Let this scene from a Berlin apartment be a reminder that no bedroom is complete if you still have to sit on the bed to put your stockings on…
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A still life moment in the 1930′s Milan apartment of vintage collector and proponent of ‘anonymous design’ Claudio Casarin.
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
OK I admit it, I have a thing for older men lately, especially passionate, talented, distinguished ones like the Milanese Maesto Angelo Mangiarotti, still going strong at 88, and whose ethos includes “happiness comes from correctness”… The Mangiarotti anthology exhibition now showing in Mantova at the Casa del Mantegna until November 8 includes sculpture, architecture, design that looks like sculpture and the poignant, evocative free-hand drawings for which the architect is famous – and so well loved.
9ex AT Casa
Sometimes (often really) using words to underscore the images in this blog can feel a tad superfluous. And never more so than when I gaze upon this. The scene from the bedroom window is the ancient UNESCO listed town of Modica, but the real hook for me lays on the inside, somewhere between the curve of the headboard and the fervid red of the bedcover. Only in Sicily.
Pale blue used as the decorating gods intended… The work of the remarkable New York based stylists to the stars, husband and wife team Sixx Design.
Another hidden gem from the pages of marie claire maison. Proving that green washed timber wall panelling looks so much more beautiful than it sounds.
Master Murano glass-makers Barovier & Toso do glamour with the best of them. And perhaps no more effortlessly than at Milan design week, where the Murano icon reissued its fabulous vintage 1966 Samurai lamps, in new ‘extra large’ table lamp and pendant versions, exclusively for Euroluce.
The transformation of this London interior from erstwhile sales office of the iconic seventies development, the Barbican Estate, into smart city residence displays a sobriety and respect usually reserved for the conversion of vintage buildings of much greater years. Rather than planting tongue in cheek as other renovators of 70′s interiors might have been tempted to do, Mackay + Partners Architects show real love for the task, exalting rather than parodying (or worse trying to ignore altogether) the quintessential low ceilings and big rough textures. And, in the tradition of the best seventies interiors, the detailing is exquisite.
