No Botox: Raúl Sánchez Lets a Mataró Heritage Home Wear Its Age at La Casa del Pirata.Raúl Sánchez's La Casa del Pirata refuses to over-restore. Cracks stay put, wallpaper imperfections are left alone, and the channels carved for the wall lights remain raw—no Botox here. The tension between centuries-old pattern and...
Lilac by Bureau: 44 Square Metres, One Counter and Two Domestic Worlds.How many square metres does a home actually need? Bureau's Lilac, the smaller of two sibling apartments in Lisbon, puts the question front and centre. At 44 square metres, the refurbishment turns the old entrance hall into a kitchen, moves...
Sampling the 80s: The Ken Club in Paris by Rodolphe Parente and Marion Mailaender.Rodolphe Parente and Marion Mailaender pictured the new Ken Club as an ocean liner cut off from the world. The nearly 20-metre pool is lined with porthole windows and round skylights, the changing rooms flip the usual colour code, and a...
Madeleine Castaing Meets Manhattan: Inside Child Studio’s New York Debut.Behind the terracotta façade of a Gilded Age Manhattan landmark, Child Studio has completed their first hotel and first US project: The Twenty Two New York. Seventy-eight rooms, a private members' club and a tented rooftop bar all draw on...
Farrell Wray Architects Build a Concrete Gallery Around a Tree They Refused to Touch.Some sites come with a non-negotiable client, and at Marcellin College that client was a gum tree. Farrell Wray Architects' new flyover, connecting the school's junior and senior buildings in Bulleen, was designed and built without...
Ellison Studios Gives The Least Public Room In The House Its Best Furniture Yet.The bedroom is usually the last room in the house to get the good furniture, which is exactly the premise Ellison Studios has set out to overturn. The New Bedroom gathers sculptural beds, storage, seating and occasional pieces under one...
CiguĂ« Designs Satisfy’s First Store as Two Mirroring Spaces in Paris.Cult running brand Satisfy has opened its first permanent home, and it's not one store but two. Supply and Fuel Station face off across Paris' Rue de Saintonge, designed by longtime Yellowtrace favourite CiguĂ« as mirror images of one...
The Bonobo Trades Coastal Cliché for Brazilian Modernism Inside a Brutalist Byron Bay Shell.Raes' first proper step into the centre of Byron Bay comes with architecture by Richards & Spence and interiors from Manifold that skip the coastal clichés entirely, pulling from Brazilian modernism instead. Lachlan Cooper and Morgan Novy...
Jardan’s Collection Built Around Australian Summers, Long Lunches and Evenings That Linger.Jardan has turned its attention outdoors with Shoreline, a new collection built around Australian summers, long lunches and evenings that linger. The modular Cosmo Sofa handles scale, while the Cecil Sunlounger brings colour and...