23 PERFECT PORTAL PLACES

Open for an out-of-body remote viewing experience. (And design-induced swooning)

We know that space crackles with intelligence.

But there are some pins dropped on the map that seem to quiver at a higher frequency.

There, the sun is a little brighter — or is it somehow softer… The colors a touch more saturated. It seems like the air is even easier to breathe, perhaps more highly oxygenated?

Regardless of whether these spaces are tucked away inside a New York City hotel or in the middle of nowhere Death Valley; whether they’re burrowed deep below sea level or nestled high up in penthouse territory, these spaces all have one thing in common:

They facilitate clear a direct line to Inspiration and spark something in our creative brains that says, go.

You can’t help but be compelled into creation once you step into a Perfect Portal Place. By stepping foot in a PPP, you tear open a new hole in the fabric of the cosmos, creating fresh new parallel universes full of possibility and potental as you do.

Maybe your Perfect Portal Place is your local coffee shop.
Or your dad’s basement workshop.
Or Casa Magazines in the West Village.
Or Terminal 4 at LAX.

We don’t choose Perfect Portal Places, they choose us.

Lo, keep scrolling for some famous Perfect Portal Places — the environments of famous artists we know and love — plus some PPPs you can taste through the magic of the internet.

Let your freak flag fly,

Michelle

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Food writer Nigella Lawson’s home library and office

Francis Bacon's 7 Reece Mews Studio, London, 1998. Photographed by Perry Ogden

Alexander Calder's desk, Roxbury studio, 1963Photograph by Pedr Son Abrines Mallorca studio, Photography: Jean Marie del Moral

Writer Will Self’s writing room, image #1 by Phil Grey

Will Self’s writing room, image #2 by Phil Grey

Merce Cunningham’s studio

David Hockney in his studio

Virginia Wolf’s writing space

Jackson Pollock’s studio

Georgia O’Keefe’s desert workspace

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And now, some Perfect Portal Places that you could make your own:

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