Stories On Design // Lusty Libraries.It's fairly safe to assume we can all agree that books infuse spaces with texture, colour, depth and character, adding a sense of comfort and a certain warmth. In this increasingly digital and intangible world we live in, books and...
MM House in Mexico City by Nicolas Schuybroek Architects in Collaboration with Marc Merckx.This project is all about the interior, with a brave and bold approach of keeping things totally restrained. Clean lines and an ultra-minimalist palette produce a calming, yet agonisingly beautiful experience. The largely monotone...
De Bank: KAAN Architecten’s New Office in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.KAAN Architecten have moved to a new office in Rotterdam, marking a new chapter for the expanding architectural practice. The project has transformed 1,400sqm of the former premises of De Nederlandsche Bank into KAAN’s new open-space...
GalerĂa OMR in Mexico City by Mateo Riestra, JosĂ© Arnaud-Bello & Max von Werz.Given Mexico and walls have been getting a bit of press recently, we thought this little-known Mexican belleza may be of interest. Mexico’s GalerĂa OMR has moved into a newly renovated villa in the nation’s capital. Masterminded...
Brutalist Home & Studio of Mexican Sculptor Pedro Reyes & Carla Fernandez.A melange of concrete textures makes up this Mexico City home of artist Pedro Reyes and his fashion-designer wife Carla Fernandez. Bold, brutalist and Barragán-inspired, this banger of a building features whacky paving floors, an...
Heike Store in Hangzhou, China by An Design Studio.Heike is a new fashion concept store, unassumingly tucked away on the third floor of a residential apartment block in the suburban outskirts of Shanghai, China. Designed by An Design Studio, the all-grey interior has a dystopian feel,...
Antivilla by Brandlhuber+ Emde, Schneider // Germany.Ladies & Gentlemen, I think we have a contentious one on our hands. Admittedly this isn’t the most wholesome of dwellings, but we’re all about celebrating design diversity around here and this house by Brandlhuber + Emde, Schneider...
Superhouse by Karen McCartney // Book Review & Special Giveaway!I feel thrilled to have an opportunity to shine a little light on someone who has been an inspiring force in Australian design publishing for quite some time. Of course, I am talking about Karen McCartney who is a leading interior design...