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Monochromatic Magic New York

For the family of four who live in this home, comfort and durability was key when redesigning their home. However, they did not want to sell themselves short on the design and style. The solution was in hiring New York designer Tamara Magel, who has crafted an interior that is as much about the rough and tumble of having two small children –...

born from the landscape

With the final battle between autumn and winter taking place in Sydney Australia (and winter sadly winning), this project in Brazil jumped out at me…sun, pool and good design. The house, by Brazilian firm Jacobsen Arquitetura, was born from the landscape in which it was built. With the natural slope of the land, the incredible views and the...

The 1917 Texas Bungalow

The ability to merge the old with the new can be one of the most difficult aspects of design. Do it right and the results can be spectacular. Do it wrong and well… This bungalow in Austin, Texas by Miro Rivera Architects is a beautiful study on how to do it right. It was important to the designers...

Modern Melbourne

If there’s one thing I’ve known since I started working in design is that I am mad for timber panelling. It was natural then that I was drawn to this project by Inglis Architects in Melbourne's lush suburb of Toorak. Apart from the panelling however, this house also shows the apt ability of the architects to make full use of...

Reimagined in Mexico

Social housing is something that concerns almost every society and because of this the impact of architecture and interior design on social housing has been great. Built for practicality and to stand the test of time, social housing leans more towards utilitarian than it does to grandiose. Often these buildings are given over to private residents as is the case with this project.

The Three Parts House

For many people who grew up in the suburbs the sight of the traditional post-war clinker brick house was a monotonous fact of life. Street upon street of virtually identical facades in the distinctive red brick. What a joy it is then to see the sympathetic, if not daring, transformation of this original clinker brick home by Architects EAT in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. The so-called...

A Modern Ranch

Texas, I can attest, is far from a place of Cowboys and tumbleweed. Indeed, it is a place of refinement and culture and home to some of the most stylish homes I have seen. This central Texas home with interiors by Sara Story continues this refinement and given it is the designer’s own home the interiors are expectedly amazing. Sitting in the midst of lush green...

San Francisco Decorator Showcase 2014

For me, the annual San Francisco Decorator Showcase is as much a feature of my design calendar as any major furniture fair or design event. The showcase house is always an amazing and often unbridled expression of a designer’s ability and this year’s house is no different. With free reign given, twenty-six designers were chosen to design their own...

hibernation reimagined

Winter is coming. Fact. I am actually looking forward to cold nights hibernating at home and being comfortable on the sofa with the fire going. At the extreme end of the hibernation scale is this beautifully reimagined cabin in the Swiss Alps. Using the original log walls as a cast for the concrete structure, the new cabin references the traditional materials and techniques of the old while...