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It doesn't get sexier than this! Brass + Stone - Designed in house by Skheme, BRASS + STONE is new to market. BRASS + STONE uses real marble with hand crafted brass inserts. Available in Carrara C honed and Perla tumbled.When you these tiles with the brass inserts in the flesh,...

The NOUVEAU COLLECTION

Designer Rugs has just released their newest collaboration with surface design studio, Kingdom Home. The NOUVEAU COLLECTION of five Art Nouveau influenced designs, hand tufted in New Zealand Wool with Bamboo highlights, available exclusively from Designer Rugs. Kingdom Home has designed for leading Australian brands such as, Catherine Martin Home, Cream Magazine and Bazmark to name a few. He...

completely clear

Serbian architectural practice Autori has recently refurbished this 80 smq apartment for a young couple in the heart of Belgrade. Treatment of floors and walls was reduced to the essential polished concrete floor and the authentic “avramenko” ceiling that was hiding under the suspended ceiling. Studio Autori has also designed a number of pieces for the interior – the kitchen block,...

Villa Tranquille France

This incredibly well designed house is located on a tiny plot of land with a gorgeous view of  the Hérault Valley, this country villa in the south of France has been designed by local architecture studio Artelabo. Named ‘Villa Tranquille’ or ‘Quiet House’, the structure is based on a repeated sequence of four volumes, inscribed in a regular pattern, enclosed within a...

the Levitating house

Prefabricated housing company MIMA designed a modular home that appears to float in the air. This house seems to levitate above the ground due to the lining of the base with mirrors. Inspired by the minimalist sculpture of artists such as Donald Judd, John McCracken and Robert Morris, the MIMA Light aims to be the epitome of sophistication, synthesizing...

Tel Aviv house

Tel Aviv house by Neuman Hayner Architects was planned for a family of four. Two cubes separated by a passage combine into an “L” shaped house. The front cube, of double height space, holds the public areas: entrance, living room, kitchen, dining room (all on the ground floor) and a study on the first floor. The passage, 4 meters wide, continues through the center of the...

Classic French Riviera

Barry Dierks, an American architect of the Modernist movement, designed numerous villas from 1925 to the 1950s on the French Riviera. Dierks architecture remains a characteristic feature of the Mediterranean coast to this day, most of his buildings are heritage-protected. The first building in this series, the Villa Le Trident, was built in 1926. Not only is its splendid location overlooking the sea, but it...

Ocean views

The Paravicini beach house is located at Beranda, north of Santiago, set on a steeply hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the village of Cachagua. The clients, a Swiss couple with three children, wanted the house to reflect their lifestyle, with interconnected and informal living spaces with each room enjoying views of the sea.  The house is completely built in concrete form-work handmade with natural wood...

opaque and transparent

In a dense, mountainous region, outside the bustling city of São Paulo, Architect Marcio Kogan explores the duality of opaque and transparent in a single-family dwelling. Initially, Kogan’s clients desired to perch the home on top of the site, reversely, Kogan and his team of architects at Studio MK27 advised their clients to build on the lowest point of the land allowing for the...

house in the cliff

Commissioned by a young couple to design a residence on a difficult plot on a hill with an inclination of 42 degrees, GilBartolomé Architects conceived ‘House on the Cliff’, a unique two-storey dwelling pierced into the cliff overlooking the Mediterranean in Granada, Spain. The form of the house and the metallic roof produces a calculated aesthetic ambiguity between the natural and...

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