Remote residence by Robert Nilsson

While designing this amazing residence, it is said that nothing has been left to chance and all the boundaries between land, sea and the shape of the house were blurred. You are looking at a building that brings the landscape indoors so that the inhabitants enjoy a panoramic view like no other. Designed by architect John Robert Nilsson and located in Värmdö, Sweden, this spectacular home only measures 250 square feet and was built from limestone, concrete, glass, black plaster, ash and steel frames.  For a project situated in such a fascinating location, its interior design had to live up to the high standards. Maximizing the existing living space was an important part of planning the home’s structure. The living room, along with the kitchen occupy almost half  of the building’s surface.  The private units of three bedrooms, three bathrooms and storage are mutually separated and fill gaps in communication and open-joint interaction.

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Hitoshi Uchida owner of J'Antiques Tokyo

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Island in the Slovenia’s Julian Alps

‘The World’ at Dubai and Azerbaijan’s floating super-skyscrapers have an unlikely precedent in the form of Bled Island, a tiny locus of urbanism stranded in the middle of the 1,380 meter-wide lake from which the isle takes its name. Slovenia’s only island, the site has been continuously inhabited since at least the 9th century when a pagan temple was (unknowingly) erected on the remains of prehistoric settlements dating from the 11th century BC. When the land came under Christian control, the temple was destroyed and replaced with a smaller structure, initiating a series of construction and revisions that would transform the island for centuries to follow.

The earlier buildings were replaced by a Romanesque basilica in 1124; the three-naved church was then rebuilt in the Gothic style in the 15th century, when the still-standing 54-meter bell tower and main altar were added to the complex. Following a destructive earthquake in 1509, the grounds were thoroughly renovated and reconstructed as the Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of Mary, this time according to the Baroque fashion of the time, to which the extensive golden carvings and moldings attest. The monumental staircase, installed in 1655, appears to descend into the lake depths, extending from the entrance of the church down towards the base of the island. The collage of edifices and infrastructure, interspersed with trees and lawns, add up to a proto-”landform building” in which structure and landscape have been alternately conflated and configured into an dense urban space–the fragments of a illusory postdiluvian city swallowed up by time.


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At Home with Anouck Lepère

The Sleek Belgian Supermodel Opens Up Her Chic Antwerp Apartment

Face of Hugo Boss, muse to Gaia Repossi and dedicated charity ambassador, supermodel Anouck Lepère found time to welcome photographer Estelle Hanania into her elegant Antwerp apartment. A tasteful blend of old meets new, Lepère’s home offsets Moroccan rugs sourced at Antwerp’s vintage market Kloosterstraat with a bespoke lily pad-like spiral staircase made by Belgian architecture company Import-Export. On her travels around the globe, Lepère always scours whatever city she lands in for star pieces to add to her collection, so each one is imbued with a special story of how it fell into her hands. “The beautiful lacquered Japanese bowls are from Tokyo,” says the Belgian beauty, who has fronted campaigns for Missoni, Chanel and Peter Pilotto and been photographed by the likes of Patrick Demarchelier and Mario Testino. “I got them as a present while I was working with Shiseido.” One of Louis Vuitton’s latest Amble Ambassadors, Lepère originally studied to be an architect at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and still harbors a design-conscious eye. “When I was younger my family went on amazing holidays in farfetched places with the accent on cultural richness,” says Lepère. “I’ve seen a lot of the world and try to take inspiration from wherever I go.”

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Stefan Söderberg´s place

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Walt's Secret Disneyland Apartment

Above the little red fire station on Main Street USA, a light flickers in a window. It's hardly recognizable in a modern day Disneyland filled with colorful marquees, laser light shows and nightly fireworks, but it's there, shining around the clock. Its soft glow illuminates a small apartment that's decorated with antiques, cranberry red glass lampshades, vintage instruments and a grandfather clock. It still looks today as it did when Walt Disney kept it as his personal home inside Disneyland. It was decorated by Emile Kuri  the set decorator for a number of films, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. 

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Inspire

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Microbial Home by Philips

The Microbial Home Probe project consists of a domestic ecosystem that challenges conventional designs solutions to energy, cleaning, food preservation, lighting and human waste.

Our world is sending us warning signals that we are disturbing its equilibrium.  A drastic cut in our environmental impact is called for. This Probe explores how the solution is likely to come from biological processes, which are less energy-consuming and non-polluting. We need to go back to nature in order to move forward. The Microbial Home is a proposal for an integrated cyclical ecosystem where each function’s output is another’s input. In this project the home has been viewed as a biological machine to filter, process and recycle what we conventionally think of as waste – sewage, effluent, garbage, waste water.

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Marina Bay Sands

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Kinkfolk Magazine

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