De genialiteit van Hotel Henriette zit hem in de details - en dat met een klein budget. Ontwerper Vanessa Scoffier van Les Nouveaux Decorateurs veranderde het 30 jaar oude hotel in een “vintage, bohème en très DIY” heiligdom. In de 140 vierkante meter van de Double Chambre, ook wel bekend als de Glamour kamer, bieden vintage deuren als hoofdeinde en een pastelkleurig palet serieuze inspiratie voor [...]
Keuken van de week: Een Engelse landelijke keuken voor een veganistisch gezin, inclusief groenteverwerkingsfabriek
Hoe ziet een veganistische culinaire inrichting eruit? In het geval van dit project voor een jong gezin van zes, heeft het de vorm van een ambachtelijk gemaakte, Engelse keuken op het platteland, met een aantal op maat gemaakte details voor het wassen en bewaren van groenten, veel voorbereiden en koken, en het naar buiten sturen van maaltijden. De eigenaren - Dan heeft een technisch bedrijf [...]
Keuken van de Week: Speelsheid en multiplex in een Londense keuken van Nimtim Architects
Voordat Nimi Attanayake, van het in Londen gevestigde Nimtim Architects, het herenhuis uit 1920 opnieuw ontwierp voor het leven in 2020, was de keuken klein en afgesloten van de rest van de leefruimte: “De keuken was oppervlakkig, ondoordacht, zonder verbinding met [de rest van de kamers] of enige ruimte om te socialiseren,” vertelt Nimi. “Het was ook gescheiden van de eetkamer [...]
Advies van experts: 6 tips om de logeerkamer klaar te maken voor gasten, met Tricia Rose
Met de feestdagen voor de deur en gasten die aankomen, richten we onze aandacht op de kamer die vaak over het hoofd wordt gezien: het logeerbed en -bad. De kans is groot dat die van jou een tijdelijke opslagplaats is geworden voor reservemeubels, inpakbenodigdheden, een oude hometrainer of de kattenbak. Maar het is nog niet te laat [...]
Het comfort van de dingen: Het moderne Boheemse studio-appartement van kunstenaar Oscar Piccolo
“Ik ben nog nooit zo vaak alleen geweest, maar ik beschouw deze periode als een goede pauze,” vertelt de Londense ontwerper Oscar Piccolo. “Ik heb me altijd verbonden gevoeld met huiselijke ruimtes, dus ik vind dit aspect interessant. Mijn huis is mijn studio, die twee gaan echt hand in hand.” Oscar Piccolo studeerde in 2018 af aan de [...]
Kleine keuken van de week: Een gemeenschappelijke Homestead voor plantenexpert Summer Rayne Oakes en vrienden
De kans is groot dat je al eens het digitale pad hebt gekruist met Summer Rayne Oakes. Ze is de auteur van How to Make a Houseplant Love You, presentatrice van de populaire Youtube-serie Plant One on Me en de nieuwe podcast Bad Seeds, oprichtster van de urban naturalist hub Homestead Brooklyn en binnenhuis tuinier-expert voor [...]
De natuur in: Evangeline linnen in Portland, Maine
“Dit is het oerbos. De ruisende dennen en de hemlocks, bebaard met mos en in kledij groen, onduidelijk in de schemering.” Zo gaat het gedicht van Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, dat zich afspeelt in wat ooit Acadia heette, nu het huidige Maine, en dat de naam geeft aan Evangeline Linens uit Portland, een nieuw bedrijf in zachte goederen van een geboren Mainer en veteraan uit [...]
Ontwerpspeurneus: Een eenvoudige oplossing voor het nachtlampje voor $15
Onlangs bewonderd op de Zweedse blog Living by Miriam: een Ikea Hektar Lamp vastgeklemd aan een houten hoofdeinde. De eenvoudige metalen lamp wordt geleverd met een klem, waardoor hij gemakkelijk aan een hoofdeinde kan worden bevestigd. Fotografie door Miriam. Hierboven: Miriam bevestigde de Hektar lamp aan haar hoofdeinde met behulp van de klem. Hierboven: De Zweden maken hun [...]
