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3 days ago | 
admiddleeast.com | Saiqa Ajmal
At new Abu Dhabi café, Mill, the material palette offers unexpectedly pleasing contrasts. Think glossy mocha zellige tile, olive plaster walls, black-and-white terrazzo flooring, brushed steel panels, and exposed plywood, stained to highlight the woodgrain further. But it’s a surprising architectural intervention which designer Tarlan Vaziri is most pleased about.
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3 days ago | 
admiddleeast.com | Saiqa Ajmal
“We weren’t trying to recreate the 1930s,” says interior designer Magdalena Keck. “We wanted to distill the essence of Art Deco style – its structure and geometry – and interpret it in a way that feels right for today.”That vision came to life at 270 Broadway, a limestone tower overlooking City Hall Park in New York City. Completed in the 1930s, the building is a Manhattan landmark, with classic Art Deco style proportions and details.
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5 days ago | 
admiddleeast.com | Saiqa Ajmal
Perhaps it’s the soothing sage green in the primary bedroom, the sky blue living-dining area or the putty pink hues of the guest room. Or, more likely, the skilful combination of all of these colours that make this apartment so calming and current. “I’ve always been interested in how a room feels, not just how it looks,” says the interior designer responsible for its transformation, Filippo Calvagno of Studio Calvagno.
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2 weeks ago | 
admiddleeast.com | Saiqa Ajmal
In Conshohocken, a rapidly revitalising post-industrial borough outside Philadelphia, an unassuming 1930s stone colonial has been reborn as a sprawling, 5,700-square-foot “rich ranch” retreat. Interior designer Phoebe Schuh, Creative Director of PS & Daughters, curated the home’s distinct blend of rustic warmth and industrial-luxe sophistication. “The homeowners wanted to bring the spirit of the Rocky Mountains back east,” she explains.
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3 weeks ago | 
admiddleeast.com | Saiqa Ajmal
High above the windswept shores of Little Narragansett Bay, in the upscale enclave of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, sits a 1900s summer cottage with soul. Chanelling timeless coastal decor, the unassuming shingled home belongs to a Manhattan-based couple who retreat here each summer – often joined by their grown children and a young dog who, as designer John Ferguson fondly notes, “arrived just as the decorating began”. Ferguson’s brief?
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4 weeks ago | 
admiddleeast.com | Saiqa Ajmal
Boasting a beautifully timeless kitchen design, Stone Crop in the rolling green countryside near Elora, Ontario, is a rare example of early settler architecture that has been carefully updated. Built in 1833 by Thomas Dow, a Scottish mason who helped shape the town’s earliest buildings, the property has recently been renovated for a young couple working in tech who relocated to the area from the city to raise a family.
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4 weeks ago | 
admiddleeast.com | Saiqa Ajmal
On a 2.25-acre plot in Southern Nevada, Tombolo was designed as a lasting residence for a widow and matriarch who wanted to create a place for her family to gather. With views over the Las Vegas Valley and a layout focused on comfort and elegance, the house serves as both private retreat and family hub. Architect and interior designer Daniel Joseph Chenin led the project, guiding it from early concept through to construction and completion.
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1 month ago | 
admiddleeast.com | Saiqa Ajmal
Modern black and white interiors permeate the striking home interior designer Amy Lee McArdle has built for her family in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. She approached it as a design exercise in balance: contemporary architecture layered with texture, vintage details and strong material contrasts. The result is a space that is tailored to both the lifestyle of a young family and the sensibilities of a designer with a global point of view.
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1 month ago | 
admiddleeast.com | Saiqa Ajmal
For a couple whose lives are defined by movement – cycling trips through Europe, car racing weekends, and globe-spanning family gatherings – it’s no surprise their dream Montecito home would land somewhere between the grounded and the elevated. Perched in on a hillside with cinematic views of the Pacific, this newly built retreat has been crafted for living well — at every speed.
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1 month ago | 
admiddleeast.com | Saiqa Ajmal
When interior designer Coco Greenblum and her husband Mike Vernon decided to relocate from San Francisco to Los Angeles, are surround themselves with warm minimalism they didn’t just pack up their lives – they left nearly everything behind. “We sold all our furniture – literally everything but my Ingmar Relling Siesta chair,” says Greenblum, who had just wrapped a major chapter working for some of the most influential names in interiors, including five US AD100 firms.
