Highlights From Milan Design Week 2017.It is with great pleasure that we kick off our epic Milan report, aka MILANTRACE Edizione 2017 - bringing you the highlights from the recent Milan Design Week & Salone del Mobile 2017. Hooray! Another strong year for Milan Design Week...
Three Gardens House in Kuwait by AGi Architects.Constructing environments that are comfortable for humans in the Middle East must always be a challenge, even more so if the project aims to produce a natural cooling strategy. This is precisely the brief that was presented to AGi...
Spectacular Renovation of The National Library of France by Bruno Gaudin & Jean-François Lagneau.In 2007 Bruno Gaudin Architects were commissioned to start a major planning overhaul on the Rue de Richelieu location and complete a comprehensive modernisation of the library buildings. Whilst Gaudin’s company was responsible for the...
Ally Capellino 2017 Bag Collection Inspired by Colourful Plastic Chairs.Sometimes when you’ve got to come up with a new idea you need to think outside the box. A long way outside of it. In the case of Ally Capellino’s new bag collection it was a chair that inspired her. Capellino’s quirky and colourful...
Studio Space in Blue by Antonio Salinas.There are some spaces that just hit you right at the bottom of your ribcage. It’s that punch you feel as you suck in air. This space does that. Leaves you sucker punched. And for an entirely empty apartment, that’s some feat. Located...
Margesherwood’s Seoul Flagship Is Part Retail Space, Part Sculpture Garden.Margesherwood's first flagship in Seoul's Seongdong-gu district isn't really a shop in any conventional sense. Designed by Studio Uneg, the two-storey space translates the Korean accessories brand's archive-driven sensibility into spatial...
Ice Cream Shop Slash Listening Bar Designed as a Kit of Parts Built to Move.Most retail fit-outs end up in a skip bin when the lease expires. Kori Windsor by Air Design Studio is a deliberate challenge to that norm. The 50sqm Windsor ice cream shop slash listening bar is conceived as a suite of relocatable...
A New Vision for Optical Retail: Six Six by Kennedy Nolan.Not your average trip to the optometrist. Kennedy Nolan's design for Six Six centres on a zig-zagging display wall that orients most product away from the street, encouraging unhurried discovery over forensic browsing. A largely...
An Immersive Gallery Space Transforming Surface Selection into Discovery and Reflection.Caesarstone's new Wingfield flagship is less showroom, more gallery. Designed by Studio Massive with placemaking by Studio Latitude, the 215sqm space invites architects, designers and consumers to explore Advanced Mineral and Porcelain...
A Lounge-like Jewellery Concept Store Where Fine Pieces are Served Like Drinks.For this concept jewellery store in Manly, Coffeyhallett looked to the neighbourhood bar as a spatial model. It's retail that doesn't feel like retail. A central bar, rich two-tone joinery, vintage lighting, and jewellery presented through...
This Tiny Gift Shop in Georgia Absorbs Its Entire Lakeside Setting Into Glass and Stone.Sitting lakeside at the 60-hectare Lopota Lake Resort & Spa in Kakheti, Georgia, this 48-square-metre gift shop by Studio Gypsandconcrete absorbs its waterside setting into every surface. Led by architect Lado Lomitashvili, the...
Dion Hall Strips the Coffee Ritual Back to Its Purest Form at Standing Room Coffee Carlton.Standing Room Coffee strips the ritual back to its purest form—no seats, no distractions, just coffee. The compact fitout by Dion Hall is anchored by sculptural timber poles, rotational shelves and a warm material palette drawn from...
Inside Marlowe, J.AR OFFICE Lets a Heritage Brisbane Building Do the Talking.Jared Webb has a particular kind of creative intelligence that's hard to articulate—the sort that pulls together unrelated genres, eras and references into something that transcends the sum of its parts. Something we now lazily shorthand...
A 19th Century Pub Transformed into Seven Layers of Atmosphere.Eleisha Gray's creative direction of The Waterside Hotel is rooted in production design thinking—atmosphere and sequence first, materials second. At Past/Port restaurant, colour became a shared language between Executive Chef Sarah...
Bar Monte Newstead is Studio Plenty’s Moody Ode to Post-War Italian Café Culture.Bar Monte Newstead by Studio Plenty is a moody, laneway-set Italian venue in Brisbane's inner suburb of Newstead. Drawing from post-war Italian café culture and the geometric clarity of Italian Rationalism, the studio has layered spotted...
