What Makes Son Martorell One of Menorca’s Most Honest Renovations?

Menorca has a building type most people outside Spain have never heard of, and it's called a lloc. Not a villa. Not a farmhouse...

What Is Mid-Century Modern Design? The Complete History, Icons, and Comeback...

Mid-century modern design refuses to stay in the past. Walk into any furniture showroom right now, from IKEA's mainline collections to boutique studios charging...

The Art of Less Is Gestalten’s Answer to a World Full...

The Art of Less is not a book about owning fewer things. That's the first assumption gestalten wants readers to drop before they even...

The Frame – Praia da Poça Turns a 1921 Estoril House...

The Frame – Praia da Poça is a new residential project by ARX Portugal, developed in co-authorship with Boost Studio, on a coastal plot...

Casa FJ in Portugal Answers a Simple Question: Can a Row...

Casa FJ sits inside a development of 28 semi-detached houses in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, and from the street, it plays by the rules....

Yes, The Eames Houses Book From Phaidon Was Worth The Wait

Eight houses. Ten years. One design language that never once contradicted itself. That's the real story hiding inside The Eames Houses, the new Phaidon...

Mid-Century Modern Design: A Complete Sourcebook Is the Best Reference Book...

Some books belong on a shelf. This one belongs on your desk, your coffee table, and your conscience as a designer. Mid-Century Modern Design:...

Casa em Melides Proves That Sabrab Architecture Understands the Alentejo Like...

Tucked into a landscape of centuries-old cork oak trees on the Alentejo coast, Casa em Melides by Sabrab Architecture is one of those rare...

The Best Books on Art and Design to Read This Summer

Summer is the one season that actually gives you permission to read slowly. Not the frantic, bookmark-everything-and-come-back-to-it reading we do the rest of the...

What Does Jenna McKnight’s “Design: Mid-Century Modern” Teach Us About the...

Just look around you, and you will notice that Mid-Century Modern design refuses to die, and Jenna McKnight's new guidebook explains exactly why. I...

Casa do Alpendre Is the Portuguese House That Turns Privacy Into...

Casa do Alpendre sits on a plot in Quinta da Coutada, Vila Franca de Xira, where no two buildings speak the same architectural language....

Art Deco: Why Penny Craswell’s New Book Belongs on Every Designer’s...

Art Deco announces itself in chrome edges, sunburst motifs, and skyscrapers that scrape at the clouds like they have somewhere urgent to be. Penny...