
Zach Both & Nicole Lopez Transform the Modern Yurt
The yurt—that portable, tent-like structure used by nomadic tribes—comes from ancient origins but is having a moment. In truth it’s never gone away.
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The yurt—that portable, tent-like structure used by nomadic tribes—comes from ancient origins but is having a moment. In truth it’s never gone away.
A patch of land on Avala Mountain in rural Serbia sets the stage for a gridded, steel-frame structure by TEN Studio.
Interior designer and creative director of PlaidFox, Ben Leavitt, took nearly two years to complete and was design this 8,000-square-foot home located outside of downtown Vancouver drawing inspiration from cities such as Montreal and Vancouver, as well as Scandinavian design.
Founder of Manhattan firm MR Architecture + Décor, David Mann’s more minimal brand of architecture would seem, on the surface, at odds with 18th-century anything, not least the red-bricked house he shares with his partner Fritz Karch.
“Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects works in a modern idiom but without a set vocabulary or language,” explains architect Takashi Yanai, a partner at the firm, its Residential Studio Director since 2004, and the current leader of its San Francisco Studio.
Vaux Le Vicomte: A Private Invitation by Guillaume Picon tells the fantastic tale that begins with Nicolas Fouquet’s elaborations and ends with the efforts of its current third-generation stewards, the de Vogüé family, to ensure Vaux endures.
Fantasies of life set in Southern California inevitably involve water. It might be a pool, its mirrored finish punctuating a green lawn. It might be the ocean, pounding away at the shore, its foaming waves full of promise.
Originally built in 2005 and located in Montauk, New York (a half-mile from the local beach and a short walk to the state park), the Edison Bungalow started its new life in August 2020.
Rich in decorative tensions, the sumptuous, generously dimensioned residence is a reflection of its well-traveled owners’ refined eye for style and design.
It’s on this narrow line between the ephemeral and the realistic that the firm performs their subtle, yet powerful, balancing act, creating homes that manage the trick of being both eminently livable and undeniably luxurious.
While it’s not without its gray days, the beauty of Southern California lies in its temperate climate. So, too, while it’s also not without its gray moments, the beauty of family is in being together.
Housed in the Biscuit Company Lofts building—which was erected in 1925 as the West Coast headquarters of the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco)—in Los Angeles’ Arts District, the 1,620-square-foot loft space was initially transformed into a two-bedroom apartment.