Summer seemed to have asked a lot of everyone. This issue is for whoever's still behind on sleep and on all the parts of life deferred until "after summer." As usual, we went looking for the corners of the internet and the world that are building something beautiful. Some places for rest and inspiration, some pieces to make your home a more peaceful place. Here's what we found.

fall cabins, dnd

We curated a running list of the quiet, foliage-adjacent spaces we love for the fall season, from both hinter and beyond; places built for disappearing for a few days. It's live on ddriftt now.

see the list →

a london exhibition that slows down the mind

Amar Kanwar — Serpentine North, London. Opens September 23. Kanwar’s film and video installations turn the gallery into a meditative visual and sonic environment; a unique show built for a slow down.

the one we have our eye on

Na Praia — Carvalhal, near Comporta. A decade in the making by José António Uva, the same family behind São Lourenço do Barrocal — with Studio KO (Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty) on architecture and Thomas Doxiadis on landscape. Uva scaled back the approved construction by 80% to protect the dunes. “the landscape gives us our architecture,” Marty says. “we don’t want to impose ourselves.” 113 keys, five restaurants built around hyper-local Alentejo, opening this spring. Not bookable yet, but we’ll tell you when it is.

from the studio

hinter’s first-ever city showroom is in Lisbon. It’s a lived-in space for the objects and furniture we love. The xBloom Studio, is an engineered object doing the work of three — 48mm conical burrs, a scale accurate to 0.1g, three pour patterns, water arriving at the perfect temperature. Works with whatever beans you already have, or their own pods, whichever you prefer that morning. It’s the kind of object that makes you stand still for four minutes on purpose and enjoy the moment.

the last wood-fired pottery kiln in portugal

Redondo, Portugal — Alentejo. Five hundred years of pottery in one small inland town, now down to six working studios from a peak of forty. Olaria Poço Velho still fires its kiln the old way; the last wood-fired oven left in the village. Olaria Pirraça, a family workshop around for four generations, stays true to its 1930s maximalist floral style. Seems to be a hidden gem, with no tourist infrastructure to speak of, which is exactly why it’s worth the detour if you’re anywhere near Évora.

Bonus: If you’re planning a trip to Portugal, here’s a curated design and food focused guide. Lisbon, and other places in the country are full of little secrets, design spaces and incredible food. Emily, from hinter has curated her selections, after living in Lisbon for over a year. Plus, some secret beaches, art galleries, shops, wellness experiences and more.

mios collection

MIOS New York — a ceramics-and-lighting studio working in porcelain, stoneware, and terracotta, every piece handmade to order. Just picked up Best of Lighting at ICFF Launch Pad 2026, recognizing immersing design and innovation within the field. The kind of object that makes a room feel more intentional, and importantly, more inviting.

for the one planning a wedding

Some of you are deep in the journey of organizing a wedding which comes with a hundred different decisions. Tara, by Pawan Sukhedo (@worldxtara) is a New York-based wedding planning and design studio. They focused on the story behind every couple, and weave it into the design behind every wedding and event. "Beauty is important," she says. "how people feel is unforgettable."

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hanging on to the sound of summer

Martin Brugger — The Shell — Squama Recordings, Munich. Squama was started by Brugger and designer Maximilian Schachtner after they met hosting a community radio show. The label's whole ethos is following their gut feeling and is visually indebted to the old ECM jazz aesthetic. The Shell is lowercase ambient, tape-warped and somewhat falling apart at the edges; press has called it the soundtrack to a summer already fading. Exactly the in-between feeling we are feeling right now.

shell-phones

What if we let something be useless on purpose? Katerina Shukshina, based in the Russian countryside has no formal art training and gets her inspiration from whatever’s growing nearby: a zucchini becomes a pair of Chanel ballet flats, a jacket stitched from cabbage leaves, is photographed once, then fed to her chickens. Her organic creations barely survive the day. Her seashells hold up better, as she’s turned them into wired earbuds, Shell-phones.

What we’re dying to know… if you put them on, can you hear the ocean?

your turn

What's the thing you let yourself do for no reason at all; nothing to show for it after?

The coffee you make slowly and only take a mental photograph of, or the art you made just for yourself. If you’re willing to let us into your little secret, leave it in the comments.

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editor’s note

We went quiet for a few months because we were busy building something.

There’s a pull that certain places have. The ones that haven’t been properly discovered yet, that exist just outside the frame of what most people are looking at. Those are the places that call us.

Idaho is one of them. It sits at a threshold; where the desert stops and the Rockies begin. Where classic old-school Americana, proper ranches, horses, open plains, meets the first pine forests climbing into the mountains, transitioning slowly into something that starts to feel like the Pacific Northwest. It’s a place caught between two worlds, and there’s something about that in-between quality that makes it quietly extraordinary.

We were in McCall, Idaho, in the mountains, surrounded by timber and stone and a very specific set of convictions about how people should gather. And now it’s ready.

It brought us back here with a lot to say.

Welcome back to the planet.

the good life is built, not found.

We’ve been sold the idea that the good life is something you discover. You find the right place, book it, experience it, and move on to the next one. The algorithm is very good at feeding this. So are we, honestly. Beautiful spaces are what we do.

But there’s a different kind of place that we’ve been thinking about. One that doesn’t work the same way.

It’s the house your grandparents owned that smelled the same every time you walked in. The cabin your family returned to every summer until it became the backdrop for everything; the fights, the meals, the traditions you didn’t realize were forming. The place that, when you picture it now, you feel something the algorithm can’t replicate: rootedness.

