Architecture | 2011 Archive.01 | Stairway to Heaven. 02 | Architectural Voyeurism. 03 | ABC Museum, Illustration and Design Centre | Madrid, Spain. 04 | Architect's Holiday Houses. 05 | Garden Shed by Ville Hara and Linda Bergoth. 06 | Beautiful Car-Park. No, I’m...
Ciao for Now… Oh and Some News!Once again we reach the day when it’s time to pack up for the year, take a bow (and a little break), and also thank you – my wonderful readers – for your amazing support during 2011. Not only has this site grown so much...
Design Free Thursday | Vanitas by James Hopkins.London based artist James Hopkins creates trompe l’oeil perspectives transforming every day objects on shelves into sculptures looking like skulls. AWE and them...
Wrapped Interiors by Penique Productions.Penique Productions is a design and art collective with multiple homes in Barcelona, Madrid & Rio de Jenairo. Formed in 2007 by Sergi Arbusà, Pablo Baqué, Chamo San & Pol Clusella, this talented group of young artists come from different...
Private Moon | Leonid Tishkov & Boris Bendikov.Oh my… This… Is… Something else. You see, I often feel like I am becoming jaded in my daily research for this blog, due to constant overexposure to pure awesomeness, but every once in a while something very special...
Red Bull HQ in Amsterdam | Sid Lee Architecture.As a practicing interior designer, one of my personal pet-hates are over the top, tricked-up, gimmicky workplaces that try too hard and look outdated from the moment they are conceived. Yuck! Unfortunately I come across far too many...
Library Spaces.What is it about books? How do they manage to make a space so damn sexy I wonder? Is it because we all strive to be a bit smarter on some level, and feel as though a large mass of books is going to make us feel more intelligent? Or at...
Design Free Thursday | Vintage Weight Gain Ads!"Good news for thousands of girls who have no sex appeal!" "If you want to be popular, you can't afford to be SKINNY!" Holy $hit batman, has the world we live in changed or what? Not only are these politically incorrect slogans the...
Hotel The Exchange | Amsterdam.The genius of Dutch design studio Ina & Matt strikes again (I previously blogged about their work here) - this time in the form of a concept hotel in Amsterdam called Hotel The Exchange. Conceived and presented more like an art...