Welcome to Issue 15 of Design Anthology, our annual year-end edition with a distinctively international flavour. 

The D/A team has rounded up features that cross borders far and as wide.  Along with our usual line-up of new hotel openings, we bring you an assemblage of features on galleries, artists and curators and a stellar line-up of homes for you that may well be some of my personal favourites to date, including a multiple award-winning architectural marvel in Sydney built for a prominent art collector, a quirky and very personal home in Manila, a restored Neo-Grec beauty on New York’s Upper East Side, a warm and soulful residence in London and a Shenzhen apartment displaying a strong European influence.

Each year we dedicate an entire issue to one country. This year we’re casting our curatorial eye over the world’s largest archipelago, the fourth most populous country and the fourteenth-largest in terms of overall land area — Indonesia. The aim with our annual editions is to shine a light on a country within the region that’s under-represented and underappreciated from a design perspective. And there are likely not many more deserving than Indonesia.

Among the line-up of features in this issue that you can enjoy from the comfort of your armchair are the latest happenings from Semarang, Singapore, Jakarta and Seoul — and that’s just our Dossier section. Also, don’t miss the excerpt of an interview with legendary Japanese designer Kenya Hara. You’ll find the rest of the conversation on our website. We’re excited to report on the growing trend — of which we wholeheartedly approve — of heritage properties in China being restored and redeveloped into luxury hotels, from villa homes in Jiangxi province relocated to the outskirts of Shanghai to a 1960s sugar mill that’s been converted into a riverside retreat in Yangshuo, and more.
Speaking of restorations, our regular contributor Samantha Leese reports on a unique arts and culture project on the outskirts of Manila that has relocated a handful of historic buildings from another time to a charming seaside location, and Aaina Bhargava shares with us India’s first sculpture park in the province of Rajasthan — an area better known for camels and ancient forts than its art. And what would our summer issue be without a stellar line-up of homes? You’ll be booking tickets to Bali as soon as you see the Studio Jencquel project in Ubud, photographed by Edmon Leong. Aside from the Ubud retreat, we hope you enjoy the unique homes in Noosa, Los Angeles, Vũng Tàu and Hua Hin. And finally, among our Architectonics features, we bring you a special report on the role architecture played in the early days of Bangladeshi statehood, as well as a look into how the modernist movement contributed to Hong Kong’s truly unique urban form.

Welcome to our first issue for 2018 — our annual crossover issue. This year's is dedicated to design and fashion, and what happens when the two worlds collide. Plus, we bring you the sensational homes of five fashion luminaries from around the world.

Welcome to our September issue, the annual edition dedicated entirely to covering the creative scene in one country — and this year it’s Thailand. It’s no secret that this is a country made up of talented creative people who are equally warm and welcoming. (What’s less known is that 70 per cent of current architecture graduates in Thailand are female.) Needless to say, this has been a fun issue to research and compile.

The annual pilgrimage the international design community makes for Milan’s Salone del Mobile and Design Week is unlike any other. Over 370,000 visitors pour into the city each March for the Fiera alone, not to mention the increasingly important satellite events that spread across the city.  

Each year the event seems to be even bigger and more spread out than the last, forcing journalists and editors like myself to literally run between events, appointments and interviews. Spending time in the back of taxis or squeezed into metro cars though can mean missing out on one of the simple pleasures of Milan – la passeggiata. The relatively small and intimate city is truly best experienced by foot, and especially so during the pleasant spring weather we were blessed with this year.

Our coverage of Salone del Mobile and Milan’s Design Week will be spread between our website and a new section we’re introducing to the magazine, entitled Fiera, where we will showcase our edit of the world’s best design fairs. We hope you’ll enjoy!

In addition, this issue — our annual Summer edition — features a handful of homes in lust-worthy tropical and seaside locations, including Sydney, Bali, Hong Kong, Mumbai and Phuket. And for those of you in need of vacation inspiration, our Wanderlust section features a selection of exotic destinations, the highlight being the new Bill Bensley-designed JW Marriott in Phu Quoc, Vietnam.

This issue of Design Anthology officially marks our three-year anniversary, and what better way to mark the occasion than by celebrating — with food!

There’s no doubt that in recent years food has been elevated far beyond mere sustenance, and chefs have become the new rock stars. In this issue, we celebrate food in all its glory, from the spaces where we cook and eat to food’s crossover with art and design.
Plus much, much more...

In this 11th edition of Design Anthology we present our signature mix of fascinating projects and journeys from around the world.  

We hope you enjoy!

In this issue of Design Anthology, we celebrate the creativity of Taiwan. The young product designers, the creative entrepreneurs, the exceptionally talented interior designers and architects, the artists and curators, the insightful city planners, and yes, as unlikely as it may sound, the government.

