A Villa in Lambersart Gets Its Groove Back Thanks to RMGB.
Identity crisis no more, this villa in Lambersart, Lille shakes off the cobwebs and gets its groove back with a restrained renovation by Guillaume Gibert and Baptiste Rischmann of...
Four Unique Coffee Shops to Break Your Doom Scroll.
Ever walked into a coffee shop on the other side of the world and had the eerie feeling you’ve been there before? No longer just the hallmarks of Starbucks, homogeneous designed cafes can be found all over the world—yet these venues...
Fashion Meets Design: Three Shows That Have Us Inspired This Season.
Fashion and design have always intertwined, natural bedfellows that overlap in sinuous ways. While the marrying of form and function is at the heart of both, the runway is a place for pure, unadulterated spectacle and art. Some of our...
Le Marais: A Luminous Apartment in Paris by Studio Haddou-DuFourcq.
‘Le marais’, in French, literally translates to ‘swamp’, but there's nothing remotely swamp-like about Le Marais, the apartment in Paris recently redesigned by Studio Haddou-DuFourcq. Mind you, the same can’t be said about its...
A Rundown House in Toulouse Becomes a World of Possibility for Gabrielle Vinson.
A rundown family home in Toulouse gets a contemporary update by Gabrielle Vinson, as the architect balanced preservation with practicality in a home that embraces its legacy. The generous five-metre-wide space was optimised for a now...
Smoke and Mirrors: Lamarck Apartment by Lauranne Elise Schmitt.
Parisian designer Lauranne Elise Schmitt creates an illusion not dissimilar to that of a dream desert mirage, in this 60-square-metre Haussmanian apartment. The lounge room is elevated and brought into focus by the dynamic backgammon-chess...
Turning Back Time: Bar Nouveau in Paris by Atelier Alma.
On Paris’s Rue des Haudriettes is a bar with a floor intact from the 1970s. Or so a first look would have you believe. In reality, the floor wasn't laid then, but it was made then. “One of the most remarkable features of this project...
Historic yet of the Moment: Haussmannian Apartment in Paris by Hauvette & Madani.
A renovation usually ends better than it begins, although Samantha Hauvette and Luca Madani would probably beg to differ. Their pair's project isn't just a renovation; it's a renovation of a renovation that turns back the clock on its...
Reflection on Measurement & Time: Benoit Maire at the Ozenfant House, Paris.
Conceived as a journey from Rome to Paris, this exhibition—set in Le Corbusier and Jeanneret’s Ozenfant House, their first ever creation in Paris—evoked a reflection on measurement and time, echoing Benoit Maire’s artistic process...
