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DAVID PLAISANT Writer Rome-based architecture writer Plaisant was perfectly placed to explore the world of Italian icon Paolo Portoghesi (page 186). ‘We were incredibly lucky to gain access to his wonderful house and gardens just days before Italy’s lockdown last March,’ he says. And it wasn’t just the architecture that made the experience memorable, as ‘Portoghesi was also keen to show us his private zoo’. Plaisant is now working on a book documenting the Roman palazzina. ROGER DAVIES Photographer When the John Lautner Foundation asked LA-based British photographer Davies to shoot the Garcia House (page 152), he didn’t have to travel far. ‘It’s on Mulholland Drive, right around the corner from my home. Every Lautner house I’ve photographed is more incredible than the last; he’s my favourite architect,’ says Davies,…

There is a new addition to Honke Owariya, widely regarded as Kyoto’s oldest soba confectioner and restaurant. Today, it is run by 16th-generation owner Ariko Inaoka, who asked Osaka-based designer Teruhiro Yanagihara, creative director of ceramics brand 1616/Arita Japan, to transform an empty bicycle park next to the restaurant, housed in a 19th-century wooden machiya townhouse, into a dedicated sweet shop. In the new space, a wall of glass showcases a minimalist interior, the contemporary lines of a concrete block counter softened by plaster walls, walnut door frames and atmospheric lighting by New Light Pottery (see W*236). Beneath an old shop sign on the wall, wooden boxes display the confectionery for which Honke Owariya is famed, from soba rice cakes to melt-in-the-mouth soba warabi-mochi. Meanwhile, a glass side door slides…

Commissioned by the Isabel Aninat Echazarreta Foundation, a charity that supports vulnerable people, including children and young people with disabilities, this new school, on the outskirts of Santiago in Chile, is designed by architect Sebastián Irarrázaval. A crisp, white, concrete composition of low and tall volumes, the Integral Stimulation Center unites a variety of spaces, including classrooms, laboratories, a gymnasium, a chapel and a heated pool, with functions divided into clusters and designed to cater to specific student groups and special educational and mobility needs. ‘We proposed to accommodate these varied programmes in the manner of a walled citadel that would provide children with a protective environment, while allowing the coexistence of not only these diverse programmatic units, but also of different forms of movement through the interior: some more…

Rotterdam and OMA have long been intertwined. The Dutch port city has been home to the celebrated architecture practice for over four decades now, and it is also co-founder Rem Koolhaas’ birthplace. Still, the architect didn’t spend a lot of time there until the 1980s. Instead, he followed a more international trajectory in his early years. His childhood was mostly divided between Amsterdam and Jakarta, and after graduating from the Architectural Association in London, he moved to New York to attend Cornell. His book, Delirious New York, published in 1978 to much acclaim, was a kind of love letter to the great American city, exploring its development as well as notions of urbanity and congestion that came to define his career. OMA was established in 1975 between New York and…

Inspired by a summer job as a model maker at an architectural firm, Serban Ionescu went on to study architecture at Pratt Institute, where he thrived creatively and discovered a fondness for the work of Lebbeus Woods and John Hejduk. ‘But the negative side of architecture school is that it builds up this amazing kind of naivety that you’re going to change the world,’ he reflects. Graduating in 2007, he was soon disheartened by the difficulty of making a dent in the profession, and set his sights on being an artist instead. Growing up in his native Romania, Ionescu could draw before he learned to speak (between the ages of three and five, he drew exclusively in aerial view, taking after his engineer parents who taught him about plan, elevation…

As you enter the Hamptons, if you aren’t too distracted by the bone-white beaches and cerulean waters, you’ll start catching glimpses of the farmhouses that populate the rural landscape in this part of America. Peppered across the clustered villages at the eastern end of Long Island, these houses hint at the area’s rich agricultural history. Playing on the area’s vernacular, the New Yorkbased practice Young Projects has reimagined the conventional barn as a bold structure in its latest project, Six Square House. Consisting of six gabled volumes, the elegant 3,500 sq ft family home features an eclectic mix of architectural expressions. The plan is a ‘clustered grid, which sets up an interesting dialogue between the spaces,’ says Bryan Young, the founder and principal of Young Projects. It’s a symmetric pattern…

New horizons Welcome to our annual Global Interiors issue. Good design can enable, inspire and elevate our lives. This has been magnified over the last year, as circumstances have required us to stay at home, with more opportunity than ever to contemplate the stuff that surrounds us. Marking a year since the pandemic turned the world upside down, this Global Interiors issue salutes the design pieces that have brightened our days, and the luminous talents behind them. We’ve broadened the scope of our headline interiors story, featuring designs from six continents, rather than focusing on six specific countries as we did in previous years. Our head of interiors Olly Mason worked with Berlin design studio Form & Rausch to create a visual feast, setting standout furniture pieces against escapist backdrops…

