Posts Tagged ‘interior-design’
For the design of the Red Pif Restaurant and Wine Shop, Czeck designers Aulík Fišer Architekti decided to keep the inspiration and execution as pure and natural as the wine served. The designer and owner worked together, using photographs of bars and wine shops in France as inspiration, but drawing from their honesty rather than their style.
The architect said about the design: “We put most of our effort to make our work invisible at first sight. Our interior should be a background allowing enjoy good wine and meal here and now.”
The first step in the renovation was removing any superfluous building elements so that only the original 19th century structure remained. Bottle-shaped shutters were added that pivot open to reveal the stripped back interior that has been modestly furnished with design classics and simple, elegant fittings. Wine bottles are stacked high in a steel rod framework that creates simple geometric patterns on the walls. Dimly lit, bare light bulbs create an intimate atmosphere where the original intention of the space is allowed to quietly reveal itself.
Photography by AI Photography.
Tags: interior-design, Wine Bar, wine shop
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Mother, a top British advertising agency based in London, have collaborated and carried out their work around a central table since 1996. Now a much larger company, the working concept has grown to fit the company’s success. Central to Chris Wilkinson Architects’ design of their new office in a 42,000ft2 Shoreditch warehouse, is a staggering 250 feet long concrete table, for up to 200 people to pull up their wheely chairs to.
The inspiration for the concrete table was the iconic 1920’s Giacomo Matte-Trucco roof top race track for Fiat Lingotto in Turin. A 4.2m wide staircase leads up to and becomes the Agency’s feature worktable which cuts dynamically through the building to connect the floors.
50 light fixtures that each span 2.1m act as acoustic baffles over the enormous table. Covered with unique patterns of Marimekko fabric, selected from archive stock in its’ factory in Helsinki, and padded with 75mm of acoustic foam, the harsh acoustics of the factory space have been overcome.
With the rest of the office interior left tastefully neutral and pared-down – the striking fabrics of the lampshades really work hard to grab clients’ attention and draw them into the central space.
Tags: chris wilkinson architects, concrete table, interior-design, london, mother ad agency, office, Shoreditch
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Chin Chin Laboratorists in Camden, North London is an ice cream shop with a twist. The shop has a different workstation for each stage of the ice cream making process and additional space for experimentation. Each workstation becomes a colour coded part of this ice cream making machine, held together at appropriate heights by scaffolding. The scaffolding, white coats and laboratory paraphernalia gives the shop the feeling of a mad scientist’s lab, and a theatrical one at that. Making the ice cream becomes a performance and customers can see each part of the process from the decanting to mixing, freezing with liquid nitrogen and topping. The concept is carried through effortlessly into the branding that borrows symbols and diagrams from chemistry.
(Images via Dezeen)
Tags: camden, chin chin laborists, ice cream, interior-design, london, scaffolding
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08/03
Tina Michelle Cheng
After purchasing an old hotel in the West Queen West Art and Design District in 2001, cultural visionary Jeff Stober teamed up with local architect Paul Syme and multi-disciplinary design firm 3rd UNCLE to realize a space that would change the way visitors and locals experience hospitality in Toronto. Through the careful planning and thoughtful renovation of a hotel that was originally built in 1890, the extremely talented creative team preserved iconic elements of the building’s past while infusing it with a new energy.
The interior program at the Drake was reconfigured to include 19 guest rooms and several new functions, which allowed guests to enjoy an intersection of “Hospitality, Culture and Community”. The cohesiveness of the concept and brand identity has continued through subsequent renovations of the hotel. Charm is found in the details throughout the hotel and in the guest rooms, appointed with custom luggage racks reminiscent of the area’s railway history and handmade dolls that patiently await your arrival. Since the re-opening of its doors in 2004, the Drake hotel has established itself as more than just a trend.
With the mélange of activities at the Drake, you really could spend an entire day there wandering from one space to the next. Start the day off right by getting centered at the yoga gym, then stop into the cafe for an espresso and pastry. For lunch, try some innovative sushi at the Raw Bar and then head up to the Sky Yard to mingle in the afternoon sun. Relax in the Lounge for pre-dinner drinks before meeting with friends to enjoy private dining in Room 222. A day at the Drake wouldn’t be complete without checking out a new band at the Underground before returning to the Sky Yard for a warm apple cider by the fire pit. If you feel as though you haven’t had enough upon check out, pop into the General Store on your way out for some Drake-to-go.
Signing off, Drake enthusiast.
Photos via Drake Hotel, 3rd Uncle Design Inc, and George Whiteside
Tags: 3rd uncle design, architect, boutique hotel, brand design, culture, dining, historic renovation, hospitality design, hotel experience, interior, interior-design, jeff stober, lifestyle, paul syme, raw bar, rooftop bar, room 222, sky yard, toronto, Underground concerts, yoga gym
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Anthropologie, the eclectic American retailer specialising in hip, boho clothing and chic home ware products opened in London’s busy Regent St earlier this month. The label originally evolved from a stylish sportswear line developed by sister store, Urban Outfitters. The opening of the boutique marks the brand’s European retail outlet debut and the first opening of an Anthropologie store outside the USA.
