Month: September 2022

When it came to her own family’s lush and leafy oasis in Venice, Los Angeles–based designer Kate Driver started off, surprisingly, by abandoning her aesthetic roots. In September 2016, she and her husband spontaneously abandoned their renting life—and Driver’s long-held dream of owning an “old house with character,” not unlike the Georgian-style homes of her native Atlanta—to dive head-first into owning a new-build home with no real architectural soul to speak of.

“But when we walked through, it felt like no place we had ever been before, like a tropical wonderland,” Driver, the founder of the interior design studio West Haddon Hall, says of the home’s soaring windows and proliferation of palms. “So that night we felt really inspired. We stayed up until 3 am googling ‘how to buy a house’ and put in an offer the next day.”

In the eyes of a lesser visionary, the house’s grand

Architect Conor Dolman’s favorite book while growing up was Jonathan Livingston Seagull, so it’s no surprise that his latest architectural project was named after it, and was even inspired by a seagull! Quite literally called Jonathan Livingston Seagull House, Dolman designed this open-plan studio on a hilly site in Eastbourne, Wellington. It’s surrounded by scattered huts that are quite difficult to reach, as well as dense vegetation. It seems to hover over the hilly landscape, and the mass of greenery, giving it a rather mysterious feel!

Designers: Conor Dolman

An interesting element of the studio is its exterior constructed from silvered Abodo timber! The eye-catching silver shade of the structure instantly catches your attention, and this is owing to the color of the resin coating, as well as the rough finish of the cladding. The rustic and unpolished quality of the timber helps in giving the studio the appearance of

Women-led mobile gaming startup Robin Games raised funding around the idea of ​​carving out a new niche in the market of “lifestyle gaming.” The idea, the company explained at the time of its 2020 public debut, was to create a fantasy gaming experience that’s more sophisticated and stylish — something more in line with the sort of content you’d typically find in a lifestyle magazine or Instagram influencer’s profile . Today, the startup is releasing its first title to tackle this concept with the launch of a mobile game, PLAYHOUSE, which combines both gameplay and shopping in one experience.

Available on iOS and Android, PLAYHOUSE is a DIY design game that allows players to drag-and-drop furniture and décor into spaces to create original looks for rooms using elements like wall art, sofas, chairs, tables, plants and more. This alone doesn’t make the app unique — the interior design genre is

Fall tends to bring about changes big and small, from transitions in the weather and the anticipation of holidays to wardrobe shifts and a growing preference for pumpkin spiced everything. And there’s nothing like the turn of seasons to make you want to hunker down at home—and maybe along with that, spruce up your space.

While interior design isn’t generally about fast-moving trends, there tend to be shifts toward certain styles and aesthetics based on the season and general mood of our lives and the world around us. Interior designer Tara Bernerd, who runs her eponymous interior architecture studio and is known for meticulously designing the spaces of cool hotels, houses and yachts would agree. “I’ve never really believed in trends, which, by their nature can be so transient, and instead I revere those designs that stand the test of time,” she says. “Having said this, I sense that

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Instead of converting it into a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Cara Delevingne has chosen to live in the $10.8 million questionably decorated Gramercy Park triplex she bought from Jimmy Fallon. As she told Fallon on The Tonight Show this week, she loves the decor — basically the Overlook Hotel in The Shining with a maximalist color palette. “I’ve kept it all. It’s creepy,” she said. “I tried to design my house in LA basically like that without knowing that house.”

Delevingne is telling the truth! She has described her LA home — an English-country-style mansion built in 1941 for the founders of the Vons supermarket chain — as an “adult playhouse” and it lives up to the reputation: There’s a costume dress-up room, a Lynchian poker room, and, naturally , a ball pit. She cites escape rooms and Hugh Hefner as influences, both of which are

Today’s homeowners are building out real-life Barbie Dreamhouses — and not the plastic kind.

The new “Barbiecore” trend has officially hit interior design since making a recent appearance in celebrity fashion and pop culture.

As the public anticipates the upcoming 2023 “Barbie” movie — and the iconic Barbie Dreamhouse marks 60 years — the “Barbiecore” movement has made its way into home decor, according to a National Association of Realtors blog.

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Blog writer Melissa Dittman Tracey, a contributor to Realtor Magazine, wrote about the aesthetic and how it features playful designs, lots of color and everything pink.

Mattel Inc.’s Barbie Dreamhouse sits on display at the company’s Get Your Santa Together event in New York, US, on Thursday, June 20, 2013.
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