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Formafantasma creates "intentionally banal" set for Marni's Milan Fashion Week show thumbnail
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Formafantasma creates "intentionally banal" set for Marni's Milan Fashion Week show

An office chair, a lighter and a close-up of a PDF on a laptop are among the everyday scenes hand-painted on canvases by...

Plans for Barbican revamp get go-ahead thumbnail
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Plans for Barbican revamp get go-ahead

British architecture studios Allies and Morrison and Asif Khan Studio plan to renew the Barbican Centre have received planning approval from the City...

AB+AC Architects uses natural materials and sculptural furniture for House of Green Patios thumbnail
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AB+AC Architects uses natural materials and sculptural furniture for House of Green Patios

Lebanese-Italian studio AB+AC Architects has created an “urban retreat” with terracotta floors in Lisbon, Portugal, for clients who wanted to feel like they...

Madras Spaces creates rural Indian home using "only what was necessary" thumbnail
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Madras Spaces creates rural Indian home using "only what was necessary"

Indian studio Madras Spaces has completed The Threshold House, a farmhouse in Tamil Nadu built using a locally sourced palette of repurposed brick,...

Charlap Hyman & Herrero converts factory into cavernous Pocketbook Hudson hotel thumbnail
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Charlap Hyman & Herrero converts factory into cavernous Pocketbook Hudson hotel

US studio Charlap Hyman & Herrero has transformed a former pocketbook factory in Hudson, New York, into a hotel that riffs on the...

Curving metal terrace for potted plants fronts home in Tokyo by HOAA thumbnail
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Curving metal terrace for potted plants fronts home in Tokyo by HOAA

Japanese studio HOAA has completed House in Nakano, a timber-lined home in Tokyo that is buffered from the street by an elevated, looping...

Purcell fronts museum for shoemaking with zigzagging brick facade in Somerset thumbnail
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Purcell fronts museum for shoemaking with zigzagging brick facade in Somerset

A faceted brick extension links a manor house and a 17th-century barn to form the Shoemakers Museum in Somerset, England, designed by UK...

Eight heavenly home interiors that embody monastic minimalism thumbnail
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Eight heavenly home interiors that embody monastic minimalism

Natural materials, vaulted ceilings and utilitarian furniture feature in this lookbook of monastic interiors, where every room is a sanctuary for minimalist devotees....

Lionel Jadot converts former military barracks into Jam Hotel Ghent thumbnail
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Lionel Jadot converts former military barracks into Jam Hotel Ghent

Studio Lionel Jadot has transformed a former military barracks in Ghent, Belgium, into a hotel featuring peeling plaster on the walls and furniture made...

Max Radford Gallery presents furniture by emerging designers at Collect 2026 thumbnail
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Max Radford Gallery presents furniture by emerging designers at Collect 2026

Patchwork timber, frosted glass and fine horsehair are among the materials used to create the furniture displayed in the Max Radford Gallery debut...