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Milk Magazine: Not Just for Kids

Here's a cool find that Jennifer Ward shared with me while photographing her house a few weeks back. Milk Magazine is a French lifestyle mag that is geared to parents and children, but has beautifu...

River House in the Czech Republic
The New York Times 2.10.09

What happens when a woodworker and artist moves into a 400-plus-year-old stone house in the Czech Republic? The New York Times guides us through the whitewashed stone home of the Zukowski family in th...

Bold Color in a Budapest Apartment
The New York Times 2.11.09

Take a peek at this two bedroom apartment for sale in Budapest, Hungary. Listed in The New York Times' s international real estate section, the 1,658 square feet, third floor apartment features a terr...

Brione House
Modern Swiss Stone House by Wespi de Meuron

click thumbnails for larger pics The view from the roof of this modern stone house by Swiss architect Wespi de Meuron is exactly what I experienced on my visit to Switzerland last summer — a ch...

House Call: Bai's "Coup De Coeur"
Paris

click for more pics Name: Bai Location: Ile de la Cite — Paris, France When I decided last year to move from Manhattan to Paris (with all my possessions in tow), I figured I would find a dece...

House Call: KG's Accent Colors
Greece

click for more pics Name: KG Location: Serres, Greece My husband and I live in a 90-square metres (1000 sq feet) apartment, in the last, fourth level of an apartment-house, in Serres, Macedonia, Gre...

House Call: Eefje's Compromise
Belgium

click for more pics Name: Eefje Location: Belgium It’s almost a year ago when we moved in our apartment and we are pretty much settled. When we had to choose for furniture it was a hell of a job, be...

House Call: Arlene's Cozy Flat
London

more pics below Name: Arlene Location: London, England Hi — I live in this very comfortable one bedroom flat in London. It is very convenient location for me since I commute by public transpo...

House Call: France's DIY Apartment
Paris

Name: France Garnier Location: Paris, France When I first visited my apartment, it was all white — no floor in the bathroom and an ugly kitchen — but I immediately fell in love with it...

Galerie Sentou
Paris

Where do Parisians go when they need an Eames rocker, a Noguchi light or the latest creation from Tse & Tse? Galerie Sentou, which carries modern design classics and edits a line of its own furniture ...

Brocante Rug
Brussels

If you are fond of scouring the ground at the flea market looking for that rare treasure, this wool rug from Emilie Lecouturier and Céline Poncelet at Atelier Blink brings the flea market to your liv...

Light Cage & Ladder Bookcase by Jocelyn Deris
Paris

The light cage by Jocelyn Deris comes in two sizes and is available through La Corbeille. ...

Pantone Stairs
Paris

If you're crazy about those Pantone mugs, here's an idea from Elle Décoration to transform your stairs... ...

Tangram Shelves From Lago
Italy

This is just one possibility for arranging the Tangram shelves from Italian company Lago, who specialize in high-quality modular pieces that you can arrange and rearrange to suit your whims......

Off The Floor
Paris

Not wild about the mask art, but the floating bedside storage next to the floating bed in a display at a recent edition of Maison & Objet from Italian company Lago is worth a look......

Junk Chandeliers
Paris

Winnie Lui's White Chandelier for Innermost is a trash-to-treasure exercise from the jewelry turned lighting designer, who has made 50 limited edition pieces in white and black. It's just one in a lon...

Vox Populi
Avignon

Pascale Palun is an Avignon-based designer who started creating lighting and decorative objects made from old materials when she took a break after 10 years in the fashion industry to raise her son. S...

Stick Light
London

Since he first designed it 10 years ago for Eurolounge, British designer Michael Young's Stick Light has become a modern design icon -- a statuesque rod of light that leans casually against the wall a...

The Illusion Of Space
Paris

Five top-floor former maids' rooms were combined into a roomy apartment overlooking the rooftops of Paris in this photo gallery from Cotemaison. But the architect figured out a way to make it seem eve...

Low-Impact Woodland Home
Wales

If you missed this one when we blogged about it last year, check out the hobbit-like eco-house that Simon Dale built for himself and his young family in just four months, with the help of his father-i...

Medusa Doors
Paris

It's hard to walk down the Rue Vieille du Temple in the Marais without pausing to gaze at these traffic-stopping medusa/gorgon doors on the Hôtel Amelot de Bisseuil at #47. But what does this landmar...

Sweater Bedspread
Paris

We have transformed old sweaters still in good condition into covers for throw pillows before, with no one the wiser, proud of our thrifty DIY. But this bedspread made from old sweaters proudly boasts...

Light Blubs From Pieke Bergmans
Paris

Pieke Bergmans' series of one-of-a-kind crystal LED lamps for Royal Leerdam Crystal and Solid Lighting are what the designer calls "light blubs." And what exactly is a light blub? ...

Tartan Walls
Paris

It's always amusing to see how fashion and home decor echo and play off one another. Fashion magazines and department store catalogs are full of tartan prints this season and in addition to the usual ...

French Shelter Mags Jump On House Tours Bandwagon
Paris

Marie Claire Maison, Elle Décoration and Côté Maison -- the online versions of some of France's top shelter magazines -- have recently launched house tour features with photos sent in by readers th...

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