Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 54 i est living magazine

An appetite for experimentation, particularly around adaptive reuse, has always been the backbone of our September issue. For this edition, we’ve leant towards the homes and workspaces of creatives, knowing they’re vital test labs for ideas. We see this through our cover story—architect Sophie Dries’ Paris apartment—and Italian designer Giampiero Tagliaferri’s Los Angeles atelier, set inside a Wes Jones-designed industrial home. Brazilian designer Andre Mellone describes his New York City home as a “lab where you test ideas out, and if things go wrong, you have no one to answer to but yourself.” CRITERIA and C. Gallery founder Rachael Fry’s restored Victorian villa in Melbourne is a canvas for her diverse style and pieces, just as designer Sebastian Zuchowicki’s hybrid living-working space is designed for constantly rotating furniture, objects, and…

LOCATION Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country / Melbourne, Australia In this inner-city Melbourne renovation by YSG Studio, Egyptian and Danish design sensibilities are fused together. The effect is an electrifying marriage of pattern and calm minimalism. The main bathroom features a custom curved and raised hammam-style bath with integrated seating, tiled in rich mosaics. "The bath’s sculpted steps and curved perch create a space for slow, intentional bathing," YSG Studio director Yasmine Ghoniem explains. Above runs a datum line of graphical 3D Inax Triangle tiles, appearing like a feathery art installation. The palette of terracotta and lapis blue tiles balances vibrant warmth with cool tones in a bold and colourful execution. A modular vanity, which corresponds to the Rosso Verona marble basin visible from the hallway, adds a shimmery rhythm. The…

LOCATION Gadigal Country / Sydney, Australia Exuding a modern vintage sensibility, the bathroom at Paddington by Tamsin Johnson is feminine and adventurous. Embracing the heritage of the Victorian terrace home, the space features a large free-standing bathtub by The Water Monopoly, set on a checker-board tiled platform. The colour combination of baby blue, white, silver and daring burgundy Rosso Levante marble meld with playful softness. Sky blue limewash render wraps the space, tying everything together. Counteracting the exaggerated, curvaceous forms of the bath and tapware, a solid, linear vanity steals the show. Johnson describes the contrast of the basin as “giving the bathroom its ‘moment’.” Window shutters, vintage Murano glass wall lights and a custom nickel-framed mirror contribute to the overall sense of antique luxe—a signature of Tamsin Johnson’s eponymous…

LOCATION Gadigal Country / Sydney, Australia Working within the confines of an unusual ensuite, this bathroom at Darling House by Mim Design uses the proportions of the space right down to the millimetre. “Creating deep window reveals enabled the casement windows to open: this also created a bespoke bath hob detail that has its own form located between the double vanity and curving gently into the shower entry,” Mim Design founder Miriam Fanning explains. Astute planning ensures effortless functionality, but the aesthetics of the space are characterised by the soft tones of the Barlume marble used throughout. The natural stone has a water-like silkiness, to it, rendered like a watercolour painting with hints of seafoam within the swirls of light greys and blues. Exacting in scale, yet awash with lightness,…

LOCATION Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country / Melbourne, Australia Nestled under a sculpted stair, the powder room at Malvern Residence III by Studio Tate is a blush-toned jewel box. Designed as an indulgent experience for guests, the space is refreshingly whimsical. “We wanted something that had its own language and palette and was at once frivolous and luxurious,” Studio Tate associate director Liz Ride says. The design began with the selection of the corporeal Norwegian Rose marble flooring, installed as a single slab, with the walls then built around it. Complementing the stone is a soft plaster finish that wraps the room’s curved edges to evoke a warm, cocoon-like atmosphere. A floating bronze mirrored ceiling adds a playful touch, reflecting both the marble floor and the vintage chandelier. Brass accents tie…

Produced in partnership with Winnings https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=6787737580&iu=/21747379285/EstLiving/magazine Proclamation House by State of Kin is designed as a light-filled oasis, which can easily switch into entertainment mode. From the street in Western Australia’s Subiaco, Proclamation House appears like a single storey. Yet once inside, the olive-toned render and confident curves that wrap the exterior blend into soaring, double-height interiors. This family residence, while clearly modern in its incarnation, draws on the history of the suburb. This home needed to accommodate dual functions—be a calm and peaceful abode for relaxation and reading, and equally be capable of hosting parties and entertaining friends. Central to the home’s interior is the kitchen. Positioned beneath the mezzanine with openness all around, it manages to cement the living space. A large, sculptural kitchen bench, also rendered in…

George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg have earned a reputation for their multi-disciplinary approach to design, seamlessly blending innovation with craftsmanship. In this exclusive interview, the duo reflects on the philosophies that guide their work, their creative journey, their longstanding collaboration with Molteni&C, and their unique approach to materiality. Your practice is known for its multi-disciplinary approach. What core principles or philosophies guide your approach to design across different disciplines? Glenn Pushelberg: We are not interested in repeating ourselves, so we look for partners who are open to exploring potential. Maybe this was more of a challenge for us when we were younger, but we have always placed importance on working with partners who share similar values to us, partners who are looking to innovate. How do you stay creatively inspired…

