Muse Catalog is a love letter to good design. Behind every piece here is a hard decision that paid off, a material pushed further than it needed to be, a detail nobody would've missed if it were left out. We're here to admire all of it.
A solid spruce coffee table with a flippable glass top handcrafted in Bodafors from oversized trees rejected by the sawmill industry
A single-story weekend house in Uckermark by Sigurd Larsen, with a curved stone wall, a glass and polycarbonate roof, and terrace-facing bedroom alcoves
A Vilnius apartment by Ingrida Bieliauškė, split between light grey public spaces and a white private zone with FormaFantasma's volcanic ash glazed tiles.
A lounge chair by Byungsub Kim and Jungwoo Rhee with an M-shaped steel frame derived from the geometry of a room corner
An Edwardian Melbourne residence extended by Adam Kane Architects with a light-filled addition, a helical stair, and a cantilevered master wing
A 50-square-meter Paris apartment renovated around walnut, polished concrete, marble, and zellige by Romuald Fontaine Architecture
The third collective installation by Belgian collective BRUT, using the contemporary city as motif to explore public and domestic, individual and collective.
A 2-level studio extension in Sterrebeek by LAVA Architecten for a ceramicist and jewelry artist, with a teaching workshop below and a private studio above
A 15-foot-wide Brooklyn townhouse renovated by Light + Air around a central void, switchback stair, and canted skylights
A cast aluminum lounge chair by Objects of Common Interest, finished in transparent glossy paint and shaped through documenting and translating natural forms.
A 1962 Eichler courtyard house in Sunnyvale by Ryan Leidner Architecture, stripped of decades of alterations and updated with pocketing glass doors and a pool.
A Listed Building renovation in St John's Wood by Joseph Mills Architects, using reclaimed London Stock brick, lime mortar, and a handrail through each brick.
A prototype furniture system for Tokyo space GAID by Siin Siin, built from FRP grating and powder-coated ready-made hardware on a square grid module
A cluster of 3 small houses in Toyama City by Studio Velocity, with 6 volumes stepping across 3 ground levels to follow the mountain contour
A mid-century Catskills lodge above Hunter Mountain renovated in 2016 by Studio Tack into a 38-room boutique retreat
A limited-edition desk by Héctor Esrawe in which structural folds in a single material provide both the stability and the visual expression of the piece
A 21-meter square house near Meco by Atelier RUA, with 4 bedroom clusters at its corners and terraces facing east, south, and west
A Palaiseau house renovation by Atelier Apara centered on improving natural light and thermal performance through envelope and interior interventions
A furniture collection by Seoul studio niceworkshop built around conveyor belt and industrial lift forms as cues for natural human interaction
A single-story residence near Ansião by Bruno Dias Arquitectura, elevated above a sloped site and organized beneath 2 organic concrete slabs
Aesop's second Barcelona store built around 78 pieces of salvaged Montjuïc stone by mesura, using a design method they named Creative Anastylosis
An occasional table by Calen Knauf built from aluminum legs cast into successive layers of tinted epoxy resin
A De Haan coastal residence by GRAUX & BAEYENS with a white-washed brick facade extended beyond the structure to provide privacy
A Düsseldorf Altbau apartment renovated by VAUST around preserved period moldings, an open plan, and a curated selection of rare design objects
A reworking of William Katavolos's 1952 T-Chair with a hand-linked steel chainmail seat, by Mexico City studio Panorammma
A Wiesbaden Altbau villa renovated through material preservation, ornamental translation, and a reinterpreted IKEA kitchen
A solid beech daybed by Teresa Lundmark and Gustav Winsth for Gärsnäs, with cushioning that swells through the wooden frame
A 3-story Osaka residence by Tato Architects organized as a spiral of 16 split levels connected by step floors rather than walls
A 7,000-square-foot 1950s Culver City factory converted into offices for Sony Music's Ceremony of Roses by 22RE and Never Far Studios
A Hampstead lower-ground extension that descends into its south-facing garden through a structural glazed corner by MATA Architects