Archive for March, 2009
Connaught Bar
Situated within the The Connaught Hotel, one of the grandest hotels of London, the Connaught Bar must be one of the most chic and stylish places to have a drink and realx.
Redesigned by David Collins, the interior design retains its classic art deco feel and mixes dark rich colours with elaborate textures and details such as the brogue detailing on the furniture. The bar also has a ‘Head mixologist table’ where guests will be able to taste an assortment of drinks produced on a cocktail station next to the table.
Tags: bar-design, Connaught Bar, Connaught Bar Design, Connaught Hotel, Hotel Design
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Funky new champagne bar at The Loop.
At Hong Kong’s Cristal bar every wall, ceiling and floor is covered with fantastic surreal mythological creatures with futuristic colors that populate the mind of the graphic designer Katrin Olina, making the bar as one big mural, where the visuals are completely unbroken.
The main effect of the wrap-around graphics can be seen as a dematerialization of the space, adding to the dreamlike atmosphere.
Colors ebb and flow to accentuate the bar’s spatial division into four areas. Where the areas meet, the different colored graphics overlap in a fluid transition.
The bar counter-top incrusted with almost 300,000 Swarovsky cristals illuminated with multicolored LEDs is equally fanciful.
The imagery in the bar is like a mesh of stories where everyone ca interpret it how they want.
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As part of the Light Night Nottingham designer Linda Florence has created a lampshade installation in the Broadway Cinema and Media Centre. The designer used second hand lamp shades which she redecorated with her own wallpaper designs and trimmings, turning them into precious looking objects and giving them a new life span. The warm glow of the lampshades looks very beautiful against the plain backdrop and reminds us of our own lighting installation for the
Babel bar in
Clapham, for which one of the main features was a ceiling filled with with glowing lampshades. Each pendant was custom made for the projects by the designers.
Tags: babel bar, Hotel Interior Design, Light Night Nottingham, Lighting Design, Linda Florence
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Tokyo boutique designed by Chikara Ohno.
At Duras Ambient Funabasy Tokyo there’s no any place where you can overall the whole space.
An empty wall cut into long and narrow triangles -painted dark brown on the outer surfaces and white on the inner- divides the center of the shop space where a triangular white sofa is placed as the boutique’s heart.
The triangular panels hang like icicles stand as if they dance and make an “aperture of the space” giving customers a completely new spatial experience.
Clothes hang on metal rails attached to three panels and we can walk following the zigzag pattern of the triangular partitions add to the complexity and intrigue of this fashion landscape.
Tags: contemporary-design, design shop, fashion design, tokyo shop
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Since we designed our own
Cardboard Cafe for the London
Design Festival 08, we have been on the
lookout for everything to do with cardboard. Designed by
Alrik Koudenburg and
Joost van
Bleiswijk, the office for Amsterdam based advertising agency Nothing shows how cardboard can be used to create visually and structurally strong interior spaces. Built entirely without the use of glue or other additional fixings, the structure is slotted together to form
desks, and
separate work spaces.
The result is visually very attractive (the warm colour of the cardboard is set off against the otherwise white and light interior) and was probably quite a cost effective solution for this newly opened
advertising agency.
Tags: Card Board Cafe, Hotel Interior Design, Office Design
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Sydney’s new Aesop shop.
Aesop launched its first shop in 1987 offering botanically based skin and hair cosmetic products for both men and women. Since then, Aesop has been well known for it’s store designs.
The slick, fluid lines of the new shop prominently located in Sidney’s Strand Arcade, are a departure from the utilitarian features of previously designed stores.
The simplicity of material and purity of white break from the otherwise busy arcade, show Aesop’s preference for space lines and clean aesthetic.
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Marcel Wanders designs for Morgan’s Hotel Group
Although Marcel Wanders previous work includes other hotel design work (such as the Lute Suites), the Mondrian Miami is his first full scale hotel project. Conceived as a ‘Sleeping Beauty’s Fairy Castle’ by the designer, the interior has a surreal contemporary baroque touch; chic but playful.
The interior design features opulent furniture in painted and upholstered in bright red, 
chandeliers encased in large golden bells and flowery motifs on walls and floors. The surreal quality is visible in the columns which look like over sized turned table legs and a large black staircase which spirals through the building. The staircase balustrade is made from fret cut black metal which allows this imposing structure to still look quite delicate. The hotel rooms feature many of Wanders own designs and continue the chic, playful baroque scheme.
Tags: Hotel Design, Hotel Interior, Hotel Interior Design, interior-design, Marcel Wanders, Morgans Hotel Group
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Entering into the world of twitter.
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New John Lewis department stores in Leicester
The decorative facade wrapped in pattered fabric that acts like a curtain allows customers to see out without being able to look in, and when viewed at an oblique angle from the pavement, the pattern becomes almost opaque.
To find the appropriate pattern, the Architect delved into John Lewis’ archive, picked a couple of its fabrics patterns, fused them and made them more geometric. Applied to the facades the frond-like motif became an optical device seen
from both inside and outside.
The building is connected to the Highcross with a bridge, and the inner street is left open, making the development permeable.
A bright public walkway a first-floor level links the mall to a second bridge across the main road.
Tags: contemporary-design, design, John Lewis, moll
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Inside of the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong
Located on the top floor of the Peninsula Hotel, this avant-garde restaurant designed by Philippe Starck comes as something of a shock in the traditionally conservative hotel.
The experience begins once you board the mood-changing lift, with suggests a voyage to the world beyond and continues inside the surreal and ultra-contemporary restaurant with its huge aluminum wall and two glass facades that curve seductively to reveal stunning views of Kowloon on one side and Hong Hong island on the other.
Take a dress circle seat for the most magical show on between Victoria Peak and Hong Kong Harbour whether you want to impress or indulge, enjoy cocktails and contemporary cuisine.
Tags: contemporary-design, deign, deign restaurant, Hong Kong restaurant
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Connaught Bar
