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AirBnb Launches Fund to Help Fantastical Listings

Yellow submarines, alien craft, huge potatoes—within the age of Instagram, the whimsical abodes-to-book on Airbnb have turn into a fascination amongst scrollers and vacationers in quest of singular experiences. The reserving platform has actually taken discover of the keenness for most of these esoteric areas, as we speak saying a $10M OMG! Fund to assist gasoline the subsequent wave of imaginative tasks. (A current redesign of Airbnb’s web site launched searchable classes, together with one referred to as OMG!) 

Everybody from skilled designers and designers to DIYers and newbie makers can submit for an opportunity to win $100,000 to assist deliver the “craziest” concepts to life. The 100 winners will likely be chosen by a panel of specialists, together with type icon Iris Apfel, architect Koichi Takada, and superhost Kristie Wolfe, the creator behind the aforementioned Potato Lodge and different fantastical Airbnb listings. Submissions are due by July 22 and will likely be judged on originality, feasibility, sustainability, and visitor expertise. —Nate Storey

Balenciaga, Prada, and Thom Browne will likely be out there on Meta’s digital style retailer.

“Meta is launching a web-based retailer to promote style for its digital avatars, and Balenciaga, Prada and Thom Browne would be the first manufacturers to hitch. In a reside announcement on Instagram Friday, Mark Zuckerberg joined Eva Chen, Meta’s VP of style and buying partnerships, to share the information and supply a glimpse of what Meta’s new avatar style will seem like. Chen held up photographs to the digicam displaying Zuckerberg’s cartoonish Meta avatar in numerous seems to be, together with a Balenciaga motorbike swimsuit, a white anorak and shorts from Prada’s Linea Rossa line and one in all Thom Browne’s signature gray fits. The digital designs will likely be out there to be used on Instagram, Fb and Messenger. Meta plans to increase them to its virtual-reality platform and to introduce further manufacturers quickly.” [H/T Business of Fashion]

Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala gown spurs the launch of a brand new preservation committee.

“The fallout over Kim Kardashian’s determination to put on a historic Marilyn Monroe gown to this 12 months’s Costume Institute Gala at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Artwork has been so intense that the Worldwide Council of Museums (ICOM) is launching a brand new clothes preservation committee in response to the controversy. The group is now forming a working group that can assist replace its code of conduct for museum members, in addition to the ICOM Costume pointers. When Kardashian lately wore it for the purple carpet second, she and the gown’s present proprietor, museum franchise Ripley’s Consider It Or Not!, attracted widespread criticism from style historians and conservators—together with ICOM—for probably endangering the delicate garment.” [H/T Artnet News]

Marina Abramović narrates interludes in dream pop duo Sound of Ceres’s new album.

“Very similar to the universe, Marina Abramović’s creative observe is ever-expanding. Rooted in durational efficiency, it has over time grown to include pictures, video, theater, opera, pedagogy, digital actuality and, most lately, NFTs (non-fungible tokens). Abramović’s newest lateral transfer is into the realm of pop music: she will now be heard giving voice to the universe on Emerald Sea, a brand new idea album by New York-based dream pop duo Sound of Ceres, which was launched on 17 June.” [H/T The Art Newspaper]

José Andrés will open a restaurant within the Outdated Put up Workplace constructing in Washington, D.C.

“It has been a giant month for the Outdated Put up Workplace constructing in Washington, D.C. The historic landmark has reopened as a luxe Waldorf Astoria resort, and its clock tower—full with an unimaginable 360-degree view of the town—is welcoming guests for the primary time since all of us added phrases like “social distancing” and “contact tracing” to our vocabularies. However that’s not all: movie star chef and all-around unimaginable human José Andrés has introduced that he’s about to open his long-awaited restaurant within the constructing as nicely. In an announcement, Andrés’ ThinkFoodGroup introduced that the restaurant would be the latest outpost of his Bazaar idea, which has current and upcoming places in Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and New York.” [H/T Food & Wine]

Ikea donates furnishings and housewares to arrange refugee help facilities in Europe.

“Ikea has donated its merchandise and design providers to create a sequence of refugee help facilities in Japanese Europe, arrange by the UN to supply support and sanctuary to weak teams displaced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Swedish furnishings model created interiors with a homely, comforting environment inside a number of lately established Blue Dot facilities, that are run by the United Nations Youngsters’s Fund and the UN Refugee Company UNHCR to supply specialist help to youngsters, households and different at-risk refugees.” [H/T Dezeen]

Staff discover a noose on the development website of a uranium plant in Tennessee.

“An worker discovered a hangman’s noose on the $6.5 billion Uranium Processing Facility development website on the Y‑12 Nationwide Safety Complicated in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, firm officers confirmed. The federal venture’s contractor, Consolidated Nuclear Safety LLC, a consortium that’s majority-owned by Reston, Virginia-based Bechtel, stated the noose was instantly eliminated and it’s investigating. In an announcement, the agency pledged “extreme motion” in opposition to the perpetrator.” [H/T Construction Dive]

Noah Davis, Christie’s govt who facilitated the Beeple sale, heads to CryptoPunks.

“Noah Davis, the top of digital gross sales at Christie’s who helped provoke the NFT growth within the artwork world, will depart the public sale home to work on CryptoPunks, a vastly standard NFT assortment. CryptoPunks was lately purchased by YugaLabs, the father or mother firm of the Bored Ape Yacht Membership NFT assortment, and is valued at greater than $2 billion. As head of digital gross sales, Davis helped orchestrate the historic $69.3 million sale of Beeple’s Everydays, the First 5,000 Days that just about single-handedly helped create the rabid NFT market of 2021. [H/T ARTnews]

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