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Before any micro-cement went on the walls of the Arc·Haven Residence in Yangzhou, China, carpenters built timber substrates for every arched doorway, curved ceiling, and rounded beam and column. Plasterers then applied and sanded coat after coat until the apartment’s original right angles were gone. Wuta Space Design, led by Wang Fei, treated that curved shell as the main dec...

In the north-eastern part of Modena, Italy, a former industrial warehouse shares its walls with an unremarkable 1960s apartment building in exposed brick. Ambientevario converted the warehouse into a residence called Un Capannone. Because the two structures are joined as a single mass, ...

Rubio Y Galí is a minimalist residence by the Madrid-based architecture and interior design practice, De La Villa Studio. Situated in the Spanish capital, the renovation transforms a top-floor penthouse with an irregular floor plan into a more intuitive sequence of space...

The calf leather panel that supports a sitter’s back in Cabin Bag also serves as the pouch the chair is carried in. The foldable lounge chair is by Anton Defant, a designer based in Berlin, Germany, who developed it over the past two years as a further study of furniture that folds. Defant trai...

Stack enough Børsstolen chairs and the column begins to read as the twisted spire of Børsen, the fire-damaged building in Copenhagen that served as the design’s point of departure. The chair is by Laura Kjær Studio, a one-woman design practice based in Aarhus, Denmark, and its geometry is...