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The Greenwich Hotel Tribeca Penthouse
The penthouse at the Greenwich Hotel nestles high above the bustle of the TriBeCa neighborhood in Manhattan. The top-level penthouse is designed to integrate as much as possible into the nineteenth century industrial neighborhood, using local materia
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Mercato Centrale Di Firenze
The Mercato Centrale in the heart of Florence was built around 1874 after a design by Giuseppe Mengoni, who was also the architect of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. He derived inspiration for the market in Florence from the Halles in Par
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Interior Inspired By The Arts
The house is hidden away among lush greenery and contorted trees. Its architecture is both simple and functional. You won’t find mind-blowing facades or entrances flanked by pillars. No – here the tranquillity of balanced architecture prevails: a mix
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Istituto Lorenzo De' Medici At The Mercato Centrale
A special place has been reserved in Florence’s Mercato Centrale for the large Cooking School classrooms designed and created by Arclinea for the Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici. Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici is a unique academy based on Italy’s rich cultu
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Chrono Sphere
Throughout OMEGA’s iconic history, the renowned Swiss watchmaker has earned a special reputation for its advancements in the art of Tourbillon craftsmanship. Today, the next chapter in the story is unveiled, through the release of the new De Ville To
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Vine Yarde State In The Sonoma Hills
The design of the buildings at theVineyard Estate themselves was intended to quietly reciprocate the complexities of site and program, enhance the relationship of indoor and outdoor space, and capture a serene spirit of place. Each building is discre
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Illy – Live Happily
Happiness based on three important mainstays: health, sustainability and pleasure.They go to make up Illy’s DNA. Just as champagne is the drink of celebration, coffee is the drink of culture and happiness. Hence the slogan: Live HAPPilly! Andrea Illy
OBJEKT South Africa3 min readArchitecture
Natural Light In Osaka
The site is on the corner of an alley leading to the shopping street in the city of Osaka, Japan. It is a renovation project of a wooden house built in 1976 . The orignal building comprised an office part and residential part. In the part housing the
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Salone Della Creatività 491 Degrees Design
How much design can a person take? That question would seem justified for anyone visiting the annual design spectacle at the Salone del Mobile in the Italian city of Milan. It is the epicentre of design: an unparalleled extravaganza transcending the
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Fort al Fateh Museum
The architects of PAD about the Fort al Fateh Museum: “An essential key to understanding this project is the use of stone for building within an established historical setting.The choice of sandstone, created by layers of sand compressed and solidifi
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Palazzo Antinori-aldobrandini
Founded in 1997 by Architect Fulvio Giraldi, the design studio consists of 5 partners and 22 associates. The atmosphere is young and dynamic, thanks to the spaces that define a strong communication and design identity. The headquarters are divided in
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Studio City's Architectural Pleasure Sure Do Love You
Len Peltier and Patrick Clifton are both creative people. At one time Len was the creative director of Levi Strauss, where his new visual ideas were welcomed; Patrick is a writer focusing especially on the film industry. Their house in Studio City is
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Kitchen Extreme
Eurocucina is a biennial kitchen spectacular the creativity and presentation of which are unique in the world.The event coincides with the Salone del Mobile and, like that furniture design fair, constitutes a logistic upheaval. Every self-respecting
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Eco Chic In The Dutch Polder
The interior created by Robert Kolenik with lighting fixtures he designed for Maretti resembles a modern apartment. He describes it as minimalist, but that refers to the fact that he only works with a handful of elements – in his opinion, it’s always
OBJEKT South Africa3 min readArchitecture
English Barn With Racing Spirit
The owner of the space is a classic car and aviation enthusiast, so Splinter had an abundance of good aesthetic references and a strong direction for the style they wanted to create for him. “We began by delineating the large upper space into functio
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Horst P. Horst Photographer Of Style
Horst P. Horst was a master of light, composition and atmospheric illusion who conjured a world of sensual sophistication. His long and varied career spanned the inter-linked worlds of art, fashion, theatre and high society. The exhibition will featu
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Amsterdam Delight
The apartment is situated in a former distribution centre for the South Holland Brewery from The Hague. Until the mid-twentieth century, this was one of the most renowned breweries in the Netherlands, it even received the Royal designation of Beer Su
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Grimm To The Limits
The house was built in 1905 as a ´stolp´ farmhouse on the foundation of a much older farm. The noble family of Van Stolk, owned the majority of the land in the vicinity. At the beginning of the last century, the family essentially gave around 1000m2
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Elise In The Sky With Diamonds
The Four Seasons Hotel and Residences Toronto is a complex consisting of a 55-story residential condominium tower next to a 30-storey hotel tower in the Yorkville district of Toronto. The two glass towers were designed by Peter Clewes of architects A
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6 Generations Of Belgian Decorators
Geoffroy designs and decorates houses, apartments and restaurants in Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, the UK, France, and the US. He names Leonardo da Vinci, Tony Duquette, St. Nicholas and his mother as his biggest sources of inspiration. He wa
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Porsche’s 800-volt Gamechanger
The Taycan is Porsche’s first fully electric sportscar and goes one step further than the company’s myriad hybrid models. From the ground up it’s entirely new and is a crucial piece of a longterm vision towards emission-free motoring. This is just th
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Serenity And Elegance
Renee and Ken Metrick, made their names with Elte, the successful interior business from the Toronto started by Ken’s grandfather in 1919. Furnishing and rugs are their specialty with an extension with Elte Mkt, an affordable luxury line and their ba
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The White House Painted Black
The White House has quite a history as it was designed by a member of the Harvard Five from New Canaan, Connecticut, USA. This a group of architects that settled there in the 1940s: John M. Johansen, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, Philip Johnson and El
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NOCC Studio At Nelly Rodi - L’Hôtel Cromot Du Bourg, Paris
Jean-Christophe Orthlieb and Juan Pablo Naranjo set up the NOCC studio exactly a decade ago. Having tied their hands over the years focusing on artistic direction, interior design, industrial design, staging, and experimental and mass production, tod
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Catharsis by Prune Nourry
Catharsis marked a turning point in the artist’s creative process. For over twelve years, Prune Nourry has been developing powerful and thoughtful multidisciplinary work, exploring the body by questioning gender and hybridization. She tended to keep
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Napa Valley Twilight Rooftop Wabi-sabi
During their initial design briefing conversation for Ensue, Kostow asked Chris Shao: “what is your definition of luxury?” His response was that, to him, emotion evoked the greatest sense of luxury, as identifying luxury itself is a very deep and per
OBJEKT South Africa2 min readTechnology & Engineering
Studio Drift
They form a unique duo in an international world where nature, art and technology meet. They developed an intriguing language based on the question ‘who are we’: what bridge between nature, light and electronics can stimulate the human feelings? “Wha
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The Grand Dame Of Megève
Attached to the Mont d’Arbois Massif with the Mont Blanc in the distance, L’Hôtel L’Arboisie is the very emblem of the village of Megève, a small village in the Haute-Savoie in southeastern France Alpes. Conceived in the 1920s as a French alternative
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Tucked Away In Castle Creek Valley Colorado
Enter the Conundrum house and studio in Aspen, Colorado. Inspired by recollections of an earlier modernism and specifically by detailing in the early houses of Kahn, Schindler and especially Aalto’s Villa Mariea, Madderlake Designs created the house
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