by Cara Robbins for Collected magazine}

3 comments:

charlotte said...

"simple, refined living"... i like it very much.
i would also like to go and stay :)

Milly said...

Thank you so much for this post, such a lovely read. Closet Visit feeds my nosiness but I LOVED the Field Trips section on Claire's website.

http://millyfellintothewardrobe.blogspot.com/

P R I M O E Z A said...

yeah, i haven't gotten into the whole online magazine thing, but i just took a look at this one and it seems lovely, and i just discovered a great men's shoe line through it.