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This rural kitchen offers bold simplicity in composition, paired with soft features – touches like handmade brass detailing bring a European luxe feel

Offering guests a glass of flowing ambrosia isn't difficult here, with a wine display bookending one end of the L shaped kitchen

Shade, privacy, coolness, and winter warmth are the benefits of this operable screen fronting a unique eight storey home built in an industrial setting 

Tile choices have this bathroom covered – Magnum Statuario porcelain panels with the look of marble frame a bath niche backed in tiny mosaics

To achieve this door system the designer worked on the finer details of the folding doors to allow them to bi-fold and still return into the dedicated niche

Wood cabinetry and steel frame doors with fluted glass bring a refined presence to this dressing space which also boasts a herringbone floor

Gabled roof forms on this home echo the mountain peaks behind – gabled roofs are ideal for an alpine climate where weighty snowfalls are never far

Refined Etic Rovere oak-look tiles make up this kitchen splashback which connects with the open oak wood shelving in the scullery behind

Faced with a variously occupied neighbourhood this home stands out in its black livery and presents as a series of stacked metal-clad boxes 

This villa celebrates a fusion of artefacts, artworks, atmosphere, and nature to encourage a poetic life, loosening up in mind and body

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