Steal This Look: A Retro Bath on the English Seaside
Ever since we featured The Rose, a new hotel in the seaside town of Deal in East Kent, England, we’ve been thinking of the boldly colorful rooms and baths designed by Harding & Read and...
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10 Easy Pieces: Wall-Mounted Toilets
Demure, space saving, and easy to clean, the wall-hung toilet is a long-time fixture in European bathrooms that’s getting more attention from remodelers in the US. The design is well worth considering and ripe for...
Expert Advice: 6 Common Bathroom Plumbing Jobs You Can Tackle Yourself, From Plumber Carly Carey
Carly Carey is a new mother and a third-year plumbing apprentice in Minneapolis—she’s about two years from taking the state test to become a licensed master plumber. It was during the pandemic that Carly, a...
“A Hypnotic Optical Effect”: Two Spanish Architects Pattern a 1946 Fisherman’s House in Blue-and-White Checks
Currently surfacing all over, the checkerboard is the motif of the moment: see Trend Alert and Checks, Please. We’ve been admiring the many ways the design classic is being put to fresh use. Case in...
A Nostalgic Bath Collection from a Copenhagen Design Firm
Recently spotted: a luxuriously shapely bath collection from Copenhagen-based designers Norm Architects. If it feels a little nostalgic, that’s intentional: Norm’s calling card is taking a familiar shape (a hat mold, a vintage planter, a wooden milking stool) and paring it down to...
Architect Visit: Owen Kennerly Renovation in San Francisco
Owen Kennerly of Kennerly Architecture & Planning, an up-and-coming San Francisco firm, recently completed this clever renovation of an 850-square-foot San Francisco row house, built in 1949. (We were fortunate to get a sneak peek,...
Trend Alert: The Case for Burgundy Accents in the Kitchen
In the spectrum of reds, from fiery to relaxed, burgundy falls under the latter and is an easy, comforting shade to live with. Which perhaps explains why it’s having a color moment. Wine red may...
Bath: Closet Bath Roundup
Here's proof that even a sliver of space can work as a bathroom, concealed behind closet style doors or a simple sliding door. Above: A bathroom housed behind a wall of closet doors in a...
Vitorrja: A Vintage-Leaning Hotel in Los Angeles from the Gjelina Group
For as often as we’ve enjoyed a tuna sandwich and vinegar shrub in the courtyard of Gjusta, it was only recently that we came across Vitorrja, the first hotel from the Gjelina Group behind both...
New Bath Hardware from Norm Architects: The Towel Ladder and More
Just over a year ago, we brought you the first pieces of Norm Architects’ bath collection for Menu–a trash can, toilet brush, soap dispenser, toothbrush cup, and storage vessel–and the group has since expanded. Norm...