DMTV Milkshake: Rachel Cope on Finding Beauty in Troubled Times

This week’s DMTV Milkshake guest is Rachel Cope, creative director of Calico Wallpaper, the wallpaper company she co-founded in 2013 with her partner, Nicholas Cope.  For this week’s Milkshake, we asked Rachel about a design hurdle – something that looked easy, but wasn’t. Her response: the process behind Oceania, a gorgeous new collection of...

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The Brunswick Green House in Australia Gets a Sustainably Efficient Update

Designed by Drawing Room Architecture, the Brunswick Green house in Melbourne, Australia undergoes a renovation that includes an extension to the Victorian Terrace-style home. The clients, a young working family who worked in the area of sustainability, wanted to extend the existing two-bedroom home into a three-bedroom home, with a study for two and...

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F5: Ashley Kirkland’s Favorite Pen + Cosmetics Packaging

Ashley Kirkland joined Grizform Design Architects in 2017 and is their Director of Interior Architecture, responsible for managing hospitality projects through all phases of design. From concept and schematic design, to producing detailed construction documentation, she loves collaborating on design projects to turn a client’s vision into reality. With...

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“A Kitchen of Love” Highlights the Beauty of Wood in This Copenhagen Flat

Garde Hvalsøe creates kitchen and interior solutions, designing spaces for world-famous chefs like René Redzepi of Noma. Designer Thomas Lykke, who runs OEO Studio together with Anne-Marie Buemann, needed a new kitchen in his Copenhagen flat. Like pieces of a puzzle, the two came together to collaborate on the Lykke Model, a modular made-to-order kitchen...

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DMTV Milkshake: Reform on Creating the Heart of the Home (With Cabinets)

This week’s DMTV Milkshake guests are Jeppe Christensen and Michael Andersen – CEO and CSO, respectively, of the Copenhagen-based kitchen lifestyle brand Reform. Reform works with architects and designers to offer sleek, modern kitchens – as well as its original cabinetry system, which combines cost-conscious IKEA foundations and Reform’s cabinet fronts....

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Interface® Considers Design + Sustainability at Every Step

The following post is brought to you by Interface®. Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design. Design is bigger than aesthetics alone; it’s about great design existing in harmony with nature. That’s the philosophy that led global commercial flooring brand Interface to embark...

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The Minimalist Multifunctional D&DEPARTMENT JEJU by Schemata Architects

D&DEPARTMENT JEJU by ARARIO is a minimalist multifunctional space located in Jeju, South Korea, designed by Schemata Architects. The project includes a restaurant, store, gallery, workshop and hotel-like spaces serving as an extension of the store. The building was designed as a two-way cultural exchange point. For the hotel spaces, dubbed “d...

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DM 15th Anniversary: Top 15 Posts of All Time

Happy birthday to us! Our 15th anniversary celebration is underway! Stay tuned for more special 15th anniversary content and fun surprises as our celebration continues! Are you as surprised as we are that in July Design Milk turns *15*!?!? Fifteen! It’s hard to believe that we’ve reached a decade and a half and there’s no better way to appreciate it...

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Muuto’s Marie Hesseldahl Transforms a 1960s Minimalist Summerhouse

After discovering this summerhouse while on a walk about an hour outside of Copenhagen in 2017, Marie Hesseldahl fell in love with the architecture and the way it blended with the natural environment. The one-story, wooden “type house” was designed by renowned Danish architects Knud Friis & Elmar Moltke Nielsen of Friis & Moltke in the mid 60s....

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A Los Angeles Home Gets a Dramatic Scandinavian-Inspired Transformation

The before images speak for themselves (see the end). What was once a decrepit, old home built in the 1940s gets a complete gut renovation and transformation by design duo Cynthia and Dino Corella, the homeowners of the new Scandinavian-inspired bungalow. Located in the Baldwin Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, the modern home skews towards...

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