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Beyond trends: how White Label Project’s founders are shifting the narrative around design and fashion

Ann-Kathrin and Caroline first met in Paris, a city that was new to both of them. Their shared love of...

One-of-a-kind, custom-specific property Radius House in the heart of Venice District

Los Angeles-based design studio Pentagon have built a property imbued with character in Radius House. Their first completely newly developed...

Berlin Art

Mark Krayenhoff van der Leur: Garments as sculptural forms

In the back room of his bright fourth floor apartment—aptly located close to Kurfürstendamm, one of the biggest shopping streets...

Los Angeles Fashion

In the Laurel Canyon with Iranian-born, Los Angeles-based stylist Maryam Malakpour

Malakpour, who is a fashion stylist and creative director, says the car is perfect for Sunday drives around Mulholland’s winding...

Auckland Art

Grant Major and Judy Darragh’s New Zealand art haven where sculpture and film collide

Judy Darragh and Grant Major have lived together in their three-level modernist house in Auckland, New Zealand, for the past...

Milan Design

Eager to combat the spatial challenges of today, MINI LIVING and Studiomama teamed up for this year’s Salone del Mobile

“By opening up the design process and challenging the conventional status quo ‘architect vs client’, we wanted to allow people...

New York City Design

Rethinking the domestic space with New York founder of TRNK, Tariq Dixon

“We lived these fleeting and transient lives as young people in New York City and never spent any time at...

Hong Kong Architecture

How Architect Kevin Chu and his Wife Giulia Dibonaventura promote sustainable lifestyles in Hong Kong

The couple live 25 minutes by ferry from Downtown Hong Kong, on the car-free section of Lantau Island, Discovery Bay,...

Copenhagen Design

Danish modernism takes a playful turn in the design studio of Mads Sætter-Lassen and Emil Krøyer

There’s no bling in the bedroom, though—only the hallmarks of contemporary Scandinavian design: whitewashed walls, wooden floors, simple accents. And...

Melbourne Architecture

Creating walls out of canvases and cardboard chairs with Australian architect John Henry

John’s high ceiling and impressive window facade manage to offset the five levels of his home, the ‘Research House’, that...

Milan Architecture

A conceptual urban living installation in Milan offers a vision of future architecture solutions

On the other, gentrification is raising real estate prices beyond the reach of many with urban space increasingly occupied by...

New York City Design

In New York’s West Village, Caroline and Michael Ventura design for living in their home, retail and workspace

Phone calls flood in to their West Village concept store, Calliope (pronounced “kah-lie-oh-pee”), not just from savvy shoppers looking to...

Los Angeles Art

Caren Motika and Adam McPherson bring healing arts to the LA community with the space, Window of the Sky

Their humble residence was originally conceived as a test model: Built by a man who made a successful career as...

Berlin Home Stories

Anna Lehmann-Brauns captures light and color in her nostalgic images of lifeless interiors

The empty interiors, that we usually see inhabited, cast their own particular spell, as we ourselves experience when we visit...

Antwerp Art

The Antwerp gallery of Veerle Wenes dissolves the boundaries between public and private art

Once a derelict 1970s furniture showroom, the now luminous gallery and adjoining home seem a brick and mortar embodiment of...

Community

Grindr publishes HOME, its first ever book with Berlin photographer Matt Lambert

HOME showcases the work of Berlin-based photographer and filmmaker Matt Lambert. Traveling through gay communities around the globe, he cast...

Stockholm Architecture

Mind over matter: Allan Spiegel on building a family home from the ground up

“I’m not an architect,” says Allan Spiegel, a self taught interior consultant who works with some of the biggest retail...

Chicago Design

Clear cut: A look at Felicia Ferrone’s purposeful Milanese-inspired designs

Currently based in Chicago, Felicia’s brand fferrone allows her to constantly reinvent archetypes through her fundamental approach to design. Her...

Copenhagen Architecture

Norm Architects' Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen on stripping back design to its bare essentials

His design philosophy is one now synonymous with the region, based on taking existing architectural norms and stripping these down...

Munich Architecture

Steffen Werner: Constructing space like a sculptor

It’s the old debate of whether form or function comes first, only that nowadays, some may call it constructivism versus...