Italian brand Q-BO starts the new year launching brand new collections declined in XXL size of 60×120 cm, integrating its wide range of precious wall and floor coverings made with marble and natural stone. Q-BO confirms its imprint of luxury and exclusiveness, creating with skillful craftsmanship new collections in an XXL size of 60×120 cm. [...]
VC1 is the latest completed residential project by Italian architectural practice Tisselli studio architetti. It is designed to accommodate 1 level of basement car park, 8 apartments in first 2 floors and a garret apartment. Beyond a mere functional description of the intervention, action focus is still the wish to reinstate the architectural quality to [...]
Clamp is a pendant lamp designed by Enrico Zanolla and Andrea Di Filippo of DZstudio. The inspiration comes from the pattern of Chesterfield sofas (Capitonné) applied to the exterior surface of the lamp. It was hard to define the right size of every rhomb and find the quality of leather that could fit the radius [...]
UAU office has designed the PEPE Hairstylist Showroom in Turin, Italy. + Architect’s statement by UAU office Chromatic and perceptive contrasts enrich in details the essential lines and volumes of this hairstylist showroom where the different customers needs are sum up in a global design project. The project alternates wooden oak volumes and on design [...]
UAU office has designed the Audi Convention in Milan, Italy. The challenge of the project has been to totally re-dress the hosting location in order to transform it into an elegant, high level and welcoming space to respond the brand requirements. UAU office + Architect’s statement by UAU office A tapis rouge, the climax point [...]
Another enjoyable and fashionable creation coming out from Sand & Birch’s studio. Optical is a nearly half spherical pouf, upholstered in cotton or leather, and crossed by one or two eye-catching ribbons made of Carbon Flex, an hi-tech material that Sand & Birch has decided to experiment in its furnitures. From a frontal perspective, they [...]
LED Light Exhibition Design 2010, Milan From December 4, 2010 to January 10, 2011 Huub Ubbens, Dutch designer based in Milan and Montpellier, has conceived the poetic installation sottovoce inside the Public Gardens Indro Montanelli during the LED Light Exhibition Design 2010 in Milan. In front of the seventeenthcentury Palazzo Dugnani, surrounded by the silent [...]
Between paper clay and porcelain ware, the unique ceramic art of Paola Paronetto, on display at Maison & Objet. Italian ceramist Paola Paronetto is glad to announce her participation in Maison & Objet, the International home fair in Paris, scheduled from January 21st to 25th, 2011. Part of “Scènes d’intérieur” section, dedicated to artistic and [...]
In Milan, Chris Bosse of Laboratory for Visionary Architecture [LAVA] has created a window installation for the famous Italian department store la Rinascente for its Contemporary Christmas Art windows. LAVA’s window installation is an origami coral reef using 1500 recycled and recyclable cardboard molecules that explores the intelligence of natural and architectural systems. In urban [...]
Sand & Birch this time goes back to its first and most successful inspiration, and presents a new interpretation of a concept that made this young italian studio known by public: just like the famous Velvet Sofa, this Velvet Chair takes its shape from the idea of a ribbon three times wrapped on itself. Thanks [...]
The team of Maria Kadyrova + Sam Buckley + Martina Caddeo shared with us their work which was done in their Master degree program in Scuola Politecnica di Design (Milano). Alias Evolution was an organic response to the brutality and minimalism of the host buidling and the surrounding environment, combining a fluid aesthetic with a [...]
Nilufar e Secondome present PRIMITIVE COLLECTION | Nucleo via degli orsini 26/27 Rome | 21st of October – 20th of November 2010. Primitive collection, designed in exclusive for Nilufar, is presented in Rome at Secondome Gallery starting from 21st of October at 6.30 pm. Continuing the creative process, Nucleo develops a series of new elements [...]
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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 [...]
