furniture

Guest list … names darling … names. Flexform launch party Sydney.

Since the 1970's Flexform has collaborated with Iconic Italian designers growing the family run group of enormous creative talent, establishing a hallmark style. Clean lines, with elegant and adaptable solutions to living comfort and style. Flexform are one of the most sought after, renowned furniture brands in Italy and around the world. Designers and design lovers were out in full force as they celebrated the...

Oitoemponto from Portugal, Sweden + France

After developing his talent for many years in fashion, in Portugal and Sweden, Artur Miranda diversified into interior design. Following his resolutely modern and innovative design approach for that time in Portugal, he created Oitoemponto in 1993. Two years later, Jacques Bec joined him, bringing his own very personal French touch from Paris. Transitioning from interior design architecture to presenting its most recent creative trend...

Boca do Lobo … little Luxuries

With the style of a precious jewel, the new Diamond sideboard, colored in green emerald, will make a splash in interior design since it is one of the hottest color trends for 2013. Like the amethyst Diamond, the new sideboard also features three highly sculptured doors leading to a gold leaf interior with shelving and two drawers. The exterior of this fanciful piece is now...

Chick-a-Dee

In 2006 multi-talented Dutch designer Louise Van der Veld and the Chick-a-Dee smoke detector took out the Mooi uit de brand design competition thanks to the product’s unique blend of design, innovation and social relevance.  But it’s the Chick-a-Dee’s vital safety role that really places this product at a unique intersection of whimsy and safety. This high pitched little bird packs a warning call like...

The Woods… Little glass trees

The Woods is the second collaboration between the Norwegian design studios StokkeAustad and Andreas Engesvik, Oslo. These divine tree inspired creations were based  on forests and the lights of the North. A tree changing colour and transparency through the seasons which is captured in these stunning jewel like glass sculptures. The unique, free standing glass sculpture The Woods, are made from hand blown glass. Each...

TODAY’S SPECIAL it’s where design, shopping + food lovers meet.

I cannot deny that I love food, shopping and design. So when the three come together in the form of a design store made to look like a grocery store I get very excited. Japan’s Schemata Architects is responsible for this melding of wonderfulness, named TODAY’S SPECIAL Jiyugoaka. Just glancing at the pictures shows what I can only imagine is a design-lovers dream. Using a...

little bursts of colour…

Tria is a stylish and sturdy table range made entirely of metal. Available with two base options, Tria Due and Tria Uno lends itself to a wide range of indoor and outdoor applications from casual dining through to meeting spaces. Tria is the perfect accompaniment to almost any design scheme! The Tria range is available in an aluminum, black, white, red and orange painted finish....

Revisted …… Concrete love.. strong, slim & sexy!

Working with concrete is not easy and requires the knowledge of a skilled artisan to bring out the natural beauty in its' tonal variations, patina and pitting which are successfully captured within the the Boiacca table. This hybrid concrete table with its sleek slender profile is at home out doors as it is inside. Produced as a result of Kirstalia's partnership with multi award winning...

sleep… eat… sit & bathe with Brad Pitt

In 2008, Brad Pitt commissioned a custom desk from Pollaro Custom Furniture. Frank Pollaro personally delivered the desk to Brad’s chateau (as you would) in the south of France. During the installation, Brad and Frank found that they had a common passion for furniture and fine details. They discussed design history and their appreciation of materials, old and new. During their discussion, Frank noticed a...

when less is more…. Victor Vasilev Milan

Victor Vasilev was born in Bulgaria. At the age of 15 his family emigrated to Israel and in 1996 he moved to Milan to study architecture at the Politecnico. Before graduating, he spent a year as "un exchange student" at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. During his stay in Denmark, he was deeply influenced by the design of the Nordic architects...