This week, we stumbled upon Mouthwash Studio’s office in Los Angeles’s Chinatown, designed by Noam Saragosti and Juhee Park of Aunt Studio. It feels surprisingly warm and domestic for a rehabilitated industrial building, helped along by handmade objects and furniture from friends of the studio, including a custom walnut phone booth designed with Waka Waka.
The approach references the London home of Sir John Soane, a 19th-century British architect who filled his house with art, architectural fragments, and objects he collected, in part to educate his students. The idea that the office becomes something of a portrait of the studio itself feels especially fitting for a creative practice, where the relationships behind the work can be just as important as the work itself.
The relationship between Mouthwash and Aunt Studio extends beyond the office too. Mouthwash previously designed the digital identity for Neutra VDL, which Aunt Studio co-founder Noam Saragosti helps direct, and the two studios also worked together on Café Tondo, a Mexico City-inspired café and bar in Chinatown (and latest addition to our Los Angeles Guide). We love a good duo.
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Santnerpass Hütte is closed for the season, but if you’re the hiking (or climbing) type, consider this your cue to start planning next summer’s trip.
Originally built as a mountain refuge in 1956, Santnerpass Hütte was reimagined by Senoner Tammerle Architects in 2023, perched 2,734 meters above sea level in the Italian Dolomites. There aren’t any roads leading up to Santnerpass, so construction materials had to be transported by helicopter, with just 0.3 cubic meters of concrete carried per flight. Getting there yourself isn’t much easier: you’ll either need proper climbing gear, or you can take a cable car to Ciampedie and hike for about three hours, climbing 880 meters along the way.
On arrival though, you’ll be rewarded views across the Rosengarten and as far as the Brenta, Ortler, and Austrian and Swiss Alps. And for those inclined to stay for sunset, the refuge has 36 beds, with a four-course vegetarian dinner, local wines, and breakfast available to overnight guests.
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In Brooklyn, Million Goods tapped Gjergji Shkurti to design their new Fort Greene outpost in a landmarked townhouse, complete with a wine bar and hi-fi listening space downstairs, menswear upstairs, and a courtyard out back. And for the hi-fi enthusiasts among us, Bridge Street Sound even built a speaker directly into the stone bar, with the system tuned by Ojas collaborator Mo Yasin. We like the direction retail’s been heading lately. World building is in!
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And from Vipp, a guesthouse on Denmark’s North Sea coast, a stretch of shoreline nicknamed “Cold Hawaii” for its surprisingly good (and frigid) surf. For this project, Vipp tapped architects Hahn Lavsen to transform a 20th-century fisherman’s cottage into a contemporary retreat. Rather than reorienting the building to maximize ocean views, the architects preserved its original layout, designed to protect its occupants from the harsh western winds.