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.
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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 feel of this smart small hotel by Stuttgart architects, Naumann. Never folksy, but brimming with a big sense of place, and with just enough whimsy.
The new camping, Swedish style. I could definitely be persuaded.
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.
For fans of the fabulous Bouroullec brothers, a visit to their temporary summer exhibition space in Le Corbusier’s Radiant City apartment building would feel like an afternoon among friends…
Bathroom scenes from the sparkling Patricia Urquiola designed Mandarin Oriental five star in Barcelona. No tricks, just understated luxury pure and simple.
When, one day, I return to the lovely walled town of Lucca this apartment is where I want to live.
Milan architect Matteo Thun reminds us why ceilings need downlights like fish need bicycles, at his new eco resort in the Italian Alps, Vigilius.