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| Sun, May 20, 2012 | The Week’s Best Posts From Design Blogs |
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Enjoy the best of this week’s posts from design blogs! |
Dami Furniture Set // Seung Yong Song |
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The ‘Dami’ is named from Korean verb means ‘put in’. Dami series are consist of basket forms and covers and available for different and various usage depending on form and size. |
| Sat, May 19, 2012 | SS’12 Fashion Collection // DressedUndressed |
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Collection is characterized by an internal struggle against the contradictory or simply opposing or different elements. This collection is a fine line between the opposites: masculinity and femininity, beauty and ugliness, darkness and light, purity and sensuality, future and past. |
Unusual Apartment in Moscow // MK-Interio |
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Design of this interesting interior began with the request from customers to create a striking, unusual, yet simple and convenient living space. |
Stylish Penthouse // Barbara Littman, Robert D. Henry |
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Barbara Littman’s Chelsea penthouse is a modern Manhattan escape from her home in New Jersey. Ms. Littman spent about two years and $190,000 transforming it into the minimalist space of her dreams, in collaboration with Robert D. Henry, a New York architect. |
ISSEY MIYAKE / Bloom Bloom Bloom // Emmanuelle Moureaux |
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Issey Miyake commissioned Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design to handle the set design and art direction for their event, Bloom Bloom Bloom. Inspired by spring flowers in bloom and Issey Miyake’s newest incarnation, this event was held in conjunction with the launch of Bloom Skin, Yoshiyuki Miyamae’s first collection since joining the branch as their new designer. |
Inner Worlds // Elena Urucatu and Carlos Maté |
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Most of Elena Urucatu and Carlos Maté’s works are an investigation of inner worlds. Objects, that they have created, are particular, round and closed in on themselves pieces, protective individuals that generate an isolated space in which they can create their personal universe. |
| Fri, May 18, 2012 | Mind Blowing Menswear Fashion Collection ‘Exploded View’ // KAMPE |
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‘Exploded View’ fashion collection implies: explosion, destruction, detonation in our well structured world. The main inspiration were Exploded View Drawings and blueprints from engineers mixed with modern art influences. |
Timeless Apartment Interior // Karin and Francis Leopold Fauconnet |
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An architect duo Karin and Francis Leopold Fauconnet redesigned this classical apartment into modern and surprisingly cosy home. |
Mini Studio // FRENTEarquitectura |
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FRENTEarquitectura is a Mexican architectural practice formed by young professionals whose main goal is to create innovative and “Responsable Architecture”, respons-able meant as the “ability to respond” (to give a clever answer to a specific need). They prioritize the analysis of the specific circumstances of each project (place, people and time) over the creative activity, thus to be able to establish the real needs to be fulfilled. |
Renovation Of Old Barn // Comac |
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Marseille-based architect firm Comac has transformed a 17th-century barn in the French village of Charroux into a modern restaurant while maintaining the heritage of the original building. The architects have left the structure of the barn largely untouched by building the restaurant’s kitchen and dining room in two separate plywood and glass boxes constructed on wooden supports within the building’s original walls. |
Acne Store in Copenhagen // Acne Studios |
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The store has a minimalist art gallery-like interior. Strong ruby colour was used to accent exclusiveness of the brand and add some sensuality to the minimalist interior. |
| Thu, May 17, 2012 | A/W’12 Fashion Collection // Lulu Liu |
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The two main sources of inspiration for the collection are Dalian landscapes and Clowns. The sense of disconnected reality comes from Dali paintings but translated into garments so the surreal becomes wearable. The vibrant colors he painted enhance the dream like qualities therefore we get a sense of hallucination. This correlates to the image of the clown. The collection is a feminine reworking of the clown shirt- especially the silhouette and shape of the collar. |
Visual Poetry in Artworks // Maria Aparicio Puentes |
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Maria’s artworks are beautiful, full of the poetry of a moment, delivering deeper message due to a unique technique. Via Maria Aparicio Puentes |
Beautiful Apartment in Malmo |
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A clear urban feel characterize this incredibly beautiful apartment with generous space and great light from large windows. The ceiling height is impressive and stucco decorations are admirable. This interior is beautiful, tender and stylish with a historic vibe in it. |
Tusculum St Residence // Smart Design Studio |
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This exciting renovation and extension of a truth-of-the-century terrace house in Sydney’s Potts Point focuses on a spiraling stair that forms the pivotal center of the house. The staircase, spanning the width of the building, features delicate fan-like steel treads cantilevered from a central steel post. Winding its way past six split levels, the stair grafts the contemporary new structure to the refined older portion of the dwelling, with each level alternating between the old and new. |
Google Campus // Jump Studios |
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Google Campus is a seven storey co-working and event space in the centre of London’s Tech City, otherwise known as Silicon Roundabout. The project, run by Google UK, aims to fuel the success of London’s tech start up community. |
Cosmopolitan Beau by Rayson Tan// Lile Aux Ashby |
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Cosmopolitan Beau presents a mish mash of architecture, art deco, geometry and pop culture. It celebrates individualism and cohesion. Everyone is made up of unique details; and everyone ought to embrace diversity in this cosmopolitan world today. In essence, Cosmopolitan Beau can be anybody’s state of the mind and heart. Get rapt by architectural eye candy, alongside with squares and rectangles – the shapes that make us feel safe and protected. |
| Wed, May 16, 2012 | Saffron Restaurant in Arezzo // Emanuele Svetti |
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The restaurant is located in Arezzo, Tuscany, in the new picturesque setting of St. Augustine Square. Saffron is a spice in the culinary arts, therefore the work on the interior has veered towards the enhancement of all materials of the interior. |
Moscow Apartment // Disobject |
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This interior, designed by Disobject, represents comfort and style. Amongst the materials prevails dark wood, that adds ‘comfort look’ to the design overall. |
![]() Haute Couture Shoes // Iris van Herpen & United Nude |
![]() Long Studio, Fogo Island // Saunders Architecture |
![]() ONE2FREE Flagship Store in Hong Kong // Curiosity |
![]() Web Table // WAMHOUSE |
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