Can a home be created that is simultaneously designed for a family and that displays an extensive collection of art? Presidio Heights proves this is possible. 

Vincent van Gogh arrived in Arles on the 20th of February 1888. This small town in Provence, in the south of France, was one of the most important places for the work of the Impressionist painter, who produced hundreds of drawings and paintings there and where he found the light and colours that shaped his approach to painting. 

Yasmine Saleh Ghoniem lends her name to the YSG Studio, an interior design office based on instinctive, vibrant and rebellious creativity. Despite being a young studio, the quality and magnetic dynamism of YSG Studio’s work is already much admired and has attracted multiple international awards. 

In the spirit of the dolce vita, the Paris Society’s latest location offers an invitation to immerse ourselves in a theatrical setting from different eras, envisioned by the Friedmann & Versace duo.  

Located in Poland, the modernist context of this apartment, among other things, provided the springboard for this project; Zuza and Piotr Paradowski also added colours and rounded forms from the latter half of the 20th Century. 

Embedded in the distinguished fabric of Paris’ 16th arrondissement, the neoclassical beauty of the building built in 1892 – erstwhile home of Louis Adolphe Thiers, then a gentlemen’s club, and later turned hotel in 1991 – has now seen its story once again reinvented, only this time through the language of Laura Gonzalez. 

Émilie Bonaventure, a graduate in Art History from the École du Louvre in Paris and passionate about the different eras of objects, embarked on a voyage into the world of interior design and decoration in 2005 – the year that she set up her studio. 

When architecture responds in an exemplary way to an idea as poetic as that of a startled child pulling up and covering themselves with their bedsheet. This “hill over the valley” embodies that feeling of protection and cosiness. 

Kisawa means unbreakable and it’s that kind of connection that this sanctuary – extending over 300 hectares of forest, dunes and beach on the southern tip of Benguerra island, in Mozambique – wants to build between the people and the place, life and the land. 

Established in the regenerated Seongsu-dong district of South Korea, Gurum Lee and Woosung Jung invite us to reflect on the transformational power of plants in our daily lives. 

A space nestling in the midst of nature, where the owner is committed to harvesting the fruit planted by previous generations. 

It’s at number 10 on Milan’s buzzing Via Savona that we find the most recent project by the Italian restaurateur Enrico Buonocore.