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THE RINSE LIST

SPACE AGE • A playful rooftop addition transforms a corner building in Madrid into an architect’s unconventional home.

LIVING CONTRADICTION • RESPECT FOR HERITAGE AND IRREVERENT CREATIVITY MINGLE INSIDE THIS RESTORED 19THCENTURY PARIS APARTMENT.

REIMAGINING HERRINGBONE • Wall to Wall by Raw Edges for Tongue & Groove x Established & Sons

The Bathroom Remix • This collection of global bathrooms prove that an adventurous spirit and clever planning are the ingredients needed to elevate the bathing experience. Whether a site of ritual and soothing wind-down, or an amplified zone of sensory overload, one thing is sure: it’s time to throw out the rulebook.

HALCYON DAYS • Halcyon summer days and 1970s nostalgia converge in a fashion designer’s clifftop home.

CASEY BROWN ARCHITECTURE & FIONA SPENCE PODCAST • In this episode we revisit Babylon, the home of Fiona Spence and Morris Lyda. Here, Karen McCartney speaks with Casey Brown Architecture director Rob Brown and Spence about their eight-year collaboration to revive the 1960s house and honour its dramatic sandstone site.

Bondi Muse • Inside a designer’s experimental home and studio that adapts to the needs of family and work life in a beachside neighbourhood.

THE LIBRARY

Modern Modularity • Folk Studio’s Mariah Burton

THE GREATS • Belgian photographer Thomas De Bruyne captures a meeting of the minds between two of the country’s pre-eminent architects: one who first designed the 1970s concrete pavilion, and the other who now calls it home.

Test Kitchen • A Polish apartment is designed as a creative mise en place for a culinary blogger.

VERTICAL GROTTO • In an exclusive extract from our garden editor Will Dangar’s latest book, Natural Order, we showcase a personal project from SJB’s Adam Haddow. Speaking with Dangar Barin Smith co-director Tom Smith, we see how the home takes urban gardening to a whole new level.

Definitive Design Products for 2025 • Earlier this year, we asked 50 of Australia’s leading architects and designers to vote on their definitive list of products for 2025. In this instalment, we spotlight the bathroom—from tiles to bathware and tapware—revealing the products and brands that resonate most, and why.