These places all have something in common. They weren’t optimized for discovery. They were built (or chosen, or inherited) for return.

Solarpunk, at its core, is about imagining a future that’s worth building toward. Durable things. Designed for people. Architecture that improves with age. Gatherings that become traditions. The radical act of making something that will outlast the moment it was made in.

That’s what we’ve been doing in Idaho.

introducing: the overlook, mccall, idaho

We are bringing a new kind of place to life in the mountains in McCall; a 4-bedroom structure woven into a hillside of Ponderosa pines, designed to bring people together.

Dark timber cladding, plain-sawn oak cabinetry, concrete surfaces, a Camaleonda sofa in cognac leather.

The brief our partners at Migration Studios, led by Cj Pennington and Cam Minor, gave themselves was simple: build something that rewards return visits. A place that gets better the second time, because you already know which window has the best light in the morning, and that the fog comes in low over the hills on cold afternoons and it is worth stopping for.

→ book the overlook

a maker we’re watching

Café Nice — the coffee shop that took four years and a classic Range Rover

Four years ago, Steve Booker had an idea. And he built it slowly, the only way it could be built. He restored a Range Rover Classic — fully, obsessively, down to every last detail — and turned it into a one-of-a-kind mobile coffee experience that has since taken on a life of its own.

Café Nice has been four years in the making. What started as an idea became a full vehicle restoration, which became a brand, which became a community. The Range Rover itself is the thesis. A machine built for going to difficult places and coming back. Booker took that spirit and asked: what if we used it to serve exceptional coffee in beautiful ones?

The build, as they describe it, became a metaphor: stripping things back, refining, rebuilding, and caring deeply about every element. That’s not how most people start a coffee business. It’s how you build something that lasts.

He’s now popping up across the UK, the Rover turning heads everywhere it parks.

what we’re listening to

Every good space deserves a soundtrack. Mike Clay recorded this vinyl set at Shadow Lakehouse in Vermont — hip-hop, jazz, funk, soul. Put it on.

→ Sunday Morning Vinyl at Shadow Lake

what we’re reading

Atmospheres — Peter Zumthor

Seventy pages. Reads in a single sitting. Changes how you see every room you walk into afterward. Zumthor, one of the great living architects, gave a lecture in 2003 about what makes a building feel the way it feels. The quality of light, the sound underfoot, the temperature of the air, the way materials age. He calls it atmosphere, and once he names it you can’t stop noticing it. Essential reading before any trip, any renovation, any stay. Essential reading for anyone who has ever walked into a room and felt, without knowing why, that they wanted to stay.

A Pattern Language — Christopher Alexander

Published in 1977 and still quietly radical. Alexander’s argument is that good spaces — towns, buildings, rooms — follow patterns that human beings have always known instinctively, and that we’ve been systematically ignoring them in the name of efficiency and novelty. It reads like a manifesto for everything hinter believes about space. Start with pattern 127: Intimacy Gradient.

where to go this summer and fall

Summer, and fall, is for going somewhere that earns a return visit. The place you’ll still be thinking about next year. Here are four we’d book without hesitation, all bookable on ddriftt, a booking platform for design-led, architecture-forward properties that you won't find on the usual channels.

Santa Clara 1728 — Lisbon, Portugal

An 18th-century building on one of Lisbon’s oldest squares, restored by architect Manuel Aires Mateus. Generous windows frame the Tagus River below. Old paintings on white walls. A hidden garden. Six bedrooms for up to 16 guests.

→ Book on ddriftt

Bonus: If you’re planning a trip to Lisbon, here’s a curated design and food focused guide. The city, and its surroundings, is full of little secrets, beautifully designed spaces and incredible food. Perfect spots to take it all in. Plus, some secret beaches, art galleries, shops, and more. A curation by Emily from hinter.

Cabanas no Rio — Comporta, Portugal

Two old fishermen’s huts on the Sado River, restored by the same architect — Aires Mateus, using a single material throughout: recycled timber. Floors, walls, ceiling, fittings, all exposed wood, built to disappear into the landscape.

→ Book on ddriftt

Fattoria Valtellina — Chianti, Italy

A four-bedroom farmhouse in the rolling hills of Chianti, owned by the same family for generations and thoughtfully restored by Domenico Minchilli Design of Rome. Vineyard views, a pool under the pines, daily housekeeping. The kind of place that operates on Italian summer time — slow lunches, long evenings, nowhere particular to be.

→ Book on ddriftt

Hårtwood by Fort Treehouse Co. — Minden, Ontario

Bordering a protected 500-acre nature reserve, Hårtwood is Fort’s most ambitious project to date, a landscape-led, off-grid treehouse hotel designed to slow people down. With three private treehouses and the Hydda, a communal space centered around a wine and cocktail bar, provisions, and forest-inspired goods, Hårtwood sits outside traditional hospitality categories. The architecture sets the rhythm, encouraging slower movement, deeper rest, and more intentional gathering.

→ Book

your turn

We’re curious about something.

Tell us about a place you return to.

A corner booth in a restaurant that’s been there forty years. A trail you’ve walked so many times it knows you back. A grandmother’s kitchen. Drop it in the comments.

The future is bright. ⍋

Want to find us in other galaxies?

⍋ hinter.com

⍋ Instagram

Interested in being one of our Artists in Residence? Apply here.

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issue 009

After a short hiatus, we come back with another edition of the hinter planet. Our hands were full opening new spaces and working on new partnerships for the new year. In this issue, we explore the new spaces and our obsession with Maison de Soma (the best food experience we've found in a long time in Quebec). We cover the power of music and ho…

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