Head over heels for this loft the italian way
600 squaremetrs of design and geometric rigor. An ex textile factory turns into a single family house at Busto Arsizio.
Two thumbs up for chilean architecture
Another example of break-through architecture in Santiago´s outskirts executed by Max Lopez and Bernardo Valdez, an architecture that bears the stamp of Santiago´s mountanious' surroundings to which this house is no exception, embracing nature in a very special way
Sustainable design: Stephen Burks world-wide acclaimed career
Outdoors tables and accesories, products born as a result of Stephen Burks´ collaboration with Aids Africa Organization that took place in Southafrica. Eash table can be decomposed in a tray, a bowl and a basket. By Artecnica
A tweested painted aluminum sheet give raise to each of three tables that make up the team Part. By B&B. To the left, the own upholstery is responsible for for the shape of the sofa. English craftmen have developed this innovative fabric. By Modus
Out in the green: absence of barriers between indoors and outdoors
The architects have designed a crystal lengthened volume surrounded by lush vegetation and in visual and physical contact with the surrounding environment
Lifted over the land plot: The house has been built on a flood zone, reason why it was lifted over the land by means of metalic stilts.
The floors have been paved in oak wood. The sofa upholstered in grey and the suspension lamp are from Habitat. The structured white sofa is a Renaud Barres design. At the centre, Isamu Noguchi coffee table for Vitra
The dining room boasts a table LC6, design by LeCorbusier reedited by Cassina, lamp p2164 from L. Marelli for Estiluz, and chairs Cantilever by S.Ostergaard for Cado.
White and grey harmony define this pleasant environment
Bruno Reymond , owner of Ibiza shop La Maison de l´Elephant, has applied in the refurbishment of this flat a calm and quiet chromatic game achieving a feeling of harmonious continuity and placidity between the different atmospheres. Are there any other colours you would have paired down white to achieve such a relaxed laid back feeling? Please leave your comment below if you feel differently or if otherwise you think he has done a great job. Personally,I think the pair works if the goal is one of utter relaxation, However it would be interesting seeing how playing with colours would have worked out. Maybe in a more cheerful environment.....
Laid back Parisian Loft: A blend of natural materials and white
Inmersed in the fashion universe and getting closer to the interior design world, the fashion designer Roxanne Beis has instilled a mediterranean attitude to her Parisian Loft. For her, there´s no prettiert house than that that blends like in a sigh , light, space and raw materials. Within the spirit of this white atmosphere, a selection of objects with a natural charming
Special lighting issue: Pendant, desk and wall surface mounted lighting
Luceplan Fortebraccio 05 Wall or Ceiling or desk Light
Available at Modern lighting from $ 212 , ambient direct
and Ylighting
The Fortebraccio 05 Collection provides an efficient and modern way to light your interior. Alberto Medo and Paolo Rizzatto designed this lamp in such a way that the arm can rotate vertically and horizontally. This feature enables you to have light wherever you would like it with one simple movement. This fixture's polycarbonate handle contains an on/off switch, and allows you to hold and rearrange the light in any way you want. The Fortebraccio is a sleek futuristic way to light your home.
With its new joints and base, Fortebraccio 05 guarantees an
extraordinary fluidity of movement and total light positioning freedom.
Thanks to its innovative central joint, the lamp's two arms rotate
independently, horizontally and vertically, allowing it to take on
extreme and functional positions.
Injection-moulded polycarbonate head. Cut and drawn iron plate arms. Reduced thickness zama micro-pressure diecast joints. Zama diecast base
A technically-successful collection of
lighting from a young French designer, with a characteristic red cable
(‘Ariadne’s thread’). Titanium-coloured steel structure; white opal PMMA
shade; red fabric cable.
Energy-saving lights providing soft light. By Ligne roset
The collection includes table, floor and wall lamps.
“Ariane is a range of lamps composed of a plastic lampshade interacting with metallic structures,” says Larmaraud. “A long, red cable winds, undulates and really defines the shape of each product.”
Available at Stylepark
Available from Idealight at $320 €
Brand: VISTOSI
Range: BISSONA
Model. BISSONA 1X75W G9
Dimensions 24cm X h36cm
Designer:
Vistosi
Note: Lampada da terra con diffusore in vetro
soffiato e lavorato a mano. Tonalità del vetro bianco lucido e parti
metalliche bianche.
Codice Idealight: BSNLT
This is what Foscarini, a classic when it comes to industrial lighting has to say in reference to Tropico
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Here is what Foscarini has to say about the Tropico lighting range
“Tropico is a modular system that enables the easy alteration of a mass produced product to create luminous hanging lamps in different shapes and sizes. Inspired by traditional crystal chandeliers, Tropico is composed of a series of small faceted pieces that form a larger whole; like classic cut crystal, these pieces are capable of catching and throwing light and shadow in a magical fashion.”
Whilst the designer of the product Lacchetti said “Part of my vision was to suggest a lamp that was inspired by traditional Murano glass chandeliers—a bridge-building object that would be strongly rooted in the contemporary world but which would evoke a common memory and thus, a connection with the past,”
It seems that the partnership of Lacchetti and Foscarini was a match made in heaven because of the way their ideas fit together so well. Foscarini describe themselves as a company “Offering lighting designed to improve our environment, both in terms of aesthetic values and of quality of light, is the objective of Foscarini. The company is renowned for its innovation pursued through collaboration with high-profile designers, research and experimentation with materials. Founded in 1983 by Carlo Urbinati and Alessandro Vecchiato, Foscarini has a product-oriented corporate culture. Having the essential function of producing light, Foscarini’s lamps each exhibit a distinctive personality that shines whether it is illuminated or not.”
