Category Archives: Design

This leather is made out of cacti

Hausblog Desserto "Leather" from Cacti

Desserto was designed to change the world of leather by being made from cacti and being partially biodegradable. Desserto is a highly sustainable plant based vegan-leather made from cactus, often distinguished by its great softness at touch while offering a great performance for a wide variety of applications and complying with the most rigorous quality […]

The Open-Office Trap | The New Yorker

Hausblog Open Office

A growing body of evidence suggests that the open office undermines the very things that it was designed to achieve.— Read on www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-trap …[T]hough open offices often fostereda symbolic sense of organizational mission, making employees feel like part ofa more laid-back, innovative enterprise, they were damaging to the workers’ attention spans, productivity, creative thinking, and […]

Beauty, Truth, and Wisdom

Hausblog Michelangelo

Photo by Delia Giandeini on Unsplash Philanthropy and the renaissance, particularly under the direction of Lorenzo de’ Medici, was focused on the promotion of Beauty, Truth, and Wisdom. For the cost of one of today’s superyachts, Medici was able to fund much of the renaissance for 30 years. With more wealth in the world than […]