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On the shores of Lac de Joux in Vaud, Switzerland, Ralph Germann architectes designed House EMGD, a modern lake house built for two.The clients requested that all main rooms look out to the water without obstructed sight lines, a challenge when it came to engineering.Longing to keep things simple, the architect looked to old boathouses for inspiration, where the lake is the focus and not the interiors.

For this special lookbook sponsored by Danish design company D Line, we've selected ten interiors that showcase architectural details by the brand including door handles, taps and drawer pulls.Door furniture and other pieces of practical hardware provide the finishing touches to interior schemes, and can create physical touchpoints that play a significant role in how people interact with the spaces they inhabit.

American studio CLB Architects has refreshed a Wyoming house it created 20 years ago, making changes that honour the original design and prioritise "durability and a play of textures".The Paintbrush Residence is located just outside of Jackson, a ski town surrounded by mountains, forests and ranch land.

IKEA's innovation lab Space10 has worked with interior designers Spacon & X to transform the ground floor of its headquarters into a library and community space, with a look that is meant to recall a simple kiosk.Located in a former fish factory in the city's Meatpacking District, Space10's offices now include a library of 100 future-focused books, a snack bar and a design shop, alongside an existing gallery and event space.

Traditional Japanese materials and details are fused with contemporary finishes at C4L House in Tokyo, designed by local studio Cubo Design Architects.Informed by traditional Japanese construction, the home was designed by Cubo Design Architects to celebrate "the warmth of things made by hand".

There's no symbol of luxury more universal than the four-poster bed.In this lookbook, we select eight bedrooms elevated by their presence.Beds with vertical columns in each corner supporting an upper panel date back to the medieval period.Originally built with wraparound curtains to keep out the cold and provide privacy, they have historically been associated with highly ornate designs for nobility.

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The versatility of the vintage Brooklyn row house continues to amaze, even when the presenting circumstances seem less than ideal.Even innovative, seasoned architects like Scott Oliver and Margarita McGrath of Clinton Hill-based Noroof Architects were daunted by the 75-foot-long ground floor space and the unfinished, boulder-strewn cellar in a circa 1870 building they bought for their own use.

A residence for retirees in Tel Aviv and a stripped-back Barbican apartment by minimalist architect John Pawson feature in this lookbook of beige interiors designed to bring a sense of calm into the home.To compensate for their desaturated colour palette, these spaces rely on a varied material palette - ranging from pale timbers and limestone to textured plaster - in order to add visual and tactile interest.

Working with the theme of "Colour Vibes," color and design phenom Tekla Evelina Severin transformed a 250-square-meter (almost 2,700 square feet) empty space for the FORMEX interior fair last month.The project involved exhibition design, curation, and styling a series of rooms, which resemble either a beautifully staged set for a magazine photo shoot or a perfectly executed interior of a home.

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Inflation and several other key sectors of the economy had pushed the Federal Reserve to hike rates at the fastest pace in decades.When it looked like the data might provide some relief, rates quickly moderated.Strangely (or so it seemed at the time), the Fed was highly reluctant to read too much into several months of generally more palatable data.

Realtor.com "Although it was built half a century ago, it's exactly what people seem to be looking for today," says listing agent Barbie Dan, with Ware Jones Realtors."Most people that looked at it really saw the beauty of the simplicity."The well-maintained home hit the market in early April, with a list price of $575,000 and is pending sale.

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The new owners of a stoopless, century-old three-story row house knew from the get-go that they would leave the existing ground-floor rental apartment in place and transform the building's upper floors, configured as two floor-through rental units, into a duplex for themselves.

The 360 Studio is a cozy 430-square-foot apartment located in a new, modern building in Rivne, Ukraine.Designed by , the compact studio consists of one room that works as a kitchen, dining space, living room, and bedroom.To maximize space, the bed is hidden when not in use and when it's time for sleep, the room transitions into a bedroom.

Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed an elevated, wood-and-glass cabin that is designed to have a small footprint and accommodate a person in a wheelchair.The Quilanto House is located in southern Chile's Los Rios region, near Ranco Lake.Tucked into a wooded site, it serves as a nature retreat for a single mother and her adult daughter, who has reduced mobility.

Beijing architecture studio Crossboundaries has carried out "a full makeover" of a boat to create a tiny solar-powered house named Fàng Sōng.Transformed from the client's existing houseboat, the 60-square-metre home by is moored in Berlin and features a series of interlinked, adaptable spaces.

King Charles' state visit to Paris has been postponed amid mass strikes and protests, the French president's office has said.The king had been scheduled to arrive in France on Sunday on his first state visit as monarch, before heading to Germany on Wednesday.In a statement, the Elysee Palace said the decision to postpone the visit had been taken by the French and British governments following a telephone conversation between Emmanuel Macron and Charles on Friday morning after mass protests against the French government.

The King's first state visit of his reign may be disrupted by the threat of French protests over President Emmanuel Macron's retirement age reforms.A lavish banquet at the Palace of Versailles hosted by President Macron could be moved or even cancelled according to reports following an increasingly angry public backlash to the French leader's plans.

Striking workers in France are refusing to provide red carpets for King Charles's first overseas trip as monarch amid protests over rises to the pension age.French trade union CGT announced this week that its members at Mobilier National, the institution in charge of providing flags, red carpets and furniture for public buildings, would not help prepare a reception for the king upon his arrival in Paris on Sunday.

