Emmanuel Fonte | Music | Art | Leadership
If music be the food of love, play on. Emmanuel Fonte website is about music, art, real estate, architecture, design and decor. Occasionally, I talk about my other passion, hockey.
Musicians and music enthusiasts call The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” one of the greatest songs ever written. What makes it so good? Take a look at this analysis.
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Why are some violins so expensive? Rob Landes went to Peter Prier and Sons in Salt Lake City, where he put to the test a violin he purchased on Amazon for $62, and an antique Italian violin for $285,000.
The first song he plays is Hallelujah, and the second is AC/DC “Thunderstruck”.
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For most of us, gone are the days of family living on the same block or the entire neighborhood gathering in one person’s yard, day in and day out.
Instead, we plug ourselves into devices and vent online about how lonely we are.
Architect Grace Kim explains how she tackled the problem of modern isolation with cohousing, private dwellings with shared public spaces.
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A multipurpose dining room serves up style and function for a creative familyTwo things were immediately clear to designer Tracy Martin Taylor when she walked into the dining room of this modern home in Dallas’ family-friendly Lake Highlands neighborhood: First, this would be no ordinary dining room, and second, this was no ordinary client. The homeowner — an occupational therapist by day, roller derby player by night, and mom always — wasn’t afraid to take over the formal dining room for use as a bold, colorful work-and-play space in which to dream and create with her kids.
Find out how to protect your floors, furniture, fragile objects and moreFrom nicks in that fresh paint job to broken chair legs and sofas stuck in stairwells, there are lots of things that can go awry during a move. Thankfully, with some thoughtful preventive measures (and lots of padding), it is possible to get from old house to new with all your belongings in one piece — and hopefully with no dings in those freshly painted walls either.
Imagine what could happen with architecture as we implement this new way of looking at the elevator!
thyssenkrupp unveils MULTI, one of the industry’s most forward-thinking innovations created since the 19th century: the world’s first rope-less and sideways-moving elevator system. Instead of one cabin per shaft moving up and down, the MULTI offers multiple cabins operating in loop, like a metro system inside a building.
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Durable new materials and custom cabinets make for a functional and lasting design
