A good kitchen rug will follow a particular set of criteria. First and foremost it should be washable, because the kitchen is a dirty place. The second criteria is that it should be interesting, as an interesting texture, pattern, or color scheme can obscure the inevitable accumulation of wear.
"In many ways they've become part of the visual landscape of the vintage market, particularly online, where speed often replaces connoisseurship," says Rodrigo Fernández, director and cofounder of Diez Company.
The design trio wanted to concentrate all the necessary functions of the home into a few square feet by dividing the house along a main axis-ideally, one hall would connect the living room, hallway, and bedroom.
Regardless of the address, the revered fashion designer always, unabashedly, combined old with new, shedding fresh light on various historical design movements and their most important pioneers. Most of these homes have been the subject of expansive magazine print features and the fodder of tabloid headlines but little focus has ever really been placed on his workspaces.
So many people have asked me where it's at or how to find it, but I've kept it to myself mostly because I want the next person in the studio to stumble upon it just like I did. It's a part of the experience!
You can look out at the city and enjoy the city, but you still feel like you're in your own little world. What its all-white rooms lacked, however, was personality. We travel so much. I didn't want our home to feel like a hotel room. We're a young family. We have kids and a dog. We wanted it to feel like us.
There's Portugal, Brittany, Vendée, Egypt, and Damascus. He also has a place in Los Angeles. And there's Vermelho Melides, the boutique hotel in Portugal, that he designed and opened in 2023, and its new beachside mate, scheduled to be ready this summer.
Burl wood is a highly prized variety of wood that's harvested from the burls (those nubby, knotty growths) that grow on the trunks of trees. Rather than having parallel or wavy grain lines like traditional wood slabs, burl wood has a swirling, speckled, and random grain pattern due to the voids and staining that occur while the burl grows.