Christophe Coënon is a Franco-Italian still life, interior architecture, and travel photographer based in Paris. He developed a personal approach akin to lyrical documentary at ECAL in Switzerland, with an aesthetic of subtle obviousness and enlightened quality. Over the past two years, Coënon has been working on a project in Sri Lanka, unveiling the island's hidden gems. Coënon photographed designer Sophie Dries’ Paris home, which also graces the cover of this issue. Aleesha Callahan is a Melbourne-based design journalist, editor, and communications strategist. With more than a decade of experience in media and design, Callahan has honed a distinct voice and an innate ability to craft compelling narratives. Callahan writes on 10 arresting bathroom spaces as part of our special feature Bathroom Blueprint. William Jess Laird works at the intersection…

LOCATION Los Angeles, North America Drawing reference to the immersive saturation of work by Mexican architect Luis Barragán, Park Lane by Ome Dezin administers a jolt of brightness with this sunflower shower room. “To be surrounded by one bold colour is immersive and transports you,” Ome Dezin co-founder Joelle Kutner says. The vivid cadmium Zeillige tiles line the space from floor to ceiling, wrapping up into the lightwell to completely submerge the space. A dark-stained timber mirror and poppy seed blue stone basin combine for a retro modern flavour. This bathroom is a joyful embrace. “TO BE SURROUNDED BY ONE BOLD COLOUR IS IMMERSIVE AND TRANSPORTS YOU.”– Joelle Kutner…

LOCATION Cote de Azur, France In Marion Mailaender's installation, Residence Vue Mer, the bathroom emerges as a lesson in light-hearted fun. Inspired by elegant Mediterranean interiors of the 1970s, Mailaender blends surrealism and nostalgia to create a bathing space that is experimental and evocative. Set on a raised and tiled platform, the space is separated by sculptural banisters. Mirrors of all shapes and sizes—organic, rectangular and encasing the bathtub—reflect the volume of the space back on itself. An oversized pink basin and soap banister blur the line between form and function. This whimsical approach invites visitors to reconsider the relationship between space and material, echoing the ideals of set designer Andrée Putman, who championed the beauty of ordinary materials within structured designs. Although Residence Vue Mer is only an installation,…

LOCATION New York City, North America Audacious alchemy and artistic collaborations underpin the design approach of the bathroom in this Tribeca Apartment project by Crina Arghirescu Rogard. Utilising the confines of the space, the response has a hotel-like quality, with a glass partition separating the bedroom from the bathing suite. The partition was created in collaboration with revered Italian designer Henry Timi. “The owner is colour blind … the brief was ‘the bolder and more vibrant, the better’,” Arghirescu Rogard explains on the process. A plunge-style bathtub in Yves Klein Blue is the centrepiece, made in collaboration with Brooklyn-based designer Quincy Ellis and Facture Studio founder. Given the client’s colour-blindness, it was imperative that it be made in an exacting shade, as such the team cycled through 10 samples before…

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LOCATION Gadigal Country / Sydney, Australia While only a petite-sized powder room—Poco Designs founder Poppy Tzaneros, has colour blocked swathes of statement marble and a buttery Marmorino plaster finish to create an immersive space. “The Blue Dreams marble was the key component of the design and set the tone and palette for the remaining elements,” Tzaneros says on the material selection. Marble encases the floor, running up the walls to the same height of the vanity to create a distinct datum line. The sink appears as if etched out of angular blocks. Each of these design moves add a sense of space and depth. “The room is quite small and although I wanted it to feel moody, I wanted to ensure I didn’t close the space in. By wrapping the…

LOCATION Wicklow, Ireland There are many features of this bathroom that make it one-of-a-kind, such as the fact it’s within a grand Georgian manor house in Ireland with yawning proportions. To honour the largess of the original shell, designer Róisín Lafferty has zoned the bathroom into a series of demarcated spaces, with the shower in the centre of the room. A walled structure on one side instils a physical separation from the bedroom, while discreetly concealing the WC. Flowing from the shower, monolithic basins flank either side of a door that leads to a bathing room. In here, a free-standing bathtub makes for a private realm of retreat. “There is a majesty to the structure, and we wanted to celebrate the suite's spaciousness and sense of indulgence by designing the…

LOCATION Gadigal Country / Sydney, Australia At Sydney Cove House, the free-standing bathtub appears to float in the middle of the room. But it’s a sleight of hand by Arent&Pyke, which sees the bath ensconced in angles of rose-tinted mirror, atop a floor of pink-toned marble tiles. What draws the eye, however, are the large French doors that open up to the balcony, coupled with the full height drama of pale pink curtains. The family home has been entirely reconfigured. “This room was actually the dining room, oddly located one level above the kitchen given the Georgian terrace was built in the late 19th-century. It now resides on the same level as one bedroom, with two others directly above,” Arent & Pyke principal Sarah-Jane Pyke explains. While the glow of…

LOCATION New York City, North America Explore Brazilian designer Andre Mellone’s New York apartment that doubles as his ‘test kitchen’. Designing your own home could be daunting for some designers, but not for Andre Mellone, founder of his namesake studio, who relished the opportunity. “It’s like a lab where you test ideas out and if things go wrong, you have no one to answer to but yourself,” the Brazilian-born New York-based designer says, adding, “and in that frame of mind I think it’s when the good ideas happen because you are so free and open.” Situated within the only ground-up building in New York designed by renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, the apartment had an undisputable pedigree. “We wanted an apartment that was both interesting and architecturally appealing, so when…

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