Archive for May, 2009
London architects
Glowacka Rennie have completed the interior of the ladies toilets at the
V&A museum in London. The design includes a black, stone wall, black cubicle interiors and brass fittings in a white-painted interior with a high ceiling. A blue, painted installation by Swiss artist
Felice Varini resolves into a pattern of circles when viewed in the mirror above the wash basins.
Tags: bar-design, felice, glowacka, Hotel Interior, london, mirror, optical illusion, rennie, varini, Victoria and Albert Museum, washrooms
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Professor Ingeborg M. Rocker of Rocker-Lange Architects and students at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (USA) have used a robot to build an undulating double-wall structure. The robot arm was programmed to place 4,100 wooden bricks to create complex double-curvature walls. The project, called On the Bri(n)ck, was a collaboration between the school’s computer-aided design and computer-aided construction departments.
And even though this project reminded us strongly of the work of Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler, we would have loved those robots to put up the walls for our cardboard cafe that we presented last year. A similar structure created from 9.000 cardboard boxes – all put together by using pure human power (no robots unfortunately).
The wall is on show at the school until 30 June.
Tags: architects, bricks, brink, computer-aided design, double wall, gramazio, harvard university, kohler, robots, rocker-lange, wall
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A new project by
CTRLZAK Art & Design Studio is ‘REMEDITATE’ – a series of everyday objects inspired by the medical world exploring elements of critical irony in relation to their function and origins. The collection of clear-cut furniture, lamps and accessories composes an austere, almost clinical space: Tables supported by orthopaedic supports, chairs with a straight-jacket embrace and cutlery in the aesthetic language of surgical instruments.
Tags: chair, CTRLZAK, cutlery, hospital, instruments, interior-design, medical, orthopaedic furniture, remediate, straight jacket
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Through the ancient times interior designs have been very popular and people in the past have been picky on the interior designs they have wanted for their homes, offices, restaurants, pubs or clubs.
First impression of everything really matters and hence that’s when interior designs come into picture. People are very conscious about the way their home, office, restaurant, office, pub or clubs looks like. This trend is still continuing today, although in the 21st century it is about the modernization of interior designs that are very different to the older times.
21st century stands out with the vast collection and variety of designs that have been designed by different interior designers all over the world. It is about recognizing the art of interior designing and the process involved in it.
Contemporary interior design styles are more likely to be recognized as International styles that are adapted from all over the world. These designs are incorporated and are linked with each other in terms of corporative designs taken from all over the world. Interior designers use the modern techniques to decorate and furnish working spaces and indoor living involving both the aesthetic and practical considerations.
Contemporary Interior design cultures
Classical and Asian culture are some of the most modern interior design cultures used to elaborate and create various interior styles. These cultures have originated through the past changing the design styles with the modernization.
In the medieval European days interior designs were more of hanging objects made in elaborate styles that were used for the furnishing of castle. This style was reformed in the middle ages with more of Roman and Green styles that became popular. The recent style comes with the combination of all the international styles. Most modernized style is usually glass or metals to give a finishing look to the interior designing.
Lighting is the important factor when it comes to Contemporary interior designing and hence arrangement of the interior designing is based on comfort, pattern, scale, color and balance.
Furniture
Furniture used in the Contemporary Interior design is often blended with the color and is more modernized than the ancient times. Furniture usually is made to complement the color and the entire designing process. Furniture is also very important aspect of designing process. The entire interior designing depends on the furniture you will opt for. You can actually make a statement, ‘Bad furniture will spoil the entire décor of your interior designing’.
Wall Paper
Most contemporary interior designers are now going for modernized wall papers that would give more of an attractive look to the décor. The interior designers choose the color and the wall papers but they definitely will sit with you to discuss if the colors and the paper used for the wall are feasible and if that is what you would like.
Most Wall Paper décor will give a very sophisticated and classic look to the entire interior designing. The entire process of it is discussed to make the client comfortable with the look.
Tags: architecture, b3-designers, bar, contemporary, decor, design, designers, exhibition, furniture, home, hotel, interior, london, modern, restaurant, retail, uk
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Rather than having empty building walls covered with advertising or at best with ivy, why not install the
Reviwall and turn your wall into a vertical vegetable garden? Some inspired Italians have set one up in Revigliasco, a small town near Turin, and it just looks magnificent. Check out the
photo gallery on the website of La Stampa newspaper. Clever also the name, as it is not only a Revi[gliasco] wall, but also alludes to this pleasant “revival” of urban walls.
Tags: bar-design, ecology, food, garden, gardening, italy, reviwall, salat, urban, vertical
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This year at the International Design Week in Milan, an interesting project was presented in the Triennale:
Mezzo Terra. Two artists –
Michelangelo Pistoletto and Juan E. Sandoval – transformed the
laleggera chair by the furniture
company Alias into the boundary zone between land and sea, between art and design. The chairs are aligned around the geographical profile of the Mediterranean. Divided by the line of the coast they absorb the colours of both the water and the land. On the chairs the boundary does not divide but connect. Each chair is a unique work, signed by Michelangelo Pistoletto and Juan E. Sandoval. The total of 248 chairs delineate the profiles of the Mediterranean Sea, Baltic Sea, Caribbean Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea and South China Sea. All proceeds of selling the chairs will be donated to sustain the activity of Love Difference – Artistic Movement for an InterMediterranean Politic, founded by the most significant artist alive in
Italy – Michelangelo Pistoletto.
