Esteemed design firm Pembrooke & Ives have brought new life to the once iconic winter escape of John and Jacqueline Kennedy in Palm Beach, Florida. Through the addition of color and light and some nothing less that incredible lighting, Pembrooke & Ives have reimagined this treasure of a home through a thoughtful renovation.
When the home was acquired it was in utter disrepair,...
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Its fashion, darling
To push the door to this Parisian apartment is to enter another world; a world where seduction, sensuality, glamour, temptation, mystery, ostentation and incandescence infuses each space with a controlled eccentricity and non-conformist vocabulary.
Studio RED ABSOLU principal Géraldine Prieur draws her inspiration from the boldness of Schiaparelli, Givenchy, Pucci, Alexander McQueen to name just a few illustrious houses. From Haute Couture, lingerie...
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Intoxicating mix – revisited
I have been fortunate enough to visit London a couple times and every time is more inspiring that the last. Spending days in galleries and design museums is such a decadent pleasure for me. What I love most about London is walking the streets, particularly the more affluent suburbs, peering through terrace front windows in the hope of glimpsing “the good room” beyond. I can...
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A new apartment of yester year
At the top of a classic Art Deco building on the Upper East Side is a home designed by Billy Cotton and his exploration of contradictions in a coveted Classic Six building by Emery Roth who was one of the Manhattans definitive early-20th-century architects.
Cotton pays homage to the classic apartments of previous times, as well as...
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Tradition meets Sottsass in LA
I pondered this week on what should be my final post for 2018. Looking back over the incredible design we have discovered, dissected and discussed I wanted to try and show you something that I believe is truly unique and new – of course I wanted it to be playful, colourful and joyous – just like the holiday period.
The answer had to be
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Melbourne modern renaissance
B.E architecture have created and curated a home where the emphasis has been placed on the experience of the inhabitant as well as creating something new and unique. Perhaps best described by this short extract from the architects:
“St Vincents Place Residence is a new archetype developed through reinterpretation of classical references with a modern sensibility. The client put his belief in architecture,...
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Lyon’s Den
Jenna Lyons love of acid-bright hues is one of the reasons her interiors, specifically her previous Park Slope townhouse was one of the most liked and repined images on Pinterest. Lyons’s style has been copied down to its smallest detail. That’s due in part to her innate skill at mixing unexpected elements to achieve a look that feels fanciful if not quite fancy.
Her newly renovated...
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The Jet Set
The Costa do Sol or the Portuguese Riviera is famous with the jet set elite and royalty alike, so its no surprise then that such a chic apartment presides over a slice of this dynamic coastline.
Cristina Jorge de Carvalho’s aesthetic could be described as a monolithic massing of materiality meets mid-century eclecticism. There is a real sense of confidence in the way...
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Upper East Side – party of five
This family home is located close to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the New York’s uber chic Upper East Side, Manhattan. Effortlessly stylish, this family home for five occupies two floors of a Central Park facing building, with the entire second floor as a parents retreat. The ultimate in luxury.
The palette of materials is mostly neutral with swathes of natural stone - Arabescato for...
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Art meets life – revisited
Thanks to the innovative approach taken by designer Anthony Collett and the enthusiasm of the owners for his suggestions, this nineteenth-century London flat is now an exciting space full of colour and texture.
Mirror-glass sliding panels separate the sitting room, dining-room hall and kitchen. An abstract design by artist Fiona Gallagher is on the side facing...
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