Just a really smart looking front door really…
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What a gorgeous, grown-up looking place to go for a drink.
British designer Ilse Crawford goes for gold in old Colonial precinct of Hong Kong.
I especially love the kitchen in this wonderful house in Puglia by architectural rising star Peter Pichler. Unpretentious, understated, yet brimming with style. And it works.
In Portugal, the long-awaited resurgence of terra cotta has begun in earnest. 
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).
A design objective often touted in architecture, the link between inside and outside space. This rebuilt house in rural Switzerland actually gets there, not by big openings alone but through a common palette of colours and materials.
There’s a lot to love about this house. The seriously sexy powder room builds to bathrooms with quite a different feel. But the opportunity to bring a touch of sensuality and delight to the ritual of the everyday isn’t missed here either.
The perfectly centred downlight in this is the cherry on a the cake. Powder room perfection made in Japan.
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.