Design firms are rarely commissioned to create an actual fun house not an amusement park attraction nor a McMansion dedicated to making content for TikTok, but rather a family home meant for socializing in style. But that was precisely the brief given to Mafalda Muñoz and Gonzalo Machado, the duo behind the Madrid-based interior design studio Casa Muñoz, for a four-story townhouse in the old port of Ibiza, Spain.
The clients, a Spanish-English couple with teenage children, have owned a larger home on a seaside corner of the Balearic island on which they've summered for nearly 20 years. For this centrally located pied-à-terre, they were after a completely different vibe, a chic bolt-hole where their kids could pile in with friends after a night out without anyone having to drive. It would provide the parents peace of mind and a place to come off-season for sunny weekends without the hassles of opening a larger house.
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SNOW in Every WINDOW
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VIENNA WAITS FOR YOU
DESIGNER BEN PENTREATH RECOUNTS HOW HE BROUGHT A VIBRANT ENGLISH SENSIBILITY TO A QUINTESSENTIAL AUSTRIAN TOWNHOUSE.
IT'S HUMAN NATURE
SHEILA BRIDGES DRAWS FROM VERMONT'S HISTORY AND WILDERNESS TO BRING LIFE AND CHARACTER TO A SPRAWLING NEW HOME.
When Can We Move In?
Your next out-of-office email could be sent from one of the world's most beautiful hotel rooms. Go ahead, sign off early.
SEIZE THE DAY
Twenty-four hours in the life of good gifts.
Mic Drop
For former talk radio star Tom Joyner, Studio Roda creates an oceanfront pleasure pad with out-of-sight views and disco-era glamour.
CURTAIN RAISER
ELLE DECOR partners with designers Christine and John Gachot to refresh an iconic lounge at a New York institution, the Metropolitan Opera House.
The Empire Strikes Back - A 19th-century gem in Cambridge, Massachusetts, gets a tour-de-force restoration thanks to Frances Merrill of Reath Design.
Is it possible to simultaneously go back in time and leap forward? This was the challenge a couple set for themselves upon purchasing a salmon-pink 1869 house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, not far from Longfellow House, the National Historic Site that served as George Washington's headquarters during the revolution. We loved all the beautiful old details of this house, the homeowner says.
And How! - Decorator Nick Olsen transforms a Sag Harbor home into a Hamptons retreat with an irreverent humor.
If you must go to the Hamptons, however-because it is devilishly good fun, after all-you may notice an apparently modest, low-slung cottage on Sag Harbor's Main Street and think, with a comfortable sort of feeling, Now that is how a house should look. Nestled amid the Botox bars, helipads, and club-staurants, it could almost set the sordid world aright both a rebuke and a solution to the chaos that surrounds it. A real home.
You Stay Here
At a Martha's Vineyard compound, Steven Gambrel and Tom Kligerman have made a guest retreat so good, visitors may never want to leave.
