On the Edge of the Possible: Bokey Grant Architects’ EA House in NSW Southern Highlands.There are houses that solve problems, and then there are houses that re-frame the question. EA House by Bokey Grant Architects, perched on an "unbuildable" cliff-face escarpment in NSW's Southern Highlands, falls squarely in the second...
A Dual-Key Singapore Apartment Unified Into a Multigenerational Family Home.In Singapore's condominium stock, the dual-key apartment was conceived for landlords — a larger residence and a smaller studio sharing one front door, leased or occupied separately. Ascend Design was asked to reverse the logic. A...
Jungle’s Madrid HQ by Mil Studios Channels the Cool Restraint of 90s New York.The conceptual starting point for Jungle Madrid headquarters by Mil Studios is sharp: the corporate offices and creative studios of 1990s New York, where control and expression existed in constant productive tension. Translated across...
Ninety Years In, Bonaldo’s Latest Collection Asks What Furniture Can Do to a Room.Founded in 1936 as a small metalworking workshop in the Veneto, Bonaldo has spent nine decades building furniture that treats objects as active participants in shaping how a space feels and functions. Now in its ninetieth year under...
Inside This Paris Apartment, Oak, Walnut, Marble and Collectible Design Meet With Ease.Hauvette & Madani's Saint-Georges apartment is conceived as a home of dual nature — generous enough to entertain, intimate enough to live in. Spread across four levels, the interior moves from a theatrical salon on the ground floor to...
Impertinence as a Design Strategy: Studio KO Brings the Legendary Bus Palladium Back to Life in Paris.Studio KO's Bus Palladium is not a hotel with a club, nor a club that decided to add rooms. It's something more interesting — an attempt to do for Paris what the Chelsea Hotel did for New York: a place where artists, musicians, and...
Perth High-Rise Office Reframed as a Gallery for Living Work.A workplace where art does the heavy lifting, and the design knows when to step back. A corporate high-rise tenancy isn't where most people would expect to find a workplace built around an art collection. State of Kin makes the case for...
William McRoberts and Joseph Gardner Bring Serious Design Cred to Swop South Melbourne.Forget what you think you know about second-hand shopping. Conceived in collaboration with designer William McRoberts and Joseph Gardner of Studio Gardner, Swop South Melbourne draws on New York warehouse energy and a furniture edit that...
Coffeyhallett Turns Love Isabelle’s Armadale Store Into a Domestic Retreat.Coffeyhallett's Love Isabelle Armadale resists everything the typical luxury jewellery store reaches for. No marble, glass cabinets, or formal geometry. Instead, the space is conceived as a living room — warm timber walls, generous...