Jeffrey Vanhoutte Captures the Movements of a Dancer Interacting with Powdered Milk.Brussels-based photographer Jeffrey Vanhoutte has created a series of images that beautifully capture a dancer’s elegant movements with expressive bursts of white powder. The recent campaign by creative agency Norvell Jefferson for Dutch...
Gentle Objects by Martin Mestmacher.Launched by German interior designer Martin Mestmacher and business partner Bodo Nicklas, GO by MM (Gentle Objects by Martin Mestmacher) is a new line of geometric black steel-framed furniture. The debut collection includes a dumb waiter,...
Moroso Product Campaign Shot Inside Patrizia Moroso’s House.Does Moroso know what's what, or WHAT? OMG. Are you dying? I totally am. THIS is how you shoot a product campaign bitches. Want to know how to achieve something like this yourself? Here are all the necessary...
Parasol Island’s Office in Düsseldorf, Germany.If you are as much of a fan of creative office spaces as we are, you will love the Parasol Island workspace in Düsseldorf, Germany. Their office space is as cool as it gets when it comes to "tight on space & budget, but high in sprit"...
Emmanuel De Bayser’s Drool-Worthy 19th Century Apartment in Berlin.The owner of this rather fabulous Berlin apartment is Emmanuel de Bayser, French-born, Berlin-based co-owner of the super cool The Corner Berlin fashion boutique. Set in a historic 19th century building with 5m high ceilings, De Bayser...
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...
Intimate, Exacting, Subversive: Studio Plenty Reimagines Fine Jewellery Retail for Lindelli.Studio Plenty's debut interior for Sydney fine jewellery brand Lindelli strips retail convention bare. Compressed into just 17 square metres, the design replaces the traditional glass vitrine with something closer to a private salon. A...
Studio Doherty’s VRG GRL Bondi Store Balances Elevated Energy with Accessibility.Studio Doherty's design for VRG GRL Bondi Beach knows exactly when to whisper and when to shout. Mostly, it whispers — and then drops the carpet. Boom! Rather than a typical linear retail layout, the interior is designed as a sequence of...
Order Matter Architects Turn a Tiny Seoul Showroom Into an Urban Archive for Stone.The ST01 flagship in Seoul reframes how architectural stone is experienced in a retail setting. Rather than displaying samples under artificial light, Order Matter Architects drew inspiration from museum storage systems—suspending...
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...
Per Cent’Anni: Pattern Studio’s Restaurant Built for a Hundred Years of Happiness.Pattern Studio sits firmly in my pantheon of favourite Australian practices, and Moby's Whale Beach is exactly why. A 60-seat Italian restaurant and downstairs wedding venue inside the 1937 Whale Beach Surf Life Saving Club, this is design...
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...
Alan Prekop Turns a Bratislava Heritage Space Into an Imagined Italian Terrace.This restaurant in Bratislava doesn't try to look Italian—it tries to feel Italian. Alan Prekop's concept inverts the spatial logic of the interior entirely, transforming the dining room into an imagined terrace in the narrow streets of...
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...
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...
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...
Diagonal Thinking: Ba-rro Reinvents a Madrid Apartment.Ba-rro brings a striking conceptual clarity to this Madrid residential renovation. A diagonal move disrupts the original floor plan, redirecting circulation and softening hard boundaries into transitions. Mirrors are deployed to dissolve...
Studio Carson Kelly’s Little James Proves Constraint Can Be the Best Design Brief.Studio Carson Kelly's Little James treats constraint not as a problem to solve but as the condition that sharpens every move. A dog-legged stair integrates the laundry and eliminates redundant corridors. A floating stone slab serves as...
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,...
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...
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...
This Five-storey Office Features a Suspended Conference Capsule, Prototype Workshop and Raised R&D Lab.Designed by Ippolito Fleitz Group, MAX Zone Ningbo pairs a five-storey show office with a sales centre that draws on the elegance of traditional Chinese courtyards. The show office makes a statement from the start—a suspended conference...
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...
