Architecture photographer Nicole England has released Resident Dog Around the World, a book featuring over 25 of the world's most remarkable houses photographed alongside the dogs that live in them. England found that dogs bring an element of sociability and fun to architectural shoots, lightening the mood regardless of how imposing the design. The book takes readers on a global tour from Mexico to Sydney, London, New York, and Los Angeles, using resident dogs as guides to these stunning homes.
The photographs aim to capture both the incredible architecture and the idiosyncratic personalities of each canine. One featured home is an award-winning house in Sag Harbor, The Hamptons, designed by P&T Interiors. This property showcases how design can integrate with natural surroundings while providing a unique living experience.
The Sag Harbor house, nestled in a forest before a fairy tale pond, seamlessly blends with its environment through eclectic material choices. Floor-to-ceiling windows define the concrete public spaces, which connect to private teak wood areas through a windowed hallway. These two spaces enclose a black lap pool, with the overall design ensuring the house loses itself in its natural setting. The home features Pol Theis' two English bulldogs, Louis and Margot, who add personality to the architectural photography.
P&T Interiors is a boutique interior design firm providing highly personalized residential design services to an international client base. The firm works to bridge the gap between a project's full potential and practical life boundaries, believing great design results from a tri-party relationship between designer, client, and space. Their role involves translating client taste and lifestyle into spaces while maintaining a conceptual thread to ensure each interior reaches its highest potential.
Every P&T Interiors design is as unique as the client, with their small staff of dedicated designers and architects focusing attention on each project to exceed even the highest expectations. This approach aligns with England's photographic philosophy in Resident Dog Around the World, where each home and dog combination presents a distinct character worth documenting.
The book's importance lies in its demonstration of how living spaces gain personality through their inhabitants, particularly pets who bring spontaneity and warmth to even the most carefully designed environments. For the architecture and design industry, it highlights how photography can capture not just structures but the life within them. For readers, it offers inspiration for integrating personal elements into living spaces while appreciating global architectural diversity through an accessible, relatable lens.
