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More yellow from Studio Guilherme Torres out of Brazil.

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).

Now imagine the same meeting room with black chairs…

Shabby chic alla Milanese. This apartment in Lambrate is in one of the most culturally mixed quarters of Milan.   A case of bringing the outside in, by the look of the interiors, and the keeping it real lack of pretension is refreshing.

An Italian loft house full of really nice details and lighting that sets the mood.

Feisty British architects Amenity Space have filled a tiny plot between two north London terraces with a standout new home for a local family, displaced after their long-term landlord sold out from under them.

Dense colour and rich textures at floor level seem to push the ceilings skyward in this new family home in Provence.

The most remarkable rooms are often the ones that, on paper, really shouldn’t work but do.

Let this scene from a Berlin apartment be a reminder that no bedroom is complete if you still have to sit on the bed to put your stockings on…

Somewhere between cheap and chic designer hotel and exclusive sports club, one of the most exciting things about Facebook might just turn out to be its new Silicon Valley workplace by Californian designers o+a.