Mid-century interior design / Tag

Sightglass Coffee – Divisadero is a restaurant in San Francisco, CA, United States, designed by Studio BBA. Housed in a 100-plus-year-old Edwardian, the café pairs restored clerestory windows and a new walk-up service window with a fully customized interior. Tailored lighting, joinery, furniture, and equipment keep the room precise, while accessibility and structural work sit quietly underneath.

DWS Kochanowskiego unfolds inside an 80-square-meter (861-square-foot) apartment in Gdańsk, Poland, where Raca Studio works within a pre-war tenement envelope. The renovation respects the existing layout while restoring long-covered elements, giving a young pair of doctors a home that aligns new comforts with historic character. Warm tones, reawakened timber, and a measured mid-century mood tie the old structure to their daily routines.

Fernhill Residence updates a mid-century house in Portland, Oregon, United States with a crisp, family-forward renovation by Risa Boyer Architecture. The project reframes daily life for a young couple, opening the great room, refining storage upstairs, and drawing the interior toward a shaded backyard and pool. It’s a concise, material-forward reset that respects the home’s era while answering how people actually live now.

Located in Porto Feliz, Brazil, Village House embodies Studio MK27‘s design style, showcasing a seamless blend between indoor and outdoor spaces. Found within an expansive ranch, this house features distinct programmatic boxes delineated by sturdy stone walls, preserving intimacy. A medley of wooden interiors, natural furnishings, and a design influenced by medieval villages creates a harmonious atmosphere that flows naturally from communal outdoor areas to cozy, private living spaces.

This custom single-family residence is a renovation of an existing mid-century split-level home, purchased by an empty-nester couple located in Englewood, NJ, United States. The house’s material palette reflects the owners’ appreciation of the warmth of wood and stone elements, designed by Robert Gross Architecture in 2023. The residence employs highly energy-efficient strategies, including deep overhanging eaves for solar shading and a highly super-insulated envelope with high-performance glazing.

This renovation and addition project by Mark English Architects involved a mid-century hillside home in Los Gatos, CA, United States, designed in 2017. Opening the home’s potential, the designers created a more cohesive design language through careful materiality and fluidity while leveraging the latest modern technology to merge interior and exterior together. Using a warm palette of timber and complementing colorful accents, the final design creates a striking organization and balance.

Archer + Braun, a London-based architectural practice, recently transformed a ground-floor flat in Edinburgh into a stunning, modern 5-bedroom family residence. Set in a conservation area within the Edinburgh, United Kingdom, the project exemplifies adept handling of design challenges.

The architects’ sensitivity to local conservation regulations, coupled with their experience on other listed projects in Edinburgh, was pivotal in achieving the homeowners’ vision of modern, airy living within historical constraints.

Located in Milan, Italy, the MNAI Apartment is a 110-square-meter apartment finished in 2024, designed by STUDIO18MILANO. The apartment’s modern interior design underwent a complete transformation balancing vintage and contemporary furnishings. The renovation optimizes its space and creates flowing connections, notably featuring fabric-covered movable partitions, a staple of Gio Ponti’s work, allowing the apartment to adapt as needed, with an elegant design that embraces both modern and historical elements.