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Brutalist rigour – Portugal house

Overlooking the vast Alqueva Lake in Portugal, which is the largest artificial lake in Europe, sits a house hunkered into the pristine landscape. Designed by architecture practice Aires Mateus, the house is dug into a hillside and concealed by a green roof, the only visible elements of the building’s presence are the cantilevered roof jutting out towards the lake...

A new relationship – revisited

Situated close to the shore of Lake Geneva, the 1920s home has been overhauled by Bureau Brisson Architects to feature a much simpler floor plan and sea blue storage unit. The owners had an experience with other architects, but were not completely satisfied, but they new what needed to happen on the ground floor. They asked Bureau Brisson Architects to...

Blue With Envy

Perched above her flagship gallery and located in New York’s Chelsea distract, the apartment of Marianne Boesky has been completely redesigned by Deborah Berke, the architect responsible for the building’s design ten years prior. With her gallery known for its representation of emerging as well as established artists, it was only natural that...

Intoxicating mix – revisited

I have been fortunate enough to visit London a couple times and every time is more inspiring that the last. Spending days in galleries and design museums is such a decadent pleasure for me. What I love most about London is walking the streets, particularly the more affluent suburbs, peering through terrace front windows in the hope of glimpsing “the good room” beyond. I can...

A Luxe Bachelor’s Pad – revisited

After spending his days making the world's most famous faces beautiful, it makes sense that the owner of this New York apartment would want the same for his home. Make-up artist to the stars, Mario Dedivanovic, enlisted young design super-star Ryan Korban (famed for designing the interiors for Balenciaga, Alexander Wang and more) to completely renovated his penthouse...

A new apartment of yester year

At the top of a classic Art Deco building on the Upper East Side is a home designed by Billy Cotton and his exploration of contradictions in a coveted Classic Six building by Emery Roth who was one of the Manhattans definitive early-­20th-century architects. Cotton pays homage to the classic apartments of previous times, as well as...

Tradition meets Sottsass in LA

I pondered this week on what should be my final post for 2018. Looking back over the incredible design we have discovered, dissected and discussed I wanted to try and show you something that I believe is truly unique and new – of course I wanted it to be playful, colourful and joyous – just like the holiday period. The answer had to be

Wide Open Land – Wyoming

As we hurtle towards the end of the year, my mind always turns to thoughts of escaping the city and heading out into the wide open land for a few weeks of rest and relaxation and this year if I could teleport myself anywhere it would be to this stunning contemporary mountain home designed by British firm McLean Quinlan and located near...

Atop a Rocky Edge

Located on a cove near the coastal community of Los Vilos in Chile, Bahia Azul House sits atop a rocky edge overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Designed by Santiago-based studio Felipe Assandi Architects the house’s rectilinear in form and is slanted to accommodate the slope of the terrain. This inclination, combined with the irregular openings of the sea-facing facade, gives the impression, when...

A Sympathetic Renovation

It can be a tricky business remodelling an existing home whose pedigree is without question, as is the case with this home located in Sea Ranch the rugged Californian coast north of San Francisco and original designed forty years ago by Ralph Matheson whose home are seromucous with the region. A sympathetic renovation occurred in the 90s by William Turnbull & Associates, however it was...