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How to Style a Home with Custom Furniture and Art (Design Masterclass)

Understanding how to style a home with custom furniture and art begins with collecting pieces that hold personal meaning. At a residence in Wainscott, New York, designer Matt McKay shares his approach to creating interiors that balance individuality, comfort and…
Architecture

Chalet Moraine

The two main floors of Chalet Moraine, a lakeside vacation home in the Laurentians of Quebec, Canada, contain no load-bearing walls. Montreal studio Appareil Architecture designed the house for a couple who had lived on the site for several decades,…
Design | Property Blog

split ceramic curves cast soft reflected light in dimmable table lamp

ALEXEY DANILIN CONCEIVES ‘hope’ CERAMIC TABLE LAMP for MAYTONI Designed by Alexey Danilin for German lighting brand Maytoni, Hope is a table lamp composed almost entirely of natural ceramic. Conceived for mass production within technical and budgetary parameters, the design…
Design | Interior Design

Napa Valley Meets Paris in This Charlotte Bistro by FictionWorks

A once-ordinary restaurant begins a new chapter in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the Southeast’s fastest-growing cities. Designed by FictionWorks, Napa Bistro and Wine Bar Stonecrest draws inspiration from the 1976 Paris Wine Tasting, blending the aesthetics of a French…
Property Blog

The Prefab Industry’s Best Kept Secret: 10 Expandable Homes From $9,590

Real expandable prefab homes starting at just $9,590 — fold-out container houses that arrive on a flatbed, unfold in under an hour, and give you a lockable, livable structure for less than a used pickup truck. If you’ve been shopping…
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Glass Pavilion in Bangkok Marries Sleek Minimalism With Thai Architectural History

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met and Manager of My Modern Met Store. She is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art where she earned her BFA in Illustration and MFA in Illustration Practice.…
Architecture

Framed House

The reception room of a double-fronted Victorian house in East Dulwich is lined with delicate molded paneling, and that framing detail became the organizing device for Framed House, a refurbishment and two-story rear addition by Will Gamble Architects in London,…
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Inside a Penthouse Where Architecture, Interior and River Become One (Penthouse Tour)

Inside a penthouse where architecture, interior and river become one, ARC Penthouse by bureau^proberts offers a remarkable expression of riverfront living in Brisbane. Positioned atop ARC Residences in Toowong, the residence embraces the Brisbane River through expansive views, carefully considered…
Design | Interior Design

6 Tile Trends Shaping Design From Cersaie 2026

“Warm, moody colors dominated the aisles of Cersaie 2026 and the windows of almost every storefront in Bologna,” notes Danielle McWilliams, principal at Novità, the communications agency for Ceramics of Italy. “Just like in fashion, Italian tile manufacturers debuted collections…
Architecture

Julianne Moore’s Love of Imperfect Design

Julianne Moore welcomes Architectural Digest into her New York City apartment filled with vintage furniture, handmade ceramics, and imperfect design. Feeling inspired? Subscribe to AD and get a free tote with your subscription! → https://bit.ly/4jBCUMl Still haven’t subscribed to Architectural…
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Treetop House

Treetop House was designed around the version of Torquay that appears after the holiday crowds leave – heavy skies, damp tracks through coastal scrub, and the subdued tones the landscape takes on in winter. Melbourne-based Studio Kennon set the residence…
Architecture

House of Wall Forest

A crab-claw-shaped lot in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan, bordered by a greenway to the south and an electrical transmission tower to the east, set the terms for House of Wall Forest. Saitama-based IGArchitects, led by Masato Igarashi, designed the two-story timber…
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mirrored acrylic skin dissolves cube pavilion into its surroundings in mexico

MIRROR-FINISH ACRYLIC PANELS CONCEAL pavilion IN GUADALAJARA Designed by errre taller, Sfumato is a temporary reflective pavilion that reinterprets the Cubo MEM, a prominent sculptural landmark at the ITESO architecture complex in Guadalajara, Mexico. Selected as the winning proposal for…
Property Blog

Why You Should NEVER Buy The Most Expensive Tiny House

The difference between a $30,000 and an $80,000 prefab tiny house is NOT what you think. In two cases on this list, the cheaper home actually gives you more house than the expensive one — and one $79K studio quietly…
Design | Interior Design

From Spotlight to Soft-light: New Lighting by Coil + Drift

While the concentrated light of a spotlight compels us to take center stage, the soft glow of a shaded lamp invites us to decompress and settle in. Through his new collections Touch and Strut, Coil + Drift founder John Sorensen-Jolink…
Architecture | Property Blog

A 1908 Japanese Prison Finds New Life as a Luxury Hotel

Constructed in 1908 by government architect Keijiro Yamashita, the landmark Nara Prison is the only complex among Japan’s monumental “Five Great Prisons of Meiji” to survive almost entirely intact. More than a century later, Hoshino Resorts has transformed the former…
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Previously Uninhabited Island in Seoul Just Hit a Major Milestone and Is Now Open to the Public

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met and Manager of My Modern Met Store. She is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art where she earned her BFA in Illustration and MFA in Illustration Practice.…
Property Blog | Property-design

Architect Buries a Home in a Hillside So the Neighbours Can’t See It (House Tour)

When an architect buries a home in a hillside, the result is a close connection between architecture and landscape. At Toro Canyon House, Marmol Radziner has created a contemporary hillside home overlooking Montecito, Santa Barbara and the Pacific Ocean. Designed…