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A New Book Preserves the Lost Interiors of Ebony and Jet’s Chicago Headquarters

For decades, Ebony and Jet were among the most important publications documenting Black American life and culture, making Johnson Publishing Company the era’s most influential Black-owned media corporation. Completed in 1972, its headquarters at 820 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago…
Design | Interior Design

Spinnaker x seconde/seconde/ Brings Back the 50 Phantoms

In a market saturated with collaborations of all shapes and sizes, it can be challenging to break through the noise. Sure, these partnerships create buzz, but collab fatigue is real. Every once in a while, though, a collaboration still manages…
Architecture

Casa Piva

From its laneway in Malvern East, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, Casa Piva shows the street a white brick facade with almost no windows. B.E. Architecture designed the house as the home of architect and director Andrew Piva. The plan…
Architecture

Orchard House

Local planning rules required Orchard House to carry a 22-degree roof pitch, and Fearon Hay built the entire scheme around that constraint. Set within a mature chestnut orchard near Queenstown, New Zealand, the house by the Auckland-based studio is composed…
Architecture | Property Blog

four pitched-roof volumes build timber-clad coastal house in belgium

Four triangular timber volumes shape coastal ‘house of cards’ House of Cards is a coastal residence in Koksijde, Belgium, designed by Vantieghem Talebi around the structural and zoning constraints of an existing foundation. The new house follows the foundation’s asymmetrical cruciform…
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Inside Local People, a Contemporary Cafe Beneath an Istanbul Dome

A dormant dome in the heart of Istanbul has been reimagined as a contemporary cafe. Designed by international design and creative studio Mitte, Local People transforms an underused structure in Başakşehir, one of the city’s densely developed residential districts, into…
Design | Interior Design

Ry Van Der Hout Reassembles Memory in ‘In Broken Light’

Fragments of mirrored glass split, gather light, then come together as a new whole. In the storied rooms of Toronto’s Spadina Museum, an 1866 mansion, interdisciplinary artist Ry Van Der Hout’s sculptures catch light and open fresh ways of seeing…
Design | Interior Design

Freitag Turns Used Truck Tarps Into a New Kind of Luxury

When talking about luxury fashion, there are certain conventions that consumers have come to expect: sumptuous materials, opulent detailing, and conceptual—if not impractical—design. Fortunately, Freitag designer Anne Bachmann doesn’t dabble in conventions. Read another article:What Is Women’s Equality Day and…
Design | Interior Design

Friday Five with Veronica Mishaan: Inside the Making of a Bogotá Penthouse

Veronica Mishaan grew up with a love of design. Sure, it helps that her mother, Susana Mishaan de Millán, was also a successful designer in Bogotá and Cartagena, Colombia. She credits her mother with her lifelong passion for painting and…
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three ceramic sculptures diffuse distinct fragrances evoking puglia’s landscapes

Coco Brun translates Puglia’s eroded landscapes into ceramics Landscape Memories is an olfactory installation by French artist and designer Coco Brun that translates the landscapes of Puglia, southern Italy, into three ceramic sculptures that diffuse distinct fragrances. Developed during the D.Puglia…
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Inside the Stunning Prefab Home Built for NEGATIVE 45 Degrees!

This week I went to see a brand new Modular Home with a modern yet rugged exterior. This is the Summit from Alta Fab, a brand new prefab home that was designed to withstand all four seasons and then some.…
Architecture

Why America’s Richest Families Copied European Palaces

Why did America’s richest families build mansions inspired by European palaces? During the Gilded Age, wealthy families like the Vanderbilts and Berwinds recreated aristocratic architecture to project status, history, and prestige. Feeling inspired? Subscribe to AD and get a free…
Property-design

Decorilla vs. AI Design Tools: Which Is Right for Your Home?

By DECORILLA AI has widened what a homeowner can do before committing to anything. Feed a photo of an empty room and a short prompt into an AI design tool, and it will return a furnished version of that room…
Architecture

Walkers Hook Residence

A creek runs through one side of this Salt Spring Island lot and a road defines the other, and the riparian setbacks between them left so little buildable area that many prospective buyers assumed nothing could be built there. Walkers…
Architecture | Modern Homes | Property Blog

A West Vancouver Home Appears to Float Among the Trees

You wouldn’t think a 7,000-square-foot West Coast modern home would settle in so perfectly on a historical site above the West Vancouver oceanfront. But Openspace Architecture made sure of it, relying on an ultra-minimal material palette of wood, concrete, and…
Design | Interior Design

Behind the Swoosh: 50 Years of Nike Design

Is there any logo more iconic than the Nike swoosh? Unlikely. In fact, it’s arguably the most recognizable symbol in sports. But how did a small running company become a global powerhouse? Vitra Design Museum set out to find out,…
Property-design

Before & After: Great Gatsby-Inspired Interior Design for a Modern Condo

By DECORILLA This Tennessee condo began with bare rooms behind floor-to-ceiling windows. Now, a navy-paneled lounge centered on an electric fireplace gives the home its personality. The story follows Decorilla’s contemporary interpretation of Great Gatsby interior design, with room for…
Architecture

Blue House

Blue House’s ultramarine lime plaster had to be applied to each facade in a single day, since the pigment is unstable and any seam or repair would show. The house, in the Marvila district of Lisbon, Portugal, is a renovation…