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The New Milan

When making the decision to move out of the their central Milanese home that the family had lived in for over one hundred years and turn it into a boutique hotel, the Ranza family knew that the end result should be an honest reflection of the history of the building, while being a fresh and luxurious addition to the Milan design landscape. For the Ranza...

Iron Origami

Sitting aloft the Tel Aviv skyline is this penthouse a family have decided to make their home. Pitsou Kedem studio’s work is a Design Addicts Platform favourite. We love them here! This 175 square metre penthouse has a folded piece of iron that encloses many of the mundane services that overflow into living spaces. Concealing televisions and toilets among...

Prewar in Warsaw

When the owner of this Prewar apartment in Warsaw relocated from Paris he hired Marta Chrapka of Colombe Design to bring him a piece of Paris to Poland. Prior to Chrapka’s intervention, the apartment was dark and cluttered by irrational space planning and complicated built in wardrobes and furniture. Stripping the one bedroom modest apartment has allowed light to penetrate deeply and allowed the addition of...

celebrated history

Combining the history of the existing 1930s former shoe factory in London with that of the clients was the task given to APA. Drawn to the expansive window and space, the clients wanted something that celebrated the history of the building and also the unique design elements and textures. To achieve this, APA developed a program which opened up...

renewal and responsibility

The G House in Brussels, Belgium, is an amazing architectural feat in respect and modernization of an old house in the historic center. With three floors, it was originally built in 1907 by architects and J. François Kielbaey L'Anvre. The renewal was the responsibility of the architectural and interior design Dwek Olivier, who without altering the basis of this majestic location, managed to change...

Big and bold

Kelly Behun is known for her minimalist interiors injected with unexpected gestures – be it a bolt of strong colour, a vintage chair or the even kookier one off piece. When charged with the job of this Park Avenue apartment she took it to the next level. Owned by an art collector this project was an adventure for both...

Milan living

The Moscova house by Peter Russo for Italian firm Studio GUM is an apartment with a rectangular plan, placed on the top floor of a nineteenth-century building, situated in a street corridor connecting the ‘garden’ of the city of Milan, the Sempione Park, to “Chinatown”. The clients, a young couple with two children decided to return to live in Italy after...

A sunburst in Paris

The entry to Stéphanie Coutas’ Parisian apartment has an art collector’s soul and a rebel’s touch with materiality. The family home overlooking the Place des États-Unis in the 16th arrondissement in Paris expresses the designers passion for collecting, creating, and arranging beautiful things. Transforming an almost warren-like arrangement of tiny rooms to make best use of its high ceilings and the...

SQUAT London

Interior designer Shalini Misra has teamed up with Milan gallery Nilufar to design a luxe 2,355 square foot apartment located on one of the most fashionable streets in the heart of Mayfair London. Following the success of the previous edition in Paris, Beirut and Milan, Nilufar Gallery presents the fifth edition of Squat, an ongoing project that explores...

Bunker living

A former air-raid shelter in Munich, Germany is not typically the first building typology you would pick to convert to high end residential. It takes a special type of client and some imagination to envisage what’s possible. This was exactly the vision of a the German property developer who clearly liked a challenge. Monolithic in stature, the concrete high rise’s top floors have been transformed into...