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Buff Nail Studios, Brighton – Melbourne, Australia
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…
Audemars Piguet Showroom, East Hampton, Long Island – New York
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…
The Trim Hair Salon – Prague, Czech Republic
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…
Sinan Books Poetry Store, Shanghai, China
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…
Jiunvfeng Study, Mount Tai, Dongximen Village Shangdong, China
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…
Estro, Italian Restaurant, Hong Kong
One of Hong Kong’s newest restaurants, Estro was created by such a level of celebrated talent that it could have been a problematic enterprise and…
Warehouse Gym, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Those endless rows of black equipment. The overall feel of a gym. We are hoping that one day, someone will disrupt this segment and decide…
Theorem Winery, Calistoga, California, USA
Theorem Vineyards is one of many wineries located in Calistoga in the Diamond Mountain area of California’s Napa Valley. This region is known as a world-class…
Beta Cinema Quang Trung, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam
According to Jade Kim Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of design firm Module K, Vietnamese movie theatres have thrived in recent years in part because they…
Uncommon Store, The Huyndai Seoul, South Korea
Leveraging Amazon Web Services and other technology, a new cashierless convenience store concept, Uncommon Store, is now open in the massive, new The Huyndai Seoul…
Jú Café, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province China
Located on the ground floor of a rather dreary and worn-out residential building, the cute Jú Café is a happy addition to the well-established residential…
Belcombe Court Gardens, Wiltshire, UK
The landscape of the British Isles is scattered with centuries-old palaces, castles, manor houses and spectacular estates. Some are owned by royalty and aristocracy, some…
Il Ristoro di Cristiano Filippini, Castelfranco di Sopra, Tuscany, Italy
Every day since its opening in 1785, Antica Macelleria Filippini Cristiano at Piazza Vittorio Emanuele has been the destination of meat-loving inhabitants of the small…
PNY Burger restaurant, Nantes, France
Opening their 14th PNY Burger restaurant in Nantes, France, is part of the continuous learning process, that the owners, long term friends Graffi Rathamohan and Rudy…
NM Restaurant, Oviedo, Asturia, Spain
Barcelona-based Hazard Studio founder Alfredo Rodriquez has created a tiny puff ball of a restaurant, NM in the revitalized El Vasco Station shopping centre located in…
Socca Bistro, Mayfair, London, UK
Lyon, France-born, two-Michelin-star chef Claude Bosi has opened a new culinary enterprise, Socca, located on Mayfair’s South Audley Street in a Grade II-listed building. Socca describes its…
Officine Universelle Buly Boutique, Kobe, Japan
The LVMH-owned French beauty brand Officine Universelle Buly has recently opened yet another boutique in Japan. It was designed by the brand’s co-owner and creative director…
Ichi Station Sushi Bar, Milan, Italy
Designed by creative director Ana Hern of Valencia, Spain-based Masquespacio, the latest outlet of the Ichi Station sushi bar chain is located in a historic…
Chicos Restaurant, Tbilisi, Georgia
With its long, turbulent history, Tbilisi, the capital and largest city of Georgia, is today a truly multicultural city and an eclectic mix of ancient,…
Sculptural Water Slides by Splinterworks, Bath, UK
Water slides have finally grown up. Bath, United Kingdom-based Splinterworks is creating stunning grown-up water slides that resemble outdoor sculpture more than they resemble traditional…
Moos Bar & Café, Spaarndammerbuurt, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
With designers and architects tripping over themselves to interpret the latest, popular trends – often at the urging of their clients – it is easy…