De ontwikkeling tegen witte dozen: Een wereldvreemde heruitvinding van Brooklyn Townhouse
Er zijn hier geen rommelladen. En ook geen kasten die wachten om bewerkt te worden. Dat komt omdat dit Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, herenhuis deel uitmaakt van een cluster van vier gebouwen uit 1920 die een groep bevriende projectontwikkelaars heeft laten herinrichten door Fabr Studio. Het was een verstandige keuze: Fabr is in de woorden van onze eigen Julie Carlson “Brooklyn's meest [...]
Verdwijn: 15 Minimalistische Verborgen Keukens
Het is zo logisch: keukens verborgen achter accordeondeuren, schuifdeuren, kastdeuren - alles wat nodig is om de rommel uit het zicht te houden als er weinig ruimte is. Hier zijn er 15 die we mooi vinden uit de archieven van Remodelista: Hierboven: In A Scottish Fisherman's Cottage Gets an Update, With Make-Do-And-Mend Spirit, the petite kitchen is concealed behind the [...]
Numeroventi in Florence: Een modern gastenverblijf in een 16e-eeuws Palazzo
Martino di Napoli Rampolla opened Numeroventi, a guesthouse and residency in the center of Florence, after living among the creative class in Barcelona and noticing the “lack of a contemporary connected community in Florence” by comparison. Back in Barcelona, Rampolla met designer Andrew Trotter through his project called Openhouse (then a gallery and store, now a […]
Een iconisch modern huis in Woodstock komt op de markt
Tuscon-based architect Rick Joy grew up in Maine, where he studied music and worked as a carpenter before going to architecture school at the University of Arizona. Joy has earned a reputation as a master of desert rammed-earth construction (Steven Holl calls his work “transcendent moments of space, light, and matter” in Rick Joy: Desert […]
Het ambachtelijke appartement: Laura Aviva creëert een Mexico City showcase voor haar designcollectie
Laura Aviva collaborates with artisan workshops in Latin America to create L’Aviva Home’s lighting, textiles, and furniture. She approaches traditional craft as a springboard for sophisticated, entirely new designs and loves getting her collaborators to apply their skills in undreamed of ways. Her pieces land in impressive settings that are featured on the company website. […]
Keukens van de Week: 5 Retrouvius-ontwerpen samengesteld uit afgedankte onderdelen
“There’s an undeniable feel-good factor in reuse: something unloved becomes valuable again,” write Maria Speake and Adam Hills. The couple met in architecture school in Glasgow, where in the late 1980s, they watched in horror as many of the city’s Victorian tenements were razed. They’ve been neck deep in salvaged building materials ever since. Together […]
Een Notting Hill herenhuis op maat gemaakt voor het leven door Charles Mellersh
“By the time I arrived on the scene, the home had been fully renovated and reconfigured, and while it had been finished to a very high standard, it was somehow stillborn,” Charles Mellersh tells us of his latest townhouse rescue in Notting Hill. An architect/interior designer (and member of the founding editorial team at Wallpaper) who typically […]
A Rustic Townhouse Remodel by London’s Masters of Salvage
“Reuse is not a design trend; it’s an attitude, a mindset, and a behavioral approach that isn’t just relevant today— it’s vital,” says Maria Speake. Back in the early 1990s in Glasgow, she and fellow architecture student Adam Hills watched historic buildings being demolished. “The madness of this process wasn’t just about unnecessary waste, it […]
Keuken van de week: Franse midden-eeuwse stijl in Santa Monica
We like to check in on Los Angeles-based Commune Design from time to time. The multidisciplinary design studio (it works on architecture, interior, graphic, and product design projects) always seems to have something interesting in its portfolio. On our latest visit, we were rewarded with this distinctive kitchen in Santa Monica. It belongs to Hollywood […]
Rehab Diary: Finding Storage in Unexpected Places
As architects who have a penchant for being organized (are there any who don’t?), my husband and I are on a never-ending quest for more storage space. After Living Small in London for ten years with our two sons, we Sleuthed for More Space last year and upgraded our kitchen, taking the opportunity to create […]
Vierkant in de staat Washington: De klant werd aangenomen door haar ontwerper dankzij dit project
