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
Personal
What it is like to live in Marseille in your own apartment that is also a showroom. Between Longchamp and the station, between private and open.
Travel
The Pont du Gard with children. Why the Roman aqueduct grips small explorers, and how a jump into the Gardon makes the perfect summer day.
Personal
How I live summer in Marseille, moving between a shady apartment and the nearby sea. A personal rhythm of calm, light and water.
Family
A family day in Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, first through the brocante, then to cool off at Fontaine-de-Vaucluse and wade through the ten-degree water.
Family
A family day in the Camargue. White horses to touch, pony rides and wide open space, plus an honest warning about the mosquitoes.
Personal
How I tried basket weaving at the MUCEM in Marseille. My planned basket became a base, and three hours became a small lesson in patience.
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.
