Archive for February, 2010

17/02

Louise

The Lucky 7 Canteen, Glasgow

Lucky 7, is a homespun Cantina, located in the heart of Glasgow. The bar and restaurant formerly had a townhouse interior and was then redesigned by Surface ID. The new design by Surface ID combines rustic elements, with distressed/renaissance.

Lucky 7 describes itself as a ‘canteen’, which refers to its understated “distressed’ ambiance.

The interior design that Surface ID did for Lucky 7 is very rustic with exposed wood and brickwork, mess hall benches, concrete columns, long wooden tables and distressed wallpaper that is stylishly peeling in pales, which has been mixed together to construct this unusual and fascinating interior.

The distressed wallpaper gives a worn and decayed appearance, producing a unique wall effect. Adding a little softness to the interior are the cushions even though the octagonal shape of the cushions are quite hard, the fabric makes it softer, these are found attached to the wooden benches..

Generally the colour theme throughout the ‘canteen’ is very neutral and earthy but there are a few splashes of bright colours, which draws your eye towards the object such as the stalls at the bar, the vibrant red on the seat of the stall.

The menus in Lucky 7 have been printed out on brown paper, creating a recycled and eco-friendly appearance that co-ordinates with the interior design.

Lamps that sit on the table have been made from cast concrete which adds to the rustic and urban form of the ‘canteen’.

In Lucky 7 there has been a vast amount of attention to the detail making the interior design to this canteen very exceptional to most due to its unique character.

General View of Lucky 7Bar View of Lucky 7Interior View of Lucky 7Peeling Wallpaper in Lucky 7

17/02

Shoot the Stylist!

48 Square Metre by Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm

48m2 is a collaboration between product and graphic design students at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm. The first group created a series of products and the second a tight campaign for their exhibition.

Furniture was developed by the product design students for a 48 square meter apartment, with the intent of “questioning and twisting preconceptions of home styling”. In response to this work, the advertising/graphic design students developed a killer campaign for the exhibit, creating the concept “Same but Different,” described below:

Is a chair always a chair, an apartment always an apartment? Tilt your head for awhile, and the world will emerge in a different light. Up is down, objects change appearances, the unclear becomes obvious and problems meet their solutions.

The campaign includes a two meter long exhibition catalogue (excerpted top), four promotional films (below and after the jump), and an exhibition in a reconfigured 48m2 apartment.

16/02

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Mental Health Clinic in Akasaka, Tokyo by Nendo

Japanese designers Nendo have completed the interior of a mental health clinic in Akasaka, Tokyo, where none of the doors open and patients and staff instead move around the building by opening sections of the walls. Called MD.net Clinic Akasaka, the project includes sliding bookcases behind which the consultation rooms can be found and a single opening door at the end of the corridor that reveals a window to the outside.

Rather than getting patients back to a ‘zero’, a neutral starting place, the traditional model for mental health care, the clinic aims to provide patients with something extra: a further richness in their daily lives that they did not have before starting treatment. The interior design is an attempt to express this philosophy in space. The ‘doors’ that line the walls of the clinic do not open, and ‘ordinary’ parts of the walls open up into new spaces. The consultation rooms are entered by sliding the bookshelves sideways. The door at the end of the hallway opens onto a window; the amount of light in the hallway is controlled by opening and closing the door. By providing alternate perspectives for viewing the world, and avoiding being trapped by pre-existing perceptions, the interior allows visitors–and staff members–to experience opening new doors in their hearts, one after the other.

Via Dezeen

15/02

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Idea Spice Design Office by Busride Design Studio

The Busride Design Studio is an emerging design practice in Mumbai, having a lot of quirky and inventive projects in their protfolio. Featured here is an office they designed for Idea Spice Design. The company looked to shift gears in profile, so the new office was meant to reflect the new projected identity in essence and spirit to their clients and themselves. The project was done while at Idea Spice, maybe one of the reasons why it does feature bunk beds on top of all the desks, even though they claim that “the design was a result of in-depth understanding of the work style and culture, individual and collective needs, and resulted in a built environment that became the tangible form of the new identity.”

13/02

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Rainbow Church by Tokujin Yoshioka

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will exhibit a glass window made of 500 crystal prisms at MUSEUM. beyond museum in Seoul this May. Called Rainbow Church, the eight metre-high installation will create rainbows within the space as the light is refracted.

I experienced a space filled with the light of Matisse: Being bathed in the sunlight of the Provence, the stained glass with Matisse’s vibrant colors suffused the room with full of colors. Since then, I had been dreaming of designing an architecture where people can feel the light with all senses.

10/02

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One Pallet Kitchen by Steie van Vugt

One pallet kitchen is a stackable kitchen made from wood chips and natural resin, designed by dutch designers Steie van Vugt and Frank Winnubst. Most kitchens are made from cheap pressed wood (chipboard) and laminate. But this one is incredible easy to assemble requiring no glue or screws.

Our aim is to show the quality of pressed wood by using the material as a three dimensional shape. Our design process is driven by function, where the function becomes the construction. One Pallet Kitchen’s stackable nature makes it a flexible kitchen for a flexible Lifestyle.

04/02

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Revolving Realities by Interpalazzo

“Revolving Realities” is an auto-reactive installation by  
the Interpalazzo group, developed for Dornbracht Edges – an exhibition series at the interface 
between architecture, design and art. Curated by Mike Meire, it was presented in the FACTORY during the Passagen of the imm International Furniture Fair in Cologne. An amazing audio-visual experience, that looked like a futurist laser show – even though it was simple white strings that reflected the black light. What a simple yet stylish way to create goose bumps of enthusiasm! Also in the show was a high-end set of deSede sofas, looking like a huge spine, snaking through the gallery.

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