Design
Unadorned Silhouettes: Peek into the Cognitive Creativity Process Behind Three Irresistible Lighting Designs
Created by renowned Japanese designer Ichiro Iwasaki for Vibia, the Flat collection features distinctive, disc-shaped diffusers that form horizontal planes of light. The flat metal plates reflect light off their surfaces, casting an enveloping, wrap-around glow...
The Secret Starts With a Black Dot in Exceptional Privacy Where Hours Become Seconds
There being a substantial or subtle strangeness and ambiguity behind all that is beauty, really reveals more of it, doesn’t it? You might imagine someone of her creative calibre to take themselves super seriously. Thankfully, on the contrary, a curious and...
Between Details and the Bigger Perspective: How Innovative and Compassionate Can Furniture Design Really Be?
Relentless enthusiasm, imagination and dedicated passion turned into no less than four years of designing a sofa system. What does it take to turn a simple challenge into this pragmatic, transformable new Costume sofa system that protects our planet’s...
Towering Oak Trees in California’s ‘Horse Country’ Inspire a Contemporary Farmhouse Vision that Comes to Be
Woodside is a small town in San Mateo County, California on the San Francisco Peninsula. It’s home to many horses and is among the wealthiest communities in the United States. Turning off one of its busy roads, a pair of house hunters drove over a bridge...
Artist Chris Soal Talks Bottle Caps and Toothpicks, Being Human and the Vanishing Burden of Goals When Taking It One Step at a Time
His fascination with the regular, somewhat mundane objects sparked after he shot a photograph of some toothpicks in a jar where he was having dinner. Initially dismissing the image as totally trivial, an experimentation a couple years later developed how Soal...
Step Inside this Meticulous Liverpool Penthouse Project by Highly Hailed UK Design Practice
Cochrane Design was enlisted for the interior design and conversion of three penthouse apartments into one luxury penthouse. The client wanted a home which was luxurious and timeless as well as bold and dramatic, meaning all the elements intentionally discover...
Cuisine Talents Partner with Forward-Thinking Japanese Luxury Car Brand to Publish Gorgeous Global Digital Cookbooks with Evocative Recipes
Lexus International has launched Culinary Perspectives, the first of two installments, this volume of the cookbook offers insight into the brand’s culinary partners who share an enticing menu of recipes robust with exotic flavours of the Eastern and...
Bathe in Privacy and Blend in on the Edge of an Extreme Hawaiian Landscape
Situated along a rugged stretch of coastline, this getaway family retreat embraces the spirit of Mauka-Makai – the symbolic flow of lava from mountain to sea. This site in Manini'owali Beach, loosely referred to by islanders as Kua Bay in Kona, captures the stark...
How to Benefit Most from Mandatory Downtime: The Art of Sleep
Vital sleep sanctuaries in which we humans adopt a horizontal position of solitary unconsciousness, the bedroom can be treated as a ‘dream vacation’ so to speak. And if things don’t work out well there, well, they won’t work out well in the living room either. How to...
Instinctive Skill Between Architecture and Art Merges into Light Fixtures to Tell of Nature’s Sacred Geometry
They appear to float from the ceiling, like jellyfish softly illuminating the space, enhancing the relaxed sophistication of spaces such as the culinary jewel of the landmark cultural building on the Swiss shores of Lake Lucerne. The adaptable and versatile...
Transformable Kitchens-in-Motion Encounter Freedom, Changeability and Individuality
blu_line's sensorline range continues to streamline and to strive for the extraordinary by integrating specialised knowledge and systems into the brand’s design ethos. The focus has its fingers on two central pulses: on the beat of technology; and on the beat of...
Discover a New Sense of Belonging on the Edges of the Earliest Rice Fields in South Central Portugal
Infused with an elegance that only the most unpretentious simplicity can realise, every detail here invites you into a deep retreat. The gaze is carried far – no cities or landforms to hinder it. The marshes, heaths, pine forests and beaches stretch as far as the eye...
A Historic Vibe Defined by Renovated Renaissance Features and Liberated in Ultra-Contemporary Comprehension
In the architectural world, working on a pre-built structure involves a delicate equation of addition and subtraction. It means finding the right balance between historical recollection and the spirit of the time, between what is linguistically new and what came...
Amidst it All, Emancipation Hits Home
Technogym HQ Village, Cesena, Italy – designed by architect Antonio Citterio. We can safely declare that the only bad workout, is the one that didn’t happen; and we insist that good things always come to those who sweat because as far back as the beginning of...
Structural Illusions Accent Discretion and Topography in Cape Town
The idea of a pavilion typology informed this boutique project where the structure is kept to the minimum, materiality is celebrated, and spatial boundaries are blurred. The morphology of the cottage is brought to life by two, thin floating planes stacked on top of...