The joining up of two townhouses through sensitive interventions and legible additions is outlined in tomorrow’s edition of Places: Design & Living, which continues its focus on preserving the past to project it into the future.

The concept of true and honest architecture is evidenced in a rehabilitation project that keeps the different levels and the identity of two old Mellieħa houses intact, while rehabilitating the property for contemporary living.

Out with The Sunday Times of Malta, the magazine continues to celebrate legacy through a visual essay that focuses on inherited and antique jewellery from private collections, which, juxtaposed with more modern pieces, serve to make the latter relevant.

Jewellery also finds its way into this issue through interviews with three brooch designers to understand the significance of this form of handcraft, once almost obsolete, but that is still able to tell a story on a grand scale.

It’s all about design that communicates a message in tomorrow’s issue: from the locally created functional, flexible and funky wine rack, with its modular system, to a transformable wall-decoration-cum-bookshelf, which are making a name for themselves overseas.

Preserving the past to project it into the future

The use of rich marble for both a classical and contemporary touch; playing with shadows and dark when it comes to lighting; and more practical tips on doing up dining and living rooms also find their spot in the magazine, which includes the latest books on the subjects of architecture, art, design and the environment.

Places is a bi-monthly magazine, produced and published by Allied Newspapers Ltd.