Check In to The Lobby, Ellison Studios’ Hotel-Inspired Showroom on Chapel Street.Ellison Studios transforms Prahran's 1914 Conways Buildings into The Lobby—part showroom, part social space, all atmosphere. The space brings together the brand's growing collection, curated artworks by Hake House, and a selection of...
Studio Gypsandconcrete Wraps Lopota Lake Resort’s Reception in Memory and Materiality.At Lopota Lake Resort & Spa in Kakheti, Georgia, Studio Gypsandconcrete has designed a glass-wrapped reception space shaped by the memory of a former rose plantation. Rosewood veneer and softly blushed copper carry the site's history...
This Barcelona Apartment Proves You Don’t Need Much to Create a Feeling.Some interiors seduce through abundance—layered objects, curated collections, every surface doing something. And then there are spaces like Apt 21, a private residence in Barcelona's Sant Gervasi neighbourhood, that pull you in with...
Structure Meets Spontaneity : Decus Transforms a Dover Heights Kit Home into a Party House.Perched atop the cliffs of Dover Heights in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Dancing on the Ceiling is a project that refuses to take itself too seriously—a former kit home overhauled by interior design studio Decus into a vivacious,...
The Corridor is the Star at Atelierzero’s Milan Apartment Renovation.Atelierzero has transformed a fragmented 155sqm Milan apartment into a fluid, open domestic landscape—two connected units unified by bold colour, natural materials, and a portico-inspired corridor that functions as the home's central...
Build Less, Build Better: Modernist Restraint and Japanese Design in North London.Not every renovation needs to get bigger to get better. Studio Hagen Hall's Heion House in Islington proves that the most considered move is sometimes the one you don't make. By working entirely within the original footprint of a Grade-II...
Arent&Pyke’s Golden Light Proves That Great Colour Is Never Just Decoration.At the centre of this Sydney home by Arent&Pyke sits a chromatic palette of extraordinary depth—marigold, forest green, dusty mauve—that gives each room its own distinct emotional register. Working across both levels, the Sydney studio...
Interior Designer’s Apartment Makes a Compelling Case for Quiet Power of Neutral Palette.Nikita Kostik has designed his 64m² apartment as a study in restraint, proportion, and material intelligence. Working through his practice A01 Studio, Kostik stripped the space back to a circular open plan, letting the city skyline enter...
Ceramic Tiles, Izakaya Bars & Onsen Energy: Valencia Workspace Transformed Through the Lens of Tokyo.At 21 Sornells Street in Valencia's Ruzafa neighbourhood, Paloma Bau and T.O.T Studio have transformed a former commercial unit into a 170sqm shared workspace. The collaboration developed organically—T.O.T's speculative creative...
Artful Workplaces: Emily Cunnane Transforms Intercom’s Dublin and London Offices.You don’t have to convince us of the fact corporate interiors don't have to be generic. We’ve featured countless interesting examples over the years, and Emily Cunnane's twin projects for Intercom's Dublin and London offices prove this...
Palm Court Energy Meets East London Grit at Conductor, 3,400 sqm Flexible Hospitality-Inspired Workspace.A workplace that makes you forget it's a workplace—that was the brief, more or less, at Conductor in Stratford, East London. Interior studio Tabitha Isobel collaborated with architect Studio Multi to transform a 3,400 sqm flexible...
Nice Projects Turns a Historic Kyoto Teahouse Into a Cutting-Edge Research Lab.Nice Projects have transformed a historic teahouse in Kyoto's Gojo district into the Artificial Life Institute—a 145 square metre research lab for scientists exploring the intersection of science and art. The London and Sydney-based...
Done and Undone: Industrial Warehouse Transformed into a Sartorial HQ in Tuscia.When Italian accessories designer Benedetta Bruzziches outgrew her garage, she acquired an industrial warehouse on the edge of Viterbo. Deltastudio's conversion into a 1,600sqm headquarters, workshop, and personal atelier is a study in...
An Immersive Gallery Space Transforming Surface Selection into Discovery and Reflection.Caesarstone's new Wingfield flagship is less showroom, more gallery. Designed by Studio Massive with placemaking by Studio Latitude, the 215sqm space invites architects, designers and consumers to explore Advanced Mineral and Porcelain...
