Who would have thought that a Beastie Boy would be living in such artful splendor? Not us, certainly. Michael Diamond, aka Mike D of the band Beastie Boys, has the interior design world at his feet now, thanks to these recently published photos of his imaginatively renovated 19th Century townhouse — Continue reading
Modern architectural enthusiasts who dream of vacation homes by the sea will find this house on the Baltic island of Öland to be a slice of coastal nirvana. Designed and realized by the Stockholm design and architectural firm Claesson Koivisto Rune, this pristine geometric beach house, built with solid white precast concrete, — Continue reading
Philip Johnson’s Glass House may be the golden standard for transparent living, but that hasn’t prevented other architects from making their own statements in glass. Architects Leslie and Julie Dowling, who completed this California home in 2012, made full use of the eight idyllic acres on which the house sits — Continue reading
There are cabinets, and then there’s this cabinet, designed by Michael Chen of the Manhattan architectural firm Normal Projects. Fitting a bedroom, study and storage in a single cabinet is no easy feat, let alone a good-looking one, but Chen and partner Karl Anderson managed to do just that for the — Continue reading
Here’s an incentive for everyone to bone up on scholarly pursuits: a glass and concrete cube in the middle of a wooded landscape, designed as a personal library and study by New York City architectural firm Gluck+. ”The first floor is completely closed and contains stacks for a library of books. — Continue reading
Designing a room around a single image may sound unnecessarily staged—until you set your sights on this purely winsome Nursery Project by the team at The Animal Print Shop, the online animal prints gallery founded by photographer Sharon Montrose. Using the latest addition to their inventory, the heart-tugging Baby Elephant, — Continue reading
Modernism, thankfully, isn’t just for adults anymore. Barcelona-based designer Javier Mariscal introduced Villa Julia back in 2009, a cartoonish cardboard playhouse, designed for Magis’ children’s collection, and the premise was simple: a light, visually appealingly house that children could (with a little help from adults) set up themselves, move wherever — Continue reading
Cinephiles with a fixation on a particular movie or movie character are in luck. Wall mural company Pixerize has a new line of cinema-centric images aimed at those who like their indelible fictional characters larger than life. The Cinematographics collection includes a host of showy film characters, from The Joker — Continue reading
If it’s possible for the outside of a museum to upstage the show within it, Werner Aisslinger has no one but himself to blame. The German product designer, whose show Home of the Future is currently on view at the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin, sees the future of home life — Continue reading
Australian architectural firm Tribe designed this sublime suburban loft-like house for a young New South Wales family. “Internally, the spaces are a playful study in volume and light,” Tribe Studio explains. To be sure, but it was the brick work that really got our attention, a traditional material that seems to — Continue reading
“I have always loved geometry, lines, curves, pattern and abstract designs. Architecture seems like a great way to express them.” Well, we agree, but something tells us that mere love of architecture won’t necessarily secure a series of images this resplendent. Photographer Jared Lim is one of many contemporary artists — Continue reading
There’s a great deal to admire about this renovation of a compact single-family home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, not the least of which is the impressive visual clarity (both literal and aesthetic) provided by the layout, the furnishings and multiple light sources. The refurbishment, undertaken by the Brooklyn firm General Assembly, — Continue reading
It’s hard not to be awed and sobered by a work of beauty created from discarded materials—it’s both a reminder of our wastefulness and our failure to assess value accurately. And it’s impossible not to be wowed by the recent installations of New York artist Tom Fruin. Fruin, whose work — Continue reading
Any hotel with a “do not disturb” sign this original deserves a mention. Es Marès Hotel & Spa, a boutique hotel on the Spanish island of Formentera, which takes its name from the local Marès sandstone used in its construction, is a bright and airy confection infused with distinctive Modernist touches. The pristine all-white — Continue reading
The first thing you notice about Amy Park’s urban paintings is just how dazzling they are. Park, who has made architecture her sole subject of visual exploration, focuses on the facades of city buildings—famous skyscrapers and forgettable office buildings alike—and renders shimmering expanses of color and patterns, tightly cropped compositions — Continue reading
Some of the biggest names in architecture are launching a plea for the preservation of Moscow’s Melnikov House, one of the most significant private residences in 20th Century architecture. Designed by the avant-grade artist and architect Konstantin Melnikov, this icon of Constructivist architecture has long been in a state of disrepair, deprived — Continue reading
Long before the world minimalism became part of architectural vernacular, even before the acronym Soho came to define a New York City neighborhood, the great American artist Donald Judd was busy going about the business of turning a 5-story building in downtown Manhattan into a monastic living and working space for himself — Continue reading
Our only criticism of these lovely architectural illustrations is that they’re in greeting card dimensions; they’d make, we think, a terrific poster series. Still, for the architect or architectural enthusiast, a suite of 6 blank greeting cards, depicting famous modernist buildings designed by Le Corbusier, would do quite nicely. Graphically — Continue reading
If it seems downright miraculous that a small, wood-framed church, deep in the woods of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, would be named one of the 20th Century’s great buildings by the American Institute of Architects, maybe it’s only fitting. The building, Thorncrown Chapel, is, after all, something of a miracle in — Continue reading
Architectural monographs are the equivalent of fashion magazine layouts—ravishing models airbrushed to perfection, makeup, clothes and flattering angles carefully calibrated to induce gasps of admiration and envy. The murkier backstory of those layouts—costume changes, inconvenient blemishes, personality clashes, tantrums—remains, of course, out of view, left to our imaginations, or better — Continue reading
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