Archives for category: art
I love the hand made look of the splashback in this Rome apartment.
The home office of my dreams.
This shot from Scott Schuman takes me straight back to Italy, (where I’ve been hiding out for the last two months and) where they really know how to wear a scarf.
All I want for Christmas is a few days in this place… French industrial designer Matali Crasset‘s first forray into architecture – and, I think, her best work to date – the mood of the Dar HI eco retreat is perfection. I love the colours – both natural ones (especially the pink of the Tunisian earth) and the super strong ones (very much the Parisienne’s leitmotif).
I love the easy elegance of these bathrooms, designed for a consciously unfashionable and decidedly authentic mountain weekender in Brazil. The architect, in his notes, makes a point of talking about the way materials were selected to highlight the contrast between natural and ‘technological’ finishes.
Some of the pieces work better than others I grant you. (I especially like the wall shelf Prelude # 4). But there is a sweetness about this work by French artist/designers usin-e that lifts my spirits. And that’s enough.
I like the approach of the architects of this gallery house in London who see their work as a moment in the life of the building. Something to be used now and later reabsorbed, ‘like footprints on the landscape’.
I love the slightly disarming effect of a diminutive desk towered over by an oversized floor lamp in the Venice flat of artist Anita Sieff. The contents of the house finely balanced between the essential/functional and the composed, the eye of the artist is everywhere to behold (right down to the fringed linen handtowel). And yet nothing – to my mind at least – looks the least contrived.
We live in contradictory times… Houses that want to look like hotels and hotels that feel like coming home – only better. And ‘La Favorita’ pension in Porto (Portugal), with interiors by French designer Sam Baron, might just be the best example of the genre yet.