Sometimes (often really) using words to underscore the images in this blog can feel a tad superfluous. And never more so than when I gaze upon this. The scene from the bedroom window is the ancient UNESCO listed town of Modica, but the real hook for me lays on the inside, somewhere between the curve of the headboard and the fervid red of the bedcover. Only in Sicily.
Pale blue used as the decorating gods intended… The work of the remarkable New York based stylists to the stars, husband and wife team Sixx Design.
This is Puglia on Italy’s southern coast where, a little ironically perhaps, big, honest, hard-working old farmhouses, masserie, are being converted into some of the most beautiful sanctuaries from the stress of modern living on the planet… Just don’t expect a holiday from design.
This new office in the woods outside Madrid is remarkable not least because it doesn’t need to be pristine and people-free to look fantastic… The most soulful and seductive workplace I’ve ever seen is the studio of Spanish architects Selgascano. The highly descriptive photography of Iwan Baan is an added delight.
via dezeen
Another hidden gem from the pages of marie claire maison. Proving that green washed timber wall panelling looks so much more beautiful than it sounds.
These beautiful rooms are the London city home-studio of international artist Thomas Kuppler… After decades in the design wilderness, the return of face brickwork in modern interior design just took a big step forward.
The Coat Shed by young ‘cross-continental’ design group Outofstock is part of a fabulous five-piece collection presented at the Salone Satellite during Milan design week. The group’s website tells of a ‘vision to bring back romance and poetry in the design of everyday objects’. High ideals, sure, but more than matched by some of the most sensitive and sensible new design out there. Check out the Milan collection over at dezeen and then read the story of how a chance meeting in Stockholm changed everything for this prodigious foursome.
