Nina+Co’s Circular Eyewear Store for Monc Treats Every Material as an Asset, Not a Consumable.Nina+Co's design for Monc started with an audit of the existing site. Aluminium stair nosings were melted and recast into drawer handles and lamp dials; a reclaimed Douglas fir beam from a Staffordshire barn became the parquet, and...
From Derelict Bunker to Modern Day Babylon: Moon Gang Ubud by YSG Studio.Bali does not want for design accommodation. What it wants for is design accommodation that belongs to Bali. Moon Gang, the five-suite hotel in Ubud by Sydney's YSG Studio, is the rare one that does...
This Sarajevo Apartment is Teaching its Children What Architecture Is For.For most of the last century, architecture in Bosnia was something that happened to public buildings—admired from the footpath, and separate from how people lived at home. Which is what makes this Sarajevo apartment feel all the more...
Oscar Bravo by March Studio: Tailoring, Rewired for the Jet Age.Oscar Bravo's proposition is disarmingly simple—a tailored shirt should be worn on a Saturday morning as readily as in an office. March Studio's 70-square-metre flagship dismantles almost everything the category has trained us to expect,...
CĂ´te Basque: A Melbourne Restaurant Defined by Everything Left Untouched.Melbourne's most-watched restaurant opening in years landed this month, and the most compelling thing about its design is everything Acme decided not to touch. Twenty-five Crossley Street has housed just three businesses in seven...
Strength, Not Ornament: The Distinctly Female Presence Behind Coogee House III.In Coogee, Sydney architect Hannah Tribe and interior designer Genevieve Hromas shaped a family home around a distinctly female presence, expressed through strength rather than ornament. Brick detailing reads like stitches in a tapestry;...
Strutt Studios Reworks Black Blaze’s Paddington Flagship as a Study in Restraint.Six years into its Paddington home, Australian fragrance brand Black Blaze asked Strutt Studios to deepen its flagship rather than reinvent it. The 36-square-metre store trades spectacle for restraint: warm timber joinery, cork-clad walls,...
The Findling: Of Possible Floats a Larch Retreat on 500-Million-Year-Old Boulders.In German, 'findling' means both 'orphan' and 'glacial erratic'. Brooklyn studio Of Possible leaned into both meanings for this timber retreat in Austerlitz, New York, commissioned by two Manhattan psychoanalysts seeking a more restorative...
Yugoslav Modernism Meets Japanese Listening Bars at Esthetic Joys Embassy Belgrade.There's a special kind of thrill in watching design pilgrims swerve away from the usual capitals toward cities with grittier stories to tell. Belgrade has been accumulating exactly this kind of momentum, and Esthetic Joys Embassy...
