Eponymously dubbed Spazio Pesca, the hub is located on via Paolo Sarpi in Milan’s Chinatown and takes over a typical Milanese townhouse. Set designer and interior architect Cevenini has created a series of ‘surprising’ contrasts within its rooms, juxtaposing bright colours with muted shades.

An acid green entrance sets the tone, leading into an exhibition space with a kitchen, office and meeting rooms beyond – in less lurid colours.

Mirrored tables and stools are by architect Sofia Albrigo. However, there’s a veritable feast of product design within the ‘polymorph space’, including spaghetti chips by Alias, ergonomic seating from Lapalma and lighting by Vesoi. There’s also a fully equipped kitchen by Zerogloss and an instagramable floral display in the bathroom by Mariachiara Manelli.

Spazio Pesca can be hired for events, shoots, press days, pop-up stores or exhibitions on a flexible basis, as well as providing workspace for the creative collective.

Via Paolo Sarpi 56, 20154 Milan, Italy

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Princelet Street is a rare Georgian gem – a narrow terrace of period houses that has miraculously avoided modernisation and the tourist effect of nearby Brick Lane. For over 100 years, Spitalfields was the seat of the Huguenots (French Protestants who fled religious persecution by the Catholic regime at home) and their silk-weaving enterprises, carried out in the upper levels of Spitalfields’ terraces – live/work before it was a buzzword.

According to the listing, this Huguenot townhouse has been extensively refurbished in keeping with its heritage. The layout ‘hasn’t changed a great deal’, meaning you step off the street and into a reception of original wood panelling and timber floorboards. Interconnected rooms on the ground floor have sash windows, panelled walls and two fireplaces.

The four-bedroom period London home is listed for £4m with the Unique Property Company and is expansive, with living spaces staggered across five levels. Up the stairs is the second of four reception rooms, complete with an open fireplace for winter and the primary bedroom.

Colour has been used carefully throughout the home, drawn from heritage shades unearthed during the house’s restoration. They feel surprisingly modern and add authenticity and a sense of calmness to the London property.

Two more bedrooms are on the second floor, while a weaver’s loft is at the very top of the townhouse, juxtaposing period interiors with modern views of skyscrapers and concrete from beyond its windows. This attic space contains a bedroom and small living room, with an office nook, bathroom and small balcony – basically a self-contained guest suite.

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The Parisian neighbourhood is well known for its literary ties and was once a hub of bookshops, publishers, intellectuals, poets and writers. Cravan channels some of this history through its interiors, designed by Ramy Fischler to evoke the feeling of an intimate, literary gathering.

Herringbone wooden flooring, fireplaces, and sofas tucked into nooks feel closer to being a home than a bar – although counters for ordering drinks are located on each level of the building and designed using eye-catching green and white marble and striped mirror panelling.

Fischler’s studio also designed Cravan’s furniture and cocktail glasses, making use of salvaged materials wherever possible, including leftover fabric from LVMH’s various fashion sub-brands.

And if there’s any chance of guests forgetting Saint-Germain-des-Prés’ long connection with the literary world, they can remind themselves in Cravan’s second-floor bookstore – which allows visitors to browse the collection, cocktail in hand.

165 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75006 Paris, France

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The Joshua Tree bolthole opened in early 2023 and takes over a 1962 pueblo-style roadside building imaginatively restored by siblings Brit Epperson of Studio Plow and Barrett Karber of Grain Construction.

The pair worked on a tight budget, re-staining the exterior facade and pulling materials from salvage yards for Mas O Menos’ white-washed interiors. Rafters are exposed overhead and complemented by clay, tiles and textures. Terracotta floor tiles are used in the lounge, while the bar front features pale clay brick tiles. Colour bursts can be found in the bathroom, where glossy, pink-hued tiles backdrop wiggly mirrors.

Epperson has continued Más O Menos’s light and breezy vibe via lemon and gold-coloured candy-stripe fabrics for seating, plus natural wicker stools with angular steel legs. Custom furniture is designed by Karber, including a ‘Jenga’ esque coffee table, timber bench ends, and terrazzo-topped tables with Douglas fir bases.

In addition to its menu of coffee, cocktails and natural wines, the tavern is hosting a series of bi-monthly pop-up restaurant collaborations and community events.

66031 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree, CA 92252, United States

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Glass and glossy paint are out, and parquet flooring and coffee ground tables are in at Tate Modern’s revamped riverside cafe, Corner.

The space’s new look comes courtesy of architects Holland Harvey, tasked with adapting Corner’s interiors – last updated around 20 years ago by Herzog & De Meuron.

In a bid to soften the cafe’s interiors, Holland Harvey has removed reflective panelling and fluorescent lighting and stripped back paint to reveal the wooden flooring underneath. Foam insulation has been used to round sharp corners, and a new riverside entrance beckons passersby, regardless of whether they’ve been to the gallery or not.

The final elements are the cafe’s new furniture, some of which comprises refurbed pieces rescued from the Tate Modern’s storage. Several pieces have been made using reclaimed materials, including tables produced from a mix of coffee grounds and shells and wooden benches crafted from ash trees felled to control ash dieback.

At night, Corner’s new built-in stone banquettes turn into a raised DJ booth at the press of a button.

The Corner at Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG, United Kingdom

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All the hallmarks of Tadao Ando’s work are displayed in this concrete ‘church’ in Wonju, which uses light and geometric forms to encourage a meditative state.

