Simone Geadah feels lucky to live in one of the 146 homes inside famous architect Moshe Safdie’s revolutionary modular home complex in Montreal, Habitat 67. Since its opening days throughout the 1967 International and Universal Exposition, the building has caught the eye of sailors, tourists and especially design professionals. “I trained in research, therefore for…
I recently moved out of a 1920s bungalow where I had been happily employing the modern cottage design aesthetic into a more customary two-story with a hint of New England taste — in North Carolina. I’ve since transitioned into being a New Traditionalist, a combination of sorts that utilizes traditional design as its base and…
Edwin Pelser felt like he’d struck gold ten years back when he pulled tired, gray carpeting to show first herringbone parquet flooring in his Hague apartment. Up until that point, things like plastic window frames, “which I despise,” he says, made him doubt that the purchase entirely. “Though it was quite clean and comfy, there…