Here I write about living and designing, about my travels, about the apartments, and about life with my family. A mix of everything that matters to me. Personal, calm, unhurried.
The Journal
Attitude
Why I love small flats and do not fear dark walls. On the essential, Art Deco and living for two on little space.
Attitude
Why sleeping alcoves move me more than large bedrooms. On curtains, niches and the art of building a room within a room.
Personal
Why I choose rooms by their light and how the light of Provence changed the way I think about living. Personal, from Marseille.
Living
Living around the Stadthalle in Vienna. Short distances, good coffee, the 7th district between Westbahnhof and Mariahilfer Straße. Why arriving comes easy here.
Travel
Why the rough, windy sea of the Calanques calms me more than any still cove. On the mistral, white rock and growing small before nature.
Living
What a good furnished apartment in Vienna needs, from the first evening to the third month. Material, light and the small things that make arriving easier.
About me
For years I have put homes together by hand, curated, not furnished. From that work a love of detail has grown, for honest materials and for pieces that are made to stay.
This journal is my place for it. I write about living, about the weekends when we share it, and sometimes simply about the life in between. Lovely that you are here.
Martina Rogy
Weekend seminars
A few times a year I invite a handful of people. We cook, we talk about rooms and pieces, we arrange something together. No stage, no minute-by-minute schedule. More a long weekend among kindred spirits.
Materials, patina, an eye for the real.
From the first concept to the last Bakelite switch.
Cooking, talking, arriving. The kitchen at the centre.
The core
Small groups. Regular meetings. People who understand that it is about quality, not quantity.
We meet regularly. Sometimes online, sometimes in person. We talk about design, about life, about the beautiful things we come across. Every gathering is open and invites you to bring yourself in.
The community is the place where we learn. From one another. From the places we visit. From the people we sit down with.
Write to me
You would like to join the community. Or you have an idea. Or you simply want to say what you like. Write to me.