Hillary and Jim Straatman weren’t planning to move—nor was Hillary looking for a career change. Three years ago, she was a cardiac nurse on leave with two young daughters when a real estate broker mentioned a well-preserved four square newly on the market in Bellingham, Washington. Jim had grown up in Seattle in a similar […]
Inigo: A New Agency to Put on Your Real Estate Stalking List
By now, our fondness for The Modern House, the UK real estate agency that seems to have no shortage of enviable listings, has been well-documented (for a sampling of recent posts we’ve written that originated from their site, go here, here, and here). So we were intrigued when their team sent word of a new […]
5 Tips for a Better Night’s Sleep from a Feng Shui Master
A feng shui master who hails from North Carolina, Katherine Anne Lewis studied under three grand masters and has had her LA-based global consultancy for more than a decade, specializing in the intersection of feng shui, design, and well-being. Feng shui, Lewis explains, is the 4,000-year-old Chinese art of placement, aimed at creating rooms that impart […]
Good Neighbors: In Ohio, an Architect Turns a Cottage Next Door Into the Family Guesthouse
This last week of August, we’re revisiting summery stories from the archives, like this one: Architect Greg Dutton came to our attention a few years ago, when he designed and built a 600-square-foot Scandi-Inspired Off-the-Grid Hut on his parents’ sprawling cattle farm in eastern Ohio. Recently, we discovered he’s helped them add another 600-square-feet guesthouse […]
Hotel Esencia: Secluded Splendor on the Maya Riviera
Located on a secluded beach off Xpu-Ha Bay (half an hour from Tulum, Mexico), Hotel Esencia is a 29-room boutique hotel that’s making a name for itself as a tastemakers’ haven (the hotel recently hosted the wedding of fashion designer Jason Wu). In 2014, entrepreneur Kevin Wendle bought the 50-acre estate (once a residence and hotel belonging to an Italian duchess) and […]
Goed in bed: 8 tips voor een betere slaapkamer, van designer Pernille Lind
We first became fans of Pernille Lind back in 2017, when we covered the opening of Hotel Sanders, an intimate Copenhagen property she designed with her Lind + Almond co-founder Richy Almond. Of all the warm Scandinavian furnishings the duo used to transform three late-1800s houses into a cozy hotel, one stood out in particular: […]
Keuken van de week: Een eenvoudige Engelse keuken in een Brooklyn Brownstone, inclusief erker die ruimte creëert
After 11 years of living in their Brooklyn brownstone, architect Anat Soudry’s friends were ready: they wanted to replace the Ikea shoebox kitchen that came with their otherwise well-preserved 1889 townhouse. John and Danielle—he’s a magazine journalist; she’s an early education teacher and former fashion designer—are aesthetes who love to cook and have three young […]
Archival-Quality Danish Design: Hotel Petra from &Tradition in Copenhagen
When I was last in Copenhagen, I found myself picking up a daily coffee at Lille Petra, a cafe designed and operated by &Tradition and tucked into the courtyard of the brand’s showroom. Now, &Tradition extends its offering with Hotel Petra, a 40-room boutique hotel in a landmark building meticulously restored by the brand. Like […]
Aards en Etherisch: Een appartement make-over door Studio Oink
This apartment belongs to a fashion designer and a priest (you can chew on that, but the owners insist on anonymity). Here’s what we know: They live in a historic mill building on the outskirts of Mainz, in Western Germany, and they have very good taste. When they signed the lease on their flat—a single-story, 150-square-meter (1,614-square-foot) space—it was “cluttered […]
Block Shop in Bed: Lily and Hopie Stockman’s New Linens Collection
Last week we toured Block Shop’s Mod LA Headquarters. Today, we’re taking a look at the company’s just-launched bedding designs. Sisters Lily and Hopie Stockman, the company founders and in-house designers, spent two years working with master printers and dyers in Jaipur, India, to get every detail, down to the duvet corner ties, exactly as […]
Een keuken voor het volk, met dank aan prins Charles
When Prince Charles collaborated with UK-based kitchen makers Plain English on a model house, he wanted to know: “How can we get this to the people?” The answer is the beloved kitchen company’s lower-priced British Standard Cupboard line, offered at “sensible prices for discerning folk of modest means.” A longtime campaigner for sustainable living, Prince […]
