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10 idyllic Greek island retreats from Dezeen’s Pinterest boards

June 2, 2017 Lucy Wildsmith 0

Following the completion of an unusually domed holiday home in Greece, we’ve rounded up 10 summer houses on far-flung Greek islands, including a modernist home inspired by Yves Klein’s paintings and a once earthquake-damaged property restored using historical photographs. Silver House, Zante, by Olivier Dwek Olivier Dwek’s modernist house perches above the coastline of Zante, a popular Greek holiday island. Its stark

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Universal Design Studio inserts a hotel into a brutalist building in Stockholm

April 22, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Located in a brutalist former bank headquarters in Stockholm, Universal Design Studio’s latest project, the At Six hotel, is home to one of Europe’s most significant hotel art collections. The London-based studio carried out a complete interior renovation to create the 343-room luxury hotel in the Swedish capital’s Brunkebergstorg Square, and also designed a new entrance. The scheme

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White box forms sleeping nook in Toronto loft by StudioAC

April 17, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Toronto-based StudioAC has remodelled the interior of a local apartment for a young client, balancing a bright and open living space with a cosy bedroom tucked away inside a millwork box. A young professional asked the designers to create an interior “that was equally fun, functional and unique” for the Broadview Loft project. The designers partitioned

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Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal to star in movie about Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House

February 8, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

The story of Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House is set for the silver screen, with Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges set to play the famous modernist architect. The feature film will follow the relationship between Van der Rohe and his client, Chicago nephrologist Edith Farnsworth, during the design and construction of the glass-box dwelling.

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