Arflex Legacy: Artful Italian Design Knocking it Out of the Ballpark for 70 years.Considering the fact Arflex celebrated its 70th birthday last year, these guys are clearly onto something. Sure, they keep nailing it with their lust-worthy, high-quality furniture, and razor sharp art direction, but many other brands...
Ricardo Bofill’s La Muralla Roja (The Red Wall) Housing Project in Calpe, Spain.Projecting from the cliffs on the border of the Mediterranean in Spain, La Muralla Roja (The Red Wall), is a bold apartment block with breathtaking seaside views. Completed in 1968, Ricardo Bofill designed this playfully erratic fortress...
Sean Connolly at Dubai Opera by Alexander &CO and Tribe Studio.Sean Connolly at Dubai Opera draws upon the design team’s interest in 20th Century Classics and oceanic, Australian/ New Zealand influences of Connolly’s...
Richard Rogers’ 1960 Wimbledon House Renovation by Philip Gumuchdjian.Reviving Richard Rogers' Wimbledon House to its former 1960’s glory, Philip Gumuchdjian has restored this modernist jewel into new residences and seminar spaces for fellowship recipients from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design....
Common Sense Exhibition at Lina Bo Bardi’s Glass House in SĂŁo Paulo.Common Sense brought together 7 renowned designers who produced original pieces from Portuguese stone, presented inside Lina Bo Bardi's iconic Glass...
In Pursuit of Beauty: Inspiring Visit to Expormim in Valencia, Spain.You know that feeling you get when you enter a special place where the building, the product, the history and the context all align in perfect harmony, and you can literally feel the hairs on your head stand up, followed by an onset of...
Memphis Design Meets Ornate 18th-Century Parisian Apartment.The home of French designer and architect Charles Zana is teaming with art and furniture from the Memphis Movement and in particular work by its founder Ettore Sottsass. Charles Zana has a deep admiration for the radical Italian...
Art of Design: Visit to Artifort Factories in The Netherlands & Belgium.Today I am sharing the experience of visiting the amazing Dutch brand Artifort and their two factories in The Netherlands and Belgium. Saying that I was incredibly excited about visiting Artifort would be an understatement. Not only is...
Stories On Design // Built Into Nature.Today we take a world wide tour of seriously incredible examples of architecture that not only address their context and interact with their surrounds, the sites they occupy form the key ingredient that architects have used in the overall...
