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Sueno Sagrado in the Mojave enclave of Pioneertown, California, is owned and operated by Bryan Crawford, a Missouri-born jack of all trades now based in Los Angeles. His road to Pioneertown has been anything but direct, as a former music journalist who’s even dabbled in furniture design (a desk he built is now staged in […]

Todos Santos is a dreamy destination rising through the ranks of Mexican cities travelers are itching to visit. We have a few BoutiqueHomes in this beachy oasis, a few of which feature interiors designed by the LA-based French interior designer, Sylvie Sabatier. Sylvie owns one of these properties, Hacienda Los Olivos, so we chatted with […]

We were already sold on Getaway Projects’ great designs on land, when owners Arno Schuurs and Paulien van Noort told us about their latest project: the Marine Cabin. A nautical version of their innovative, stylish and sustainable cabins, it recently traveled from Rotterdam to Stockholm, where it is now moored. Arno and Paulien started building cabins […]

At BoutiqueHomes, we love when houses push the boundaries of design in innovative and playful ways that we’ve never seen before and could never even have imagined. Haus Gables in Atlanta, Georgia does just that. Jennifer Bonner is the architectural designer behind this new ground-up residence, with an impressive resume as an Associate Professor of […]

Within a tiny town in southeast Italy called Gallipoli, you will find a limestone island connected to the mainland by nothing more than an ancient bridge. This island flaunts a rollicking history, with relics of that past enduring to this day. Atlas is one of them. When owners Sabrina Cavenaghi and Luca De Carlo found […]

You never know when inspiration might strike. It could even happen while doing something as mundane as looking for a laundromat… In 2011, LA-based designer Stephen Kenn was out doing just that: driving around east LA looking for a place to do his laundry. He turned into a parking lot simply to make a U-turn, when […]

BenTen East, named after the street it sits on in Higashiyama, one of Kyoto’s best-preserved historical districts, has a delightfully typical façade. The simple boxy structure of the kyo-machiya, or townhouse, sits quietly like a stage for shadow play, and wooden blinds cast moody fantails of light on the ground at sunset. It looks like […]

Jill Young Rosenast and her husband Alex have a thing about buildings – more specifically, beautiful historic structures with character and great bones. Over the years, they’ve acquired them, given them new leases of life, and made them available for the rest of the world to enjoy. It all started in the early Nineties in their […]

A few miles north of Santa Barbara, just off the 101 freeway that runs from LA to San Francisco, you’ll find a tiny town called Los Alamos. It consists of one long main street that looks like it’s straight out of a spaghetti western, and on the surface it’s sleepier than a cat on a […]

Athena Penthouse is a big corner flat in the heart of Athens, located rather enviably at the foot of the Acropolis. From its terrace, the ancient temple shines in the sunset; from its balconies, the activities of the restaurants and bars provide a live show. Inside, a very special light shines on great collectible furniture […]

Style influencer, self-confessed professional tourist and general purveyor of the aspirational life, Olivia Lopez of @lustforlife recently spent a few days at Il Convento in Brando, Corsica. A beautifully-restored former convent in the heart of the mountains and the maquis, it’s the perfect decor for her sublime photographs, and right in line with her love for the […]

When it comes to design, Christian Sarubi is a jack of all trades. After a seven-year spell in Toronto designing jewelry, he returned to his native Mexico City eight years ago and started designing boutique home rentals. With a growing collection of properties throughout the city’s wildly diverse neighborhoods, he’s been indulging his love of […]