Icelandic design studio HAF by Hafsteinn Júlíusson has created the Growing Jewelry collection which combines both jewelry and gardening. The growing necklace is a part of the Growing Jewelry collection which was designed with city dwellers in mind, giving them a bit of nature to carry around with them through urbanized gloom. + All images [...]
Climate Design™ series – Wanderings by Chicago-based design studio WEATHERS investigates its ‘climatic infrastructure’ that augments and re-configures existing external micro-climates for occupation and programmatic use. The attempt is to create multiple zones (micro-climates) that pull from and alter the existing climatic context, creating distinct and definable edges, boundaries and transitions of these materials. ‘Wanderings‘ [...]
Aria is the new lamp designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini for Murano Due, the FDV Group brand that gives expression, through its products, to the synthesis of a meticulous research applied to the glass design and to its techniques of realization. Aria is a refined and ethereal empty crystal bubble which fills with the light [...]
Philippines-based architecture firm Zubu Design Associates recently has completed the interior works of the Nouveau Salon Spa. + Project description courtesy of Zubu Design Associates The concept of the salon was conceived as a sublime interpretation of a hair piece as it moves creating a wall and seating spiraling towards the ceiling. The wall blocks [...]
Spanish architectural studio YLAB recent has completed the interior refurbishment of a penthouse in the very center of Barcelona. The apartment was conceived to be used as a weekend apartment and includes the level of comfort of a hotel. The project includes a new space layout, new surfaces and fittings and the detailed design of [...]
Sunburst, is one of the new Versace home collection unveiled at Milan Design Week. Sunburst is a crystal round table. Its base is composed by 14 elements in chromed metal that conveys the strength of a solar explosion. Meanwhile, Versace and Venini announce a new partnership agreement for the production and distribution of exclusive collections [...]
Portuguese designer Acácio Viegas Pereira has designed the Ethanol Fireplaces. Clean, burning is based on denatured ethanol, a solvent composed of ethyl alcohol, no smell and no smoke. + All images courtesy of Acácio Viegas Pereira
Displayed in the C. Vittorio Emanuele store’s impressive 40’s entrance hall, it was designed by the prestigious architect Ben van Berkel and his team at UNStudio. The main entrance of Zara’s flagship store on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan starting today plays host to an eye-catching installation created by the Netherlands-based design firm UNStudio. [...]
KiBiSi debuts at Milan’s annual design fair Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010 this week, featuring a limited edition chair for Wallpaper* magazine and a piece for Quinze & Milan. Shanghay Chair for Wallpaper* Designed by KiBiSi for the Danish Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo 2010, the Shanghay chair is composed of 4 small boards [...]
A group of greatest french designers have proposed their own interpretation of the material for innovative mirror design “Addiction” : Arik Levy, Agence [O;O], Noe Duchaufour-Lawrance, Jean Marie Massaud, Patrick Norguet, JC de Castelbajac, Christian Ghion … “Addiction” is a unique proposal in interior decoration. A brand new approach of contemporary decorative arts, leading to [...]
Pollen IV, is an artwork made by sculptor Tomáš Medek. Pollen IV will be exhibited at this year’s Milano Design Week, within the framework of a broader programme of exhibitions orgazied by Jannelli & Volpi in the showrrom “J&V Store”. The artwork with a complicated organic structure was produced thanks to the combination of a [...]
Lebanon-based design studio .PSLAB beirut recently has completed the Al Dente Restaurant in Beirut- Lebanon. + Project description courtesy of .PSLAB beirut .PSLAB BEIRUT was asked to develop a lighting concept for al dente restaurant in beirut–lebanon. The high ceiling restaurant is divided into 3 areas: the main central area containing the entrance and the [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
