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How a highly productive collaboration among a trio of creative Angelenas—and a good dose of Barragán—turned a dark and beleaguered midcentury house into a family home for the ages. The resulting design acquired its own flow, full of colorful narrative, spirited counterpoint, and anecdote. Now, in place of dark, disconnected spaces, outdoor rooms echo luminous indoor ones, and experimental filmmaker Laura Purdy and her family’s eclectic collections of art and personal artifacts share space with flashes of pattern and interior planes of saffron and pink stucco.
How a highly productive collaboration among a trio of creative Angelenas—and a good dose of Barragán—turned a dark and beleaguered midcentury house into a family home for the ages. The resulting design acquired its own flow, full of colorful narrative, spirited counterpoint, and anecdote. Now, in place of dark, disconnected spaces, outdoor rooms echo luminous indoor ones, and experimental filmmaker Laura Purdy and her family’s eclectic collections of art and personal artifacts share space with flashes of pattern and interior planes of saffron and pink stucco.
“We were researching places where we could get fake old beams, but at the last minute, the contractor found some from a barn that was coming down, - North Hatley, Quebec Dwell Magazine : July / August 2017
“We were researching places where we could get fake old beams, but at the last minute, the contractor found some from a barn that was coming down, - North Hatley, Quebec Dwell Magazine : July / August 2017
Design studio Mentsen Rigatoni Pendant for Hand & Eye Studio
Design studio Mentsen Rigatoni Pendant for Hand & Eye Studio
Casa Fayette Restaurante by Dimore Studio Guadalajara
Casa Fayette Restaurante by Dimore Studio Guadalajara
Hotel Maison Borella/ Milan, Italy
Hotel Maison Borella/ Milan, Italy
Milano Navigli / Residential Entrance
Milano Navigli / Residential Entrance
Hotel ViennArt am Museumsquartier / Vienna
Hotel ViennArt am Museumsquartier / Vienna
Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore / Cross Roads
Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore / Cross Roads
St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna
St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna
Sforza Castle / Milan, Italy
Sforza Castle / Milan, Italy
Milano Navigli Bar/ Underground Speakeasy
Milano Navigli Bar/ Underground Speakeasy
Bosco Verticale / Milan, Italy in the Porta Nuova Isola area, as part of a wider renovation project led by Hines Italia.
Milan’s Vertical Forest consists of two towers of 80 and 112 metres, hosting 480 large and medium trees, 300 small trees, 11,000 perennial and covering plants and 5,000 shrubs. The equivalent - over an urban surface of 1,500 m2 – of 20,000 m2 of forest and undergrowth.
Bosco Verticale / Milan, Italy in the Porta Nuova Isola area, as part of a wider renovation project led by Hines Italia.
Milan’s Vertical Forest consists of two towers of 80 and 112 metres, hosting 480 large and medium trees, 300 small trees, 11,000 perennial and covering plants and 5,000 shrubs. The equivalent - over an urban surface of 1,500 m2 – of 20,000 m2 of forest and undergrowth.
La Casetta a Monti / Rome, Italy
La Casetta a Monti / Rome, Italy
Cafe - Brasserie - Bar Palmenhaus / Vienna
Cafe - Brasserie - Bar Palmenhaus / Vienna
Duomo di Milano - Duomo Cathedral
Duomo di Milano - Duomo Cathedral
Pasticceria Marchesi 1824 / Milan, Italy
Pasticceria Marchesi 1824 / Milan, Italy
Hotel Maison Borella/ Milan, Italy
Hotel Maison Borella/ Milan, Italy
Space Invader @ Glacis Beisl Restaurant
Space Invader @ Glacis Beisl Restaurant
Giardino degli Aranci / Rome, Italy
Giardino degli Aranci / Rome, Italy
Eric Roinestad Pendant 01 -Miami 16'
Eric Roinestad Pendant 01 -Miami 16'
Lindsay Adelman : Soft Pink Heavy Light Clamp Collection
Lindsay Adelman : Soft Pink Heavy Light Clamp Collection
Fashion designer Sruli Recht used translucent cow skin leather to create the Apparition collection for Dutch company ECCO. The collection is the result of a three-year project, during which Recht and a team from ECCO's Netherlands leather lab aimed to create the world's first transparent cow-hide leather.
Fashion designer Sruli Recht used translucent cow skin leather to create the Apparition collection for Dutch company ECCO. The collection is the result of a three-year project, during which Recht and a team from ECCO's Netherlands leather lab aimed to create the world's first transparent cow-hide leather.
view when you walk in front door. operating principle. doctor livingston you're in the jungle in the far. through the jungle there's a fire burning and you're in this night very drawn into the space. kitchen.
view when you walk in front door. operating principle. doctor livingston you're in the jungle in the far. through the jungle there's a fire burning and you're in this night very drawn into the space. kitchen.
HI-MACS the “Tulip” lamp by Pierre Cabrera
HI-MACS the “Tulip” lamp by Pierre Cabrera
Maison Dada Mirror
Maison Dada Mirror
Like the unseen geothermal energy that fuels the famous bathing pool at Reykjavík’s Blue Lagoon, the city’s design community is also simmering just beneath the surface.
Like the unseen geothermal energy that fuels the famous bathing pool at Reykjavík’s Blue Lagoon, the city’s design community is also simmering just beneath the surface.
Studio MUJU : Moza Chair
Studio MUJU : Moza Chair
dwell Residency: 232
dwell Residency: 232
Most tiles come in boxes or sheets enough to cover one square foot. Simply measure the length and width of area in feet and multiply to calculate the number of tiles to buy.
Most tiles come in boxes or sheets enough to cover one square foot. Simply measure the length and width of area in feet and multiply to calculate the number of tiles to buy.
Louis Kahn.
Louis Kahn.
Kenneth Tay : Synchrony A therapeutic music platform that helps parents and children with autism develop intimacy and promote understanding with each other through improvised music play.
Kenneth Tay : Synchrony A therapeutic music platform that helps parents and children with autism develop intimacy and promote understanding with each other through improvised music play.
Luca Alessandrini :Spider Silk Violin The composite material of silk fibres and a binding agent can be mixed to customise different sounds and theoretically could be used to improve or vary the acoustic properties of any number of instruments. Alessandrini developed his material in conjunction with the Associazione Nazionale Liutai Artistici Italiani.
Luca Alessandrini :Spider Silk Violin The composite material of silk fibres and a binding agent can be mixed to customise different sounds and theoretically could be used to improve or vary the acoustic properties of any number of instruments. Alessandrini developed his material in conjunction with the Associazione Nazionale Liutai Artistici Italiani.

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