Danish design studio Johannes Torpe Studio added natural materials and metallic accents to the interior of Copenhagen restaurant Levi, which was informed by Italian and Japanese cuisine.Designed by Johannes Torpe Studio in collaboration with restauranteur Copenhagen Consepts, The Levi restaurant was created as a tribute to Italian grappa distillery Romano Levi.

Realtor.comOn these cold and dreary winter days when the temperature is plunging, many of us begin to envy bears in the wild, who just take a long nap that lasts till spring.It's a fine idea.But since hibernation isn't an option for humans, why not indulge in dreams of cozy log cabins, where weekends can even stretch to seven days long?

Passover, known in Hebrew as pesach, is the Jewish holiday about the celebration of the biblical story of the exodus from Egypt; this year, Passover runs from April 5 to April 13.Whether you're looking to help expedite seder cooking with some catered takeout supplements or dine at a restaurant with a special meal for the occasion, there are plenty of Passover-appropriate dining options to be found, free of chametz, leavened bread.

Eva-Katalin If you're selling your home, you're probably going to consider investing some money in a sprucing-up that the pros call home staging.Staging can be a cost-effective way to get a quick sale.If you don't fancy yourself a design-minded individual, fear not; there are professional home stagers for that.

London design office A-nrd has used a palette of neutral and natural materials to give this restaurant in Soho a laidback atmosphere reminiscent of an Australian beach club.Milk Beach Soho is the brainchild of Sydney-born restaurateur Elliot Milne, who wanted to create an all-day eatery and night-time hotspot influenced by some of Australia's casual dining venues.

Realtor.comIs it possible that a condo with original 1970s decor could be considered move-in ready?The home is filled with disco-era design and is ready for its next owner-who may very well want to preserve the home's groovy, flamingo-hued motif."You see the rotunda area with the circular pink couch and the mirrors on top?" asks Judy Jordan with BHHS EWM Realty.

Space dividers, wallcoverings, and ceiling features.Lighting elements, cladding, or any unique structure you can imagine.Using aluminum chains, Kriskadecor brings creativity to life for architects and interior designers through their ability to fully customize design solutions through color, shape, and dimension.

Bernadette Carey Smith, who in the 1960s was one of the first Black women to be hired as a reporter at The New York Times and The Washington Post, died on Dec. 5 at an assisted living complex in Tuckahoe, N.Y.She was 83.Her nephew Scott Taylor said the cause was arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

If you even have a hangnail on the pulse of decor trends the last several years, you've probably noticed the reemergence of plain field tiling treatments escaping the prescribed trappings of the kitchen and bathroom to sneak into every surface and corner of the home.Tiles can be found unironically adorning seemingly everything these days, from side tables to coffee tables to lighting, and now for the musically-inclined, a hi-fi turntable stand.

Taking advantage of wait time during the design, planning and construction of a new home will make a new-home buyer's journey much more pleasant.This is particularly true for new-home buyers who plan to sell their existing home before taking possession of the new home.And there is a new factor to consider: the transitional real estate market that most of California is experiencing.

Realtor.comA beachfront home with three swimming pools but no real kitchen has hit the market for just under $6 million.Ron Rice, founder of sun-lotion company Hawaiian Tropic, built the Ormond Beach, FL, spread in 1987 as a party palace.Known as the "Suntan King," Rice died in May at the age of 81.

LA-based furniture designer Jialun Xiong has completed her first restaurant interior in the city for 19 Town, achieving a retro-futurist look by pairing soft hues and metallic surfaces.Serving Chinese fusion food, the 19 Town restaurant is located in an industrial area close to Downtown LA.The name is a play on words from a phrase in Mandarin, signifying a venue that has food and wine according to Xiong, who is originally from Chongqing.

Local studio Sparano + Mooney Architecture cantilevered two envelopes with blackened-cedar siding over a canyon outside of Salt Lake City, Utah.The home, called Wabi Sabi Residence and completed in 2020 is a 4,000-square-foot (370-square metre) structure on a nine-acre lot in the Wasatch Range.Sparano + Mooney Architecture constructed the three-bedroom, 3.5-bath house out of two volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazed ends that float above the landscape.

Tala Fustok Studio has transformed the interior of an apartment in west London into a "calm sanctuary" containing carefully chosen artworks and furnishings influenced by the travels of its owner.The Palace Gate apartment is located on the fourth floor of a Victorian mansion block neighbouring Hyde Park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Emirati studio VSHD Design has completed a dark and dramatic interior for a restaurant in The Dubai Mall, featuring a pared-back palette of natural materials chosen to reflect Japanese minimalism.Origami is a sushi restaurant, whose first outpost opened in Dubai's Jumeriah neighbourhood in 2014.For its second branch, the owners asked VSHD Design to create a space that provides a unique experience within the cookie-cutter environment of a shopping mall.

This art and design gallery in Venice, California occupies a former private house where interiors by designer Gabriella Kuti provide a warm, neutral backdrop for the works on show.Maison Lune was co-founded by French artist and designer Sandrine Abessera and Ukrainian fashion designer Lubov Azria, who set about creating a "dream home, where beauty rules".

Ecole Camondo Méditerranée by Emilieu Studio won Dezeen Awards 2022 interiors project of the year because "students can define the spaces according to their needs," says judge India Madhavi in this movie.The design school in Toulon by interior architecture practice Emilieu Studio beat 10 other project winners to win the overall interiors project of the year award, as well as being named civic and cultural interior of the year.