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Luxury Cabo Villa Rentals Display Picture Perfect Interiors

Luxury Cabo Villa Rentals Display Picture Perfect Interiors

If you’re looking into luxury villa rentals for this New Year’s Eve bash, then have we got good news for you. Absolute luxury, total comfort and utter beauty await you on the sunny shores of Mexico. And not just any place in Mexico. If you want a travel destination that can offer you both [...]

Golf Course Retreat: Flinders House by Sharif Abraham, Victoria, Australia

Golf Course Retreat: Flinders House by Sharif Abraham, Victoria, Australia

Clad in timber on the outside, luminous and spacious on the inside, the Flinders House by Sharif Abraham is an outstanding example of modern house design. There is an interesting story behind this project, completed in 2007 in Flinders, Victoria, Australia, by Melbourne-based design practice Sharif Abraham. Building the home proved to be quite [...]

Update Interior Bathroom Design with Organic Ocean Bathtub Collection

Update Interior Bathroom Design with Organic Ocean Bathtub Collection

The Landquart-based Swiss design company Bagno Sasso AG has come up with a bathtub collection that will definitely update your bathroom and interior house design. Not only this, the tub’s rich colors and textures will surely leave you breath-taken and mouth agape. The collection is inspired by the many themes and iconic imagery of [...]

Think You Know Luxury Villas? Check Out W Retreat Koh Samui

Think You Know Luxury Villas? Check Out W Retreat Koh Samui

You haven’t truly lived until you’ve taken in the glorious modern house design of the W Retreat Koh Samui in Thailand. The Thais really know their luxury tourist resorts, and the W Retreat Koh Samui is but another confirmation of this fact of life. This superb all-villa resort hosts no fewer than 75 exquisitely [...]

Lavish Modern House Seamlessly Integrates into Lavish Landscape

Lavish Modern House Seamlessly Integrates into Lavish Landscape

Our journey from one modern house design to the next takes us to the Camps Bay House in South Africa, designed by Cape Town-based practice Luis Mira Architects. Now, if you’re a regular of the website, you know what to expect: a luxury, ultra-modern villa, effectively applying simple design principles, so as to let [...]

Picasso’s Bather Morphs into Luxury Clifftop Villa in Dover Heights, Australia

Picasso’s Bather Morphs into Luxury Clifftop Villa in Dover Heights, Australia

The House Holman, designed and built by Durbach Block Architects, didn’t even need such a spectacular design. Its location is that arrestingly beautiful. The unusually shaped living structure is situated at the top of a 70-meter cliff, whose chalk white walls spring up above the ocean in Dover Heights, west of Sidney, Australia. The [...]

Camp in Style at Waikopua Bay House, Auckland, New Zealand

Camp in Style at Waikopua Bay House, Auckland, New Zealand

This is not a house. The Waikopua House, located in Waikopua Bay on the Waiheke Island, 11 miles from Auckland, New Zealand, was designed by the Daniel Marshall Architects studio as a paraphrase for a family camping site. The single-family residence, a finalist of the 2010 New Zealand HOME of the year competition, does [...]

HBA’s Residence Zanzibar Resort Sows Colonialism, Reaps Multiculturalism

HBA’s Residence Zanzibar Resort Sows Colonialism, Reaps Multiculturalism

  In developing the 66-villa complex at Residence Zanzibar, the team at design firm Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA) created more than a luxury resort. Based in Atlanta, GA, and with more than 45 years of designing for tourism under their belt, they sure were the team to call on, for this daunting, yet exhilarating [...]

Nettleton 195 Rises Proud in Cape Town, S Africa

Nettleton 195 Rises Proud in Cape Town, S Africa

The Nettleton 195 House, in Cape Town, South Africa, gathers all the best things contemporary architecture has to offer, throws in lots of light, dynamic spaces and clever floor planning, adds a dash of local color via the décor and serves it all up on a silver platter. It is the product of two [...]

Visionary Entrepreneur Sets Urban Living Adrift on Micro Sea Countries

Visionary Entrepreneur Sets Urban Living Adrift on Micro Sea Countries

Peter Andreas Thiel, 43, entrepreneur and investor extraordinaire, seems to be the kind of guy who knows opportunity when he sees it. He was one of the co-founders of PayPal and Facebook’s first major investor. Now, Thiel has teamed up with the enthusiastic and forward-thinking team of the Seasteading Institute, to bring the world [...]