When Susan Clark founded New York design company Radnor in 2016, her mission was to create elegant designerled furniture, lighting and accessories at an approachable level. Building on its practice of curating experiential showrooms in residential settings (it formerly occupied a two-bedroom apartment at the David Chipperfield-designed The Bryant), Radnor unveils a new home this month in a 4,000 sq ft apartment at 180 East 88th Street, a new development in Manhattan’s Carnegie Hill. The airy space is designed in collaboration with Elizabeth Roberts Architects and filled with nearly 70 design works and collectibles. Some notable highlights include a table by Karl Zahn (his first ever furniture piece), as well as a series of solid milled marble tables and lighting designed by Clark, marking the first time the Radnor founder…

Timeless technology is something of an oxymoron in our accelerated age. Consumers are conditioned to expect rapid tech advancements expressed in a swift turnover of products, with annual upgrade cycles the de facto method of signalling how our devices get faster, smaller (or bigger), better, sleeker and more efficient. It’s a gallop, not a canter, that goes against the ethos of luxury design, with its emphasis on craft, care and attention to detail. It’s a rare brand that manages to dovetail both qualities into its products. From its inception, French audio specialist Devialet set out to make art out of audio. The company was founded in 2007 by Pierre-Emmanuel Calmel, Emmanuel Nardin and Quentin Sannié, combining knowledge of acoustics, industrial design and finance, respectively. Its most important invention was a…

‘I managed to find a way that I could just focus on proactivity… to actually build what I want the world to be’ Ten years ago, Anupama Kundoo and I discussed the labels and descriptors that had thrown us together: female architect, Indian architect, architect of the Global South, architect working with traditional-slash-vernacular-slash-regional-slash-‘indigenous’ techniques. Each of these labels elicits a special appreciation of Kundoo’s work, while at the same time producing a particular kind of frustration – they constrain and diminish. At the time, she conceded to the description of lyrical modernist – for here is a practitioner driven to understand materiality, technology and capital utility, in the manner of the early modernists; how to maximise the efficiency of resource and labour, while at the same time providing a sense…

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A recent sale at Sotheby’s in Paris offering personal items belonging to artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude included many previously unseen works and personal items from the couple’s longtime studio at 48 Howard Street in New York. Before the auction, we secured special access for photographer Brigitte Lacombe to visit and photograph the studio almost as Christo left it when he died in May last year – with drawings, tables lined with pencils, rulers and other materials, posters and personal photographs pinned on the walls, and postcards that the couple received from their famous friends. ‘I was most excited about the chance to see the studio and living space of these great artists, which is largely untouched,’ says Lacombe. ‘It was very moving, intimate and inspiring. It’s all about the work…

01 Designs for Covid-era living Picky Nicky on a radical rethink of our domestic space Posh apartments used to be designed with separate entrances for residents and tradesmen, as well as a room for a maid, a reflection of how the occupants lived. In the Covid era, as we work from home, work out at home, and shop from home, reality for most of us is less about live-in staff and more about online deliveries; that tradesmen’s lift is more likely to be used by couriers delivering takeaways or packages, while any spare rooms are put to new uses. There are thousands of new-build apartments completing in London this year. Nina Coulter, director of residential development sales at Savills in London, says second or third bedrooms are already being marketed…

Nestled in the verdant Hollywood Hills, shaded by lush foliage and giant palms, is Ledgewood, a single-storey, modestly sized 2,298 sq ft house. The 1961 building actually has a lot to shout about: its designer and initial owner was Robert Kennard, an associate of Richard Neutra and a leading Black architect of his generation. Not grand by Hollywood standards, this handsome jewel box of a property is situated in perhaps the least inconspicuous of locations – just below the Hollywood sign. Six decades on, Ledgewood maintains a confident, graceful presence, thanks to two great creative minds: its current owner, French-Tunisian entrepreneur Franck Nataf, and designer Pamela Shamshiri. Nataf, the founder of LA-based Exquisite Surfaces (which has become design world shorthand for exemplary European and North African flooring and surfaces in…

London-based architecture practice 31/44 is used to getting the most out of tight, urban spaces. Its Red House, in East Dulwich in south London, picked up a RIBA London Award and a Manser Medal, and No.49, in Lewisham, won a RIBA National Award. ‘We’re used to doing very difficult sites that have a direct relationship with perhaps 30 neighbours,’ says 31/44 director Will Burges. So designing a house in the English countryside was ‘slightly liberating’, he adds. ‘It was just about the preservation of the immediate environment.’ Burges and his team were commissioned by a London-based family to create a weekend retreat in a tiny Norfolk hamlet. Luke and Klara Hawes had spotted a disused grain store, sitting between other farm buildings and a listed parish church. The area was…

Perched nimbly on one side of the Hollywood Hills along Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, John Lautner’s futuristic Garcia House is one of the most enduring specimens of the midcentury modern movement. Completed in 1962 for the jazz musician, conductor and Hollywood composer Russell Garcia and his wife Gina, the almond-shaped house is as well known for the steel caissons that hoist it 60ft above the canyon below as it is for its part in 1989’s Lethal Weapon 2, where it appears to come crashing down in a foul blow to the film’s villains. Special effects and celebrity aside, the Garcia House, which is, in fact, standing tall and well, now serves as a piece of living history, with its V-shaped supports, parabolic roof and stained-glass windows. The house’s current…