Designer Virginia Sin: Things Made Slow
Karine Monié
December 12, 2019
At the helm of her eponymous studio, multi-disciplinary designer Virginia Sin relocated from Los Angeles to Brooklyn in 2006.
At the helm of her eponymous studio, multi-disciplinary designer Virginia Sin relocated from Los Angeles to Brooklyn in 2006.
Coherence, as a word, does not elicit an animated response, nor should it particularly. It is a fixed and broad-shouldered term, reliant as a new day. Used in an architectural context, like when describing the work of Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando
Through a collaborative work between Poss Architects and Kirei Studio’s founder and interior designer Nathalie Ryan, this traditional log house was transformed…
The Box, a “bubble-like” innovative architectural intervention created to preserve and safeguard the historic Hill House, is an example of classic Glasgow style designed by Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. This solution protects the building from environmental elements to prolong its future for generations to enjoy.
Translated, the Chumash word Anacapa means “mirage,” which one might imagine they’ve stumbled across when ambling along the same-named street in the Lunada Bay district of Palos Verdes Estates.
Exquisitely situated in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve bordering South Africa’s Kruger National Park, Cheetah Plains is as sleek and captivating as its namesake and every bit as steeped in the natural environment of which it is so strikingly part.
The landscape with the plantings of hundreds of trees and a new Shearers’ Quarters building, Captain Kelly’s Cottage was first built at the mariner’s bidding (likely by ship hands) for his daughter Mary in the 1840s.
Renovating a historic house is a matter of passion and dedication and the team behind Australian firm B.E Architecture—led by Broderick Ely, Jonathon Boucher, and Andrew Piva—know it.
ON THE COVER Perfectly Palos Verdes: An elegant Lunada Bay home remixes classic California Style to delight modern day sensibilities presented by Ed Kaminsky of The Kaminsky Real Estate Group of Strand Hill | Christie’s International Real Estate.
You know what they say about opinions right? But, what about “prevailing opinions?” For marketers, they’re the path of least resistance as everyone is caught up in the momentum of the moment. It’s easier to follow the herd and do what everyone else is doing – it feels safe. In reality, it’s the exact opposite.
If not hyperaware of the elephant in the room—Frank Lloyd Wright and his architectural opus Fallingwater—the design team at internationally recognized architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson was aware nonetheless.
ON THE COVER Modernist Monument on the Hill: A late work by Conrad Buff & Donald Hensman of Buff & Hensman offers timeless unity between nature and sculpture presented by Crosby Doe and Michael Phillips of Crosby Doe Associates.