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Trattoria Breda by Allen Kaufmann Architekten Flirts With Ugly and Lands Firmly on Cool.
In Berlin's Kreuzberg, Trattoria Breda is painted almost entirely in saturated, high-gloss orange, and it flirts openly with the ugly before landing somewhere very cool. Designed by Allen Kaufmann Architekten, the restaurant pairs that colour with brushed and mirror-polished…
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Dieter Vander Velpen Architects Build a Material Playground Inside a Former Antwerp Confectionery.
A material playground inside a 1919 confectionery, with a Bond-villain bar and a bath carved from one block of stone. Dieter Vander Velpen Architects' new Antwerp studio puts everything the practice does well on display: a Ziricote veneer rescued after 30 years on supplier's…
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The Gentleman by YSG Studio: A 1929 Potts Point Apartment Built for Two Very Tall People.
Two clients over two metres tall. Ninety-five square metres on an upper floor of a 1929 Art Deco block in Potts Point, heritage-protected, with north-facing glimpses of the Opera House sails. That was the brief handed to YSG Studio, and the way they solved the height problem is…
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Betyle Mixes a Century of Design in Marseille Without Freezing Any of It in Time.
In Marseille, young studio Betyle handles nostalgia with intelligence, gathering almost a century of design, with each piece keeping its own date. A hammered copper Art Deco lamp sits alongside Marco de Gueltzl's glass chandelier, Enzo Mari's bowl for Daum and Betyle's own…
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Jardan’s Etta Treats the Sofa and Coffee Table as One Idea.
Plenty of living rooms are assembled one purchase at a time: the sofa for comfort, the coffee table chosen to stay out of its way. Jardan's Etta asks what happens when both are designed as one idea. The answer is a deep, high-backed sofa and a family of stacked, high-gloss…
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Business on the Outside, Party on the Inside: The Fun House in Kamnik, Slovenia by Alto Design Studio.
From the street, Fun House in Kamnik, Slovenia, gives nothing away. Inside, Alto Design Studio tells a different story, with an Yves Klein blue fireplace, a bright curtain instead of walls, and a basement game room drenched in colour. | The article Business on the Outside, Party…
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Experimental Roma by Rodolphe Parente Brings Marble, Steel and 1970s Vibes to a Former Bank.
A former bank is not your usual place to go looking for hedonism. At Experimental Roma, Rodolphe Parente has set marble against folded stainless steel and terracotta against polished metal, with 1950s to 1970s references running throughout. And, yes, we're obsessed. | The…
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A Window Built for Orchids: The Swiss Watchmaker Behind Vitrocsa.
Read enough of what Australian architects have said about Vitrocsa and two ideas keep coming back: elegance, and how little of the window is left once the building is finished. With minimalism now a box to tick on a spec sheet, it seemed worth asking where the idea came from.…
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Casper Mueller Kneer Design a Perfume Fountain at the Heart of Caron’s New Paris Store.
At the centre of Caron's new Paris store by Casper Mueller Kneer Architects sits the fountain, a full-height installation of hand-frosted, fluted glass tubes filled with perfume and lit from behind. Engineered and fabricated by Atelier Blam, it draws on art deco chandeliers and…
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No Botox: Raúl Sánchez Lets a Mataró Heritage Home Wear Its Age at La Casa del Pirata.
Raúl Sánchez's La Casa del Pirata refuses to over-restore. Cracks stay put, wallpaper imperfections are left alone, and the channels carved for the wall lights remain raw—no Botox here. The tension between centuries-old pattern and cool contemporary steel is the most exciting…