The Dune House in Thorpeness: One of Norway’s most renowned practices, Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects, created this house on an archetypally English seaside site.

The bed is located just behind the desk.

Retailer nest.co.uk, which sells modern furniture, lighting, and accessories from brands such as Hay, Tom Dixon, and Flos, will also have a pop-up shop.

Designed by 1920s minimalist decorator Jean-Michel Frank for Hermès, this nesting-box side table sports an intricate, yet restrained finish of natural rye straw marquetry.

Herem's design for the Big Egg Hunt UK. The winning bid's profits will go towards Action for Children, a children's charity that supports families and neglected children across the UK.

Living Room with tone-on-tone navy walls and and accent chairs upholstered in Hermes fabric.

Set next to protected wetlands and close to the beach, House for Hermes is located about 90 minutes south of Melbourne.

Thanks to passive cooling techniques such as natural ventilation, the House for Hermes does not need air conditioning in the summer.

The home's rear is thoroughly modern. Blue bricks, salvaged from the preexisting building, are now the pavers in the entrance and patio.

"The natural wax finish oak timber floor boards," write the architects, "create a soft and inviting sense of warmth within the space."

In designing the U.K. Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China, the studio extended 66,000 acrylic rods from the exterior of a structure to create a shimmering, dandelion-like surface that forms an optical Union Jack pattern when seen from a distance. Inside each of the rods was a collection of 250,000 seeds from the Millennium Seed Bank at London's Kew Gardens, lending the pavilion its unofficial name, "Seed Cathedral."

House for Hermes section

House for Hermes section

Hermes Tokyo via Subtilitas.

House for Hermes north elevation

House for Hermes first floor plan

House for Hermes ground floor plan

Simple yet effective maple-and-brass tape dispenser, £25 from Present & Correct.

Mabel by Donna Wilson for SCP

The bedroom combines the colors of the curtain and the luxurious Hermes wallpaper.

The wood-clad cabin is located on a working farm in Devon, UK.

The Rug Trade, UK

Russian-born, UK-based artist Yulia Brodskaya's work is, in my opinion, the most fantastic and captivating featured in the book. Formerly an illustrator of the hand-drawn variety, Brodskaya took up quilling, a craft in which thin strips of paper are twirled around a tool to create spiraled shaped that are then glued to paper to great images. Her clients now include publications such New Scientist, the New York Times Magazine, and the Guardian as well as companies such as Hermes, Starbucks, and Target. Here, the steps in creating a illustration for Cadbury.

Project Name: The Hen House Website: www.ruraldesign.co.uk

An investment piece, the Hermes Cape Cod watch features a double-wrapped band and a substantial, classic face. ($2,850)

The entire back of the hotel is covered in a very Instagram-able mural by UK–based artist Bella Gomez.

Furnishings fold away to create a sense of spaciousness in the compact Airstream. The vinyl floor is from Altra floor in the UK.

The engineering was deceptively complex, as the scale of the main timber structure is possibly the biggest ever in UK construction.

A "Hello" sign from UK-based Block Design, made from a single piece of powder-coated steel, hangs over a bench.

The Timber Stacker chair by Deadgood

New residential buildings are few and far between in England, so architects like Phillips have increasingly been charged with creating groundbreaking modern environments within the shells of historic houses. “People just find it easier to work within existing houses to transform them to be sleek, stylish and functional,” says Phillips. “Extensions have almost become a requirement for any homeowner who wants to be a part of modern living within the U.K.”

The building's shape and materials are the sort you find in a modernist residence in the UK, but it's the unfussy Japanese interior that reveals a design tailored to this multicultural family.

A pair of Tom Dixon Cog candle holders and a 3Guns vase by Suck UK are assembled atop a vintage teak sideboard.

Faux timber doors, painted black, along with a brick facade help the dwelling blend with its surroundings: the Victorian homes of the Moseley neighborhood in Birmingham, UK.

Sophie-Claire Hoeller is a writer and editor, while her husband Tim Holley works in tech for Etsy. The two met in Germany and are both originally from Europe (she from Austria, he from the UK).