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Thanks to our friends Samuel Elkins and Allegra Rose B. for these great pictures of one of our favorite homes. They recently traveled to the island of Kauai in Hawaii, where they stayed at the secluded Eco Luxe Longhouse near the tiny historic town of Koloa. The Longhouse is as off-the-beaten-track as you can imagine. […]

Approaching a destination by boat has always been one of our favorite experiences. On our last trip to the Isle of Beauty, we decided to take the Corsica ferry from Marseille to Bastia. We highly recommend approaching this wonderful island this way. The boat left Marseille at 7pm, just enough daylight to enjoy the vanishing […]

Handmade entirely of bamboo framework with adobe walls and brick exteriors, these dome villas are a marvel of natural construction, animated design and architectural purity. With smooth fluid lines and charmingly peculiar forms, the vision is unique, unconventional and just the kind of adventurous approach to design that we love. A passion project conceived in […]

The Blue Horse Farm, or Das Blaue Pferd, in Ruppiner Seenland, Germany, is a reminder that a property in any form can be, and often is, an expression of one’s ideals. This is what we like about this enchanting farmhouse owned by Berlin-based artist Elisophie Eulenburg, restored and repurposed into a haven for rest, discovery, resourcing, […]

Casale di Cellole is a picturesque traditional Tuscan farm that’s been given a gentle contemporary makeover. It’s located in Siena’s Chianti Region, nestled amongst olive groves, vineyards, woodlands and lush gardens. There’s a communal pool and covered barbecue area, but the grounds are composed of five distinct residences that can be rented together or separately! […]

Synthesis and containment. This is the ethos of how Barcelona and Mexico City-based architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales operate (and incidentally, the name of an award-winning documentary on their work). Cited by Wallpaper magazine as one of the World’s Ten Best and by Architectural Record as one of the Top Ten International Architectural Firms, the award-winning duo […]

Let’s start here: this cabin rental in Rotterdam doesn’t have an address. How’s that for getting lost in nature? Lake Island Cabin sits on an idyllic little island on a lake in Rotterdam, and you’ll have to take a little boat to get there. This is one of the main reasons why Arno Schuurs and […]

Meet Harlosh Black h… Located on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, with sweeping views of Loch Bracadale and Cuillin to the east and Macleod’s Tables to the west, this holiday letting in the UK takes the drama of the landscape and amplifies it through simple but distinctive design. Clean lines and neutral hues… Black h […]

Here in California, when something is in your wheelhouse, it’s in that sweet spot, right where you want it to be. We recently added a home called the Wheelhouse to our collection, and it really is that place. A mid-century renovation, located just outside the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park in the laid-back desert […]

Edward H. Fickett is a name that is passing through the lips of more and more people in the know as this mid-century architect’s canon of work is resurfacing from… well, plain sight. Think of Edward H. Fickett as the sleeping legend of mid-century modern architecture. Ironically, this architect who became a bit of a brand […]

Sri Lanka was never on my radar. When I thought of dream locations to travel to, what came to mind were places like Japan, Norway and New Zealand. However, when I was approached by photography co-op Stocksy to pick my ideal warmer-climate travel location to shoot, when it was the dead of winter in most […]

Just 30 minutes from Barcelona’s city center, where the edges become green, lies the quiet stately structure of Antiga Biblioteca Almirall, the old private library of Valentì Almirall. Almirall was an impassioned figure of the Renaixença and considered one of the fathers of Catalanism. A man of letters, he founded Diari Catalanà, the first newspaper […]