Anthropologie derived from the word ‘Anthropology’, which means the study of the human being and how we all differ from one another, has an interior and products that reflect its name’s meaning. With an assortment of fashion brands and home ware products as well as an interior that features a living wall of various plant species, individuality and differentiation are ongoing visual themes. Shortly after its opening, the front window display featured a cluster of tea bags suspended from the ceiling like a chandelier. The tea bags, which appeared to be used, created a sense of wonder at the potential of everyday objects and how they fill our lives. The interior design, like the products, is not only aesthetically pleasing, it is cerebral and instantly take their viewer on a journey; how many tea bags do we use every day? How many thoughts and ideas did these tea bags assist with in their own little way?
There are many quirky interior design and visual merchandising details within the boutique that add to its character. Teapots, cups and saucers continue on from the tea theme to decorate the walls. As with the tea bag chandelier they are presented intriguingly; they are wrapped in fabrics like lace and loosely knit wool that appear to be supporting them to the wall, like the objects are caught in a spider’s web. At the entrance a mannequin wears a skirt made out of smashed cups and saucers, adding to the theme of recycled or lost and found everyday objects. Overall the entrance area feels like fusion of shabby chic, eco-friendly design and the mad hatter’s tea party.
Different sections of the Regent St Anthropologie store offer different experiences. The basement offered a sea theme as an enormous sculpture of an underwater creature hung from the ceiling. Below this a table decorated with ropes and rocks displayed culinary tools. The top floor displayed a bed with logs beneath the base, evoking the idea of a cosy fireplace at a countryside cottage. All areas are connected by a gigantic vertical garden; literally a wall of greenery which extends from the basement through to the top floor providing an organic backdrop for the staircase. The garden features several different types of plant species and shades of green- blues and purple-reds.
Amazingly, the eclectic mix of brands, products and interior design concepts works really well together. Exploration, individuality and differentiation weave their way through the Anthropologie boutique, making it a truly inspirational place. The space is a perfect example of how creative and strong interior design is so important when it comes to creating that word-of-mouth buzz.
Tags: Anthropologie, Anthropologie Regent St London, Creative Interior Design, interior-design, london, retail design, Retail Interior Design, Visual Merchandising
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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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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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WXY Architecture have completed the NYC visitor information centre in New York, USA. Visitors create custom guidebooks and itineraries for their visit to the city, which they can view on large screen. The design was developed in collaboration with media design company Local Projects.
WXY has created a new paradigm that eliminates the need for dated print brochures. Alternatively, users can now place digitalized “pucks” on the ‘Interactive Map Tables’, which trigger the mapping software and allows them to create custom guidebooks and itineraries of New York City.
The i-shaped glowing “digital mirrors” that hover above the Smart Tables are guided by the universal symbol for information – a single i – and function to draw visitors through the space on an oblique pathway.
The mirrors throw a color-based projection on to a fabric screen made of Barrisol which responds the user’s choices based on the category of activity selected such as dining entertainment, lodging, etc.
Once an itinerary is developed, the visitor can then choose to view heir travel plans in three formats.
The large video wall, located on the rear wall of the information center, is comprised of 16 high
definition flat screen monitors that allow visitors to view a dynamic three-dimensional map of their urban itinerary. By placing the digitized puck on the screen’s designated pylon, a visitor’s saved search cartographic display of the city from above travel route mapped out within it.
Tags: contemporary-interior-design, interior-design, Local Projects, new york, NYC Information Centre, nyc visitor information, WXY Architecture
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Japanese designers
Inly Design have designed a combined bakery, dried food store and cafe in Osaka, Japan. “Konjaku-an” cooks and bakes with the ingredients and the wisdom from Japanese ancient times in order to preserve the traditional techniques and recipes and to transfer them into modern times.
The interior manages to let “the old” and “the new” coexist by combining, for example, an old footing board, a worn-out farm implement, an antique table and a bamboo colander with a partition created by recycled hula-hoop rings and a “lighting umbrella” – i.e. multiple lamps that hang from the ceiling on cables, all originating from a central light fitting.
Tags: cafe, dried food, inly design, interior-design, japanese design, konjaku-an, old and new, osaka, reclaimed-materials, tradition
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The latest addition to NYC’s Chelsea Market is the Ronnybrook Milk Bar featuring
Ronnybrook Farm’s line of milk, yogurt, cheese and ice cream incorporated into seasonal breakfast and lunch menus.
Designed by Mark Sarosi in collaboration with Studio A+I, a small Brooklyn design firm, it features a circular island counter in the centre. Along the walls is a whole stock of old antique wooden milk boxes “to make it feel like you’re back at the farm”.
“Chelsea Market itself is an environment where transparency is key. It’s a marketplace wthout walls where you can watch purveyors practice their trade. Our transparency is kind of minimal, but you can watch drinks and sandwiches being made and ice cream being dipped. It’s a nod to old Americana, the milk shop and the North Eastern kitchen,” says Mark Sarosi, the initiator of the space. “I never thought it would be this busy!”
Via Coolhunting
Tags: chelsea market, interior-design, milk bar, modern-interior-design-ideas, new york, reclaimed-materials, ronnybrook milk, studio A+l
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