Art lounge

Volumes of warmly lit timber define Tonkin Zulaikha Greer’s library and members lounge redesign, which simultaneously respects heritage and serves contemporary communities.

Image 7 of 22 from gallery of SCRAB Gallery / JeongChoi Works. Photograph by Bojune Kwon

We hate to break it to you, but summer is more than half over. Luckily, you still have time to travel to a beachside destination in the south of France, a quaint Spanish villa, the heart of Hong Kong, or Louisville, Kentucky (trust us, it's a thing). Embrace August's wanderlust and the spirit of the season by staying at some of the best new design-focused properties.

Inventive and profoundly eclectic, Maison Pierre Frey demonstrates an undeniable mastery in the creation of furnishing fabrics. Prints, wools, linens, velvets, embroidery, jacquards or damasks, all creative materials that are influenced by art and cultures.

Susi Leeton Architects + Interiors' second incarnation of a riverside Melbourne home builds on themes of light, privacy and landscape.

We've been thinking a lot lately about the flattening of visual culture and what gets lost when everything looks the same. In design, this is most prevalent in furniture and small goods like ceramics, but we have begun to notice a crushing sameness in interiors as well, with each new office or co-working space aspiring to look like the ground floor of a Brooklyn brownstone or a Parisian flat. Which is why we thought it might be useful to analyze the latest project by New York–based studio…