INSPIRATIONROBERT MCKINLEY RENOVATES 1930’s MOTOR LODGE INTO MINIMAL RETREAT IN LAGUNA BEACH Studio Robert McKinley has transformed a motor lodge into the minimal and rustic Hotel Joaquin, providing an escape in Orange County, California. Located a short walk away from the Pacific Ocean in the small coastal city of Laguna Beach, the 1930s motor lodge has been…
INSPIRATIONAPPARTAMENTO LAGO COMO – BY LAGO An apartment in the city centre of Como changes its skin Check out this new designer apartment located in the historic city centre of Como. This luxurious space has been fully renovated by LAGO and in collaboration with the respected interior designer Andrea Castrignano. Castrignano is the creator and presenter of…
INSPIRATIONCOSTA RICA HOUSE WITH VIEWS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN Architecture firm Studio Saxe has completed this house in Costa Rica and covered it with dark charred wood to blend it with its natural surroundings. Tres Amores is a two-storey family residence nestled onto a hilltop in Nosara, Costa Rica that overlooks the Pacific Ocean and mountainous landscape. The 515-square-metre…
INSPIRATION’BRAVE GROUND’ NAMED COLOUR OF THE YEAR FOR 2021 Paint brand Dulux has unveiled a “reassuring” earthy beige hue called Brave Ground as its colour of the year for 2021. Brave Ground was selected as an “elemental” hue that reflects “the strength we can draw from nature, our growing desire to align more with the planet and…
INSPIRATIONBEFORE AND AFTER: A LONDON TOWNHOUSE GETS A BOLD MAKEOVER “We wanted to inject a bit of drama into it, a bit of theatre” When London-based architecture and interior design firm Gundry + Ducker was hired to reimagine a 1970s Neo-Georgian terrace house, founders Tyeth Gundry and Christian Ducker were given very little design direction. The…
INSPIRATIONPEEK INSIDE THE MOST STUNNING HOMES IN MARRAKECH A new book opens the doors to private oases where international style meets Moroccan decor Of the many museums in Marrakech, there’s one that designer Meryanne Loum-Martin always brings first-time visitors to help them get a sense of the city’s eclectic architectural legacy: Dar Si Said, housed…
INSPIRATIONA LIGHT-FILLED MINIMALIST OASIS Architect Lee Skolnick and designer Steven Volpe team up to transform a traditional New York City home into a modern oasis From the street, this elegant 19th-century brick house looks like many of its neighbors in New York’s historic Greenwich Village. But when you open the front door, you realize that…
INSPIRATIONLOUISE BRADLEY’S LONDON HOME IS THE LAST WORD IN UNDERSTATED ELEGANCE Marrying natural materials with an earthy colour palette, the designers remodelled Chelsea townhouse is an oasis of calm “It took me nearly three years to find the property which would become my home,” says London-based interior designer Louise Bradley. “It was an elegant Chelsea…
INSPIRATIONA COOL, COUNTRY STYLE HOME Interior designer Matthew Patrick Smyth breathes new life into his own 1970s prefab One might find it rather curious that a classically minded interior designer like Matthew Patrick Smyth would leave his beloved 18th-century weekend retreat in Sharon, Connecticut, for a neglected 1970s prefab in the woods. But when he…
INSPIRATIONFIVE DESIGN TRENDS WE’LL BE SEEING IN THE NEAR FUTURE Designers and architects across the globe consult their crystal balls Architects and designers have long mused about what the future would hold. In the 1930s, French architect Le Corbusier famously imagined a Radiant City where efficient, concrete block housing was brought to life with…