Kate Missine

When a filmmaker with no formal architecture training builds his first home, something unexpected happens. “I made the house like I would make a movie,” says the filmmaker-turned architect Alejandro Landes, who turns his lens on a buoyant brick-and-mortar premiere. “It’s designed like a sequence of shots: framing scenes of nature and shadow and light.” The two art forms, seemingly distant, yet quite similar in their pursuit of the nove

When it comes to interiors, artwork is all too often relegated to an accent, an element of decor used to merely highlight or enhance an existing space. However, for art-savvy power couple Michael Berkeley and Karine Haimo, a dynamic trove of painting, sculpture and photography sought the right environment no less than they did – one they found in an airy loft in a landmarked Bond Street building and converted into an understated showcase that still feels like home. “We needed a space large eno