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The Lodge hotel takes over 500-year-old farmhouse in Mallorca

July 5, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

A roughly-hewn stone trough and a traditional mill for pressing olive oil were repurposed by interior designer Pilar García-Nieto within this farmhouse-turned-hotel near Mallorca’s Serra de Tramuntana mountain range. The Lodge is the latest boutique hotel from Único Hotels, tucked away inside a 157-hectare estate filled with centenarian almond and olive trees, lavender fields and 20 kilometres

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Glastonbury’s mushroom mycelium pavilion explores sustainable stage design

June 23, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Festival set designer Simon Carroll has created the spiralling Hayes Pavilion from salvaged timber and mycelium at Glastonbury festival to challenge the industry’s over-reliance on polystyrene foam. Encircled by a long bench, the Hayes Pavilion was designed as both a gathering space and a conversation piece, exploring whether mycelium can be used as a more sustainable material for building

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Kim Kardashian brings poolside vibes to SKIMS swimwear pop-up at Selfridges

June 13, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

A three-tiered diving board stands next to a metallic palm tree inside this pop-up shop that designer Willo Perron has created for Kim Kardashian’s lingerie brand SKIMS in London. The brand’s first physical retail space in the UK, at the Selfridges department store in London, follows the same formula as its debut shop in Paris.

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“The world ran out of pink” due to Barbie movie production

June 8, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

The sets of Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Barbie movie required such vast amounts of pink paint, they swallowed up one company’s entire global supply, according to production designer Sarah Greenwood. Speaking to Architectural Digest, Gerwig revealed that the team constructed the movie’s fluorescent Barbie Land sets almost entirely from scratch at the Warner Bros Studios Leavesden

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Six renovated Parisian apartments in historical Haussmann-era buildings

June 3, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Period details are mixed with contemporary interventions inside these renovated apartments in Paris, built in the mid-19th century during Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s reconstruction of the French capital. In his role as the prefect of the Seine département under Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann was responsible for creating the network of boulevards that still define the city’s urban landscape

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Ten standout pavilions from the 2023 London Design Biennale

June 1, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

A giant wind chime, touch-sensing bio-textiles and windows for Ukraine are among the most intriguing installations from the London Design Biennale, which opens at Somerset House today. The biennale’s fourth edition was curated by the Nieuwe Instituut and its artistic director, Aric Chen. With the theme of The Global Game: Remapping Collaboration, the event aims

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Eight houses that integrate swimming pools into their architecture

May 16, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

From a cantilevered rooftop pool in Marbella to a brutalist home with a swim-up lagoon, here are eight houses that don’t relegate swimming pools to the garden. Most of these residences are located in balmy climates such as Mexico or Singapore that allow living spaces to be opened up to the elements – and with

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Basile Studio enlivens Moxy Williamsburg hotel with “eclectic grab-bag” of spaces

May 10, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Hotel brand Moxy has opened its first outpost in Brooklyn, with plentiful gathering spaces including a bar with motorised 20-feet-tall liquor shelves and an eatery modelled on Tel Aviv’s Bauhaus architecture. Californian hospitality design practice Basile Studio spearheaded the interior design of the 216-room hotel, set in the heart of Williamsburg on bustling Bedford Avenue. The aim

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Eight brutalist Mexican interiors that prove concrete doesn’t have to feel cold

April 30, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Raw concrete surfaces are softened by timber and plenty of daylight inside these Mexican houses, rounded up here as part of our latest lookbook. Many of these brutalist interiors leave their concrete shells exposed and their cavernous rooms largely unadorned. But freed of the constraints posed by frigid temperatures, they also create a greater connection

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