YAH Journal
Working notes from building YAH: on hospitality, landscape, architecture, food and the people who gather around a table. Not a magazine with a launch date, just what we are thinking about.
Working notes, added as we go
01 · Essay
For a long time luxury meant more: more marble, more service, more things to do. We think the definition has quietly turned around. The scarce goods now are space, silence, time and undivided attention. YAH is our attempt to build a place around them.
02 · Essay
Ideas travel, but they are born somewhere. The conversation that changes a company or a life usually happens in a particular room, under a particular tree, at a particular table. On why we chose a piece of land before we chose anything else.
03 · Architecture
Low, quiet and connected to the land. What it means in practice to place thirty-seven keys among cork oaks without the trees noticing: material choices, shade, orientation and the discipline of building less.
04 · Community
A long table, simple food and people who did not know each other at lunch. On the small design decisions, from seating to lighting to the length of dinner, that turn guests into a community.
05 · Series
Transcripts and recordings of the masterclasses and talks hosted at YAH, shared with the permission of the people in the room. A series that begins when the first pavilion opens.
06 · Portraits
Founders, artists, cooks, teachers and makers we admire, and who we hope to welcome to the Alentejo. Short portraits of the kind of people YAH is built for.
Register your interest and we will send the first issue of the journal when it is ready. Rarely, and only when there is something worth reading.
