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On Top of the World

Jean-Louis Deniot is an Interior Designer with a capital I and a capital D. He is so on top of his game it is impossible to look past his work. His work, which we have featured before, does not scream traditional, nor modern, nor classic but rather is screams style and luxury and it is these two words that define the scale and type of...

a night at the movies

Perched atop a ridge-line in the Hollywood Hills, the presence of the Skyline Residence by Belzberg Architects represents an economical approach to creating an environmentally sensitive building within a limited budget. The pre-existing site presented a challenge in terms of construction as the client presented the challenge of limited allowable expenses. Beyond incorporating sustainable building product systems, the budgetary...

luxe travel in japan

Although the décor may not be everyone’s cup of tea, it appears that the golden age of rail-travel is about to make a comeback in Japan. It’s a well-known fact that the island nation has an extremely extensive railway system, and that it privatized these railways back in the 1980s. Since then, there has been a veritable explosion of designer trains hitting the market. Created by...

Great things in small packages

This home, designed by architect Gert Wingårdh in Sweden, is a departure from my usual aesthetic but it is so beautifully crafted I thought it important to share with you. The Mill House as it is known is modest in footprint. The gabled roof and chimney resemble that archetypal house outline a child would draw but that is...

Dolce & Gabbana seeing red

Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are seeing red and its not because of their um … current judicial headaches. The fashion house has turned their attention to Spain taking the bull by the horns for their Menswear Spring Summer 2015 range. Inspired matadors, picadors and banderilleros all came to life on the catwalk in boleros and jackets covered in...

1970’s Sydney Manly beach

Redgen Mathieson's approach to design is grounded in Modernist principles of authentic, timeless design, with an emphasis on finely detailed spaces built to outlast changing fashion. This apartment was refurbished as a Sydney base for an Australian expatriate couple. Located within a 1970’s residential tower, the apartment enjoys significant views to Sydney’s Manly beach to the north, and...

Dutch Courage

Repurposing old buildings is something that Australians are good at, constantly we see old terraces and worker’s cottages transformed for modern day living. This project naturally caught my attention when I saw it was a Dutch interpretation on repurposing and with the setting for this project being a stunning and original farmhouse set in the countryside in the north of the Netherlands, it’s not difficult...

floating down the river

Located on an island on Lake Huron Canada on a remote island posed a set of constraints. Using traditional construction processes would have been expensive; the majority of costs would have been applied toward transporting building materials to the remote island. Instead, MOS architects worked with the contractor to devise a prefabrication and construction process that maximized the...

hipster pied-à-terre

The owner of Micasa, a furniture and objects store in São Paulo, Brazil, flies to New York four times a year, where he scours Brooklyn flea markets with his girlfriend, interior decorator Ana Strumpf. Whenever he leaves his 300 square meter apartment in Jardins, São Paulo to sleep in his 87-square-meter pied-à-terre in Chelsea New York, Hussein Jarouche doesn’t exactly downsize...

The Stones of Venice

Continuing my love affair with all things Venetian I came across this apartment in Manhattan. The project is located in Gramercy Park and what began as a modest tidy up of the apartment transformed into a total renovation lasting 5 years with designer Jim Luigs. Inspiration is all around us and for the client of this project reading three...