interior design

made of stone

Stone court villa designed by Marwan Al-Sayed Architects takes place on a nine acre desert site that contains two desert washes. Wonderful vistas to both nearby desert mountains and distant peaks. Compromised views to the immediate surrounding neighborhood. Thus walls are introduced slowly, rhythmically, repetitively almost snake like, moving in and out of the living spaces, blurring boundaries....

the Whitney’s new building

Designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and situated between the High Line and the Hudson River, the Whitney’s new building vastly increases the Museum’s exhibition and programming space, providing the first comprehensive view of its unsurpassed collection of modern and contemporary American art. Piano’s design takes a strong and strikingly asymmetrical form—one that responds to the industrial character of...

stylistic periods

Alfonzo Icaza is an antique dealer in the central district of Madrid. In addition to fashion designers antique dealers in my opinion have the best homes and I love an opportunity to peek inside. They are experts at mixing form, finish and pieces from vastly different stylistic periods. Here neoclassical objects and elements sit side by side with photography and contemporary art. An interesting juxtaposition. A...

The Canyon House

At the core of their work is pursuit of balance between natural and built environments; between a client’s vision and real-world parameters; between beauty and utility. As their name suggests Balance Associates Architects trademark is attention to the details of each unique site and their skill at unlocking the potential. The Canyon House located in the Methow Valley, Washington's...

Euroluce Mian 2015 with John Bechini and Fiona Venn 1

Part of the annual Salone del Mobile in Milan, Euroluce is the biannual lighting exhibition of this major international fair. It presents the new and interesting from the worlds leading lighting companies as well as offering a stage for new up and coming designers to present their interpretations of where lighting is heading today. The beauty of this latest lighting fair as compared to others in...

A Brutalist Bachelor Pad

More and more at Design Addicts platform we are seeing incredible bachelor pads being designed and this offering by one of my favourites, Guilherme Torres in Sao Paolo, is as impressive as any. Almost brutalist in its execution, the design is a pared back ode to masculinity with concrete, stunning timber panelling and metal forming the core of...

the Adelphi Hotel mark II

Most Melburnians know the Adelphi as “the hotel with the over hanging rooftop pool”. Originally built in 1938 as a warehouse for the rag trade, the building’s simple and elegant design received its first makeover in 1989 by architects Denton Corker Marshall. It opened in 1993 as a minimalist 34-room boutique hotel, the first of its kind in Australia, complete...

The Mullet house Melbourne

“The Mullet,” designed by March Studio, is an extension to a home in Melbourne, Australia, that accommodates the request from the owners, to have a contemporary family home with a challenging design, so they could show-off the capabilities of their construction company. Situated in Melbourne’s inner-city suburb of Kensington, ‘The Mullet’ is short at the front and long at the back...

Fondazione Prada

No one has done more to shine a truly long-term, international and bright light on Milan than Miuccia Prada who will open the doors to the long-awaited Fondazione Prada on the 9th of May 2015. For more than 20 years the fashion brand has been staging art exhibitions in a variety of spaces, but now they will all be housed in this redesigned industrial neighbourhood...