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Toy Designer Home is a minimal house located in Guangzhou, China, designed by Huang Guangjian. The choice of blue crystal marble speaks to something deeper than aesthetic preference. In the lexicon of contemporary interior materials, marble has undergone a renaissance, moving beyond its classical associations with permanence and grandeur to become a medium for personal expression.

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DO. House is a minimal home located in Kortrijk, Belgium, designed by Simon de Burbure. The first glimpse reveals everything and nothing at once – a house that seems to emerge from the hillside like a natural outcrop, its brick facade echoing the burnt umber of surrounding conifers.

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The Fallen Leaves Coffee Table is a minimalist table made in collaboration by Brooklyn-based designers Natalie Weinberger and Nathaniel Wojtalik of Cultivation Objects. Drawing from a shared reverence for craft and materiality, Fallen Leaves is part of an ongoing series of ceramic and wood furniture by the two designers.

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Casa Nicasio is a minimal home located in Madrid, Spain, designed by PLANTEA. The project represents a quiet revolution in residential design, one that prioritizes atmosphere over spectacle. Where the original structure imposed its geometric complexity through multiple cramped rooms and dark corners, the renovation carves out breathing space through careful subtraction rather than addition. 

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Putney Riverside is a conservation and extension project located in London, United Kingdom, designed by VATRAA. The architects approached this project with the precision of art restorers, embracing Article 12 of The Venice Charter as both constraint and catalyst.

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Twenty One Two is a minimal apartment located in Oostduinkerke, Belgium, designed by T J I P interior architects. The black ceiling hovers like a protective canopy, its unexpected presence transforming what could have been a predictable seaside apartment into something altogether more nuanced.

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Crayon Pine Bench is a minimalist bench created by Sweden-based designers Adrian Bursell and Siri Svedborg. This deceptively simple act of drawing on furniture carries profound resonance. The wax crayon, that most democratic of artistic tools, becomes an instrument of transformation when applied to pine surfaces.

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Formation is a new exhibition in New York City created by Milan-based studio FORMAFANTASMA for Friedman Benda. There is something almost ceremonial in the way a single plank of cherry wood yields to the cabinetmaker’s hand, its grain revealing decades of growth in a moment of transformation.

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A Night At a Signature Suite in Casa de Sierra Nevada, A Belmond Hotel

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HWB300 is a minimalist bench collection created by Eindhoven-based designer Martin Laforêt for Carpenters Workshop Gallery. Laforêt’s ‘The Mould Objects’ collection emerges from this fertile ambiguity, where the French designer treats industrial materials as if discovering them for the first time.

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Cloister Studio is a minimalist home located in Taipei, Taiwan, designed by Wang Yi Yun. The studio’s “slashed geometry” speaks to a design philosophy that embraces controlled disruption. These diagonal cuts through traditional orthogonal space recall the deconstructivist experiments of the 1980s, yet serve a more intimate purpose.

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Another Layer is a minimalist space located in Seoul, South Korea, designed by ALX. The space represents a fascinating convergence of brand identity and spatial experience. Where many design studios treat their physical space as mere backdrop, here the environment becomes an active participant in the creative process.

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Résidence du Parc is a minimal home located in Québec City, Canada, designed by Jérôme Lapierre Architect. The skylight operates as both illuminator and organizer, creating what the architects describe as “moments of dancing light that celebrate the changing moods of the day.” This poetic language masks a sophisticated understanding of how light moves through space, how it can define territories within a home, and how it serves as the ultimate sustainable design element.

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Park Avenue Maisonette is a minimal towhouse located on Park Avenue designed by Elmo Studios. Elmo Studios has orchestrated what might be called a material symphony, one that begins with the stunning figueroa-toned Portola Roman clay that envelops the foyer walls. This choice reveals a sophisticated understanding of how surface treatment can fundamentally alter spatial perception. Roman clay, with its ancient pedigree yet thoroughly contemporary application, embodies the project’s central tension between historical reverence and modern living.

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The Rib Collection is a minimalist lighting collection by the Philadelphia-based design practice, Konekt Studio. Continuing the studio’s exploration of juxtaposing characteristics, Rib balances strength with fragility and restraint with ornament, combining sharp lines with soft curves.

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Montpellier House is a minimal residence located in Montérégie, Canada, designed by Vives St-Laurent. Built into the natural slope of Mount Saint-Bruno, the residence demonstrates how contemporary design can engage with topography as both constraint and opportunity. The partially buried garden level recalls the earth-sheltered houses of Hassan Fathy or the landscape-embedded works of Peter Zumthor, yet here the strategy serves not merely environmental concerns but a deeper philosophical alignment with place.

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House Between Two Rivers is a minimal home located in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, designed by Sebastián Mancera + Taller 3000. This is architecture as earth-holding, where hammered concrete retaining walls become the primary gesture. The material choice speaks to a deeper philosophy: concrete not as the smooth, pristine surface of modernist aspiration, but as something tactile and responsive.