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Garden Life

With summer mere minutes from us here in Sydney, every year at this time my focus shifts towards the outdoors. This home known as AH House by the stellar Guilherme Torres breaks down the boundaries between interior and exterior living spaces so beautifully and effortlessly. The house and interiors have been designed to allow year round living between the two, creating permeable...
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Sky high

In a soaring pied-a-terre overlooking central park in Manhattan is Jamie Drake’s latest ultra-luxurious commission. Drake, best known for his work with former Mayor Bloomberg – the grand limestone New York home, classically styled and traditional – here a base of quality materials and finishes underpins what is essentially a modernist aesthetic. In the living room, the fabulous mirrored chair is...
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Visual in Venice Beach

This old world family home in Venice beach is beautiful. Owned by actress Denise Vasi and her director husband Anthony Mandler their home is a narrative of a life of travel – they are after all professional storytellers, in front and behind the lens. The proportions of this house hark to a previous time. Enormous 7 metre ceilings create volumes of space not usually experienced in...
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Summitridge Beverly Hills

Marmol Radziner are DA Platform regulars. Their multidisciplinary work is considered, resolved and chic. This Summitridge family home in the Beverly Hills is no exception. The Summitridge interiors are modern and feminine with strong mid-century modern European influences, based around a primarily neutral color palette of cream, ivory, blush, and violet tones. Swathes of insitu terrazzo floor and golden hues of marble in...
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From up on Princes Hill

The inner city suburb of Princes Hill in Melbourne Australia is home to some beautiful Victorian Architecture. The challenge here: to juxtapose what is a contemporary renovation while championing the heritage of the building. Charged with the task to bridge this historical language was Christopher Elliott – and what a conversation! This family home seems to draw design motifs from many eras: Victorian...
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Chromatic tension

Situated on Boston’s famous Beacon Street this stately apartment is an exploration of colour and balance by Dee Elms of Elms Interior Design. Traditional in it proportions and architectural detailing the home is an eclectic mix of contemporary, mid-century and classical decorative elements. Australian made lighting from Christopher Boots sits alongside New York’s Apparatus Studio and vintage Serge...
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Crown Jewel

The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park – the crown jewel of the hotel group recently commissioned Joyce Wang for a multi-million dollar renovation of their flagship property. Located at London’s most prestigious address the property has hosted fame, fortune and royalty in its glittering history. Wang has taken her inspiration from the building’s park-side location, specifically the different textures, forms and colours...
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A place amongst the Poplars

Alexander Place is a Grade II listed Georgian terrace, sitting in the heart of swanky South Kensington, London. Nestled amongst a Poplar lined street, the listed exterior required the deft hand of Minale + Mann to fineness the renovation. Redefining the internal space typologies to a more contemporary layout, Minale + Mann have created a generous family home. The design...
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An Australian designer’s home

Rob Mills creates exceptional homes.  He and his team are responsible for some truly innovative and inspiring projects in Australia and across the globe. So when it came to designing his own home, it is no surprise it is just that – unique, resolved and with his own brand of masculine glamour. Originally a cardboard factory in the leafy Australian suburb of Armidale...
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Masculine in Mexico City

This 150 square metre home in the posh Lomas de Chapultepec neighbourhood in Mexico City is the residence of Eugenio López, the owner of Jumex – the juice megabrand popular throughout the USA and Latin America. Famed as having perhaps Latin Americas largest private art collection, this home doesn’t have your traditional Western “white box” gallery-like interior. Famed Spanish designer Luis Bustamante has...
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