Lilypad: A Solar-Powered Villa Afloat on Sydney Harbour
Moored off exclusive Palm Beach, Lilypad blends solar engineering with resort-level comfort for a quietly luxurious escape on water.
The Dip Pavilion: A Sculptural Roof, A Garden Dialogue
The Dip Pavilion by andblack design studio folds pool, garden and interior into one continuous architectural gesture.
In Puglia, Massimo Iosa Ghini reimagines the contemporary masseria
Among ancient olive trees, pergolas and patios frame a set of bespoke interiors. In Southern Italy, this “contemporary masseria” reinterprets vernacular architecture against the backdrop of the Mediterranean countryside.
Mold Architects Steps Perma Serifos Retreat to the Aegean Sea
In Greece, Perma Serifos combines excavated stone and cast concrete with terraces that open onto uninterrupted views of the sea.
Inside Design Parade 2026: French Riviera’s Design Fest
Southern France thrives with creativity: Design Parade 2026 spotlights Magritte-inspired interiors, candle clocks, hybrid lamps, and Pre-Columbian Pokémons.
House Eleven by DAAA Haus: Precision, Concrete and Light
In Malta, House Eleven pairs raw materiality with restraint across its connected levels — an architecture and design project shaped for a new, “more aware” generation of clients.
Fran Silvestre’s ‘House on the Cliff’ embraces the Mediterranean with formal purity
In Spain, House On the Cliff combines white minimalism with a single-level volume perched on a slope and a pool that visually draws the sea closer.
Ten Outdoor Chairs That Make You Want to Stay Outside All Day
Inspired by Renaissance gardens, baseball stitches and racing bikes, these outdoor chairs make you want to sit back, relax, and maybe never go back inside.
Beyond Shade: Sun Umbrellas Get a Designer Makeover
Forget everything you thought you knew about outdoor shade. These next-gen parasols are equal parts functional design and poetic invention.
Six Nature-Inspired Outdoor Lighting Designs That Bring Poetry to Summer Nights
From soft glows to gentle motion, these outdoor lighting designs seamlessly blend with nature to transform gardens and terraces into enchanting landscapes.
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos’ Alamo House idly floats over Madrid
“We envisioned the Alamo House as a solid mass, from which carved-out openings create a dynamic narrative.”
I am melting: 10 quirky design pieces tuning with this summer’s most popular phrase
“When I began working on this post, it was so hot I couldn’t concentrate. Wouldn’t it be easier to focus on air conditioners? Yes, but I hate simple things.” Confesses our design contributor Antonella Galimberti who has selected ten quirky designs inspired by what we all might have said or thought at least once in the past weeks: I am melting.
Claesson Koivisto Rune completes the beach ‘House of Many Courtyards’
The Swedish Studio has sliced and dislocated the building to ’double’ its volume. The ‘House of Many Courtyards’ has the appearance of a series of individual boxes; in reality, it is one interior connected via a 40-metre-long, end-to-end, central corridor overlooking multiple courtyards.
Fran Silvestre’s House of The Sun embraces the Mediterranean horizon in Marbella
Located on a slope overlooking the sea, House of The Sun concept-villa by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos was conceived as a threshold opening the door to infinite space.
10 Italian outdoor furniture designs celebrating Summer with style
We selected 10 Italian outdoor furniture designs by Minotti, Flexform, B&B Italia, Pedrali and more bringing conviviality on patios and terraces.
5 inflatable and tongue in cheek designs for the summer
A decapitated swan float poking fun of Instagram influencers, patterned inflatable pools and air-filled bouncy furniture for the living room, the garden or the poolside.
Lipstick furniture collection by outdoor brand Diabla colours the summer with a joyful attitude
José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales designed a fun and good humoured outdoor furniture collection inspired by an everyday object and at the same time a fetishistic one: the lipstick.