Amy Frearson

Recycled stone forms walls of Rajasthan farmhouse by Sketch Design Studio

March 15, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Sketch Design Studio has completed a rural residence in north India that combines a highly ordered facade with a rustic stone interior. Located near the Aravalli mountains in Rajasthan, the two-storey Stone House is built from stone blocks sourced from local demolition sites. The walls are rendered externally in mud and lime plaster. This provides

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Lucas y Hernández Gil adds multi-use greenhouse to Madrid bungalow

March 4, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A renovated 1970s bungalow with “kitsch character” and a greenhouse that doubles as a living room feature in Casamontesa – a weekend home designed by Spanish studio Lucas y Hernández Gil. The project began when a couple asked the studio to overhaul a single-storey house that was once part of a hotel complex on the

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Ten rooms that make clever use of the “unexpected red theory”

February 10, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

An interior design trend born out of a viral TikTok video, championing the addition of red “in places where it has no business”, is the focus of our latest lookbook. The “unexpected red theory” was coined by Brooklyn-based interior designer Taylor Migliazzo Simon in a video that has had over 900,000 views on TikTok. Simon

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Folkform installs The Museum of Masonite at Stockholm Furniture Fair

February 9, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Swedish design duo Folkform has presented a series of furniture pieces made using Masonite hardboard sourced from a factory that closed down over a decade ago. On show at Stockholm Furniture Fair, The Museum of Masonite centres around a patented type of engineered wood board that is made by steam-cooking and pressure-moulding wood fibres. Folkform

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Brazilian-informed murals bring character to Parisian restaurant duo Oka Fogo

January 30, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Architect Arnaud Behzadi and artist Florence Bamberger have combined French and Brazilian influences to create interiors for a pair of adjoining restaurants. Located in Paris’ 17th arrondissement, Oka Fogo is the latest eatery from Raphael Rego, a Michelin-starred chef who is originally from Rio de Janeiro. Behzadi designed interiors that aim to capture the spirit

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PAT completes off-grid Kenyan holiday home with raised bedrooms

January 29, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Open-air bedrooms and terraces are raised above the treetops at this holiday home designed by Italian architecture studio PAT on Kenya’s Manda Island. PAT teamed up with fellow Italian architect Ferdinando Fagnola on the project, which involved renovating a 2oth-century “white house” and adding a series of elevated, pavilion-like structures. The resulting Falcon House is

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Historic sanitorium in Greek mountain forest transformed into Manna hotel

January 29, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Greek architecture offices K-Studio and Mongon have converted the abandoned Manna Sanatorium in Arcadia, southern Greece, into a luxury forest hotel. Originally built in the 1920s to give tuberculosis patients access to the healing power of nature, the historic structure is now a five-star wellness retreat. Manna offers 32 rooms fitted out with natural materials

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Atelier ST completes Leipzig house disguised to look like two

January 23, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

German studio Atelier ST has completed Duplex, a generous family house near Leipzig that was designed to look like two semi-detached properties. Home to a family of four, the residence spreads across two matching gabled blocks. They sit side by side, although one is positioned further forward than the other. Atelier ST founders Silvia Schellenberg-Thaut

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CAZA employs passive cooling for concrete FR House in the Philippines

January 22, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

New York studio CAZA has completed a cast-concrete house in the Philippines, aiming to optimise passive cooling and natural ventilation. FR House comprises a series of “concrete cubes” that facilitate cross-ventilation and regulate the building’s temperature at the warmest times of the day. According to Carlos Arnaiz, founder of CAZA, this is essential in a

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Triptyque wraps Onze22 high-rise in Brazil with large balconies

January 19, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

French-Brazilian architecture studio Triptyque has completed an 85-metre-tall residential tower in São Paulo that offers its occupants indoor-outdoor living. The 24-storey building is part of the Onze22 development, which includes a smaller adjacent structure. In the residential tower, balconies wrap the building on three sides, allowing apartments to extend outdoors. Triptyque aimed to offer “total

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