One of the best aspects of holiday home is the fact that the practical issues of everyday life, such as storage space, are largely irrelevant. Utter simplicity is often the key, especially in a warm climate, where the house is almost secondary to the outside. Set on a cliff-top above the sea in Mallorca, this one-room cottage, which only recently gained a supply of running water, was built by the native...
Contrasting colors black and white with geometric patterns and accent color red Always well “dressed”. These fit furniture with geometric shapes. Interior design ideas from Marimekko
Being a collector can sometimes feel like a burden. To begin with, it can be difficult to find homes for an ever-growing number of items, whether cahors, bowls, fossils or rugs. One man’s solution has been virtually to give over his entire early nineteenth-century house to a sometimes eccentric but always inspiring collection of objects. Every room is crammed with auction-house finds or items...
Nottingham, England based designer Guy Brown, who is part of the British design collective FARM, has created the Reel Light. [Via : Contemporist]
When it came to building this new house, surrounded by lush lawns and eucalyptus plantations beside a farm dam in Zimbabwe, the owners were inspired by Australian colonial architecture. With no planning restrictions and an ample supply of home-produced bricks and building timbers, the design could be virtually anything they wanted.They decided on a building only one room wide and extremely long, so...
Philip Edis designer from Stockholm has created furniture, the Shelter Series Shelter series is two chairs and a table/stool. The furnitures are stabile and protective. Shelter series is like an aura around you, airy and transparent. The expression is constructive and simple, massive and fragile at the same time. When you place the Shelter series in a conference room, a kitchen or a waiting hall, air...
During the 2009 London Design Week, Dutch designer Erik Griffioen will be exhibiting with Designers Block at Earls Court along side 100% Design. For his third fair he will bring along the red and white couch called Coucho together with the silent Growl, the elegant Gio and the energetic Shezza, which has not been exhibited anywhere before. Visit Erik Griffioen’s website – here. [Via]
Karim Rashid has completed the interior design for the Oaza Zdravlja pharmacy in Belgrade, Serbia From the designer: The architectural forms and weight of this space reference the beautiful intricacies of the human body and healing process. Through the use of soft flowing walls and organic shapes a sense of comfort and security is immediately established. Framed by the sweeping curvature of the walls,...
The mid-80s presented Moorman first products of its own range of avant-garde in the halls of the Cologne Furniture Fair and has since become one of the most successful – and idiosyncratic – Publishers furniture Germany: He selects designs, manufacturers and organized studied the distribution. Moormann leaves 90 percent of its furniture in the region produce and refuses to stand firm –...
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...