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This 100-year-old Tudor in San Francisco serves as home to designer Anu Jain, her husband, and their two children under 5. The historic residence has been thoughtfully renovated to reflect Jain’s signature design philosophy that masterfully blends collected pieces with modern sensibilities, creating spaces that feel both timeless and contemporary. Serving as both a laboratory for her design ideas and a nurturing environment for her young family, the home demonstrates how thoughtfully designed spaces can be simultaneously striking and functional. The end result is avant-garde but timeless; old but new (the original fireplace sits next to a chair from The Future Perfect and a chandelier from Modern Made), and stylish but functional in all the right ways.
This home is a testament to how you don’t need to strip the history out of a home to make it modern and cool. That gorgeous fireplace Anu didn’t modernize? There’s your proof. Photos: R. Brad Knipstein.

Laura Stephens Interiors have sensitively reimagined a grand period home overlooking one of London’s largest commons, blending elegance with relaxed liveability. Drawing inspiration from the property’s impressive proportions and historic charm, they crafted layered, timeless interiors rich in texture, colour, and pattern. Each room was designed to feel distinct yet cohesive, with saturated tones and tactile details creating warmth within the soaring spaces. A deep respect for the home’s original character shaped every decision, resulting in a refined, welcoming environment that perfectly reflects the clients’ love of authenticity, style, and comfort.

This project holds special meaning for Hampshire-based Vaughan as it is their own family home. Quirky, imperfect and full of personality, the house is a continual work in progress. While the structure existed it has been thoughtfully renovated over time. With young children, the evolving needs of daily life informed their design choices, bringing joy in creating a home that grows and adapts over time.

This residential development comprises two identical beach houses with centralised living areas that connect to terraced decks and a pool. Separate sleeping wings provide privacy and flexible living arrangements. Both dwellings feature distinct blade wall articulations that define entry points, enhance privacy, frame views, and create secluded courtyard spaces. The robust material palette is textured and low-maintenance, while passive solar design, double masonry walls, concrete floors, and operable openings ensure excellent thermal performance and natural ventilation. Portsea Houses by Folk Architects.

Photography by Lillie Thompson.

On the border between Sainte-Pétronille and Saint-Laurent-de-l’Île-d’Orléans, it is home to the Maison de l’île, a major renovation project located at the bottom of an agricultural lot in a resort area. Respecting the dimensions of the other buildings on the island, the two volumes incline respectively on four sides, opening openings on the river and the surrounding area. A low walkway provides the connection, while amplifying, thanks to its transparency and delicacy, the suburban language of the whole, to which is added the volume of the garage, set back. By reconciling the resort and agricultural traditions, the architects were able to reinvent the different codes specific to Île d’Orléans, cleverly integrating references to the Arts and Craft movement, vernacular constructions and Regency cottages: covered terraces, symmetrical compositions, regular rhythms, natural and raw materials and the enhancement of artisanal work.
This might be my favourite project of La Shed Architecture (and I have loved sooo many). The fact that this is very much modern but the materials are not is the perfect combination. The stone and brick add texture and the wood tones are such a warm but just-bright-enough shade…and with the Togo sofas & chairs in the deep orange/rust shade it’s such a gorgeous, earthy synergy. Photos: Maxime Brouillet.