A Surry Hills Terrace Where Friendship, Colour & Japanese Restraint Collide.Nearly ten years after meeting at another practice, Christine Rose Design and Studio Liu have finally built something together. Fitzroy, a transformed terrace in Sydney's Surry Hills, is the first collaboration between the two emerging...
A House That Doubles as a Museum: Lazzarini Pickering’s Casa Museo in Milan.Casa Museo is Lazzarini Pickering's latest: a Milan silversmiths' workshop reworked into a home that's also a gallery. Twin staircases, a conversation-pit-turned-cavea, a hidden vault and a dark pool—built for collectors Ettore Molinario...
Yugoslav Modernism Meets Japanese Listening Bars at Esthetic Joys Embassy Belgrade.There's a special kind of thrill in watching design pilgrims swerve away from the usual capitals toward cities with grittier stories to tell. Belgrade has been accumulating exactly this kind of momentum, and Esthetic Joys Embassy...
Émile Sala’s Organic 1970s Arles Villa Opens as Luca Pronzato’s Casa Ideale.Some houses are built; Villa Bank was practically dreamt into being. Émile Sala's sculptural 1970s villa near Arles banishes the straight line for curving, elliptical rooms that roll into the landscape. Heritage-listed and long the...
Audo Turns the Volume Down with Quiet Grandeur at 3daysofdesign.Quiet Grandeur argues that grandeur and calm aren't opposites—that an enduring idea of contemporary living can be grounded, graceful and quietly self-assured. After Monuments, it's a clever next move from Audo: less spectacle, more...
Arent&Pyke Soften a Federation Home in Mosman with Curves, Colour and Slow-Crafted Stone.Few Australian studios have built a business as quietly assured as Arent&Pyke. At Bradleys Head House in Mosman, that same generosity of spirit fills every room—a Federation Arts and Crafts residence recast for a new generation, where...
A Sydney RSL Institution Reimagined Without Losing Its Soul.After more than 75 years of service to veterans and the Rose Bay community, Club Rose Bay has reopened following its first major transformation since 1979. Led by Merivale with architecture and interiors by Akin Atelier, the project...
Incomplete by Design: Ænsemble’s Country House by the River in Brandenburg.Heritage renovation lives and dies by a single question: how much do you let the past speak, and how loudly do you answer back? Ænsemble's approach to this Wilhelminian country house in Brandenburg is a thoughtful responses to that...
CiguĂ« Brings Its Material Mastery to Caudalie’s Ambitious New Paris Headquarters.For CiguĂ« co-founder Guillem Renard, the ambition at Rue PavĂ©e was clear: to make the everyday workplace a space of care. That conviction, shared with Caudalie founders, shaped every decision — from the geothermal heating system to the...