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    Villa Beer, Josef Frank’s modernist masterpiece reborn
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    Prehistoric chic? An anything but typical side-return
    Architect Mat Barnes’ predilection for folklore, geology and pure playfulness has transformed a London house, putting cookie-cutter extensions to shame
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    Colour, scale, surprise and fantasy are in full flow in a reimagined 17th-century Kent home
    Curved built-in bookshelves with books and ceramics frame a doorway leading to a kitchen with a central dining table.
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    Modernism, colour drenching — even Henry VIII; whatever your inspiration, use it to create a radical sculptural centrepiece
    A modern kitchen and living area featuring a yellow-tiled fireplace with a built-in wood storage nook, light wood cabinetry, and large windows.
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    Now home to Sotheby’s, the Breuer building remains a brutalist masterpiece
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    Small but perfectly formed: the timber-lined flat that’s an experimental ‘test bed’
    In his bijou canalside east London apartment, Benni Allan maximises space, light and quirky features — through a clever use of wood
    A living room with neutral-toned furniture, geometric wooden tables, and speakers suspended near a beige sofa. Sunlight filters through sheer curtains.
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  • November 1 2025
    Our love affair with ancient Egypt will never die
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    An ink and wash illustration showing a perspective view of the First Court of the Temple at Edfu, with large Egyptian columns and small figures in the courtyard.
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    From here to Eternithaus – the Berlin landmark that continues to inspire
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    A living-dining room in one of the second-floor apartments of the Eternithaus in Hansaplatz, Berlin, with an artwork by the Berlin-based artist Wolfgang Flad
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    The outdoor dining area at Barco, on the Reschio Estate, Umbria
  • October 31 2025
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  • October 29 2025
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    Alireza Razavi on living in a modernist masterpiece in Paris
    The architect’s apartment is an exercise in careful geometry
    Razavi sits in front of Linoleum cut Untitled (Woman 4), 2006, by Christoph Ruckhäberle
  • October 29 2025
    The Flatiron reborn: a pie-shaped slice of sky-high living
    Edwin Heathcote has a first look at the apartments in New York’s charismatic, slender-prowed triangle of a landmark
    The Flatiron Building, a triangular historic skyscraper with ornate stone detail, framed by green trees and blue sky.
  • October 28 2025
    Home sweet dome: the Moroccan house where Moomins meet Star Trek
    In Youssef Belkaid’s radical rammed earth home, everything is curved, from the beds to the steps to the paintings
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  • October 26 2025
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    Ballroom blitz at the White House raises eyebrows
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    An architectural rendering of the new State Dining Room that President Trump has commissioned
  • October 23 2025
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    Hillman House – a magical holiday home on Martha’s Vineyard
    James Cagney said his summer retreat charmed him ‘right out of his shoes’. Its latest owners know just how he felt
    The South House viewed from the grounds
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