LIBERTY

The Liberty lounger is part art piece, part furniture. Created by sculptor Joep van Lieshout from no sketches or plans, it’s available in sleek American walnut from Moooi.

Welcome to the best in design for modern living. Our latest essential edit includes idyllic waterside living, the only glass you'll ever need and an instant classic in set-piece lighting.

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TOP CLIFF HOUSE BY KHOSLA ASSOCIATES, 2010. KERALA, INDIA ABOVE TULIA HOUSE, BY ALBERTO MORELL, 2015. KILIFI, KENYA BELOW WHITE CAVE HOUSE BY TAKURO YAMAMOTO ARCHITECTS, 2013, KANAZAWA, JAPAN BOTTOM DOMUS AUREA BY ALBERTO CAMPO BAEZA AND GLR ARQUITECTOS, 2016, MONTERREY, MEXICO IMAGES COURTESY OF BHARATH RAMAMRUTHAM / JAVIER CALLEJAS / KEN’ICHI SUZUKI / JAVIER CALLEJAS

Whether looking out over a sweeping coast, nestled in nature beside lakes and rivers or set alongside swimming pools, living next to water is the ideal for many. Publishers Phaidon have searched the globe for the most idyllic and surprising examples of modern waterside homes, exceptional in both architectural design and location. From brutal clifftop bunkers to long and low lakeside houses, contemporary takes on cabins to serene and minimal sun traps, all and more can be found in Living on Water.

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GLASS

White wine, red wine, champagne, port, sherry – all are served in a different glass, shaped to enhance the various aromas, flavours and characteristics of each liquid. While a table of varied glassware looks elegant when dining out, storing every possible glass for every occasion at home can be impractical. Designer Richard Brendon has teamed up with wine expert Jancis Robinson to solve this and created the One Glass, a single stemmed glass with the optimum shape to enhance every wine, whatever its style.

IMAGES COURTESY OF FREDERIK LINDSTRØM

Skandinavisk create evocative home fragrances, inspired by and using elements native to the Scandinavian landscape that surrounds them. From heather, thyme, bearberry and leaf sap found in high heathland to the mosses, pine needles and cloudberry of the boreal forest, their fragrances are fresh and seasonal. Available in both candle and reed-diffuser form, their Escapes Collection has made the transition to your wrist with perfume oil you can wear.

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IMAGES COURTESY OF FLOS / SANTI CALECA

Arrangements, by Michael Anastassiades for Flos, is comprised of nine interchangeable linear lighting elements, including lines, circles, pear drops and diamonds. Each one can be hung with any other, in any combination to create a custom, set-piece chandelier. Simply click them together and switch on. Then change your mind and remix them. Bold, graphic and elegant, modern lighting has a new instant classic.

'No two materials are alike. No two sites on earth are alike. No two buildings have the same purpose. The purpose, the site, the material determine the shape. Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it’s made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail. A building is alive, like a man.'

The Fountainhead

TheModernist.House by Mark King at MDKtm

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