A Community of Belonging by African Creatives – Home is an Oasis Where We Can Begin Again: Vulnerable, Steady and Healing

by Emilie Froment | May 28, 2021 | Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Furniture, Home Decor, Lifestyle, Posts

  As a contemporary and genuinely South African furniture and design company based in Johannesburg, The Urbanative’s products are manufactured locally. Expect a synergy between the juxtaposition of abstracted African heritage inspirations with the...

This U.S. Island Home’s Discreetly Striking Rural Narrative Harnesses Lightness from a Focus on Material Aspects

by Emilie Froment | May 28, 2021 | Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lifestyle, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

  Intentionally appearing low-key from the valley, as a courtesy to the pastoral farmlands below, this gracious architectural dream was designed as both retreat and part-time residence for a growing local family with strong local roots going back several...

All Hypes Aside: When it Comes to Lisbon as the City of Choice to Invest in Offshore, Finding Our Place in the Sun is Easier (and Savvier) Than We Care to Admit

by Emilie Froment | May 17, 2021 | Design & Architecture, Habitat Video Library, Home Decor, Industry Leaders, Lifestyle, Posts, Travel, Wealth, Work Spaces

  With unflinching sincerity and confidence, this prime offshore investment property has been launched in one of Lisbon’s demonstrably – even obviously – cool suburbs. Many of us might admit to having been, at some point or another, convinced by the wise move of...

Sharp Peaks, Soft Hills and Sunlight are the Guiding Elements Dictating the Design of Lac Léman’s Swiss Villa

by Emilie Froment | May 8, 2021 | Bathrooms, Design & Architecture, Furniture, Home Decor, Industry Leaders, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Walls, Floors & Windows

  By at the the same time blending in and standing out this project testifies to a rare dexterity and achieves a statement-making tribute to both its spectacular lakeside setting and to the many hands that made it. Just as its alpine setting has been formed by...

The Simple Over the Superfluous: High-End Design Choices Boost Collective & Environmental Well-Being by Aligning with a Concern for Our Planet

by Emilie Froment | May 5, 2021 | Bathrooms, Design & Architecture, Health, Beauty and Wellness, Home Decor, Lifestyle, Posts

  The United Nations projects that more than two-thirds of the world’s population will inhabit urban areas by 2050. City-living will have a key and lasting influence on the new luxury mindset that was once defined by materialism and excess. The new luxury will...

Forever Chasing Rainbows? An Intricate Richness Eases Us into a Composition of Nuanced Emotions That Buzzes Brightly and Beckons

by Emilie Froment | Apr 27, 2021 | Art & Galleries, Design & Architecture, Events, Home Decor, Lifestyle, Posts, Walls, Floors & Windows

  In the wake of a recent return from a three-and-a-half-year sabbatical stopover in Mexico where Christiaan Conradie travelled with the wild and determined intention of learning Spanish there and surfing its Pacific paradise, we’re swaddled back into that...