Weve been admiring the Dickebusch cottage, designed by the husband and wife behind Koskela, for a while now. Recreate the outback look with the following elements. N.B.: See more from our post on Hot...
A Victorian terraced house with rabbit-warren rooms in the middle of Surry Hills, Sydney is opened up to take advantage of the lush garden. Australian architect Hannah Tribe of Tribe Studio Architect...
What do you get when a father with a penchant for making furniture teams up with a daughter with a fine arts degree and a keen eye for design? In the case of Douglas and Rebecca Snelling, the result ...
From Australia, eco-designer Joost Bakker offers home gardeners small-scale versions of the massive steel and terracotta vertical gardens that cover the facades of his popup Greenhouse restaurants an...
Ive long admired the free-form designs of Pamela Tang. An Australian native, Tang worked for 10 years as a professional interior designer in Singapore before returning to pursue her own signature sty...
Discovered via Decor8: the work of Melbourne-based furniture maker and landscaper Greg Hatton, who goes by the name "Twiggy." His work is admired (and collected) by Aussie taste maker Sibel...
If everything were recyclable, our problems would be solved, says eco-designer Joost Bakker. And by "everything," he means everything. In Australia, where hes a first-name-only celebrity, J...
Sania Pell, the UK queen of the homemade, invited us for tea recently. Heres the story: Pell started posting on DIY matters about a year ago; ever since, weve been checking in on her creative genius....
My friend Susan and I were discussing our gardens the other day—shes heavily into ground covers this spring, and Im fantasizing about how to rehabilitate a backyard blitzed during a remodel&mda...
After several years in the business, coffee connoisseur Fleur Studd opened her own cafe and roasting house; Market Lane Coffee, located in the Prahran Market of Melbourne, Australia, with a view to c...
To celebrate the launch of Gardenista, were inviting readers to submit pinboards of favorite urban gardens (fire escape, rooftop, balcony) on Pinterest. The prize? A Cedar Bed-on-Legs (valued at $299...
Brisbane-based architects Owen and Vokes maintain a remarkably rigorous aesthetic in all their projects, using a palette of natural wood, vertically laid white tile, and louvered windows. According t...
Normally I try not to publicly discuss how adorable and smart cats are—my dogs get terribly jealous—but our friends at Catster have vital information to share with balcony gardeners: 10 C...
Urban living is all about the creative maximization of available space; especially outdoor space. This week, Melissa Baker and Jon Handley of Pulltab Design (members of the Remodelista Architect/Desi...
Weve been coveting a sofa from Clarke & Reilly for a while now (see Design Visit: Clark & Reilly), so we took note when we saw that Anthropologie was offering pieces from the London-based des...
I have had an unhealthy obsession with the A Détacher black bedspread since I first saw it (I keep imagining how the blanket would look layered over my white duvet cover). Then yesterday Julie...
Spotted in the bath at Babylonstoren, an herbacious tussie-mussie bouquet displayed in a glass vase. What is a tussie-mussie, you ask? The tussie-mussie is the modern posy, an heir to the sixteenth-c...
Our only complaint about The Balcony Gardener has been that the UK-based garden retailer didnt ship its stylish small-space vertical gardens and window boxes abroad, where we greedy urban gardeners i...
Weve been prowling around the Marin Country Mart since Jim Rosenfield took it on as a project (hes the force behind the Brentwood Country Mart in Los Angeles). Among the many spaces we admire? Rosenf...
Ive been having a thing with roses of late, popping petals into glasses of champagne for a hint of color and floral aroma. So when Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks gave me a jar of freshly made rhubarb...
The Victorians cataloged their botanical (and romantic) obsessions by pressing flowers; our friend Rebecca Willis continues the tradition for similar reasons; creating memories from cataloged flowers...
As spring transitions into summer, Im reminded of a scene in one of my favorite Yasujirō Ozu films, Late Spring, where characters Noriko and Hattori are riding their bikes through the strong coastal ...
Every year, British fashion doyenne Margaret Howell selects a designer whose work she admires to collaborate on a shirt. This year, she chose garden and landscape designer Dan Pearson, who reflects h...
All rose petals are edible. But not equally delicious. This is just one of the many lessons you can learn in a rose garden thats been encouraged to run amok. Samantha Greenwood, the special events ch...
A report from the frontlines: newly opened Berkeley restaurant Comal features innovative interior design—plus a next-wave, state-of-the-art sound system. Owned by John Paluska, the former manag...
In California, where the climate is temperate and houses are small (and expensive), its common for homeowners to annex the garage as living space. This parking-space-turned-garden-ro om in West LA by ...
SPONSORED POST No space is too small for a vertical garden. All you need is a wall and a plan. For a plan, we recently visited Paxton Gate, the famously quirky store in San Franciscos Mission Distric...
Starting this week, New Yorkers can get house plants delivered almost as easily as takeout food. "Its been a problem in New York that unless youre walking past a hardware store or a grocery, and...
Italian designer Paola Navone, known for her fanciful designs, has done it again with her Eu/phoria chair for Eumenes. Navones Eu/phoria chair features a steel support topped by mod shell, made from ...
Conceived in the mid-1930s, this Art Deco house was considered a house of the future when it was built. Seven decades later, with a Grade II listing, Mike Rundell from London architecture firm Rundel...
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