#interior-design

#interior-design

These all-white, high-gloss kitchens of the early 2020s are officially [over],

Bunkhouse Hotels presents their new Houston locale, Hotel Saint Augustine, named after Saint Augustine, the patron saint of printing because of his extensive writings on and early dissemination of the catholic faith.

For all its architectural and cultural grandeur, Vienna has never had much diversity of places to stay. The capital has long relied on a handful of storied institutions, while its culinary scene modernized around them. That's part of what makes the arrival of Mandarin Oriental Vienna, the group's first outpost in Austria, so significant. More than a decade in the making, this landmark transformation of an Alfred Keller-designed courthouse, built in the early 20th century, signals a new era of hospitality for the Austrian capital.

"This house needed a heartbeat, a pulse, a jolt to bring it to life," says AD100 designer Frances Merrill of Reath Design, describing her resuscitation of a gloriously situated but otherwise undistinguished Aspen mountain retreat from the 1990s. "This wasn't a house that had a lot of history to go back to, so there were questions. How much Alpine do you bring in? How do you conjure a sense of place that feels right for Aspen-and for this family-without resorting to clichés?"

"Every home should have soul, and there is no more effective way to give your home a heartbeat than sourcing vintage," proclaims Alec Broughton, an antique decor expert and founder of Aulde, a Colorado-based design house that restores vintage furniture. As it turns out, home decorators are all-in on adding that pulse. According to the firm Market US, the global market for secondhand furniture is expected to double over the next decade, from $40.2 billion in 2024 to a projected $87.6 billion in 2034. Like vintage clothing, secondhand furnishings are in high demand-and for good reason.

What Chen could not yet know was that this pursuit of simplicity would kick off a decade-long journey that stretched far beyond windows. It would draw in designers from across continents, ambassadors who believed in beauty as connection, and a community of creators bonded not by geography but by a shared desire to design with care. TWOPAGES would become a space where creativity became communal.

At a moment when independent cinemas across Europe are dimming their lights for good, Louis Denavaut breathes new life into the historic venue of the Elysées Lincoln cinema in Paris, France. The architect creates a sequence of atmospheres for this project, reflected in three distinct interior worlds that are clad in various materials and colors, from hushed velvet greens to saturated pinks and soft pastel tones.

The best part? For a shade with so much personality, olive green still plays well with others. Its current popularity can at least partially be attributed to the fact that so many hues pair beautifully with it, from chocolate brown to powder pink. It's a storied shade that masquerades as a neutral, giving designers and homeowners alike the best of both worlds as they build their palette and room's design scheme.

In Korea, folktales don't begin with "Once upon a time." They begin, "Back when tigers used to smoke"-a phrase invoking an impossibly distant past when anything could happen. The phrase comes to life the moment you step inside the 1820s former farmhouse in New York's historic Hudson Valley that interior designer Young Huh calls home. Open the door and sure enough there's a classic center hall with wide-plank floors and a stair with a polished wood banister.

I wanted to be able to see the view as soon as I walked in the front door, and enjoy it from the living room, the bedroom, everywhere in the apartment,

Staging a home can often conjure up images of a total transformation: A homeowner's belongings removed to make way for different furniture and replaced artwork. This kind of staging (known as vacant staging, as the home is typically sitting vacant) is a great way to demonstrate a home's potential and appeal to buyers with brand-new and trendy furnishings. But it's also typically more expensive, as the stager will decorate the space from scratch, hire movers, and possibly buy new pieces if they don't have furniture appropriate for the project.

In the villa town of Långedrag, just outside Gothenburg, Artilleriet co-founder Christian Duivenvoorden lives with his partner, Björn, their son, Niko, and the family dog, Minou, in a 19th-century Jugend villa that has quietly evolved over time. Designed with the precept that a home is never finished, the house-like Artilleriet, the beloved Gothenburg design shop Christian founded 15 years ago with childhood friend Sofie Ekeberg-reflects an ongoing process of change and refinement. The interiors weren't overhauled but adjusted: new tones and updated furnishings were introduced to bring warmth and continuity.

As the name implies, pattern play involves styling different patterns together to craft vibrant spaces that are visually arresting and showcase the homeowners' distinctive personal style. Pattern play is full of possibilities - from checkered curtains with floral wallpaper to a statement rug and a striped couch, any and all surfaces in the home can be experimented with.

The dining room may be enjoying a quiet revival in interior design, but in many homes it remains one of the least-used spaces during daylight hours. And with hybrid working now firmly part of modern life, it makes perfect sense to put that overlooked square footage to better use. Transforming a dining room into a home office might sound like a big shift, but it's actually one of the easiest space upgrades you can make.

My husband and I recently remodeled our first home. While it was an amazing experience, we quickly learned that the most difficult part of renovating is the countless number of decisions you have to make all at the same time. I've always felt confident in my decorating selections, but this time, I was completely and utterly overwhelmed. For example, choosing paint colors might sound fun, but it was easily one of the most stressful steps.

When home decorator and content creator Grace H (@fromlondontomanchester), her partner, and her cat Maggie moved into their Manchester home, the guest bedroom was a cold and uninviting space. "It felt cold and prison-like and lacked any personality," she says. Grace wanted the room to be both a welcoming haven for guests and a creative home office for herself. The original bedroom was a palette of gray on gray, far from the vibrant hues and fun patterns they desired.

Good vibes just keep on coming from Darren Jett. Since launching his own firm in 2020, this New York City-based designer has left a trail of unforgettable spaces that both dazzle your eye and enhance your mood. "It's all about atmosphere," Jett said in 2021, when he was named to AD's list of New American Voices. And that only continues to be true as the Tennessee native's work has matured, whether in the case of a Manhattan bachelor pad.

"I didn't know I was ambitious. I didn't know I would like business," she recalls. "Early on, I used the platform of creating interiors as a place to just make connections. I brought in my glassblowing friends and friends who were designing furniture; I helped connect the dots between people needing artwork and artists who needed the work." That ethos-of elevating the personal, handcrafted, and artistic-remains the centerpiece of her sought-after practice.

We looked at the imagery of the swimming pool, in both still photography and films, and imagined something like a modernist vacation home in the south of France, with bold, primary colors, We were guided by a hypothetical question: What would a kitchen inspired by swimming pools look like? It was light-hearted fun, but sometimes it's little things that lead us to design, as we did here, a kidney bean-shaped sink, a reference to California swimming pools.

"The pros of mixing two different sofas in the same room are that you look interesting, stylish, and like you have a lot of design confidence," the designer says. But there is a method to this madness. Henderson recognizes that it's not as easy as just picking two sofas and going with the flow. "They need to complement and contrast in the right ways in shape or color, or both," she says.

Designed for studio founders Katja Margaritoglou and Sotiris Tsergas, the homes reflect the studio's ongoing explorations of craft and materiality. The residence occupies the top two levels of a five-unit building conceived and developed by Block722 with Thekla Construction. From the street, the structure reads as confident and geometric, balancing modern rigor with soft edges. Its volumes and timber detailing echo Athens' postwar optimism, recalling mid-century forms backdropped by native Mediterranean plantings.