Architect’s London Apartment is Part Home, Part Material Experiment.EBBA director Benni Allan has turned his London apartment into a design lab wrapped in douglas fir. Living with Timber tests how affordable materials can be finished to last, while functioning as a gallery for collected objects and...
Barcelona Meets Japanese Jazz Listening Culture at Jaç Hifi Café by Isern Serra Studio.Jaç Hifi Café in Barcelona takes its cues from Japan's jazz kissa — intimate bars where the music wasn't background noise, it was the whole point. Designed by Isern Serra Studio, the interior features a walnut bar that doubles as a...
Nostalgia, Materiality, and Melbourne Collide Inside Hannah St Hotel.Designed by Flack Studio, the 188-room Southbank property draws on French and Italian modernism, 1950s curves, and Deco-era Tokyo—layered with bespoke joinery, deep navy bathrooms, blush carpets, and corridors painted red. The exterior,...
A Garden in the Sky Becomes the Soul of This Ningbo Apartment.In Ningbo, China, a designer couple reimagined their top-floor apartment around an unlikely starting point: a three-metre-square garden open to the sky. The Inner Garden by OUTIN Design places two Japanese maples and wild ferns at the...
A Retail Interior of Quiet Authority in Melbourne’s Armadale.Working with the building's existing industrial bones—original brickwork, timber roof trusses, and restored skylights—AP Design House has delivered a retail interior grounded in material honesty. Aged leather sofas, vintage lighting,...
A Brisbane Salon Balancing Polish with Personality.Samantha Leigh brings quiet confidence to Haven Hair in Brisbane's New Farm. The salon unfolds from a brass reception desk and vintage chandelier to intimate treatment alcoves and a cocooned wash area wrapped in deep green. Materials like...
David/Nicolas Open a Window Into Another World with Equestrian Library and Saddle Workshop in Abu Dhabi.For Abu Dhabi Royal Equestrian Arts, david/Nicolas-designed spaces speak directly to their cultural context without resorting to decoration. The Equestrian Library revolves around a sculptural, hand-carved wooden core produced in Lebanon,...
Interior Designer Turns a Neglected 1934 Madrid Villa Into a Design Manifesto.When Plutarco co-founder set about renovating her own 1934 Madrid villa, the result was always going to be personal. Found abandoned with floors built halfway up the windows, the home has been transformed into an extraordinary study in...
Light, Lineage and Local Clay: Inside the Szilvassy Studio at Collingwood Yards, Melbourne.When photographer Traianos Pakioufakis stepped into the Szilvassy studio at Collingwood Yards in Melbourne, the quality of light stopped him in his tracks. Designed by Dion Hall, the space houses ceramicist Shari Lowndes' practice and her...
