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Emma In Paraty: A Study in Stitch, Scale, and Sincerity

Childlike experimentation is hard to come by as an adult. A muscle we must exercise, intuition is frequently at odds with the seemingly unending flow of modern life. Unfussy, organic, and quietly delightful, Emma In Paraty for Treivas Team taps into…
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Lumens Brings a Rare Afra and Tobia Scarpa-Designed FLOS Luminaire to the U.S. Market

The son of seminal polymath Carlo Scarpa—an experimental Italian architect and designer who marched to the beat of his own drum—Tobia Scarpa forged a career in a similarly irreverent, self-determined spirit. Together with his equally nonconformist wife and partner Afra…
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In Trace, Bureau de Change Lets Circularity Cement Memory in Cast Concrete

New builds boast a certain architectural bravado, often from a place of hubris, when realized from scratch—a clean slate’s seductive promise that the future need not answer to the past. Bureau de Change would argue the opposite. With Trace, their…
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Hyatt Union Square’s Lobby Gets a Timely Refresh in Lower Manhattan

Hotels are no longer just places to lay one’s head. Like most hospitality spaces these days, they’ve become multifunctional environments comprising an ever-expanding set of services. Catering to different types of clientele—travelers taking in all that a locale has to…
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Apple Unveils AirPods Max 2 With Smarter Sound + Spatial Audio

There’s a particular kind of expectation that follows Apple and their iconic announcements—a belief that even the most familiar object can be recalibrated into something more ambient, more intuitive, or more essential. We’ve been spoiled lately. But with the introduction…
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Amangiri Unveils Its First Six-Bedroom Villa in Utah’s Canyon Country

Branded residences have become the luxury hotel industry’s favorite revenue strategy. Most of these projects share a familiar formula—take a glass tower in a growing luxury market, attach a name that travelers recognize, furnish it to a standard that photographs…
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Reused Shipping Containers Form A Flexible Workplace in Spain

An agricultural business has different requirements than a typical corporation centered in an urban setting. This can present a unique set of challenges to designers when they envision an alignment of operations and staff in headquarters that support a range…
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The New Laundry Chair by Simone Giertz Cleans Up Nicely

Since the dawn of the loom, all of humanity has experienced it. We’ve tried our best throughout the millennia, but there are some things that remain constant––that pile of clothing neither fully dirty nor completely clean. It exists in a…
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Ravi Raj Restores a Century-Old Croton-on-Hudson Residence

The stone houses of Westchester’s early 20th-century neighborhoods carry a particular material candor – their masonry is pulled from the same geological bed as the landscape around them, their permanence a direct expression of the region’s character. Ravi Raj’s renovation…
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These Hyper Refined Handles, Knobs, and Pulls Form Like Italian Pasta

The most infinitesimal elements of our interiors are getting noticed these days. With nothing being left to chance in the outfit of our homes, workspaces, restaurants, stores, and shared civic environments, hardware is finally gaining the attention it deserves. These…
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F5: Alex Lerian on Live Music, a Favorite Burrito Spot, Materials + More

Born and raised in New York City, Alex Lerian grew up around endless movement, which not only heightened his spatial awareness but also shaped his aesthetic appreciation. “I began to notice that I was constantly observing light, materials, and environments,”…
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This Long Island Home Offers a Chromatic Counterpoint to Quiet Luxury

From home interiors to fashion runways, a particular kind of quiet luxury has come to define the past decade––restrained palettes, hushed materials, and statement pieces that don’t do much more than whisper. What happens when calm is no longer found…
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This Garden Apartment Treats Architecture as Aperture

Architecture, when reframed, is about space rather than walls; it does not enclose, but reveals. The Garden Apartment by ArandaLasch, reimagines the domestic interior as a calibrated aperture: a sequence of frames, thresholds, and volumes that attune everyday life to…
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“Shimmering Real” Presents Two Swedish Designers in their Prime

Although they work with different media, Camilla Iliefski and Eva Zethraeus have had a simpatico career. For the past two decades, these two alumni of the HDK School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg have evolved alongside each other, both…
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The Municipal Grand Hotel Opens in Savannah

When one thinks of Savannah, they picture cobblestone streets enveloped in draping Spanish moss and lined with Antebellum-era, Georgian-style row houses. What they might not realize is that this compact, historically significant, and undeniably haunted port town is also home…
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Faro Barcelona Grounds Us In Reality With ‘Tierra, Mar y Aire’

Nature is our oldest and most creative designer. Those in the business take structures, materiality, even morality from the organic rhythms of the earth, weaving their way through the mire and magic of creation. True sustainability requires that we understand…
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F5: Jason Roskey on Baja Sur, a Welsh Chair, Sprinter Van + More

Jason Roskey grew up in Texas in a middle class, blue-collar family, but even at a young age he was inspired by art and architecture. When he was in elementary school and went on field trips to the Kimbell Art…
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Powell’s Headquarters is a Showcase for the Firm and Local Makers

Corporate environments typically reference a brand aesthetic paired with contract furnishings to support staff as they perform their daily tasks. When architects envision their own spaces, they often strive to capture a seamless blend of form and function that mirrors…