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The French luxury bakery Ladurée was founded in Paris in 1862 by Louis Ernest Ladurée. Today, the name is synonymous with the double-decker macaroon of…

A large, bright-coloured steel feature in any environment is risky. It can easily turn out to be an eyesore or it can start feeling tired…

In its new flagship store, at Adalbertstraße 78 in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighbourhood, Bonanza Roastery Café takes full advantage of the great space in which it…

We are all getting tired of clinically sterile, copycat concept stores that seem lifeless and completely void of adventure, story or history. And the sameness…

We love design that makes a clear statement. Not a pretentiously pompous statement, but a statement that is deeply relevant to the project, has an…

The recently completed Neobio Kids’ Restaurant in Shanghai is a pastel-hued world of balloon and cloud shapes that decorate the various activity areas. The goal…

It is a rare pleasure to run into a design project that stuns in its intelligent simplicity. When the designers have had the wisdom, courage…

Young, Kiev, Ukraine-based architect, Emil Dervish teams up with many interior designers on his commercial and residential projects. Salon Odes in Odessa, Ukraine, is a…

In the 1990s, supermodels did not wake up for less than $10,000 per day. A few zeros have been added to that fee since, and…

No Sunrise No Sunset is a spellbinding pavilion installation created by Kamin Lertchaiprasert, a Thai artist whose works are included, for example, in the Guggenheim…

Collective B, a brand and commercial design consultancy located in Seoul, Republic of Korea, has given a new beauty brand, Villa de Mûrir, its first…

Inexplicably, some aspects of the street-front retail scene seem forever doomed. Dry cleaners and laundry services are a perfect example of this. Yes, we have…

Looking at the images of the sweet Blossom School, it is tough to believe that it is a key part of a real-estate sales centre…

It seems that nearly every week, we discover another massive, new bookstore somewhere in China. Their size would represent mindboggling square-footage in any retail category,…

Tokyo and Himeji-based KTX archiLAB’s  head architect and founder Tetsuya Matsumoto has recently completed a fascinating wedding venue. with key team members Motoaki Takeuchi and Farid…

Nothing seems to slow the expansion of massive Chinese bookstore chains. Once more, we are left slightly stunned by the ambition and scope of the…

Buff Nail Studios is located in a non-descript commercial building on Church Street in Brighton, an affluent coastal suburb of Melbourne about 10 kilometres from the…

Architect and designer Lula Galeano, founder of New York-based Studio Galeón was no stranger to the Swiss luxury watch brand, Audemars Piguet when she was asked to…

Small is beautiful and minimal is just perfect. It is always great to see retail design that has definite character yet lets the service or…

Blending The Old with the New has long been our favourite topic. We love projects that respond to the challenge of restoring, re-using, re-organizing and…

Floating white clouds are a common sight on the flanks of Mount Tai, a mountain of historical and cultural significance located north of the city…