Casper Mueller Kneer Design a Perfume Fountain at the Heart of Caron’s New Paris Store.At the centre of Caron's new Paris store by Casper Mueller Kneer Architects sits the fountain, a full-height installation of hand-frosted, fluted glass tubes filled with perfume and lit from behind. Engineered and fabricated by Atelier...
Sampling the 80s: The Ken Club in Paris by Rodolphe Parente and Marion Mailaender.Rodolphe Parente and Marion Mailaender pictured the new Ken Club as an ocean liner cut off from the world. The nearly 20-metre pool is lined with porthole windows and round skylights, the changing rooms flip the usual colour code, and a...
Interior Designer’s 1930s Madrid Villa Rebuilt as an Exquisite Corpse.Plutarco have never been a studio to whisper. Villa 2030 is co-founder Enrique Ventosa's own Madrid home, stripped back and reorganised around a T-shaped wall of glass blocks. It takes the grand villas of the 1930s—Maison de Verre, Villa...
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...
A Concrete Coastal Retreat on the Mornington Peninsula Where Three Cultures Meet.Perched above Port Phillip Bay at Mount Martha, Mori House marks Portuguese practice Aires Mateus's first Australian project, realised with Melbourne firm MA+Co for Neometro's Jeff Provan. A loose cluster of off-form concrete pavilions...
Grandmother in Latex: Archive for Space Reworks a Madrid Apartment.Punk romance meets grandma chic in Jesús del Valle, an 80sqm Madrid apartment reworked by London and Mallorca-based Archive for Space. The palette pivots on a discovery—original terracotta flooring found beneath carpet—while a bespoke...
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;...
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...
