Vogue Living tells stories that engage, fascinate and excite, weaving together a myriad of influences that inspire our lives, be it cultural trends, arts and architecture, a new secret find around the corner, a far flung destination, or a privileged glimpse into a private and compelling world. Interiors, spaces and places, here or there, come vividly to life through their inhabitants and the lens of the camera. Beauty is paramount.
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PALACE OF WISDOM • The Danish ROYAL COUPLE architect their vision of a modern monarchy with a circular renovation that taps the country’s most innovative minds and recasts recycled materials as art.
SYMBOLIC GESTURES • A series of STILL LIFES on the cusp of abstraction reveal the material essence and singular detail of LUXURY JEWELLERY designs.
IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME • For 10 years, CARTIER has nurtured artistic crafts and watchmaking traditions at its Maison des Métiers d’Art in order to preserve precious KNOWLEDGE and engrave it somewhere permanent.
ROUGE RENAISSANCE • Amid a paucity of EMPOWERING medical environments for women, the typology-tipping elegance of Melbourne’s MENOPAUSE SPECIALIST clinic is transforming anachronistic practices into healing experiences.
THE VL EDIT • A curated list of the latest statement makers including a Carl Hansen & Søn sideboard designed by Børge Mogensen, its HANDSOME OAK uniform concealing INGENIUS storage arrangements and carpentry techniques.
VL HOMES
PURE INTENTION • A Sydney WAREHOUSE LOFT has a spiritual awakening at the hands of architect Oliver Du Puy, who erases the extraneous in the interest of intensifying the essential.
GOLDEN AGE • Disenchanted by modern representations of Miami, architect Fabrizio Casiraghi manifests Florida’s old-world elegance and the LUSH EXOTICISM of a Slim Aarons fantasy in one of the city’s most enviable villas.
NEW HORIZON • In a sleepy coastal town far off Sydney’s beaten track, a multigenerational HOLIDAY HOME channels the simplest of life’s pleasures: privacy and majestic water vistas.
COUP DE FOUDRE • Redesigning a 17th-century COURTYARD HOUSE in the ancient Medina of Tunis, JOHN PAWSON reconciles traditional architecture with minimalist philosophy.
JOY TO BEHOLD • A 1920s BUNGALOW with Sydney Harbour views and beautifully restored heritage decoration is a thing to delight in, and so ARENT&PYKE does just that with a charming renovation that revels in the details.
VL TRAVELS
EAST COAST IDYLL • Tamsin Johnson collects an exotica of inspiration for the design of RAES GUESTHOUSES, the sublime new property from Byron Bay’s chicest hotelier.
THE HOLIDAY EDIT
CREAM OF THE CROP • A GUEST HOUSE in the picturesque Cloudy Bay vineyards decants the terroir of New Zealand’s Marlborough winegrowing region into its ELEMENTAL DESIGN.
RROYAL TREATMENT • As MANDARIN ORIENTAL pursues global expansion, its founding properties in Hong Kong and Bangkok are guiding the WORLD-CLASS hotel group into the future as exemplars of unparalleled experience and guardians of history.
SUPER NATURAL • Le Commandant Charcot’s natural habitat is a MASTERPIECE of immense beauty and the LUXURY ship’s lavish interiors certainly rise to the occasion, leaving voyagers feeling on top of the world.
SOURCES
BASK COUNTRY • PANORAMA, the new collection from ARMADILLO, manifests the magic of untamed Antipodean landscapes with five rugs redolent of snow-covered earth, mountain terrain and trees on the horizon in herringbone formation.