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luxury at 30,000 feet

We can all do with a little more luxury in our life even if your at 30,000 feet. Lufthansa Technik and Mercedes Benz Style, are first time collaborators in this project. The goal was to fuse Mercedes design language into the Lufthansa Technik aircraft, and fans of Mercedes can see the obvious design dialect here. There are points of influence from plenty of Mercedes...

made of stone

Stone court villa designed by Marwan Al-Sayed Architects takes place on a nine acre desert site that contains two desert washes. Wonderful vistas to both nearby desert mountains and distant peaks. Compromised views to the immediate surrounding neighborhood. Thus walls are introduced slowly, rhythmically, repetitively almost snake like, moving in and out of the living spaces, blurring boundaries....

the Whitney’s new building

Designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and situated between the High Line and the Hudson River, the Whitney’s new building vastly increases the Museum’s exhibition and programming space, providing the first comprehensive view of its unsurpassed collection of modern and contemporary American art. Piano’s design takes a strong and strikingly asymmetrical form—one that responds to the industrial character of...

Through the Looking Glass .. Met Gala

While Karl Lagerfeld was showing his Resort 2016 collection to Chanel Seoulites, in New York, many princesses were trying to get crowned empresses at Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala… The theme of China: Through the Looking Glass provided guests with the option to channel the structure of traditional Chinese garments. Many of them managed to address the subject of chinoiserie without overdoing the...

The Canyon House

At the core of their work is pursuit of balance between natural and built environments; between a client’s vision and real-world parameters; between beauty and utility. As their name suggests Balance Associates Architects trademark is attention to the details of each unique site and their skill at unlocking the potential. The Canyon House located in the Methow Valley, Washington's...

Doble & Strong + Behruz Studio

For some years now Simon Strong and Robert Doble have been collaborating on a unique body of work that explores not only the human body, but the extremes of their own use of materiality. Combining cutting edge photographic technologies with the time honoured use of paint in abstraction, Forever restless, Doble & Strong have expanded their collaboration and in...

Mindcraft Milan 2015

Curated by design duo GamFratesi, Mindcraft is a concept showcasing of Denmark’s most talented craftspeople and designers. Previously located at Ventura Lambrate, the Danes decided to try Brera, with the Chiostro Minore di San Simpliciano instead. Their theme for this year, ‘In Between’, punctuated all the more by the mirrored floor and cage-like contraptions encasing some of the works in the space. Mindcraft was...

Breathe

Studio BAAG is composed by Swedish designer Caroline Bauer and Italian architect Pier Francesco Galuppini. Their different cultural backgrounds lead to projects balancing between Nordic minimalism and Italian creativity and provocation. The focus is to create a unity between functionality and aesthetics, evolving around the experimentation of materials and production processes with a refined craftsmanship. The use of natural...

Soft for for Glas Italia

Soft is a series of glass tables by Tokyo based studio Nendo for Glas Italia. Three box shaped low tables each using five sheets of frosted glass. For the joints between two sheets of glass, the 45 degree cross-sections were printed with bright colours. The cross-sections were then bonded together. The colours create a gradation effect, from purple to...

the Urban Philosophy chair

Designer Nissa Kinzhalina‘s Urban Philosophy is a chair made of transparent acrylic with a thin, black, contiguous line running along an outer edge. Made from only two materials: polycarbonate and metal with a chair height of 850 mm. The line doesn’t trace all the edges of the chair, so depending on your perspective, it can look like the outline of a...

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