Welcome to the annual summer edition of Design Anthology. This is one issue the D/A team looks forward to each year for the mix of tropical, waterside and weekender homes that leave me dreaming of a sunny getaway. All the more so this year, as anyone living in Hong Kong can attest, as one of the coldest winters on record has become one of the greyest and dreariest springs I can remember in my ten years in the city.

Let’s hope the skies are clearer and the weather a little sunnier by the time this issue goes to print — but just in case, we have a selection of suitably wanderlust-inducing homes from  Japan, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore to sate your appetite.

We have our usual roundup of hotel openings, plus a longer feature on what we believe to be a game-changer in the hospitality scene: the new Katamama hotel in Bali. Run by Indonesian hospitality group PTT Family in an Andra Matin-designed building, and with interiors that brim with locally sourced furnishings and objets d’art, the Katamama brings new meaning to the word ‘authenticity’.

Issue 8 of Design Anthology is a special edition on all things travel. 

As well as giving our regular updates from the design world, we take a fresh look at the interplay between travel and design. Recognising the often-central role that travel and exploration play in stimulating the creative process, we feature some of the world’s top designers speaking about their favourite places to visit, what inspires them and personal rituals surrounding the act of travel.  

In addition, we take an industry perspective, looking at how a compelling design story is increasingly key in giving destinations the competitive edge with a modern traveller who is considerably more cosmopolitan in outlook, with discriminating tastes and demands to match.

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Manila, with its wealth of creativity, gave us the idea to create a series of special editions entirely devoted to a single country; the Philippines stars as our first featured location. It may seem an unlikely choice to some, but ultimately we felt strongly enough that the country’s untapped trove of design treasures and destinations was deserving of some of the limelight otherwise commandeered by its better-known neighbours.  This issue sees us visit a few standout locations including designer Eric Paras’s A11  Gallery in Manila, the award-winning restaurant Antonio’s in Tagaytay, the DEDON factory in Cebu and their luxury resort on the island of Siargao. We visit the homes of some of the country’s best-known and most celebrated designers, including Cynthia Almario (of Studio Almario) and Kenneth Cobonpue, to name just a couple, and you’ll get a glimpse into Manila’s newest boutique hotel, The Henry.  This is by no means an exhaustive representation of the design scene in the Philippines, or even Manila for that matter. But don’t take my word for it — go and check it out yourself!

We’ve had a great time finding five homes around the world that create the mix we hope to be known for, all with some of that beautiful summer ambience. First cab off the rank is a chic beach shack in the Australian coastal town of Mullumbimby, designed by Hong Kong-based style maven Debra Little. From there we travel to Vietnam where we have the pleasure of giving you a tour of Vietnamese journalist/poet and urban activist Nguyen Qui Duc’s weekend getaway in the hills of Tam Dao, a two-hour drive from Hanoi. Next up is our cover story - Thai architect Kulapat Yantrasast’s own Los Angeles home, followed by our first Indian residence, a weekender in a seaside suburb of Mumbai owned by a busy Delhi-based couple. And last but not least— jetting across the North Pacific we land at another seaside residence, this time a stunning two-storey home in Newport Beach designed by another Hong Konger in Deborah Oppenheimer. 

But as ever, that’s not all.


In the fourth issue (our anniversary issue!) of Design Anthology we have five inspiring properties that display our signature mix; two in Hong Kong, one in Singapore, one in Taipei, and one in upstate New York. We speak to Axel and Boris Vervoordt about why they chose Hong Kong as the location of their latest outpost, we take a look at London’s ever changing skyline, and we travel to Bangkok to bring you the best of one of Asia’s most creative cities. Plus much more.

In the third issue of Design Anthology we attempt to tackle a phenomenon that is prevalent in Asia and is quickly becoming a universal concern as big cities around the world continue to grow — living in increasingly smaller spaces in increasingly high-density environments. We give you a tour of four small inspiring homes in Hong Kong and a landmark shared housing project in London. We look at some inspiring examples of how Dutch architects are working in one of the most density-challenged nations in the world. Plus much more.

In the second issue of Design Anthology we take a look at residential properties in Hong Kong, China and Indonesia. We get an inside look at the new Hong Kong PolyU Innovation Tower and Wang Shu's China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, and get some insight into the future of educational architecture in Asia. We get a tour of Art Basel with the fair's designer, Tom Postma, plus much more

In our inaugural issue we look at stylish homes around the world, an outstanding landscape project in New Zealand, a coffee and art collaboration in Tokyo, we travel to Cape Town - world design capital for 2014, and André Fu gives us a tour of the Opus Suite at The Berkely in London, plus more.

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