When Robert Mallet-Stevens insisted his architectural archive be destroyed on his death, much of his reputation vanished with it.
Daphnée Denis pays a visit to the eponymous Parisian cul-de-sac where his legacy lives on. Photography by Romain Laprade.
Sci-fi lair, Mediterranean village, utopian ecosystem: Tim Hornyak peers inside Arizona’s experimental desert community.
Aaron Aujla and Ben Bloomstein switched lanes from art to design, and found their true calling as outsiders in the world of interiors.
The Austrian architect laid the foundations for unornamented modernism.
Throughout history, philosophers physicians and the state have all muscled in on the gym.
In The Kinfolk Home, Jack Dahl and Kristoffer Sakurai take readers inside their elegant home in Copenhagen’s historic Frederiksstaden neighborhood.
How did an avowedly minimalist designer wind up as guardian of a Milanese temple to maximalism?
In a sleepy city in western Gujarat, Komal Sharma discovers the last maharaja of Morvi’s extravagant art deco playground.
The contemporary artists discuss how they turned a Berlin water pumping station into a multifunctional studio.
In Milan, designer Vincenzo de Cotiis makes the case for not meddling with raw beauty.
The philosophically-inclined architect speaks to Anindita Ghose about exporting his vernacular style.
In Tokyo, Alex Anderson discovers a house of two halves.
Inside the French Riviera villa that Eileen Gray built, Le Corbusier “vandalized”—and history almost forgot.
A cubist tableau. A light show. A maverick of modernism. Hugo Macdonald explores a Parisian masterpiece.
Inside the crumbling château coaxed back to life by “naive willfulness” (and many eager volunteers.)
Sarah Moroz charts the story of a single-minded woman whose contribution to French design is only now being appreciated.
In Mumbai, a team of international architects have found a way of alchemizing the city’s chaotic spirit into crisp designs.
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