Adding Energy Efficiency and Revived Style to 1860s Quarters in Brooklyn
The 1860s brick row house in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill had a lot going for it: tall ceilings, lacy moldings, marble mantels, and a gracious floor plan that had served its residents untouched. The HVAC system was also more or less original. It presented the longstanding owners—an eco-minded couple who had raised their children here—with an […]
Een klassiek Engels landhuis krijgt een stemmingsverhogende kleurinjectie
London interior designer Nicola Harding was the right person to turn to. Her clients, a couple with two young boys, were leaving London for rural Berkshire and life in a Georgian brick manse. They appreciated the grandeur of their house—8,600 square feet, seven bedrooms—but how to downplay the stuffy formality and lend the spaces the […]
Verplichte lectuur: Dagelijkse rituelen
Does everyone long to find a daily ritual that unleashes new powers of invention, efficiency, focus–and hours of free time? As a habitual night worker (and morning sleeper), I certainly do. Which makes reading Mason Currey’s Daily Rituals a great pleasure, if only to find that none of us are alone in our oddball routines […]
Keuken van de week: De cosmetische keukenupgrade van styliste Brittany Albert, inclusief vakgeheimen
Brittany Alberts’s lament is a familiar one: “If budget hadn’t been a consideration, we would have loved to expand the footprint of our kitchen. And we would have loved to put in new cabinets and appliances. Instead, we had to stick with—and enhance what—was already in place.” The wrinkle? Brittany is a stylist who works […]
Flip van hoger niveau: Een design koppel transformeert liefdevol een huis uit 1630 in Antwerpen
Architect Thomas Maria and designer Ann Butaye are a Belgian husband-and-wife team who have recently dedicated their practice to historic house flipping. In their designs, the two use only natural, eco-friendly materials and focus on restoration and renewal. After Ann had a serious health scare a few years ago, creating healing environments also became their […]
10 Easy Pieces: Best Cribs for Babies
With any luck, a new baby will spend the majority of his or her first year sleeping. So it makes sense that expecting parents start feathering the nest by choosing a crib. For me, I knew that my husband and I would be welcoming a baby into a small New York City apartment without a […]
De keuze van architecten: Hix Island House in Vieques, Puerto Rico
Our architect friend Elizabeth Roberts clued us in a while back to her (and many fellow designers’) favorite winter escape: Hix Island House, a wabi-sabi, eco-friendly hotel in Vieques. Here’s her account. “Designed by Toronto-based architect John Hix, Hix Island House is a perfect blank slate for viewing the surrounding nature; the contrast of the rugged, […]
Een glamoureuze Hollywood kleedkamer van Alexandra Loew
Every page we tear out, every image we pin, we fantasize about the way we want to live. And if your personal fantasy is not available in print or online, then Los Angeles architect and designer Alexandra Loew can probably help you out. With a view that “fantasy is a critical dimension of contemporary life […]
10 Things Nobody Tells You About the Benefits of Wool
In addition to linen and cotton, wool is one of our tried-and-true, go-to textiles for all over the house. It’s both hardy (as in a dependable wool rug) and luxurious (as in soft sheepskin blankets), and we love the way it looks in all its forms. But wool has other benefits, too: It’s eco-friendly, water-resistant, […]
Keuken van de week: ‘Rustiek modernisme’ in de Berkshires Van het team achter Toeristen Welkom
Five years ago, we wrote about the arrival of TOURISTS Welcome: The Hip Berkshires Escape Everyone’s Talking About. This summer, the TOURISTS team added to its growing compound, with two newly remodeled vacation home rentals (just a 10-minute walk “through the woods and across the river” from the lodge in North Adams, MA). Both homes […]
Keuken van de week: De handgemaakte keuken van een Japanofiel aan de kust van Sussex
Brothers Hugh and Howard Miller trained as architects before turning their attention, as the duo H Miller Bros, to kitchens, furniture, products and sometimes even gardens (they won a silver gilt medal for their Urban Foraging Station design for at the Chelsea Flower Show earlier this year). Their work is people-centered and their latest kitchen, […]