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An American family sought Sydney-based interior design studio Hugh-Jones Mackintosh to design their home in San Francisco’s Bay Area, observing clear parallels between the two coastal cities and their outdoor-focused living. ‘Bay Blue’ seamlessly fuses the two distant corners of the world, reflecting its vibrant, cosmopolitan owners through a unique global lens.
Sunday’s master-bedroom and walk-in wardrobe reveals on The Block leave us spacious and luxurious interiors (if not big enough bedsides!). As the most important bedroom in the house, contestants focused on style, storage and functionality, to produce stunning supporting wardrobes that were lavish in both aesthetics and use. Brimming with inspiration, we step inside each space to unveil all the finer wardrobe details.
When Emma Fuller built her family home five years ago, she went with the ‘basic’ package with a view to elevating the spaces in a more budget-friendly manner down the line. Knowing that she couldn’t afford her entire wish list upfront, she made allowances within the plans so that she could add all the special details after handover.
“Although the builder could have incorporated every detail we asked for, we knew it would have blown our budget, but that didn’t mean I was going to let the dream go,” says Emma of her Hamptons inspired home that is located around a 10-minute drive from Queensland’s Toowooomba.
Esperanza Manzanera, known in the art world as Velmock, is a multifaceted visual artist and high school philosophy teacher based in Granada. Her artistic repertoire includes digital collage, photo editing, and a variety of other techniques that she uses to craft surreal and expressionist images.
Laurie Lipton, a New York native, has been expressing herself through the medium of drawing since she was four years old. She made history as the first individual to graduate with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honors) from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania. After spending 36 years living in various countries across Europe, including Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, and London, she has recently returned to her home country, the USA.
Between the hours of 7 a.m. to 12:20 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, you will find a group of students at Los Angeles Trade Tech College painstakingly painting small black lines onto large sheets of butcher paper. It’s a unique and peculiar sight, unlike any other you will come upon at another college— and that’s because this is the only class of its kind in the country.
Welcome to LATTC’s famed Sign Graphics program, which has been taught at the college since 1924. It’s said that LATTC itself was founded around this course, and then expanded its class offerings from there.