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House Call: Converted Stable in London

On September 26, 2011 By

What is it about con­verted sta­bles, car­riage houses, even garages? When­ever we’re wan­der­ing around Lon­don, Brook­lyn, or San Fran­cisco (any city, really), we find our­selves drawn to the more hum­ble houses in the neigh­bor­hood. Case in point: this res­i­dence in Lon­don spotted […]

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Bath: High/Low Campaign-Style Bath Mirror

On September 26, 2011 By

Spot­ted on Dan­ish com­pany Gubi’s site (worth a visit to see the excep­tional stag­ing and styling): the clas­sic leather cam­paign mir­ror from Art Deco mas­ter Jacques Adnet, used in a white tiled bath. Here are two options: high and low.

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Walls, Windows & Floors: Phenomenon Tiles by Tokujin Yoshioka for Mutina

On September 25, 2011 By

Before open­ing his own stu­dio in 2000, Japan­ese designer Toku­jin Yosh­ioka designed many of Issey Miyake’s shop inte­ri­ors and dis­plays. Yosh­ioka recently col­lab­o­rated with Ital­ian tile maker Mutina to cre­ate a line called Continue Reading →

Shopper’s Diary: Arxe in Barcelona

On September 25, 2011 By

Founded by Glo­ria Mar­genat in Barcelona in 2008, Arxe is a design stu­dio focused on cre­at­ing fur­ni­ture and one-of-a-kind tex­tiles for the home out of sal­vaged indus­trial mate­ri­als. The prin­ci­pals “search across Europe to find antique fur­ni­ture and old indus­trial materials—wood, leather, […]

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Design Sleuth: Glass Wall Vase by Sarah Winward

On September 25, 2011 By

An answer to the peren­nial ques­tion of what to hang over the bed (and for city dwellers, how to inte­grate a bit of nature into urban life): a wall-hung vase with a few branches of what­ever is grow­ing in the gar­den or is […]

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Architect Visit: Gus Wustemann in Barcelona

On September 25, 2011 By

Spot­ted on Dezeen: Swiss archi­tect Gus Wüstemann’s own apart­ment, located in a his­toric build­ing in Barcelona. Wüste­mann added mod­ern ele­ments to the old shell in a par­tic­u­larly strik­ing way; he named the project “White Cross” for a cross-shaped addi­tion at the […]

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Office Visit: Found Associates in London

On September 25, 2011 By

This Not­ting Hill town­house remodel by London-based Found Asso­ciates (Remod­elista A+D Direc­tory mem­bers) involved strip­ping the house’s inte­rior back to a mere shell and low­er­ing the base­ment floor (at one point, the archi­tects say, one could stand in the mud at […]

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Walls, Windows & Floors: Tactile Wonderland Wallpaper in the UK

On September 25, 2011 By

Founded by Rebecca Otero and Ninette van Kamp (friends who stud­ied tex­tile design at Cen­tral St. Mar­tins), Tac­tile Won­der­land is a line of sus­tain­able fab­ric “wall cou­ture”: the duo’s cus­tom wall cov­er­ings pay homage to Britain’s tex­tile heritage, […]

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Tabletop: Vintage Indian Enamelware at Layla

On September 24, 2011 By

Our friend Alayne, pro­pri­etor of Layla in Brook­lyn, has brought back a col­lec­tion of vin­tage enam­el­ware from her most recent trip to India. Indian mer­chants brought the col­or­ful pieces back from their jour­neys through Europe and other parts of Asia; upon return […]

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Fabrics & Linens: Raksha Bella in Berkeley

On September 24, 2011 By

Car­rie Peters of Berkeley-based Rak­sha Bella was a dec­o­ra­tive painter in a for­mer life; after a trip to India, she shifted her aes­thetic focus to fab­rics. Peters com­mis­sions under­priv­i­leged women in Jaipur, India, to cre­ate hand-bl
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