We recieved this Urban Action 2010 by Dror Bill from the Bat-Yam Biennale in Israel. It focuses on the tension between the temporary and the permanent, between the planned and the experienced. The Biennale examines the occasionally tense relationships between the city’s attempt to create order through long-term plans, and the everyday chaos that is the product of that process. Our goal is to enc..
Spanish designer Javier Alejandre has created the Oddbod Chair. The chair plays at the boundary between an inert object such as a chair and to give life to this object. The formal inspiration are the weird sci-fi movies of the mid-twentieth century design and retrofuturistic organic design tendences. It´s made in rotomoulded PET and pine legs. from contemporist
Architects: Marcio Kogan Location: Salvador, Brazil Co-authors: Suzana glogowski, Samanta Cafardo, Interior Design Co-authors, Diana Radomysler Collaborators: Henrique Bustamante, Sergio Ekerman Team: Beatriz Meyer, Carolina Castroviejo, Eduardo Chalabi, Eduardo Glycerio, Gabriel Kogan, Lair Reis, Maria Cristina Motta, Mariana Simas, Oswaldo pessano, Renata furlanetto Project area: 2,165 sqm Pro..
Vancouver, Canada-based sculptor Marie Khouri exhibited her L5 Spine Bench at the 2010 IDS West show in October. The sculptural seating pieces are all handcrafted from laminated wood. from contemporist
Dutch practice HVDN architecten have completed this wood and aluminium-clad building to temporarily house a school in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Called Het 4e Gymnasium, the modular building has a square plan constructed around an internal courtyard and features a wooden façade, interrupted by coloured aluminium panels. The courtyard is the heart of the school providing an easy circulation rout..
This mountainside house by G2 Estudio in Argentine Patagonia is wrapped in a stone and wood facade. Called Ribbon House, the single-family home is criss-crossed internally by diagonal columns and windows. Here’s a bit of text from the architects: The juxtaposition of the different volumes between the public and private spaces of the house, the social and family life, gives place to a dynamic wal..
Architects: Wizja Architects Location: Burów, Poland Lead Designer: Stanisław Deńko Project Team: Łukasz Pióro, Ewa Idzikowska, Robert Koprowski Interior Design: Maria Łukasiewicz — Rudkowska Project area: 233 sqm Project year: 2007 Photographs: Wojciech Kryński The house is situated in Burow, a village that lies in vicinity of Krakow, Poland. The site is placed on a south slope that is gently d..
Dutch designer Maarten Baptist has sent us photos of his Lucky Love Chair. The LUCKY LOVE CHAIR’ is made by Dutch craftsmanship, and you can see and feel the time and attention we all put into it. The first impression is a comfortable happy inviting product. The clear use of materials shows how it’s made. This part is the Dutch design part. It has also some Scandinavian characteristics in the bl..
Swiss design firm OOS have designed the interior of the Albert Reichmuth wine store in Zurich. Always considered to be an insider’s secret among wine lovers in the past, the Albert Reichmuth wine store is now opening its first showroom accessible to the public at Feldstrasse 62 in Zurich. “LA GALERIE DU VIN” is both a sales as well as a wine tasting and seminar venue and aims to appeal to regula..
Matthias Pliessnig has sent us some photos of his latest creation, the Amada Bench. Amada was designed for a private client who wanted a large bench flowing through his space. I designed the piece to direct the sitter to face multiple directions due to the functions of the space… this helped to dictate the initial design. In other words, the ebb and flow of the piece is directed by the function ..
