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“Clean • Minimal • Fresh • Modern • Approachable • Relaxed • Serene”

That’s the design aesthetic of New York Interior Design firm Winter McDermott Design who create beautiful homes in the Hamptons and beyond.

A holiday home in the Mexican city of San Miguel De Allende by PPAA (Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados) looks inward on a series of patios. A study of voids and 3D spaces the house is not so much introspective as it is oasis and retreat. A fascinating study of light and shade, solid and void, public and private.

This Manhattan Beach house has everything you could want if modern is what you’re into. And I am into this! By ras-a studio. The home owners, both from Brazil, wanted an open floor plan with a strong connection to outdoor spaces that would remind them of home.Guests enter along a pathway that takes them through a courtyard before entering the home. Dictated by the geometry of the lot, the courtyard’s concrete masonry wall—which is just high enough to block outside views from the street while allowing in the southern sunlight—tucks under a cantilevered second floor, transitioning from courtyard to building wall. Rotating selected masonry units so they protrude from the face of wall to create succulent planters gives the wall texture and life. Two sets of sliding pocket doors seamlessly connect the courtyard to the open-concept ground level and then again to the patio and pool—which was carved out an existing backyard hillside. The bedrooms and private sectors are located on the second floor.

Photography: Joe Fletcher

A serene, neutral escape. This 2 bedroom cottage in Norfolk, U.K. is picture perfect. Designed by Studio Gabrielle. Surrounded by uncompromised views of the picturesque Gawdy Hall Estate and a 15th-century church, ‘Ivywood Cottage’ invokes a calm, restorative and enduring connection to its idyllic countryside location. Working within the bones of an existing Medieval build, it has been reimagined with luxurious warmth and thoughtful sensory experiences. Drawing from the rich tonal beauty of the rural setting, organic surfaces such as natural plaster and warm timber are offset by fine metal detailing and tactile textiles, completing the manifestation of understated luxury.⁣ 

Photography: Beth Davis

A guest room or a peaceful sanctuary? Perhaps both. I know if this room was mine I certainly wouldn’t leave it just for my guests. You would find me curled up on the bed with a book or engaged in a little gossip over tea with friends. An elegant retreat indeed. Hamptons Showhouse Guest Room by Michael Del Piero.