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Laneige Takes Personalized Skincare to Architectural Scale

Laneige’s Seoul flagship is more than a conventional beauty store. Across four floors, oversized architectural installations transform the Korean skincare brand’s bespoke services into physical experiences, while a sculptural red tube spirals from the lobby through the building and toward…
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Outside In and Nature of Things Rethink Beauty Retail in NYC

Beauty retail increasingly asks stores to do more than simply display products. At a new SoHo concept from Outside In and Nature of Things, shopping is only one part of the program: Makeup and skincare share an address with fragrance,…
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Inside the Restoration of Coco Chanel’s Garden on the French Riviera | Architectural Digest

AD joins Architect Peter Marino to explore his restoration of Coco Chanel’s legendary gardens at La Pausa, her iconic French Riviera villa. From historic archives to Mediterranean planting, the landscape was carefully reimagined to honor Chanel’s original vision while celebrating…
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MUJI Has Transformed a Harvard Square Landmark Into a Lifestyle Destination

Retail stores often take a more-is-more approach, filling their spaces with an overwhelming array of goods, so when one has just the right combination of products and aesthetic appeal, it can give the retailer an edge. That’s what MUJI in…
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Inside m2atelier’s Crafted Capsule at Genova Design Week

Reimagining shipping containers as homes, studios, or pop-ups certainly isn’t new, but Milan-based architecture and design studio m2atelier took a more novel approach. The Crafted Capsule, an experiential installation housed with a shipping container is less about the limitations of…
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A Clifftop Home Perched High Above the Ocean in New Zealand (House Tour)

Inside a clifftop home perched high above the ocean in New Zealand, Te Whau by Herbst Architects offers a deeply considered response to coastal living, where architecture heightens the rituals of retreat, gathering and connection to place. Located on Waiheke…
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An Architect’s Own Home With a Secret Courtyard at Its Heart (House Tour)

An architect’s own home with a secret courtyard at its heart reveals a deeply personal exploration of design, lifestyle and longevity. Designed by Shaun Lockyer Architects as a downsized residence for Shaun and Julie Lockyer, the Brisbane home reflects decades…
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F5: Amanda Martocchio Talks the Rockies, a Risom Stool + More

When Amanda Martocchio was 11 years old, and on a family outing to a museum, she began to sketch a work by Spanish Baroque painter Murillo when a crowd quickly gathered to watch her. “It was then that I realized…
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FELT’s Home for Life Centers Dignity in Ageing-in-Place Design

As populations continue to age globally, architecture is increasingly confronted with a difficult question: how can homes support physical accessibility without reducing later life to a purely clinical condition? Too often, housing designed for aging prioritizes utility at the expense…
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F5: Peter Pelsinski Talks Shadows and Light, Color, Play + More

As a child, Peter Pelsinski was convinced that astronauts and garbage collectors had the coolest vehicles, and as a science fan, he figured that space travel could well be in his future. When he arrived at college though, he hadn’t…
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Marc Thorpe’s Forest Edge House Blends Beauty and Self Sufficiency

There is no mistaking the core philosophy of the Forest Edge House, a 1,500-square-foot home nestled into the woods of the western Catskill Mountains. On the southern face of the house, a grid of solar panels absorbs the slanting rays…
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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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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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Top 20 Interior Design Trends You’ll See at Milan Design Week

Every year, Milan Design Week becomes the ultimate platform for innovation, creativity, and craftsmanship. Visitors can explore the Top 20 Interior Design Trends that will define interiors for 2026. From immersive installations to sculptural furniture and experimental lighting, these trends…
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Inside Piaule’s Design-Driven Catskills Escape With Design Within Reach

Across fifty acres of forest in upstate New York, Piaule sits as a small constellation of modernist structures connected by footpaths neatly tucked into a west-facing rise, which overlooks the Catskill Mountains. The landscape hotel first debuted in 2021 with…
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F5: Paige Lawrence on Wildflowers, Vintage Furniture, a Fiddle-Leaf Fig Plant + More

Raised in Texas, Paige Lawrence earned a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University before moving to Los Angeles. It was here that an early role in kitchen design and interiors sparked her interest in the built environment. Lawrence eventually received a…
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Radisson Resort and Spa Lonavala Celebrates the Remaining Natural Beauty of India’s Popular Sahyadris Region

Just a two hour’s drive from the ever-bustling and expanding sprawl of Mumbai—India’s second city—the Sahyadris Hills unfold with a cooler and less humid climate. For decades now, the region—also noted for its ancient forts and Buddhist caves—has been a…
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A Masterclass in Urban Living with Gachot Studios (Design Masterclass)

A masterclass in urban living begins with understanding how a home evolves alongside the people who inhabit it. From downtown lofts to landmark townhouses, Gachot Studios approaches each project as an opportunity to refine how life unfolds within the layered…