Émile Sala’s Organic 1970s Arles Villa Opens as Luca Pronzato’s Casa Ideale.Some houses are built; Villa Bank was practically dreamt into being. Émile Sala's sculptural 1970s villa near Arles banishes the straight line for curving, elliptical rooms that roll into the landscape. Heritage-listed and long the...
Ross Didier Returns to Fine Art Roots with Gallium.Named after one of the world's most strategically critical minerals—essential to electronics, renewable energy and AI infrastructure—Ross Didier’s Gallium explores the tension between permanence and transformation, translating that...
Quiet Endurance: Vincent Van Duysen’s Cousy Turns Twenty.Vincent Van Duysen's Cousy for Arflex resolves a familiar tension with ease: architectural lines establish order while generous cushions soften every edge. Conceived in 2006 as a complete seating system—sofas, armchair, chaise lounge and...
Incomplete by Design: Ænsemble’s Country House by the River in Brandenburg.Heritage renovation lives and dies by a single question: how much do you let the past speak, and how loudly do you answer back? Ænsemble's approach to this Wilhelminian country house in Brandenburg is a thoughtful responses to that...
Meet the Melbourne-Born Lighting Range Built on Ideas.Melbourne-based Andro started with a sketch and a prototype—a humble track light, developed at the HQ of lighting consultants Ambience. A group of lighting, design, and product professionals set out to develop a range that was distinctly...
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...
Ninety Years In, Bonaldo’s Latest Collection Asks What Furniture Can Do to a Room.Founded in 1936 as a small metalworking workshop in the Veneto, Bonaldo has spent nine decades building furniture that treats objects as active participants in shaping how a space feels and functions. Now in its ninetieth year under...
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...
Coffeyhallett Turns Love Isabelle’s Armadale Store Into a Domestic Retreat.Coffeyhallett's Love Isabelle Armadale resists everything the typical luxury jewellery store reaches for. No marble, glass cabinets, or formal geometry. Instead, the space is conceived as a living room — warm timber walls, generous...
