The amenity spaces at Maeve lend a sense of warmth and serenity, contrasting to the hustle-and-bustle of the North Carolina capital city's growing urban core.
Inspired by critic Henry Urbach's concept of the ‘ante-closet,’ the organizing element of the renovated dwelling is a series of cabinets and closets with folding, swinging, and rotating enclosures.
In its latest incarnation, a modest 1930s structure in Sunset Park serves as the firm's studio and as headquarters for Design Studies Collaborative, a nonprofit planning consultancy.
Designed by Manabu Chiba, a new outpost of shabu-shabu chain Kyoto Hyōto swaps the usual shoji screens for honeycomb panels in a dazzling arrangement of heights and sizes.
Creating expansive Central Park views and displaying the client's collection of postwar and contemporary art were the driving factors of this dramatic transformation.