Mal Corboy has been awarded the 2009 Australian Kitchen Designer of the Year at the 2009 KBDi Kitchen & Bathroom Design Awards. Project description by Mal Corboy: This contemporary styled multi storied home was designed to be situated in a stylish inner city suburb on a narrow site, which commanded extensive harbour and city views. The kitchen was situated in the main living area on the second...
Dare Studio is a new company which design and produce furniture, lighting and lifestyle products that will be launching at 100% Design in London, September 24-27, 2009. The company has been founded by Sean Dare, a designer with over a decade of experience producing many commercially successful designs for leading retailers and manufacturers. The pieces shown here are the first of a number of products...
Paraty beach house design two reinforced concrete boxes, sit atop each other, connected on the mountainside of one of the islands of the colonial city of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), like two modern prisms between the large colossal stones of the Brazilian coast. The building projects outward from the mountain, almost onto the beach, in an 8m cantilever. The beach...
There is an enclave of wonderfully preserved red-brick houses near the River Thames in Chis wick, west London. Narrow streets lead to the river in an area that was much favored by eighteenth-century merchants and traders, many of whose homes have survived in a surprisingly cohesive group. The twentieth century, though, was a time when respect for period architecture dropped to a low ebb, social conditions...
Italian designer Carlo Martino has created the Tiki radiator for the manufacturer Ad Hoc. From the manufacturer: A good symbol of an authentic and harmonious domestic universe, Tiki is a modern review of a totemic shape without time. The heating body deviates from the wall in order to conquer new spaces creative. It loads innovative expresses in a cylindrical, slender shape and fluctuating, that heat...
We haven’t featured many contemporary bathrooms recently, so here are some inspirational photos from the Swiss bathroom products manufacturer Laufen. Visit the Laufen website – here. [Via : Contemporist]
Nottingham, England based designer Guy Brown, who is part of the British design collective FARM, has created the Reel Light. [Via : Contemporist]
The active product in Shanghai designer Danny Kuo has an incredibly simple but extraordinary concept and design, how the books in the height can reach without a head. The product is called “Staircase” and is in its subtile, simple kind of trendy again. This bookshelf ideal for office or nursery. Unfortunately I could not find distributors. The system looks as it could be cost-effectively...
Nothing but a weathered old door and single window can seen from the street. It would appear that only a tiny and very narrow house could be squeezed into such a tight space, but ancient Provencal towns and village are full of surprises. The front door opens onto another world: the dimly lit, tiled hall leads to a stone staircase that draws one up to a magnificent enclosed courtyard garden, two sides...
Instead of trying to make his vertical space look larger by using the common device of an all-white scheme, the interior design director of a top UK fabric and design company took another approach in this south-west London apartment. A developer had bought an old school, divided the spaces into units of various sizes and sold them on as empty shells. From the entrance-hall, the staircase, with one...