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Commissioned to overhaul an 1840s Brooklyn brownstone for a Swedish-American family of four, architects Solveig Fernlund (who also happens to be Swedish) and Neil Logan masterfully turned it into a house with dual citizenship. They tackled…
Côte de Folk founder Sophie Rowell moonlights as a campanologist. Let me save you from having to Google the term and tell you now that a campanologist is one who rings church bells. It may…
I suspect, for architects, a house with an ineffective layout is like fingernails on chalkboard. When Anaïs Bléhaut, director of Daab Design, was brought onboard to make sense of a client’s gracious but wonky London…
Lots of people get lost in novels; architect Mariana de Delás’s client wanted to curl up and live in her favorite book. Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees is a fable about an 18th…
Forget the single-purpose bathmat: We love the look of a well-worn Persian or vintage rug in the bathroom. Here are 10 of our favorites. Above: At The Line in Los Angeles, a well-worn Oriental rug…
When actors (and hands-on remodelers) Amanda Pays and Corbin Bernsen decided to downsize to a 1949 three bedroom fixer-upper in Studio City, LA, they had to find space to fit their family of six. The…
We’ve admired photographer Ditte Isager and partner Christian Vang’s country house on the outskirts of Copenhagen since we first saw it in The Inspired Home: Nests of Creatives (Rizzoli). Today we’re taking a closer view of the en…
Manhattan-based Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects (a member of the Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory) is adept at creating light-filled, open-feeling spaces in urban enviroments, partly through the use of glass in unexpected applications. “Glass is a powerful…
The late architect Yves Bayard, who designed the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice, reconstructed a 16th-century sheep barn with his wife, designer Jacqueline Morabito, in the town of Saint-Paul de Vence (home…
One of our favorites design details in our first book, Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home, are the puddle-like mirrors in French designer Corinne Gilbert’s Brooklyn atelier. We had never encountered anything like them—until…