Madera: the soul of wood, nobly expressed
Madera crafts the very essence of wood through the ingenious process of precomposed veneering, resulting in surfaces of captivating visual harmony and inherent sustainability. From flawlessly coordinated color palettes to intricate inlays that whisper stories, each door stands as a genuine tribute to the natural world.
We have collected the most clicked interior or architecture projects this year on the Domus website, retracing those places and spaces together. From the concrete of a house in Lisbon to the residence immersed in the nature of Japan. From Milan to Berlin in interiors designed for readers, smart workers and travelers. In the hidden and reserved spaces of Greece and Australia to the new luxury in the Langhe.
An apartment for bibliophiles
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Privileged by its location on a penthouse floor, which in the good season enjoys an elevated view over the dense foliage of the underlying tree-lined avenue, an early twentieth-century Milanese apartment rediscovers its personality thanks to the striking but unobtrusive intervention of the Atomaa architecture studio. Read full article here.
A mini-apartment in Berlin is a traveller’s retreat
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A small, functional and practical space. The flat in the Friedrichshain Boxhagener Kiez district in Berlin is designed to accommodate a worker from San Francisco who often travels for business. Itay Friedman Architects renovated a 40 square metre space, skilfully using corners and niches to create a place to work in comfort despite its small size. Read full article here.
Apartment in Milan renovated for smart working
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Designed by Elena Martucci just before lockdown, the sunny Casa LP welcomes the new life of a woman and her son: after 25 years of career in the publishing world, the owner now works remotely, like many of us, opting for flexible spaces for different uses. Read full article here.
Ciclostile Architettura upgrades farmhouse in Siena countryside
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The Podere Navigliano project is part of a “trilogy” of architectures in rural contexts (together with Ca’ Inua and the Francesca Pasquali Archive project) that expresses the attitude of Ciclostile Architettura. The three Bologna-based architects draw on the vast cultural and material heritage of the territories they investigate to design buildings rooted in their context. According to Ciclostile, “essential is a necessity, it is neither minimal nor rational. It is the answer to the complexity of phenomena reduced to their essential condition.” Read full article here.
Small rocky cove in Greece hides sea view house
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Embedded in a small rocky cove on the island of Serifos in Greece is a residence that is almost invisible from the outside, except from the sea, because it is dug into the ground and has a green roof. It is nCaved, a project by Mold Architects. Read full article here.
Lisbon, a rooftop pool and sky views for the house of a retired couple
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Trefoil House is set in a pine forest on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean in Aroeira, just south from Lisbon across the Tagus River. The two-storey home designed by Double O Studio for a retired couple relocating to Portugal takes the form of a concrete cylinder from which volumes have been subtracted and added. This fragmented form, full of nooks and projections, is part of the studio’s “anti-facade approach” for the home, which has no primary outward focus. Read full article here.
This enigmatic house is the result of different limitations
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Closed, monolithic and dark on the outside, open, complex and luminous on the inside. This house designed by Australian studio Mirror Systems in Melbourne is an enigmatic building that is difficult to relate to an existing residential typology. Read full article here.
A solitary retreat for a large family in the forests of Hokkaidō
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A short distance from the ski slopes of Niseko – a popular tourist resort on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō – a large family asked Florian Busch Architects to design a home away from the holiday hustle and bustle, “an escape into the solitude of the forest” as the architects themselves describe it. Read full article here.
House for an architect-collector in Melbourne
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For the renovation of this house in Melbourne, the client and the designer coincided. The architectural practice headed by John Wardel therefore had to respond directly to the client's needs and desires. First and foremost is the wish to display his personal collections in the best possible way. The interiors therefore present ad hoc solutions for a number of sculptures, ceramics, paintings and books. Read full article here.
The new luxury of a boutique hotel in the Langhe region
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Immersed in an estate of forty hectares, organic to the local dimension and careful to ensure the privacy of its guests, the new hotel designed by GaS Studio with Parisotto+Formenton Architetti is an emblematic example of the prerogatives required by the new post-Covid luxury. Read full article here.
Tailored furniture shapes an apartment in Cremona
For a design that focuses on both functionality and aesthetic care, the furniture created with Caccaro systems can meet all needs and define new concepts of space.
