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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...

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...

Australian beach shack

The Sea View house designed by Australian studio Jackson Clements Burrows Architects , a single family house located in Old Barwon Heads Victoria on a street which accommodates an eclectic mix of post war beach houses dominated by single storey weatherboard dwellings. The owners were looking to replace their existing deteriorating beach shack with a modest beach retreat that would...

Unpretentious Melbourne pad

Located in a heritage-listed building in Melbourne’s CBD, this apartment designed by Clare Cousins Architects updates a 75m2 apartment for a young family. Bathed in abundant natural light from windows along three of the four walls, the open, functional space utilises readily available, affordable materials to make the most of a small space and a modest budget. The clients,...

Melbourne Regency

Whats not to love about Kerry Phelan Design Office whom favor a collaborative design approach, which espouses the theory of emotional design, a soulful and responsive exploration of ideas, rather than a static design methodology. This is expressed through a strong architectural aesthetic that has ultimately resulted in creating warm and versatile spaces.

Located in Melbourne Australia one of K.P.D.O.'s recent projects, a...

The Chamber of Curiosity

Who doesn't love a great interiors book? With over 256 pages The Chamber of Curiosity takes the reader on a tour of some very exciting interiors. This volume also provides portraits of trailblazing interior designers with complementing features on Jean-Christophe Aumas from Voici-Voilá, Pietro Russo, Dimore Studio, Autoban, and the Harmony Club, additional texts about the featured owners and their furnishings reveal how...

Beirut Penthouse

Located on the 9th level of an apartment block the articulation of this project is also related to its geographic location. Virtually situated on the former demarcation line which separated east and west Beirut, this apartment opens up onto “the hell” of its city, placing it neither east nor west but in between. Whereas usual preference for Mediterranean roof apartments is to turn their backs...

desert dwelling

Villa E by Studio KO is described as a minimalist mountain lodge, but it’s place in the Moroccan foothills, solid stone walls, and imposing metallic entrance make it seem more like a fortress. Locally-sourced Ouriko stone gives the luxury home the distinct red colour often associated with nearby Marrakesh. To contrast the building’s somewhat harsh exterior, the interior is filled with soft white walls,...

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