Embrace your Creative Side at Finolhu Seaside Collection Resort in the Maldives

YOU KNOW you’ve landed in paradise when your Maldivian water villa includes not one but two outdoor showers – the first for watching the sun rise over the silvery Indian Ocean and the second for spectacular sunset views at the end of another blissful day. You quickly learn that it is the little things that […]

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Villa Normanni Proves That Mediterranean Retreat Design Can Be Both Minimal and Deeply Local

There is a particular kind of design intelligence that refuses to shout. Villa Normanni, a newly completed Mediterranean retreat nestled in the olive groves of San Vito dei Normanni in Apulia, southern Italy, speaks quietly—and that is precisely why it deserves your attention. Completed in 2025 by studio Urban Interior, this project is the result […]

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Zanon Architetti Meticulously Restore A Circa 1860 Villa In Italy

Slightly uphill, at the end of one of the many alleys that intersect in the eclectic center of Trieste, lies Villa Solfina. Here you can breathe the Mitteleuropean air of the Friulian capital, which experienced its most flourishing period under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The villa, built in 1860, was initially the private residence of a…

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Madelon Oudshoorn Spaargaren Brings A Life Of Travel To A Villa In The South Of France

If there is any constant in the life of Madelon Oudshoorn Spaargaren, owner of Amsterdam-based design studio MOS Interiors, it is travel. As a child, she was raised peripatetically among Australia, England, Venezuela and Oman. Even as an adult, when she settled in her native Netherlands with her husband and four children – two boys…

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Jevany Villa Proves a Forest Slope Is the Best Building Material You Have

The Jevany Villa started with a pit in the ground, a descending slope, and a wall of mature spruce trees. Most architects would treat those conditions as design obstacles to navigate carefully. David Kraus of Prague-based studio Architektura treated them as the actual material of the house. That distinction is precisely what makes this project […]

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