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RMGB decorates Versailles townhouse with custom and vintage furniture

August 5, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Interior design studio RMGB has redesigned a 19th-century townhouse opposite the Chateau de Versailles, using marble and steel to modernise it while “preserving French heritage”. The home’s new owner recently sold his apartment in Paris to move back into the townhouse, which had been his childhood home, and asked for a careful renovation to take

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Eight wooden kitchens that make the most of the material

August 4, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Swirly cabinets and oak-lined ceilings feature in our latest lookbook, which collects eight residential kitchens from around the world where wood takes centre stage. Strong, versatile and often sustainable, timber is a favourite material among architects and designers. From an east London dwelling that is almost entirely underground to a rural Tasmanian farmhouse, here are

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Orange floors create “golden afterglow” in Aranya fashion store by Say Architects

August 4, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Chinese studio Say Architects has designed a concept store for fashion brand Nice Rice in the seaside resort of Aranya, featuring bright-orange tiles and furniture intended to evoke the colour of a sunset. Having previously designed stores for Nice Rice in Shenzhen, Chengdu and Shanghai, Say Architects conceived the interior as a response to the

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CO Adaptive overhauls Queens home to meet Passive House standards

August 3, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Brooklyn studio CO Adaptive has retrofitted a terraced house in Queens, New York to meet Passive House energy efficiency standards. The 1,152-square-foot (107-square-metre) brick townhouse was originally built in 1945 and has undergone a considered “deconstruction” process during its recent renovation. Rather than throwing out the contents of the existing structure, all of the removed

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Eight offbeat red-and-green home interiors that prove opposites attract

August 3, 2024 Jennifer Hahn 0

Interior designers are finding interesting ways to pair red and green – a combination more typically associated with Christmas – to create quirky colour-block interiors. This lookbook brings together recent examples of how it can be done. Set on opposite sides of the colour wheel, red and green are inherently compatible, each helping to offset

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Khan Bonshek arranges east London home around brick “spine wall”

August 2, 2024 Soheb Panja 0

Architecture studio Khan Bonshek’s founders have remodelled their own terraced house in east London around a central brick wall, carrying out the majority of the work themselves. Named Two Up, Two Down, the house was renovated and extended by Sabba Khan and Mark Bonshek, who founded Khan Bonshek in 2021. With the studio acting as

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