How can we not love this residence located in the outskirts of Palma in the Son Vida luxury residential area often referred to as the Beverly Hills of Mallorca? The owners of BN1 House and their designer Jorge Bibiloni have ticked off most of the characteristics we love in a house:
Nestled into the forests of Morelia in central Mexico, local firm HW Studio has created a modern concrete retreat that is sunken into the ground, and almost fully hidden from view. The home is characterized by its long, vaulted structural beam, which defines the interior living spaces and helps the
Positioned along the banks of Taizhou’s Yongning River in Zhejiang Province, China, architecture firms Wutopia Lab and Office ZHU have designed the ‘Duoyun Bookstore in Huangyan’ to be a maze-like building reminiscent of clouds. The aim was to create an inspiring venue that “calmly and slowly rises over the river”,
Located on a rocky hillside facing the north coast of the Spanish island of Menorca, ‘Stone House’ by Barcelona-based firm Nomo Studio is cleverly built with the same technique and material as the ancient limestone walls that enclose the island’s farmlands. A combination of smooth plaster and roughly hewn local
The recently reopened Municipal Baths of Strasbourg really must be addressed as ‘Baths.’ It would not seem right to call the complex just simply a swimming facility or an aquatic, wellness or community centre. It is all of these but its grand architecture and interior design, both now elegantly restored
The island of Mallorca has seen its fair share of what we call invasive luxury architecture but there are also many beautiful exceptions that reference local materials and techniques and incorporate them into a modernist, minimalist whole. Casa Fly is a perfect example of this, designed in 2017 and completed
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom Hamptons residence has many of the features of a traditional clapboard barn, but it is in fact only a few years old. The owner of the house is antique collector and seller, interior designer Michael Del Piero, who with architect Kathryn Fee, created this finely balanced hybrid.
The brand-new Pera Perou villas are located on the mountainous, sun-baked Kefalonia, an island in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland Greece. With its colourful history stretching all the way back to antiquity and beyond, Kefalonia offers a dreamy and magical backdrop for this small, secluded resort. Athens-born owner and designer
A transformation from devout urbanites to resolute cottage-dwellers was unlikely for Torontonians Renee and Ken Metrick, their sons Andrew and Jamie and their families. They are the third- and fourth-generation owners of the Elte home décor retail brand and its extensions Elte Mkt and bath retailer Ginger’s. As a family
