Alice Hutton
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Boston, MA, United States
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DIY hacks for using Pantone's 2021 colours of the year in your home
From wallpaper and paint to books and floral installations → Read More
Old meets new at this East Hamptons Saltbox house
A colonial-era saltbox home in East Hampton Village has undergone a Modernist transformation. The historic property’s roots stretch back to the 1680s. It has two storeys at the front and one at the back, giving the frame house a steeply sloping roof typical of the New England architectural style named for the cheap wooden salt […] → Read More
Daniel Buren and Philippe Parreno conjure neon spectres in their Paris show
The neon installation explores manifestations and light → Read More
Robert Chapelle's Vermont earth house lists for the first time ever
Earth is the world’s oldest and most basic building material. It’s warm in winter, cool in summer, serves as a natural air-conditioner, and when the building is torn down, it returns to the soil. In that sense, The Vermont Earth House, in New England in the US, which has come on the market for the first time for $220,000 by Special Finds, is the ultimate eco-home. The 1449 sqft, dome house sits… → Read More
Joshua Tree’s viral starburst home could be yours for $3.5m
A sci-fi concept home with an explosive ‘starburst’ floor plan is for sale in California’s Joshua Tree – but with one proviso, it hasn’t been built yet. Images of the radical property, nicknamed Starburst House for its unorthodox silhouette, first appeared in 2017, designed by Whitaker Studio for film producer Chris Hanley. It’s currently still just a set of renders but construction on the… → Read More
The AIA bans members from designing execution chambers
The American Institute of Architects has approved new rules forbidding members from designing spaces for execution or torture. The group, which was founded in 1857, had previously resisted calls to stop its 90,000 members from designing US prisons. Last year they published an opinion that found that the design of a death chamber ‘reflects conduct that is sanctioned by society in those… → Read More
'Memphis Plastic Fields' exhibition celebrates rebellious postmodern design
Featuring 150 words by Ettore Sottsass, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Michael Graves and other PoMo alumni → Read More
Revived French farmhouse Ferme Fougere is a 'modern-rustic' alpine retreat
With serene views across the snow capped Mont Blanc and Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains → Read More
The first Super Nintendo World is opening in Osaka
In 1988 Hobby World Magazine wrote that ‘a boy between 8 and 15 without a Nintendo is like a boy without a baseball glove.’ For the next 10 years, Super Mario, the overall-wearing mustachioed plumber – created by legendary video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, who also master-minded Donkey Kong and The Legend of Zelda – became the unofficial emblem of childhood and was frequently found to be… → Read More
Organic modernist home by Bruce Rickard lists for the first time ever in New South Wales
Mirrabooka House is surrounded by mature gardens, koi ponds and a waterfall → Read More
Lucy Sparrow transforms London's Lyndsey Ingram Gallery into The Bourdon Street Chemist
Stocked with felt Tampax and fuzzy Prozac – all made by the artist → Read More
Pantone strikes a cheerful note with its 2021 colour of the year
It’s been about taking the good with the bad this year, the rough with the smooth, and the light with the dark. So it is with Pantone’s ‘colour of the year’ for 2021 – a double billing of Ultimate Gray and Illuminating Yellow. Leatrice Eiseman, executive director at The Pantone Color Institute, called the combination: ‘A message of positivity supported by fortitude. Practical and rock solid, but… → Read More
Prague restaurant Gran Fierro is all about the Brutalism
Design studio Formafatal took the building back to its raw palette → Read More
Historic 'cominca' guesthouses offer seclusion in Japan's rural Setouchi region
Shobara is said to be the burial place of the goddess Izanami, who, according to legend, created the 700 islands of Japan by stirring the sea between heaven and earth. Around 50-miles from Hiroshima, the ancient town is home to a collection of 19th-century cominca or ‘old house’-style guesthouses renovated for a new generation of patrons and available to rent via Setouchi Cominca Stays. Courtesy… → Read More
Map magnate’s opulent Queen Anne home is for sale at the foot of the San Gabriel mountains
It features an opulent 'Turkish smoking room' inside its rotunda → Read More
Explore the rainbow houses of Boston's Jamaica Plain
The historic neighbourhood is filled with a hodge-podge of ornate architectural styles → Read More
Restored LA home by Case Study maverick Craig Ellwood asks for $3.75m
This Modernist time-capsule in California is every inch the ‘exquisite box’ that Craig Ellwood meant it to be. The self-taught architect rose to fame in the 1950s and 60s as a design wunderkind, contributing to the iconic Case Study Programme and filling the hills around Los Angeles with his minimalist, symmetrical homes. His Johnson House […] → Read More
Take a virtual tour of 9 beautiful botanical gardens
There’s nothing like a world-wide pandemic trapping the global population indoors to make you want to take a walk in the park. Records of botanical gardens date back 3,000-years to ancient Egypt with vegetation cultivated not just for medicine but to lift the human spirit. With the planet’s 1,700 public botanical gardens closed because of COVID-19, you can explore these havens of tranquillity… → Read More