Paul Uhlmann

Thought I'd share the work of local (Gold Coast) architect Paul Uhlmann. There has been a sea change going on in Australia. Although the coastal strip has always been popular in the past few years there has been a renaissance in coastal design as more people move to enjoy the sun, sand and water. Paul and his design firm create an interpretation of the classic beach house that is contemporary but easily references its roots in the beach shack and breezeway. I would love to through my towel over the railing of any of these modern homes after a refreshing ocean swim.

RB Arkitektur

I thought I was DONE with anything white, as I have just about had it with the snow we've gotten already this winter. But I can handle a bit more white, such as the following photos from the architecture firm RB Arkitektur based in Stockholm, where white was born.

Clifton Interiors

It's contemporary. It's exacting in it's detail and holistic in it's approach. It's about bespoke joinery, custom furniture, architecture and interior and garden design. It's about large scale projects and small intimate jobs. It's London and it's now. It's Clifton Interiors.

(These images are by architectural photographer Graham Gaunt. While you're there don't miss his person work. Hauntingly beautiful unpopulated spaces are a great contrast to his shots of high end design.)

Ludwig Designs

England's grand houses, gardens and parks are the stuff of novels. They hold an almost fairytale appeal. For Ludwig Design, who specialise in these fine old buildings, "Decoration, for us, always springs from the property itself - where it is, its epoch, and its architectural ‘given’. We impose no rigid, imperious ‘designer style’. On the contrary, we believe that each venerable home serves as its own particular guide. The secret is always there. One needs only to seek it out. And on discovery, a property’s latent potential, its power to bewitch and enthrall, can be dramatically revealed for all to see.” The website is charming, mixing inspiration and reality, weaving stories through the rooms. Modern day encroaches but is always subsumed. Don't miss their renderings. Beautiful.

The Wheatsheaf House

... Inside Out - Sep/Oct 2008 photographs by Gaelle Le Boulicaut

A certain house in a previous post caused a little stir and no wonder because it is a spectacular piece of architecture. The Wheatsheaf House by Jesse Judd is just outside Daylesford in Victoria, Australia set amongst the stark and eerie landscape of gum trees. A holiday home Judd played with the idea of a tent or a shack, something impermanent on the landscape. Ideas inspired by old plywood caravans and bus shelters were translated into a steel, laminated glass and plywood cocoon which sits gently on the land and addresses the striking beauty of the site. Variously described as rose to red to orange (depending on which article you read or the lighting in a photo you peruse) the interiors are stained plywood forming a striking frame for the minimalist modern furniture within. The drama in in the c shaped main living area. Sleeping and bathing are in a relatively simple compartment down a corridor. It's an organic, truly magical building.

... these images by Peter Bennetts Photographer