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Residential

  • Materiality in Motion: Claudia Allegra Interiors at The Willow

    Step inside Residences 6A and 6B at The Willow, and you immediately sense a dialogue between architecture and interiors – a conversation orchestrated by Claudia Allegra Interiors that turns materiality into mood and detail into narrative. Nestled in Manhattan’s historic Gramercy neighborhood, these two residences showcase how thoughtful design can bridge the city’s classic architectural language with a modern, lived-in elegance

  • Maison Mattelin: Inside a Layered, Seventies-Inspired Penthouse – A Conversation with Architect Merijn Degraeve

    Maison Mattelin, the latest project by Antwerp-based interior architect Merijn Degraeve, is a 240 m² duplex penthouse that transforms two separate apartments overlooking Ghent’s Citadelpark into a singular, house-like home. Conceived for entrepreneur Gilles Mattelin, the residence balances intimacy with character, offering both a private retreat and a space for entertaining.

  • Floating Lines: Kiaora Residence by STRANG

    In Coconut Grove, STRANG’s Kiaora Residence reimagines suburban living with a bold architectural gesture. Two interlocking rectangular volumes define the structure, establishing a clear hierarchy between private and communal spaces while producing a striking, dynamic form. 

  • frenchCALIFORNIA Transforms a Midtown Penthouse into a Contemporary Sanctuary

    Suspended between sky and city, Penthouse B by frenchCALIFORNIA occupies the 35th floor of Monogram New York, one of Midtown’s most refined new residential towers. The building, designed by Ismael Leyva Architects with interiors by Neri&Hu, blends Art Deco inspiration with a contemporary language, providing a perfect canvas for a residence that celebrates light, scale, and art as fundamental elements of design

  • A Villa Carved from Light: Notes from Paphos

    In the sunlit Mediterranean, the architecture studio of Tatiana Novikova brought to life a project that moves beyond conventional design: a 400-square-meter villa in Paphos, conceived as a subtle dialogue with sea, stone, and wind. Each morning, the marine breeze drifts through its open volumes as though it already knows the way; each evening, sunlight lays its final golden brushstrokes across the façade, blurring the threshold between indoors and out. 

  • Art in Residence: Garden’s Edge Brings Contemporary Practice to Gramercy Park’s Sky Garden Penthouse

    At the meeting point of contemporary art and architecture, the Solarium Penthouse (PHC) at 200E20TH in New York’s Gramercy Park sets the stage for Garden’s Edge, an immersive exhibition conceived within the residence itself. Designed by CetraRuddy, the full-floor penthouse has been transformed into a living gallery, framing works by three New York–based artists

  • Environmental Modernism on the Edge: STRANG’s Costa Bravo in Lower Matecumbe Key

    The Costa Bravo residence by STRANG rises from the shores of Lower Matecumbe Key with a confident presence that manages to be both contemporary and deeply responsive to its fragile environment. This is no ordinary coastal home. It is a carefully orchestrated expression of Environmental Modernism

  • Staying as Living: Inside Milan’s Most Discreet Cultural Residence

    In Milan’s storied Quadrilatero della Moda, a discreet new presence is quietly reshaping the expectations of contemporary hospitality. Maison Senato, conceived by Locatelli & Partners, is less a conventional lodging than a living organism in constant dialogue with the city’s cultural currents

  • A Milanese Duplex Where Past and Present Intersect

    In the serene heart of Forte dei Marmi’s pinewood, where the hush of the trees meets the refined echoes of Italian history, the Augustus Hotel & Resort unveils a new chapter in its legacy of elegance and excellence with the rebirth of Villa Radici. This refined five-star residence, inaugurated in July 2025 after a meticulous restoration, is not merely a new addition to the Augustus family but a powerful affirmation of its vocation

  • The 74: Upper East Side Elegance, Reimagined

    Rising with sculptural grace at 201 East 74th Street, THE 74 is Manhattan’s newest architectural darling – a design-forward tower that redefines what it means to live well on the Upper East Side. Conceived by the visionary minds at Pelli Clarke & Partners and interior maestro Rafael de Cárdenas, this 32-story, 41-residence masterpiece merges pre-war tradition with modern finesse

  • Waldorf Astoria Residences Miami: A Sculptural Statement in the Sky

    Towering above Biscayne Bay in a bold interplay of geometry and light, the Waldorf Astoria Residences Miami is poised to become a defining feature of South Florida’s architectural landscape. Conceived as far more than a luxury high-rise, this extraordinary structure rises to 1,049 feet – the tallest residential and hotel tower south of Manhattan – and presents itself as an icon in the making

  • A South Florida Retreat with a Playful Spirit by Foley & Cox

    What began as a sun-drenched escape from the New York grind soon evolved into something far more permanent. Drawn to South Florida’s languid charm and tropical ease, a city couple swapped fast-paced weekends for a slower rhythm – and before long, a brief getaway became the start of a lasting love story with Boca Raton

  • Obras Studio reimagines Coral Gables: Mediterranean Dreams, Modern Realities

    We find ourselves in the mid-1920s when visionary developer George Merrick conceived the utopian neighbourhood of Coral Gables in Miami. At that time, the Mediterranean style was an invented aesthetic, a pastiche drawing from Italian, French, Spanish, and Arabic design elements

  • How to design the perfect family house? – Casa Vittoria by MGAlab - Giovanni Musica

    A house already inhabited by the clients’ family, which needed to be reimagined and redesigned to encounter new necessities. A house that craved space and life. A house that had to become ‘the perfect one’. But what is, after all, the perfect house? 

  • The Elegant Language of Foley&Cox – In Conversation with Michael Cox

    The spaces designed by Foley&Cox are infused with a dual trace: on one side, the studio's manifesto, founded on the pursuit of serene design, subtly layered with comforting colors and materials; on the other side, the manifesto of a personal design, expressing the client’s individuality

  • A Project Where Material, Sensations, and Aspirations Blend – View Attic by MAC

    Designed by the Milan-based design studio MAC, the View Attic project perfectly aligns with the design philosophy of its founders, Stefania Martinelli and Claudio Calabrese. The concept is that of a welcoming place with a strong sensory impact, infused with timeless design

  • A Miami Modern House endowed with all desirable amenities, leaving nothing to be desired

    Founded by Carola Pimentel in 2000, the Miami-based studio Assure Interiors expresses itself through a visual language of well-studied and calibrated architectures, natural materials, and understated colour schemes. The carefully crafted projects subtly blur

  • A sea-found object designed in luxury condo format. The Turnberry Ocean Club by DKOR Interiors

    A seamless transition between the land and the sea. This is the concept that inspired the DKOR Interiors project for this condominium in Turnberry Sunny Isles, Florida, designed for a family of five. The house is warm, welcoming and with a particularly modern design.

  • Residential on moodboard. How to design an anti-cliché home according to Carlo Donati Studio

    Exclusivity in the residential sector is the main point of interest of Carlo Donati Studio, whose specialization in homes with personality and identity translates into projects with a high personalization value.

  • The charm of slick interiors in the ultimate London penthouse designed by SHH

    Slick and modern are the adjectives that best define this penthouse interior design project by SHH studio on Henigman’s development. We are in London, on The Bishop Avenue, an high-class street running from the north of Hampstead Heath to East Finchley. 

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