Ever noticed how a living room feels so much more appealing when the layout is about people interacting with each other, rather than a screen on the wall?
Archives for the month of: November, 2009
A still life moment in the 1930′s Milan apartment of vintage collector and proponent of ‘anonymous design’ Claudio Casarin.
I really like the planning of this apartment precisely because it isn’t for everyone. Instead the layout aims to express a very particular lifestyle choice, namely that of the city (in this case European) single: a knowledge worker, professional, socially-connected in the old sense of the word, who might also love to cook but doesn’t always want the kitchen at the centre of the action.
Star designer Rodolfo Dordoni lowers the tone, choosing deep grey over the usual white for the walls of his own apartment in central Milan.
The new dual brand Moroso-Flos showroom looks so inviting you’d think you were sitting in a loft off Via Tortona rather than an ex-office building in London’s Clerkenwell. Which is, of course, the whole rather ambitious point, with the two Italian super brands setting up house together to sell not only furniture and lighting but the very culture of Made in Italy itself.
In a similar move, Moroso teamed up with Diesel and Foscarini in Milan for this years’s design week but I prefer the more grown up union with Flos. And so it seems might Patrizia Moroso, with plans afoot for more shared flagships (most likely starting with Beijing or Shanghai) in 2010.
via AT Casa
Moss green and orange looking fabulous in this new villa interior in upstate New York.
When Wallpaper* includes a category in its annual design awards for best new glass-fronted cabinet, Joyce, from the new collection by London design duo Pinch, has it in the bag.
Swedish by geography, the Story Hotel shares the freestyle, ‘very hip friend’s apartment’ spirit finding form more and more in the interiors of self-styled hotels everywhere. Especially nice the public spaces – the white attic and the matt black dining room are examples – that take on the same unfinished, impromptu, domestic feel as the guest rooms. The whole place having the mood of a private club, but one that welcomes its new members with open arms.
via AT Casa
This gorgeous, highly original interior by French designer Patrick Norguet for the Lyon Sofitel draws on the rich silk making traditions of the region – not to mention the new taste for design terroir already making waves at the more price-sensitive end of the hotel food chain. An auspicious new trend in the design (and redesign) of five stars everywhere? Let’s hope so.
via dezeen, but check out the images on the designer’s website. Especially the one where the pastel macaroons and the fabric wall panelling are colour coordinated.