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A Fresh Start

Like the start of a new year, this apartment in Milan is fresh and promising. Conceived by the Italian-Spanish firm Quincoces-Dragò & Partners, the design honours and celebrates the traditional detailing of the historic building and uses it, together with a stunning soapy oak floor, to showcase a series of stunning custom joinery pieces. By far, for me, the kitchen is the...

Evolution in Paris

The celebrated design, Studio KO transforms this pied-à-terre in the Eighth Arrondissement in Paris with ideas of spare elegance, rich colour and quietly luxurious finishes. This 170 square metre, two bedroom apartment is like a treasure box, revealing a richer and more colourful maximalist style. A visual feast – with hints of surrealism and a restrained whimsy, 70s tones are...

Bridging the Gap

Located in Italy and designed by the firm, Resin, this family home ticks all the right boxes for materiality and scale. Without a doubt, the main feature of the home is the double-height living area with its soaring ceiling, huge white walls that are juxtaposed by the exposed concrete and of course the bridge made from steel beams...

From Moscow with love

The Constructivist Apartment by Kate Hume is located in central Moscow, Russia and takes its name from the artistic and architectural movement. Inspired by Melnikov whose architectural work placed him at the fore of 1920s avant-garde architecture. Constructivist architecture combined advanced technology and engineering with an openly Communist social purpose – flourishing in the Soviet Union and much...

A Brutalist Bachelor Pad

More and more at Design Addicts platform we are seeing incredible bachelor pads being designed and this offering by one of my favourites, Guilherme Torres in Sao Paolo, is as impressive as any. Almost brutalist in its execution, the design is a pared back ode to masculinity with concrete, stunning timber panelling and metal forming the core of...

Cabin Fever

Since 1951, generations of classical musicians have participated in Marlboro Music, a seven-week summer festival where young musicians collaborate alongside master artists on the tiny Marlboro College campus. Housing senior musicians on a 15-acre site adjacent to campus, these five cottages designed by HGA Architects find inspiration from reinterpreting the familiar Cape Cod forms of gabled roofs and unadorned walls...