The much-vaunted and rigorously colour-free workplace for London fashion ‘etailer’ Net-A-Porter has got me thinking.
Archives for category: design stories
We live in contradictory times… Houses that want to look like hotels and hotels that feel like coming home – only better. And ‘La Favorita’ pension in Porto (Portugal), with interiors by French designer Sam Baron, might just be the best example of the genre yet.
An eel shop in a Japan market features walls of exquisite carbonised cedar, symbolic of the traditional charcoal cooking process.
For fans of the fabulous Bouroullec brothers, a visit to their temporary summer exhibition space in Le Corbusier’s Radiant City apartment building would feel like an afternoon among friends…
The real deal. Piero Lissoni has designed the new Boffi showroom in Via Solferini to look and feel like a real apartment.
An heirloom for the future by Patricia Urquiola. As Milan shuts up shop for another year, the Comeback chair for Kartell is my pick for best new product at the Salone del Mobile 2010.
A proper, grown-up, beautiful new light from British designer Jasper Morrison, Smithfield by Flos.
Seth Godin talks about finding your own brand essence, your own style, culture whatever you want to call it. And how if you have to search really hard you’re unlikely to find one. ‘Clothes don’t make the man’, he says, ‘the man makes the man’. Clothes simply amplify whatever it is you really stand for.
I’ve hung on to that idea all week. How it works when you swap ‘clothes’ for ‘interior design’. This Rome loft (the home of artist Valentina De Martini) feels like a case in point.
Sober, perfectly balanced New York decor breaks no new ground but ticks plenty of boxes.
Love made visible in the Veneto countryside…