The Spaces

Facing Falmouth Harbour from the coastal village of Flushing, a thatched-roof house has come to market for the first time in more than 30 years. Listed with Jonathan Cunliffe for £5 million, Little Flushing has its own private Grade II-listed stone quay at the water’s edge. The house stands on just under an acre of gardens and looks southwest across the harbour towards Falmouth, in Cornwall. Two slipways descend beside the quay to the Fal Estuary and a separate boathouse faces the water.

A 216-tree orchard and an apitherapy bee hut are part of Foundery Fields, a 20.9-acre farmstead in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee, set around a restored 1930 farmhouse. The timber-clad house spans 4,294 square feet, with five fireplaces and interiors incorporating patterned wallpapers imported from Italy and France. Fireplace stoves were sourced from the UK. The primary bedroom shares the ground floor with a second bedroom or office. Three further rooms sit upstairs.

If you collect — or even just fantasise about collecting — vintage furniture, eventually you’ll happen upon a mystery. A design enigma. A piece that’s essentially ‘anon’ to those in the know. We’ve come across more than one such piece at our 180 Quarter HQ.

StudioAC designed this waterfront house in Prince Edward County, Ontario around a natural ridge, reinforcing the structure directly into its bedrock. Meadow lies on one side and 216 feet of west-facing lake shoreline on the other. The single-storey house is clad in architectural brick imported from Belgium, with cedar shingles across its roof and exterior. Inside, vertical-grain Douglas fir covers the walls and ceilings, with heated concrete floors underfoot.

Built around 1868 for stonemason John W. Brown, this two-storey Victorian house stands on Swanston Street in Carlton, opposite the University of Melbourne. The property is recognised by the National Trust.

A trend for creamy, rusty, natural palettes has gripped the design world and shows no signs of abating. Last year, an autumnal filter seemed to colour interiors everywhere, from corner cafés to private homes. Lately, however, some designers have been experimenting with spirited colour — in more than just ‘pops’ on cushions and rugs. This look-at-me style is most prevalent in Paris and specifically in its hospitality sector.

A 25-foot-high atrium rises through the centre of this house in Wellesley, designed by Vincent Appel of the architecture practice Of Possible and built by Nick Schiffer of NS Builders. Completed in 2025, the five-bedroom house spans 7,200 square feet. Petersen brick covers the exterior, with stainless-steel detailing and large areas of glazing. Brick shingles continue inside the skylit atrium, which contains the double-height dining room.

Why are the hardest-working rooms in the house the ones most likely to be overlooked when it comes to design? It makes no sense. These spaces might not always be on display, but we spend a lot of time in them. Not only that, they are often the multi-functional pockets of our homes where a little bit of design acumen and clever space utilisation can go a long way.

A farmhouse built in 1950 has come to market in Norway’s Lofoten Islands, along with a white-sand beach just 20 metres from the garden. Kjerkveien 35 is in Flakstad, on the island of Flakstadøya. The 173sqm house occupies a 2,903sqm plot, surrounded by fields with mountains rising behind them.

Feel the Shift, until 14 September Photography: Sonia Sabnani This year’s festival ambassadors Ana Hernández and Christophe Penasse of Spanish practice Masquespacio are coming off a sabbatical in Bali, where they reconsidered the whys, hows and whats of creating — specifically, their hyper-modern Mas Creations range. Their showcase attempts to put into wood, silk and velvet what makes a space feel human.