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“Samena is the story of how to reinstate a ruin,” says Olivier Amsellem. A fashion photographer and co-founder of Marseille’s hipster lifestyle boutique Jogging, Amsellem purchased a rundown beach shack half an hour down the…
We featured Jon Harrison's Kippford Hooks a while back (see Fixtures & Fittings: Kippford Hooks from Thorsten van Elten), so we were interested to see that Harrison recently came out with a companion towel rail…
In our opinion, some of the best mats for children's bathrooms (or for adult bathrooms, for that matter), come from Dwell Studio. Above: Dwell Studio Dots Bath Mat in chocolate; $56 at Design Public. Above:…
Creative director and designer Sarah Sherman Samuel and her husband, Rupert Samuel, an ad exec, like to tear things up together. After overhauling a Michigan lake cabin on their own, they moved on to their current…
A few weeks back, a reader wrote to us on Instagram with a query: Where to find a folding towel rack like the one glimpsed in a pink-tiled bath at Wanås Hotel in Sweden? It…
Most kids’ rooms are stopgap affairs: basic-at-best overrun by toys and stuffed animals. After all, childhood is brief. Or is it? The parents of the siblings who occupy this compact suite in a 1905 NYC building (a…
Upper Bavaria is not usually on our radar, but we’re longing to check into Berge (Hotels, Lodging and Restaurants: Berge in Germany). In the meantime, we’ve found the next best thing: Berge Equipment, a selection…
Italian architect Gio Ponti designed the graceful Pirelli Tower in Milan in 1956; among the details was this slender Door Lever, which “succinctly embodies his refined aesthetic.” The lever (plus a companion bathroom turn) is…
New York-based designer Elizabeth Roberts grew up in Mill Valley, studied architecture at Berkeley, earned a masters in historic preservation at Columbia, and worked in the offices of William Turnbull in Northern California and Beyer…
When I was a kid, our house had a suite of pastel pink bath fixtures: pink countertops, pink shell-shaped sinks, pink shower, pink toilet. If only it had looked as romantic and sophisticated as this…