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Written by Heidi Lux
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Minimalist luxury with maximum views
Water has an undeniable allure. We gravitate toward the tranquil lapping of rivers, lakes and oceans as an escape from our landlocked lives. We imagine strolling the beach footage of our waterfront home or retiring to a tiny cottage by the sea.
But what would it be like to live directly on the water? And not just in a seasonal yacht or houseboat, but in a spacious, sleekly designed, year-round home?
“Since I was a kid, I always dreamed of living on the water, designing a house that would sit directly on the water,” German architect Martin André Förster told Style Century Magazine.
Click here to read the complete article in the May 2008 issue of Style Century Magazine.
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Written by Heidi Lux
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A recipe for efficiency
There was a time when the average woman’s place was in the kitchen. But by the end of World War I, her role had expanded into the workforce. This new superwoman needed a highly functional domestic office to give her more time, both for factory work and her family. Enter the Frankfurter Küche (Frankfurt Kitchen). The brainchild of young Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, the kitchen was a tiny wonder of efficiency.
“These kitchens came in parts, used inexpensive materials and were installed in the buildings for which they were designed. For the time, they were really supermodern,” noted Arthur Floss, design expert for Quittenbaum Kustauktionen in München, Germany.
The Frankfurt Kitchen was Schütte-Lihotzky’s solution to a difficult design problem. Frankfurt am Main had a dire housing shortage in the 1920s. Frankfurt’s city planning director, renowned architect Ernst May, invited Schütte-Lihotzky to join his team in creating social housing for working-class families. The buildings were to be low-cost apartments, with a layout that challenged the prevailing ideas about residential design.
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Written by Tom Hoepf
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Posh mini-mansions for Fido and Fifi put the WOW in bow-wow
“Nothing is too good for my dog.”
This familiar refrain echoes down store aisles lined with premium pet foods, through the waiting rooms of veterinary clinics and around off-leash pet parks across the country.
For those dog lovers who are truly committed to or overly indulgent of their canine friends, La Petite Maison offers the ultimate extravagance: custom-made luxury doghouses.
Read the complete story in the February 2008 issue of Style Century Magazine.
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Written by Elizabeth McFadden
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The Earthly Paradise
Created for Theodore Mander, a wealthy Victorian industrialist, Wightwick Manor is home to some of the finest Victorian craftsmanship and Pre-Raphaelite art, enjoying one of the finest remaining William Morris interiors in Britain, together with a host of other treasures. Located in a suburban area three miles west of the city of Wolverhampton, in England’s West Midlands, Wightwick Manor is now its 70th year as a National Trust property. |
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Written by Eileen Smith
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The story behind a grand and now-refurbished Georgian mansion on Philadelphia’s Main Line
To get the inside scoop on The Philadelphia Story, you first need to understand Ardrossan, the Main Line estate that once sparkled with conversation, martini shakers and the dazzling debutante Hope Montgomery.
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