Slow – Cultivating arts, crops and inner gardens

FEATURE

Sourcing Slow

Discovering Portugal's Small Organic Producers

From oyster breeders to dairy farmers, we visit some of Portugal’s best organic, artisanal producers with chef João Rodrigues, founder of the nonprofit platform Matéria, on a quest to source Slow's projects in Portugal.
INTERVIEW

Work in Progress

The Designer Creating Futuristic Furniture out of Recycled Materials

A look into the creative process of Frederik Fialin, the up-and-coming Danish furniture designer who created the clean, angular tables and chairs that populate the riverside terrace of our Marina project in Berlin.

PLACES

Drawing on the insights of the slow movement, adaptive reuse, and regenerative agriculture, we build and nourish locally rooted places that offer a deeper, more conscious form of hospitality. Our Places offer not a “pit stop” away from the hectic pace of daily life but a continuous journey of reconnection, of learning to live in harmony with nature, our shared human heritage, our community and ourselves.

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TRAVELOGUE

Slow Pilgrimage

Into Alentejo

From the Lisbon neighborhood that birthed a melancholic musical tradition to the timeworn fishing villages of Alentejo, we set out on a voyage into the Portuguese heart of the global slow movement.

The Prologue

Slow has been quietly unfolding since the creation in 2016 of La Granja Ibiza. The transformation of a dormant agricultural plot into a working farmstead devoted to discourse around food set the stage for a new kind of hospitality concept. We began to assemble a community of designers, farmers, writers, artists, artisans and architects whose work engages with slowness toward a resetting of values.

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PROJECTS

Through hybrid and temporal projects, we explore new fields of inquiry and compelling collaborations that aim to positively impact the places we inhabit. Ongoing projects include a bakery in Berlin, a beach restaurant on Portugal’s Caparica Coast and a series of thematic retreats around the world.

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Sofi

Xinú Tulum

Simple São João

PEOPLE

Slow unites a community of designers, farmers, writers, artists, artisans, architects and creative minds whose work engages with slowness toward a resetting of values in hospitality and beyond.

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Arno Brandlhuber

The Sofi Team

Claus Sendlinger

Joana Gomes & Joshua Beck

Serdar Kutucu

Frederik Bille Brahe

Uxii

Alex Vedel Ottenstein & Mathias Mentze

Cedric Etienne

Edo Fiaschi

Milan Kundera “Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time. In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”

To be slow is not merely to decrease the pace of life. It’s about taking the time to reconsider our actions and think more deeply and responsibly about how we live. We want to nourish ourselves on what Thoreau called “the tonic of wildness,” and live evermore in the moment so that we can inhabit an existence that is “more elastic, more starry, more immortal.” Or in the words of Rachel Carson, the mother of the green movement: “One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?’”

JOIN OUR COMMUNITY

An intention, a wish, a recourse, Slow is a collective of people, places and projects that reframe the way we live and interact.

Discovering Portugal's Small Organic Producers

The Designer Creating Futuristic Furniture out of Recycled Materials

PLACES

Tulum Treehouse

La Granja

Marina Project

Casa Noble

Into Alentejo

The Prologue

PROJECTS

Encyclopedia of the Farm

Arno Brandlhuber

PEOPLE