Archives for category: lighting

Lady Grey

September 9, 2010 //

Cool and soft, Milan.

Tags bedhead, bedroom, cool, grey, Italy, Milan, vintage, white accent

Categories colour, furniture, interior design, Italy, lighting, materials, vintage

Be careful what you wish for

August 21, 2010 //

The much-vaunted and rigorously colour-free workplace for London fashion ‘etailer’ Net-A-Porter has got me thinking.

Tags black and white, colour-free, fashion, London, Net-A-Porter, no colour interiors, office interiors, Studio fibre, workplace

Categories colour, decoration, design stories, fashion, interior design, lighting, workplace

Burnt Offering

July 17, 2010 //

An eel shop in a Japan market features walls of exquisite carbonised cedar, symbolic of the traditional charcoal cooking process.

Tags burnt cedar, carbonised timber, eel shop, Japan, symbolic materials, unusual finishes

Categories design stories, food, interior design, lighting, materials

The Art of Choosing

July 10, 2010 //

Good design is knowing when to stop.

Tags bed, bedroom, bedside lamp, bedside tables, black framed windows, blue, grey, textiles, texture

Categories colour, interior design, Italy, light, lighting

The Gloss Factor

July 5, 2010 //

I love the look of the freestanding, single block of black gloss in the midst of the white and timber of this kitchen in northern Italy.

Tags Black, gloss, kitchen, kitchen design, light, texture, white

Categories colour, interior design, Italy, kitchen design, light, lighting, materials

The Gap

June 19, 2010 //

An Italian loft house full of really nice details and lighting that sets the mood.

Tags colour, concealed lighting, detailing, floating bench, internal windows, Italy, loft, open tread stair, shadow gap, sleeping platform

Categories interior design, Italy, lighting, materials

Summer Love

June 10, 2010 //

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…

Tags apartment 50, Exhibition, Le Corbusier, Marseille, Radiant City, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, summer, Vintage French

Categories architecture, colour, design, design stories, furniture, interior design, lighting, products, travel, vintage

Good Eggs

May 28, 2010 //

Young design masters of understatement, Outofstock, absolutely nail it in Singapore for the new all day breakfast cafe’, Hatched.

Tags breakfast, eggs, farmhouse modern, Outofstock, pendant lighting, Singapore, student cafe', timber

Categories food, furniture, interior design, lighting, materials

Temporary Classic

April 17, 2010 //

A designer with attitude (just don’t call her design style ‘feminine’), Inga Sempe‘s new LED desk lamp w103 for Swedish brand Wastberg is now showing at the Temporary Museum for New Design in Zona Tortona during Milan Design Week.