A modern farm: Westwind Orchard | New York (USA)

The Westwind Orchard, first planted by Chester Khon in the 1930s, is a 32-acre apple orchard farm in the Hudson River Valley owned by partners Laura Ferrara and Fabio Chizzola. Inspired by apple growing, the fashion editor/stylist and photographer-turned-farmers have dramatically renovated the farmhouse over the last eight years to create 'a vision of a local farming future for our region'. The farm grows pears, raspberries, garlic, grapes and squash and also houses a flock of chickens, honey beehives and maple trees. The interior of the farmhouse is a delicate blend of traditional and contemporary design and neatly reflects the couple’s unconventional yet sophisticated taste. The rustic dark wood that lines the floors and walls is offset by soft furnishings including quilts, long pile carpets and custom-made furniture to create a warm yet rustic space.

Read more about Westwind Orchard.

Visual Scents: Le Labo x Cereal Magazine | Bristol (UK)

A regular in the IDMCo magpile is Bristol based publication Cereal Magazine who recently released a preview of their upcoming collaboration with New York based perfumer Le Labo. Cereal Magazine will be presenting a series of images that offer a visual representation of Le Labo fragrances and first up is Santal 33. See the full collaboration in Issue 6 of Cereal Magazine.

Metier 2007-2013 by Laura Braun | London (UK)

In a world dominated by corporate character and conceptual branding, it is sometimes easy to forget that there are real personalities and names that sit behind everyday products.

Documented by London based photographer Laura Braun, Braun’s debut publication Metier showcases a collection of small-scale independent and specialist businesses in London alongside portraits of the people behind them. The idea grew from Braun's interest in the faces behind a craft who, despite unglamorous routines, take pride in their creations. Over a six year period (2007–2013) Braun shot a series of portraits and interior photographs in unique London businesses full of character and history and her work offers an insight into the working lives of people who strongly identify with their profession.

Laura Braun’s ‘Metier’ can be purchased from Paper Tiger Books.

Intern Magazine Issue One | Manchester (UK)

After a successful Kickstarter, Manchester based Intern Magazine presents Issue One (144 pages, perfect bound 240mm x 170mm), featuring work from Vincy Cheung, Jack Taylor, Lauren Murphy and Paul Phung. A learned perspective comes courtesy of Mike Perry, James Victore and Tim Lindsay among others.

Available from Intern Magazine online and selected worldwide stockists.

Sharing Paths by Ruben Brulat | Paris (FRA)

Having been raised in a vineyard in an isolated town in the south of France, nomadic photographer Ruben Brulat is accustomed to nature’s openness. A reoccurring focus in the Frenchman’s work is the unity/disconnect between human being and the environment. Following international exposure with his previous collections ‘Immaculate’ and ‘Primates’ in which he used a timer to photograph himself nude among Paris’s financial district, the ‘Sharing Paths’ series see’s Ruben make’s a journey of self-discovery and shared experiences.

Following a month to India, a few weeks in Patagonia, and a few more in Nepal, the notion developed for Ruben to experience a long and unstopped journey, an aesthetic travel. Leaving from Gare de Lyon (Paris) Ruben travelled East, from Europe to Asia, by land only, through Iraq, Iran onto Afghanistan, Tibet until Indonesia, Japan and Mongolia. Inspired by his previous trips, Ruben wanted to see and share the experience of giving oneself away to nature, documenting the naked human body amongst the rawness of nature’s environment. By embracing everything around them, opening their senses and simply being at one with nature results in ephemera intensity before the moment has passed. It is the scale of the landscapes and their ability to completely overpower their human inhabitants that is powerful in this photography project.

Following funding, Ruben was able to self-publish his series of beautiful photographs which he named Sharing Paths. The narrative constructed only by randomness of the encounters during this unplanned journey highlights the naked bodies of strangers who became companions before continuing with their separate paths, after sharing one for a moment. Recently released, ‘Sharing Paths’ (174 pages, 83 colour plates, D: 20cm x 24cm, 1/250) can be is also available as a limited edition (1/50), complete boxed in Walnut, handmade by Ruben himself in his father’s workshop.