A pair of former 1960s buildings in Paris’s Les Batignolles district have been transformed into La Fondation, a layered mixed-use destination where hospitality, wellness, culture, and work intersect within a carefully preserved Brutalist framework. Rather than following a conventional adaptive reuse approach, the project reimagines a former office building and multi-storey car park as a…
Tucked within the Cotswolds village of Kingham, this centuries-old cottage has been thoughtfully reimagined by interior designer Victoria Barker as a richly layered retreat where traditional English charm meets an instinctive, deeply personal approach to decoration. Dating back roughly 450 years, the modest Grade II-listed home began life as a humble rural dwelling, its tiny…
In Paris’s 14th arrondissement of Paris, Atelier Apara has transformed a 93-square-metre apartment from the 1970s–80s into a quietly expressive family home defined by material clarity, spatial precision, and restrained intervention. Led by founders Charlotte Guillochon and Victor Mesguich, the studio approaches renovation less as decoration and more as a process of revealing the existing…