Dubbed ‘Space of Light’, the angular building is the second meditation space designed by the Japanese architect for Museum SAN. It’s a purposeful contrast to Ando’s first, dome-shaped design, with sharp corners and straight lines in place of gentle curves.

Visitors enter via a long, concrete corridor to discover a bunker-like room, washed in light, filtering through a cross-shaped aperture in the roof. There’s no other source of light or furniture to encourage people to ‘directly’ encounter nature, according to Andao.

The architect is currently the subject of an exhibition at the rural  Korean museum, which he also designed, that explores 250 works spanning his career.

Photography: Museum SAN

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Fans of Banksy can get their hands on his work, ‘Valentine’s Day Mascara’, which is being sold back to the public for £120 a share.

Banksy painted the mural on the side of a house in Margate, with the artwork estimated to be worth £6m, according to an evaluation by Robin Barton of Bankrobber Gallery. ‘Valentine’s Day Mascara’ will now be sold on the ‘fractional ownership’ platform Showpiece, in collaboration with Red Eight Galleries, as 27,000 shares from 22 August 2023.

The controversial artwork depicts a 1950s housewife with a black eye, swollen lip and a missing tooth who appears to have killed her abusive partner. She’s dressed in a gingham dress, apron and rubber gloves while an open chest freezer has two feet sticking out of it.

Banksy has confirmed the artwork is genuine on Instagram, but their studio, Pest Control, has yet to authenticate the mural. As a result, it cannot go for sale at a traditional auction house, explains the Art Newspaper, which first reported on the sale.

Experts removed the mural from its original location in April 2023 with the help of Red Eight Gallery, costing £195,000. It is currently on display at Dreamland Margate, where it’ll be visible to the public for at least another 12 months.

‘Realistically, we are looking to achieve between £1m and £1.5m,’ Red Eight Galleries CEO Julian Usher told the Art Newspaper.

Some of the proceeds from the sale will go to domestic violence charity Refuge, and the mural’s owner has pledged six figures to local Margate charity Oasis, which supports families escaping abuse.

See more via Showpiece.

[Via ArtNews]

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The Hustler DIY kit car was designed in the 1970s by William Towns (who also created the Aston Martin Lagonda). However, fewer than 400 were ever built, and most were constructed in fibreglass. Retired woodwork teacher and former Rolls-Royce engineer John Brazier turned to a more familiar material when creating his six-wheeler. He made the body and its interiors out of wood, right down to the steering wheel and gear knobs.

‘It’s like something from Thunderbirds’, says auctioneer Andrew Stowe, who’s handling the sale of the unique automobile at Auctioneum’s fine art, antiques and classic cars sale in Bath on 1 September 2023.

The Guardian says its huge glass windows and buggy-like frame means locals nickname it ‘The Popemobile’.

Brazier, who worked on the supersonic jet plane Concorde in the 1960s, built the car with water-resistant ash plywood and has a 1.3l Austin Allegro engine under the bonnet, Mini wheel subframes and seats for eight people. He completed the car in 1988, using it as the family car for 13 years and telling the newspaper it can do ‘well over 60mph’.

The Hustler is expected to fetch between £2,000-£3,000  at auction and guarantees to be a conversation piece for whoever buys it.

[Via Guardian]

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The two-bedroom live/work apartment spans two floors of a converted Victorian warehouse on Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch. Magma has transformed its interiors with the addition of a sleek stainless steel kitchen, curving island and custom shelving wall.

The living room boasts original patinaed floorboards, timber ceilings, and exposed brickwork. A wall of sash windows peeks north and south, and from here, an iron spiral staircase connects the double-height space to a mezzanine level tucked beneath the pitch of the building’s roof. This lofty nook is currently used as a home office but could also serve as a guest space and offers additional storage.

Explains the practice: ‘This spacious loft in East London uses compact pods to encapsulate the private areas and consolidate the building services while partitioning the volume into elegant rooms.’

Two large bedrooms are on the main level, with soaring ceilings, full-height built-in storage by B&B Italia, and a family bathroom.

The Modern House is listing the Shoreditch property for £1.8m. Take a look around in the gallery above.

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Long-held craft methods and materials have been used to create the textured backdrop of this Antiparos restaurant, a contemporary interpretation of Greek design.

Antiparos is the sister of Paros and is smaller, quieter and more relaxed in comparison. This understated, slow vibe influenced Manhattan Projects’ cofounder Andreas Kostopoulos, who led Bardót’s interiors, described as ‘a seamless convergence of techniques, eras, styles, and cultures – artisanal and engineered, historic and modern, minimalist and ornamental, foreign and domestic.’

The building was originally the home of a shipbuilding family, and several prior renovations had to be stripped back to reveal the original masonry work. Much of the space feels quintessentially Greek, particularly its grotto-like, limestone-washed dining spaces and terracotta-coloured tiles.

Antiques, including oil jars and a butter churn repurposed as a stool, also speak to the island’s history. In contrast, Manhattan Projects has installed mid-century loungers, seats and dining chairs, and low-slung lighting pendants illuminating the space.

Guests can choose the more cave-like rooms inside, or head for Bardót’s sunny courtyard, with its captive olive tree and high, textured stucco walls. Dishes are served tapas style alongside signature cocktails made with local ingredients.

Antiparos Town 840 07 Greece

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