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All in the Family

Choosing an architect is a great risk – will we get along? Will they understand my needs? Will I like the result? Perhaps then the pairing of client and architect on this project, located in Houston, Texas, was completely risk free (or an even greater risk!). In charging their son with the design of this home, the owners put complete faith that the result would...

Home Run – New York

Starting with a vast loft in New York’s Nolita district, designers Amanda Jesse and Whitney Parris-Lamb were charged with the task of fully renovating the space and creating a family home for their clients that was not only a reflection of their personal style, but also a comfortable space to raise their young daughter. With two disparate style directions from the husband and...

Breathing Space – NYC

Breathing space was the central theme of this apartment from the very first days of searching for the property right through to the furniture selection. Wanting a space that would open out and feel a part of Central Park, the owners came across this pre-war apartment on Central Park West and immediately new it was the one. Enlisting architect Douglas Wright and interior...

Impeccable Provenance – Melbourne

History is something that fascinates me greatly and historical references attached to a home or place instantly adds an intangible and magic value. In the case of this townhouse, located in East Melbourne Australia, the short roll call of owners reads like the provenance of a great painting. The first owner was Eugene von Guerard, the famed landscape painter responsible for producing some of the...

A Church to Call Home – New Zealand

The concept for this home, located on Waiheke Island, New Zealand and designed by local firm Vaughan McQuarrie, started from the idea that the centre of the house would be a meeting place in the same way a church acts as a focal point in a small village. The church in this design is a soaring double-height room with full-height windows and a...

Bachelor Party

Hernandez Greene are the duo responsible for the transformation of this Greenwich Village apartment from basic white box to ultra-glam bachelor pad. The brief for this project was simple – create a home that did double time as a space to display art and to entertain on a lush scale. Katrina Hernandez and Joshua Greene of Hernandez Greene devised a...

The “New” Hamptons

For better or worse, the Hamptons “look” is one of the most copied around the world. Swathes of creams, whites and nautical stripes usually defines the theme and attempts to infuse a home with a relaxed beachy vibe. Bearing that in mind, this home by designer Tamara Magel is pure Hamptons love for me. While it is unmistakably Hamptons (the...

Seeing Red – Arizona / A-I-R Architects

I grew up and have lived close to the water my whole life, so admittedly desert architecture has always seemed somewhat foreign to me. The idea of designing a home to sit in such an inhospitable place appears daunting and growing up my only real reference for desert architecture were the pleasure homes of Palm Springs. In recent years, I have always kept a keen...

Suburban Sex Appeal

Having lived in their Illinois home for seven years already, when time came to update the interiors the family decided they needed to be fresh, edgy and have sex appeal in spades and in hiring Chicago-based firm PROjECT Interiors they have achieved just that and then some. Set deep within American suburbia, the architectural language of the house was traditional, which was retained...

The Art of Living

I remember walking around art galleries when I was young (and even still today!) thinking how amazing it would be to live in one – the scale, the space, the art! This house, located north of Tel Aviv, Israel and completed by Israeli firm Studio de Lange, comes close to my residential art gallery dream. As with many contemporary art spaces, the materials...

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