Lawson Flats Perth Members Club by Finespun Architecture and Ohlo Studio.Lawson Flats has had many lives—from an Art Deco apartment block in late 1930s to the Karrakatta Club women’s club in 1980s. In 2022, the trifecta of floors was reborn yet again, this time as a swish members-only club in Perth for...
Palazzo Luce: A Dazzling Hotel-cum-Gallery in Lecce by Anna Maria Enselmi.Two Renaissance-style portals, emblazoned with the numbers 2 and 4, are the first indications that Palazzo Luce isn’t just another hotel. The internal courtyards confirm this suspicion, with excavated columns from a long-ago Roman...
Umberto121: A 14th-century Holiday Home in Tuscany by Montsant Moreno.In the Tuscan hinterland, atop a knoll near Crete Senesi, lies the historic village of Montisi, one of five municipalities in Val d'Orcia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The village’s history is writ large across the dwellings that...
Artful Abode in New Delhi by Mathew & Ghosh Architects and Rajiv Saini + Associates.In one residential enclave in southeast Delhi is a home that has contracted and expanded several times over the years, mirroring the size and evolution of the family that inhabits it. When it was constructed in 1977, it was designed for a...
Czech Mate: An Apartment in Warsaw by Colombe.In Pilsen, Czech Republic, are four apartments, open to the public, that hold a mirror to celebrated late architect Adolf Loos’s storied modernist style. A fifth hides in Warsaw. But unlike the original four, this one isn’t open to the...
Volcanic Volumes: Gota in Madrid by Plantea Estudio.Madrid’s Justicia barrio is a glittering tapestry of swish boutiques, neoclassical buildings, nightclubs, bistros and tapas bars, of which most are remarkably modern in design. Plantea Estudio’s latest project is the exception....
Good Enough to Eat: A Cake-Inspired Barcelona Apartment by AMOO.If you cut up a Battenberg cake and then arranged the slices in the shape of a house, you’d get something very similar to the insides of Barcelona-based design studio AMOO’s latest apartment project. Characterised by strawberry pink...
Gemstone-inspired Tones & Forms: Haussmannian Apartment in Paris by Uchronia.In a Haussmannian building in Paris’s famous Golden Triangle is an apartment that dazzles like a jewel box. And not just figuratively. In terms of design, the owners, both jewellery designers, were keen to conjure allusions to stones,...
Once Upon a Stable: A Mid-Century Modern Mews House in Dublin by Stephanie O’Sullivan.When interior designer Stephanie O'Sullivan received a renovation enquiry for a Mews house—a 60-square-metre, 1-bedroom digs situated in an upscale corner of Dublin—the brief was a curious one. “The home was quintessentially mews but...