Available at Foscarini Lighting
Poppy is part of Luzifer's imaginative new collection of playful and organic designs called 'Light & Nature'. It displays an organic form to create a living light sculpture that reflects both the simplicity and complexity of nature. Burkhard Dammer's Poppy suspension lamp in natural timber veneer is available in American white wood, yellow, red, grey, beech, orange, cherry, green, ash and multicolour and is supplied in three sizes.
Source and availability: Kezu
The Double Bubble series of lamps is one of the most recent designs
by the celebrated Finnish designer Eero Aarnio.
The Double Bubble lamp is available in three sizes - two
table lamps and one sculptural standing lamp.
The Double Bubble comes in three sizes, two table lamps and one
monumental standing lamp.
Initially created from blown glass, the Double Bubble was
ultimately cast in plastic to ensure durability and uniform color of
light.
To evenly light the curvy surface, each lamp is fitted with three
light sources: one in each bubble and one in the leg. To complement the
light slightly stronger lamps are used in the larger of the bubbles.
All lamps are made to meet the European Economic Area standards
and are CE-marked. Bulbs and transformers used are for 220-240V/50Hz AC
power.
Available at Double bubble
Red Dot design award for 2009 awarded to James Irvvine whose work has been hailed by the press as for example Wallpaper in the following terms
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ames Irvine is a British designer based in Milan, having upped sticks as soon as his mortarboard hit the floor following his graduation from London’s Royal College of Art in the early 1980s. Starting out as a consultant to Olivetti design in 1984, Irvine established his practice in 1988, counting Cappellini and SCP among his first clients. Irvine and his five-strong studio have since developed an unshakeable reputation for elegant, functional work. Among his numerous achievements, Irvine today finds time to act as creative director of bent-wood furniture company Thonet, as well as being a design consultant to Japanese design house Muji. Ever efficient, Irvine recently engineered a collaboration between the two and launched a series of chairs supported by a single, bowed panel, and equally simple tables. Last year, he was behind the multifaceted ‘Casino’ shelving system for Galerie Kreo and the wonderfully simple ‘Irvine w082’ desk lamp for Wästberg; this year will see a pop-up shop for Phaidon in London’s Piccadilly. Technically sophisticated and aesthetically unfussy, Irvine’s work is about good design, not the sound of bells and whistles.
Company: James Irvine Furniture and Industrial Design
Established:1988
Based: Milan
Key project 2009: Masterminded a collaboration between
bent-wood furniture company Thonet and design house Muji, creating the
‘Muji Thonet’ chairs
Other work: Is creating a pop-up shop for Phaidon in
London; designed a city bus for Hanover in 2000; has worked with B&B
Italia, Cappellini, Magis, MDF Italia, Olivetti
Available at Artelight and Stylepark
Building breezes: Stunning south-african retreat
A different Provence that breaks away with the expected
Door Selections: Openings, materials and aesthetics systems join forces to offer the best choice
The Quadrante doors system designed by Giuseppe Bavuso for Rimadesio is equipped with solutions that provide functionlity. Invisible hinges, equipped with a system of springs that guarantee assembly times extremely reduced and offer the possibility of reversing the sense of opening with no change in its structure. The telescopic jambs allow to cancel the grossor difference between the walls.
Down below (1,2,3)
1) Translucent, In this small apartment refurbished, the door that leads the way to the bathroom is made up of a surface of translucent glass that hasn´t been framed sothat the light is not hindered
2) Covered aluminum: The sliding panels Siparium from Rimadesio have the structure and frame of aluminum covered with wenge. The surface is made up of template translucent and reflector crystal portraying 6 mm thickness
3) Three rectangles: Between the access and the hallway of this residential building, project from the architects Diener+Diener, it has been opted for two surfaces of fixed glass and one swinging door that stretch out from ground to ceiling and are framed in black lacquered aluminum
The architect Stephen slan has restored this london
house profiting from the wood to pave the walls. The sliding door that
connects with the garden is made up of a spacious surface of glass
framed with wood
1) Above Policarbonate: The great closet in the passage step leads to the bathroom. To close the latter, a policarbonate opaque ondulate door has been chosen to allow the light that flows into the bathroom to make it to the wardrobe
2) Original handle: A sliding door devoid of frame closes the kitchen. The handle , a hollow framed in an aluminum profile allows to manipulate the door without staining it and acts as a doorstop when this hides in the wall
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The architect Stephen slan has restored this london house profiting from the wood to pave the walls. The sliding door that connects with the garden is made up of a spacious surface of glass framed with wood
1) Sober: the absence of external finishings frames and mouldes creates the perfect integrating environment for the Syntesis counterframe for fit in walls sliding doors and facilitates its combinations with architectonic elements. By Eclisse. 2) Versatile: The italian firm Longhi produces sliding doors with a beautiful anonized aluminum structure with panels in different finishings: mild glass, matt, glossy or acid or even in natural wood, lacquered or dyed.
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Transparence: With the aim of detaching the area of the work zone from the living area and redirecting the natural light into the interiors, in this house the partitions have been replaced by folding doors with stainless steel frames
