Designing with Lightness & Authenticity: Oroton Office by Richards Stanisich.In one of Chippendale’s finest warehouses, Richards Stanisich imagines the new home for one of Australia’s most iconic fashion brands. Moving from their Milsons Point location, Oroton’s relocation marks a new, defining chapter for...
Rich in Dualities: Veja Store in Madrid by Plantea.The 'sustainable', resolutely modern and minimal philosophy of the Veja brand is expressed in a complex dialogue in this Madrid retail space designed by Plantea. A place between the new and the traditional, the functional and the...
Umberto121: A 14th-century Holiday Home in Tuscany by Montsant Moreno.In the Tuscan hinterland, atop a knoll near Crete Senesi, lies the historic village of Montisi, one of five municipalities in Val d'Orcia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The village’s history is writ large across the dwellings that...
A Playground for Experimentation: Casa Ermete in Rome by Punto Zero.Giorgio Marchese, founding director of architecture and interior design practice Punto Zero has taken up the challenge of designing his own home. Located in in Rome’s Oppian Hill, in a building dating back to 1900’s, the design studio...
A World of Surprises: Barcelona Apartment by Raul Sanchez Architects.Raul Sanchez divides this spacious and colourful Barcelona apartment into public and private zones via a long and striking walnut timber ‘façade’. On one side of the timber panel—running the entire 21 metre length of the...
Casa Quatro Holiday Home in Portugal by Belgian Hospitality Brand theAddresses.This holiday home in Algarve exudes understated luxury, with old and new harmonising seamlessly. The open-living space is adorned by a vaulted ceiling, plus there is a spacious kitchen, four bedrooms with ensuites, a rooftop terrace and an...
In a World of Its Own: Her Melbourne by Dion Hall.It's hard to walk past Her Melbourne without stopping in for a drink. Glowing from the sidewalk behind a fluted glass front with apricot awnings above, the exterior echoes the French boulevards the Bistro is modelled on. The restaurant and...
Gemstone-inspired Tones & Forms: Haussmannian Apartment in Paris by Uchronia.In a Haussmannian building in Paris’s famous Golden Triangle is an apartment that dazzles like a jewel box. And not just figuratively. In terms of design, the owners, both jewellery designers, were keen to conjure allusions to stones,...
Alchemy of Styles: KODA Cutters Hair Salon by Arent&Pyke.Both nostalgic and futuristic, KODA Cutters, a blazingly bold hair salon perched on the upper mezzanine level of Sydney’s heritage-listed Queen Victoria Building, is a majestic work of sculpted fiction. Designed by Arent&Pyke, the...