Click on pictures to enlarge.
Tags: alias, baltic sea, black sea, carribean sea, chair, design art, love difference, mediterranean sea, mezzo mare, michelangelo pistoletto, red sea
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Mike Meires “Global Street Food” shows a great number of various street kitchens from all over the world which were researched and purchased over the period of one year. “Complex minimalisation makes it possible to think about other processes” describes Meire his fascination with street food kitchens. Pictured are street food stands from the United States, China, Argentinia, Namibia, Vietnam, Thailand and Uganda.
After The Farm Project, Global Street Foo
is Mike Meires Current installation for the
Dornbranch Edges series of exhibitions. In contrast to The Farm Project, this new project is not about the domestic kitchen as the stage of life; it is about improvised kitchens set up in public spaces – in and on the streets. The exhibition in Cologne is a beautiful oasis of authenticity in the middle of glossy design world wonderland and a great location to become aware of what kind of kitchen one really needs for one’s respective lifestyle. Removed from their real special context and put in a white gallery instead, these street kitchens are 
able to be perceived and valued in a very different way.
Tags: b3-designers, bar-design, exhibition-design, installation
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The Italian furniture manufacturer Lago presented their Appartamento project at this year’s Design Festival in Milan (which happened last week). Staff of Lago and the design blog Core77 were living together in the apartment for the duration of the design week, sharing the kitchen, shower and wardrobes. Some left to work on the fair in the morning and others “stayed at home” to welcome “off-show” visitors during the day. Core77 had their offices on-site, creating and producing their Milan design week coverage live from the Appartamento. There was a cook constantly spoiling the tenants and visitors with delicious italian treats. A total of 9.000 visitors visited the apartment during the Design Week and witnessed this unconventional event, presenting Lago’s furniture in a real-life context, rather than in a glossy showroom.
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Placed in a narrow spacial gap next to the Cologne cathedral is the
KUNSTBAR. Another designer/artist is invited every year to create a new concept and interior for it. This year it is
Arne Quince – and part of his concept is to only serve Belgium beer, which makes this bar probably the only one in Cologne that does not serve Koelsch (the local beer). Apart from the interior designer/artist Quince is also responsible for a video installation on the walls of the bar, featuring the eyes of his girlfriend Barbara Becker.
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Proef is a creative design studio where food concepts are developed and executed. The studio is located in Amsterdam’s cultural park Westergasfabriek in a monumental building in a monumental building in a lovely garden where even chickens lay their eggs.In Proef you can work relaxed at the big table, have a break in the herbs garden or cuddle one of the chickens if you’re sick and tired of the meeting you are in. It is possible to marry in Proef, you can ask the civil servant to come to the studio! When the sun is shining, you can eat outside or share a pick-nick at a nice place in the park. In the studio you can give a presentation while the fireplace is heated up. Meanwhile you can see the chefs create the most delicious meals and serve in the same space. They like to tell you more about the taste an the honest ingredients they work with. In Proef the food tells a story and they think it is important to think together with their clients. Food concepts are tailor made.The unique location in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam offers the possibility to receive 45 guest for a sit-down dinner, or 65 guests if it is a more informal ocasion. In the summertime the tables, chairs and benches are being put outside or a tent is placed to welcome the guests.
Tags: Amsterdam restaurant, b3-designers, deign restaurant, interior-design
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London architects Glowacka Rennie have completed the interior of the ladies toilets at the V&A museum in London. The design includes a black, stone wall, black cubicle interiors and brass fittings in a white-painted interior with a high ceiling. A blue, painted installation by Swiss artist Felice Varini resolves into a pattern of circles when viewed in the mirror above the wash basins.
company Alias into the boundary zone between land and sea, between art and design. The chairs are aligned around the geographical profile of the Mediterranean. Divided by the line of the coast they absorb the colours of both the water and the land. On the chairs the boundary does not divide but connect. Each chair is a unique work, signed by Michelangelo Pistoletto and Juan E. Sandoval. The total of 248 chairs delineate the profiles of the Mediterranean Sea, Baltic Sea, Caribbean Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea and South China Sea. All proceeds of selling the chairs will be donated to sustain the activity of Love Difference – Artistic Movement for an InterMediterranean Politic, founded by the most significant artist alive in 
Italy – Michelangelo Pistoletto.
Mike Meires “Global Street Food” shows a great number of various street kitchens from all over the world which were researched and purchased over the period of one year. “Complex minimalisation makes it possible to think about other processes” describes Meire his fascination with street food kitchens. Pictured are street food stands from the United States, China, Argentinia, Namibia, Vietnam, Thailand and Uganda.
Dornbranch Edges series of exhibitions. In contrast to The Farm Project, this new project is not about the domestic kitchen as the stage of life; it is about improvised kitchens set up in public spaces – in and on the streets. The exhibition in Cologne is a beautiful oasis of authenticity in the middle of glossy design world wonderland and a great location to become aware of what kind of kitchen one really needs for one’s respective lifestyle. Removed from their real special context and put in a white gallery instead, these street kitchens are 
able to be perceived and valued in a very different way.
