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DJN Apartment is a minimalist apartment located in São Paulo, Brazil, designed by Nildo José Arquitetura. This 266 m² apartment, conceived by the NJ+ team for a family of eight who primarily live abroad, embodies what we might call “anticipated nostalgia” – spaces created not for constant habitation but for meaningful intermittent presence.

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Last Snow Seats is a minimalist chair created by Paris-based designer Valentin Jager. The simple wooden bench outside the alpine refuge bears the subtle polish of countless hikers who have paused there, catching their breath before the final ascent. This weathered threshold—neither fully part of the wilderness nor entirely domestic—serves as both inspiration and metaphor for Valentin Jager’s contemplative new collection of seating objects.

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Lignum Sanctum is a minimalist table by the Melbourne-based designer and artist, Drew Abrahamson. Crafted for HARD, an exhibition celebrating new works by queer designers during Melbourne Design Week 2024, the table serves as Abrahamson’s love letter to the queer community.

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PARANG is a minimal home located in Seoul, South Korea, designed by CHOU. Where most homes position the living room as a familial nucleus—a place of shared relaxation and togetherness—here we find a bold departure: a space conceived not as private sanctuary but as public platform. This conceptual inversion forms the foundation of a design that ripples outward, transforming conventional notions of domestic architecture into something more fluid, adaptable, and culturally responsive.

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Mapleton House is a minimalist home located in Mapleton, Australia, designed by Atelier Chen Hung. At Mapleton House, the dialogue begins with a view. Not just any view, but the commanding presence of Mt. Ninderry and Mt. Coolum—geological formations that carry the weight of Dreamtime narratives in their silent profiles. The architects have crafted not merely a residence but a careful negotiation between human dwelling and landscape memory, creating what might be called an “inhabited terrain” on the suburban-rural edge of Blackall Range.

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Belt Chair is a minimal chair created by Berlin-based designer Hayo Gebauer. A single wooden chair stands in a corner, its form deceptively simple until you notice the aluminum armrests—thin strips that curve with unexpected fluidity, catching light like silver ribbons frozen mid-motion.

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Apartment FG is a minimalist apartment located in Antwerp, Belgium, designed by Dries De Malsche. The curved edge of a travertine countertop catches the late afternoon light, casting a warm glow across the FG apartment’s kitchen. This subtle design element—a gentle arc rather than a severe right angle—reveals the thoughtful approach behind this dual renovation project in Antwerp’s historic center.

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Apartment TS is a minimal apartment located in Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Matteo Foresti. The morning sun catches the veined surface of Carrara marble and warms the honey tones of oak, materials chosen not merely for their aesthetic appeal but for how they mediate between eras—between what was preserved and what was reimagined.

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Fold Console is a minimalist console created by France-based practice Heim+Viladrich. A beam of light catches the edge of the Fold Console, sending fractured reflections dancing across the room. This first encounter reveals the essence of the piece: a meditation on precision, light, and geometric balance that transcends its function as mere furniture.

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Birch Residence is a minimal home located in Saint-Lambert, Canada, designed by Table Architecture. The Birch residence, with its red combed brick exterior and traditional galvanized standing seam metal roof, once represented the quintessential early 20th-century suburban ideal that drew Montrealers away from the city. Yet within this historic shell, a thoughtful contemporary intervention has occurred—one that doesn’t simply renovate, but rather engages in a nuanced dialogue between past and present.

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The Bench is a minimalist bench created by Brussels-based studio COSEINCORSO as part of their first collection Les Âmes Simples. In the stark silhouette of hand-cut steel, The Bench stands not merely as functional furniture but as a material meditation on feminism, spirituality, and collective independence.

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Linden 9.2 is a minimalist home located in Kiev, Ukraine, designed by Sivak+Partners. This apartment embodies what happens when design becomes conversation—between client and creator, between disparate aesthetic traditions, between form and function. The wooden parquet flooring speaks to a reverence for traditional craftsmanship, while providing a warm foundation that anchors the sculptural Carl Hansen chairs.

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Anon Seoul is a minimalist space located in Seoul, South Korea, designed by orosy studio. A suspended box hovers like a geometric cloud above the reception area, creating a visual paradox that immediately captures the visitor’s attention. This architectural gesture embodies the salon’s fundamental philosophy: lightness achieved through structural precision, openness maintained alongside privacy. In this spatial moment, we witness the essence of a design that refuses easy categorization.

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Madeira is a minimalist side table created by France-based designer Thevenot Clément, in collaboration with Joyce Broussillou. What appears as aged oak reveals itself, upon closer inspection, to be cast bronze with subtle golden highlights. This tension between appearance and reality serves as the perfect entry point to understanding a work that explores the ancestral dialogue between materials, processes, and human ingenuity.

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Chair 03 is a minimalist chair by the Providence-based artist, designer, and researcher, Samuel Aguirre.  Made from natural and recycled materials, Chair 03 uses the chair as a medium to explore how material research and fabrication can address pressing environmental issues while also drawing from traditional paper-making techniques to inform its structural fabrication.

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GRID is a minimal home located in Mozzo, Italy, designed by parentesi.studio. In a small, elegant detail that might escape casual notice, the renovation of this living space pivots around a deceptively simple architectural “fissure.” This deliberate break—not quite a wall, not quite an opening—becomes the central organizing principle through which the entire home unfolds. It’s a fitting metaphor for the project as a whole: a design that celebrates liminality, those threshold spaces between definite states.

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Casa BO is a minimal home located in Rome, Italy, designed by Alessia Iacovoni Architetto. In the heart of Balduina neighborhood, a simple glass partition tells a complex story. This handcrafted window, framed in dark brown iron, stands not merely as a functional divider but as a philosophical statement about modern living – connecting spaces while preserving their distinct identities. The Casa BO renovation embodies a thoughtful reconciliation between preservation and innovation, where architecture becomes a medium for domestic storytelling.