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...
The Bonobo Trades Coastal Cliché for Brazilian Modernism Inside a Brutalist Byron Bay Shell.Raes' first proper step into the centre of Byron Bay comes with architecture by Richards & Spence and interiors from Manifold that skip the coastal clichés entirely, pulling from Brazilian modernism instead. Lachlan Cooper and Morgan Novy...
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,...
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...
Inside Cinderella Deep, Geller Studio’s Raw and Ritualistic Redfern Workspace.Named after a nineteenth-century goldmine and grounded in the philosophy of Ubuntu, Cinderella Deep is Geller Studio's material-led workspace in Redfern. Off-form concrete, oxidising clay render and reclaimed heritage brick set an...
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...
Jungle’s Madrid HQ by Mil Studios Channels the Cool Restraint of 90s New York.The conceptual starting point for Jungle Madrid headquarters by Mil Studios is sharp: the corporate offices and creative studios of 1990s New York, where control and expression existed in constant productive tension. Translated across...
Impertinence as a Design Strategy: Studio KO Brings the Legendary Bus Palladium Back to Life in Paris.Studio KO's Bus Palladium is not a hotel with a club, nor a club that decided to add rooms. It's something more interesting — an attempt to do for Paris what the Chelsea Hotel did for New York: a place where artists, musicians, and...
