English Version | Editor's Letter: The Art of Living, November 2025

There is a subtle art to living well, and it has nothing to do with luxury, but with intention. Some people think that living is a matter of luck. I prefer to believe that it is a matter of style, a careful composition between what you choose, what you feel, and what you let go of. The Art of Living is not a manual, it is a continuous exercise in attention: the way we look at the world, how we inhabit it, and how, with some grace, we try to make it a more beautiful place. It is the gesture of choosing delicately, of being present, of looking at the everyday with the eyes of someone who knows that beauty sometimes whispers. The Art of Living is this choreography between the essential and the enchantment: the pleasure of discovering the extraordinary within the ordinary.

To live with art is to sharpen one's gaze. It's understanding how light changes every hour, how a fabric can transform a space, how silence can also be a form of music. It's having time to perceive what doesn't shout, the slow movement of shadows, the scent of rain, the silent comfort of a place that belongs to us. True luxury is this: to feel the world with all senses awakened.

Ben Massarenti
Sam Spence

Traveling is perhaps the most generous act of this art. It's about setting out to find ourselves in the chaos of markets, in streets that don't know our name, in the unexpected taste of something we've never tried. Each trip is a new palette: of colors, of aromas, of ways of thinking. It's an invitation to reinvention, to lightness, to curiosity. Because the world, when we look closely, is the best school of aesthetics and humanity.

And then there's the return—the reunion with our own territory. Home, with its intimate geography, is the stage where the continuity of what we've learned outside unfolds. Design, far from being mere adornment, is an extension of our state of mind: the balance of lines, the feel of materials, the way light and shadows paint a wall. There is poetry in the harmony of a space that reflects who we are—and who we aspire to be.

Anastasia Koval
Jamie Nelson

Living well means understanding the rhythm of things: when it's time to leave and when it's time to rest; when to change the scenery and when simply to change your perspective. It's about embracing comfort, not haste, inhabiting time as one inhabits a home. This issue is about all of that: The Art of Living is the ability to transform the everyday into something delicate, to make life an aesthetic, sensory, and profoundly human experience.

Because, in the end, true elegance lies not in what we show, but in how we experience the world—and in how we allow it to gently transform us, every day.

Ben Massarenti
Sam Spence

Translated from the original in The Art of Living issue, published November 2025. For full credits and stories, check the print issue.