Friendship Apartment by Onoaa Studio Turns a 1941 Shanghai Apartment Into a Home Built on Trust.Onoaa Studio didn't need a questionnaire to understand how their clients live, having shared meals and working days with them for years. The result is a Shanghai home without rigid, closed-off rooms, where work, conversation and time alone...
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...
Inside Yeyeland, the Shanghai Concept Store That Turns Mineral Collecting Into an Edible Art Form.Founded by a group of young mineral collectors, Yeyeland set out to share that appreciation with a wider audience, pairing real geological specimens with desserts shaped like crystalline forms. Studio 4/301 built the whole spatial logic...
Rodolphe Parente Trades Flamboyance for French Classicism at Le Fernet in Monaco.Rodolphe Parente has a gift for making a new space feel as though it's always been there, timeless without falling into the trap of false nostalgia. Le Fernet is no exception—confident, warm, and considered, with just enough of the...
Inside Achime Bagel, the Seoul Takeaway Where Brand Identity Lives in the Joinery.Where most small fit-outs offload branding onto signage, Jojo Workshop has built it into the joinery. At Achime Bagel in Munjeong-dong, Seoul, a modular pickup wall answers the rise of delivery orders, a timber sign board unfurls down the...
Soto Lab and Arcus Design an Istanbul Corner That Changes Its Mood by the Hour.A café by day, a hi-fi bar by night, and one floor plan doing both jobs. Soto Lab and Arcus's Dama in Istanbul leans on its corner site's natural light split, a Japanese-inspired timber ceiling and a considered mix of custom and vintage...
Shinji: A Toronto Steakhouse Built on Denim, Indigo Limewash & Restraint.Odami's Shinji is a Japanese steakhouse in Toronto's Financial District that reaches for cultural identity through material and atmosphere rather than motif—starting, unexpectedly, with...
Kit of Parts: Bassike Byron Bay by Akin Atelier.Akin Atelier has been shaping Bassike's retail identity for over a decade. The brand's new Byron Bay store shows what that kind of continuity actually buys...
A Private Family Office in East Melbourne by Studio May.Most workplaces are built to perform—a client to impress, talent to attract, a brand to broadcast behind reception. A family office carries none of those obligations. Studio May's East Melbourne project sits closer to a private members'...
