Polished, Grown-up & a Little Bit Wild: Birch Selsdon Hotel by A-nrd.Situated in the 200-acre historic Selsdon Park, just 30 minutes from Central London, Birch Selsdon is the sort of place where you can slip off your shoes and into the wilderness, with nowhere yet everywhere to go. Once a 19th-century...
Half-Old and Half-New: Ignacia Guest House in Mexico City by Andrés Gutiérrez and Factor Eficiencia.Ignacia Guest House shares its name with its once-upon-a-time housekeeper (who looked after it for over 40 years), but its spirit is decidedly its own. The Mexico City guest house, which opened its doors in 2017 and occupied half a...
Art Attack: A Haussmannian Apartment in Paris by Rodolphe Parente.True to Rodolphe Parente’s signature—and in his own words, his penchant for "making people lose their perception of spaces and volumes"—this Haussmannian apartment on Paris’ Canal Saint Martin flows like sunlight. Rodolphe...
Geometry & Colour Reign Supreme Inside India Madhavi’s Reinvention of Villa Medici in Rome.India Mahdavi’s artistic direction and renovation of the historical rooms at Villa Medici in Rome proposes a new approach to the interiors, where geometry and colour play a fundamental role and contribute to renewing the spirit of the...
Humble & Wholesome: City Beach House by Design Theory.Designed for a lifetime and beyond, Design Theory focused on quality, repairable finishes that would improve with age and use in this humble and wholesome renovation of an early 1960s Western Australian home, originally designed by Duncan,...
A Roman Ruin Turned Family Home in Granada by Ignacio Quemada, John Hoyland & Victor Cadene.The development of turning these once four separate 15th-century Moorish homes into a luscious, dozen-bedroom holiday nest in Andalusia with glorious views of Alhambra, unearthed more than a few surprises. In the basement, the design team...
Modern Architecture Masterpiece: Villa Cavrois in Croix by Robert Mallet-Stevens.Designed by the French architect Robert Mallet-Stevens in 1932, Villa Cavrois is armed with quite a story. Located in Croix, France, the building has taken many forms, including abandonment, an army barracks, a wedding venue, an exhibition...
A New Chapter: Cafe & Boutique in Nikolaj Kunsthal Copenhagen by MEE Studio.Having undergone many transformations over the centuries, Nikolaj Kunsthal church in Copenhagen—built in 1912 and dating all the way back to the early 1200s—has been adopted as a contemporary art space since 1981. With the help of...
Montesol Experimental Hotel in Ibiza by Dorothée Meilichzon.The Gran Hotel Montesol in Ibiza has undergone a complete redesign by Dorothée Meilichzon in collaboration with Experimental Group. Cool, calming colours counterbalance the Balearic heat and lush fabrics burst with eye-catching patterns,...
