Madeline Weinrib
Earlier this year, designer Madeline Weinrib announced that she was closing her business after an astonishing 20 years. To say it sent shock waves across the design community would be...
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Historic Houses
Historic houses are enjoying quite a renaissance these days. While their revival has roots in the V&A’s groundbreaking 1975 exhibition, Destruction of the Country House, followed by decades of preservation...
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Isabel López Quesada
For the design-obsessed, fall is a season filled with wonderment. It seems every week there’s a new event to explore, from the countless exhibitions held during London Design Festival each...
Line Drawings
We have been smitten with illustration in design for ages and over the last year the drawings of legendary painter Pablo Picasso have been top of mind. That’s thanks in...
Bricks in Modernism
When the Yves St Laurent museum opened in Marrakech last fall, it wasn’t the incredible fashion or the exquisite jewelry that most struck our fancy - it was the architecture. Designed...
Mix Masters
The practice of mixing old and new in interior design may be considered Decorating 101 but there is an art to blending eras successfully. It’s a skill that the team...
Cutter Brooks
We recently featured Amanda Brook's Cotswolds boot room and she's back on our radar again - so soon! The American ex-pat with legendary style has just opened a charming shop in Stow-on-the-Wold and it’s...
Black & White, light
We’ve been noticing a lot of black and white tiling lately but there’s something lighter and fresher about this take on the colour scheme than in recent years. It’s white-heavy,...
The Boot Room
Whether you call it a boot room or a mud room, these multitasking spaces do wonders at keeping a house neat and orderly. Carving out room for one sometimes lands...
The Blooming News
On the heels of London Fashion Week, everyone is buzzing about designer Richard Quinn. The rising fashion star quickly made a name for himself, not just for his wild use...
Beyond the Bathroom
Having waxed poetic about bathroom design for the better part of a decade, we are welcoming 2018 with an expanded focus on the house. From tiles and hardware to mirrors...
@EttoreSottsass
The late Italian architect and designer, Ettore Sottsass, led what became one of the most polarizing design movements of the 1980s. Memphis, which championed furniture in riotous, often neon, colours embellished...
Haute Bohemians
Interiors photographer Miguel Flores-Vianna is up there among the greats. Magazines like The World of Interiors, Cabana, and Vogue continually tap him to shoot the world’s most intriguing houses and his Instagram account is downright transporting....
Green with Envy
Come September there’s an inevitable buzz in the air as we emerge from summer’s lazy days and jump back into the full swing of work, school and life. With so...
Hôtel de Crillon
It seems everyone is a buzz about the re-opening of Hôtel de Crillon last month after three-and-a-half years of renovation. The Parisian gem, which dates back to the 18th century, has undergone...
Playa Grande Beach Club
When interior designer Celerie Kemble, and her husband Boykin Curry, set out to build Playa Grande Beach Club along a secluded stretch of the Dominican Republic’s north shore, it was meant to be...
Josef Frank
On the heels of the Josef Frank exhibit at London’s Fashion & Textile Museum, it seems the designer’s electrifying florals are as popular as ever. It’s the perfect motif to represent...