An Emerging Designer Creates a Modern Waterfront House in Sydney

Published as: FAR & AWAY Architecture: Mhndu Interior Design: Blainey North Text: Jeff Turrentine Photography: Felix Forest The Russian avant-gardist Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935), a painter who helped usher in the era of abstract art, believed that the ultimate purpose of any artwork was to elicit a strong emotional response. In the manifesto undergirding the Suprematist […]

A Light-Filled Home for a Collector in Dallas

In a bright, contemporary home Chad Dorsey created for a client in Dallas, a single space captures the spirit of the place. It’s a light-filled stairwell, angled around a wall formed by slabs of rift-cut white oak sandwiched around a raw steel insert. A black-and-white 1971 Dan Wynn photograph of Ms. magazine cofounders Gloria Steinem […]

Designer Marc Thee’s Contemporary House in Orlando

Published as: ROLLING IN THE DEEP Interior Design: Marc Thee Text: Arianne Nardo Photography: Jessica Glynn I’ve never been that guy who struggles with designing a personal residence,” says Marc Thee, alluding to the aesthetic inertia that occasionally comes with the territory. This project was different. “It was about an overall journey of me processing […]

Something Wild in Jackson Hole, Wyoming: a Modern Stone and Glass House

Published as: Something WILD Architecture: Blaze Makoid Interior Design: Kelly Hohla Text: Zlata Kozul Naumovski Photography: Paul Dyer Nothing comes between Blaze Makoid’s clients’ home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and the view. Makoid, principal of Blaze Makoid Architecture, oriented the couple’s contemporary abode toward Teton Range, upon which thrill seekers descend seasonally for world-class skiing. […]

A Musician’s Eclectic, Colorful House in Northern California

Published as: GO BIG, GO BOLD Interior Design: Jeff Schlarb Text: Erika HeetPhotography: Aubrie Pick From designers to musicians, no one wants to be stuck in one genre. For Bay Area designer Jeff Schlarb, this concept informed the design of a getaway in Healdsburg—deep in Northern California’s idyllic wine country—for Lawrence and Nicole Blatt. For […]

A Top Designer Creates a Modern Beach Bungalow in Malibu

As the quaint postwar bungalows that hug the shore along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu age and crumble from exposure to the salty ocean air, they are replaced with new builds by some of the city’s most prominent architectural firms—some better befitting the area’s natural beauty than others. In the case of a one-story beach […]

Small Chic Manhattan Apartment by a Next-Gen Designer

Published as: Next-GenSplendor Interior Design: Santopietro InteriorsText: Heather CorcoranPhotography: Jonathan BeckermanStyling: Robert Brown Imagine the architectural details that make up a classic New York City apartment: beamed ceiling, baseboards and molding, hardwood floors, views overlooking Fifth Avenue. Now, picture it through a new lens, in the perfect pairing of two friends, one the newly married […]

Jeff Andrews designs a contemporary family home in Beverly Hills

Published as: ArtfulGlamour INTERIOR DESIGN: JEFF ANDREWSTEXT: CAROLYN HORWITZPHOTOGRAPHY: GREY CRAWFORD For all its sophistication, there’s a gentle subtlety to the work of Jeff Andrews. “I don’t like anything to pull too much of a focus,” the Los Angeles–based designer says of his strategy for interiors. “They feel beautiful, but there’s nothing really shocking. It’s […]

A Glass House in Scottsdale

  Published as: The Long View Architecture: DeBartolo architects Interior Design: Douglas Wittels Text: Heather Corcoran Photography: Bill Timmerman Every so often, a house is so tuned in to its surroundings that the interplay between nature and the built environment achieves something far greater than their sum. That special alchemy requires a particular type of […]

Modern Jewel Box in Austin

 Published as: The Jewel Box Architecture: Mell Lawrence Interior Design: Form Design Studio Text: Erika Heet Photography: Nathan Kirkman   The twisting, powerful oaks drew the client to the site in Austin on which she would build a guest pavilion at home among the trees. Her design team, Joshua Rose and Rafael Kalichstein of FORM Design Studio […]