RED Pif Restaurant & Wine Shop by Aulik Fiser Architekti // Prague.Few things in life excite me more than seeing architects and designers thinking about places they design - taking their time to distill the essence of their client, the context, the purpose of the space etc, before setting out to package...
Malibu Stacy’s Dream Home.I’ll preface this with a disclaimer – I’m about to hold forth on Los Angeles modernism, and I have not been to LA. One day I plan to, with the sole intention of soaking up some great mid-century modernist architecture and design. And...
El Montero Restaurant by Anagrama // Saltillo Coahuila, Mexico.“Interior branding” or “branded environments” is a term which has been getting a fair bit of traction in the recent years. This is not at all surprising – in today’s day and age with such incredibly fierce competition in the...
The Little Black Jacket // Photographic Exhibition About CHANEL’s Classic Arrives in Sydney.Call me a tragic design nerd if you will, but few things in this world get me excited as beautiful, enduring, classic design pieces do, whatever they may be. CHANEL's Little Black Jacket most definitely falls in that category. CHANEL alone...
Sculpting and Manipulating Space With Light.Although I am a huge fan of beautiful fittings which capture, cradle and bounce light within interiors, today I wanted to explore a more conceptual side of this medium - the idea of projected light as the means of manipulating space. For...
Design Free Thursday // The Illustrated 99% Conference 2012.Regular yellowtrace readers (are not only the sexiest bunch around, they would also) know about my weakness for quotes. And pretty pictures. Combining the two is sheer genius which rates quite highly on my "extreme love" scale. These...
Inside // Outside.Hello yellowtracers! I’m Ella, an architect from Melbourne and blogger at pages from my moleskine. I’m so excited to be here while Dana spends some time with her newest little friend. Blurring the line between indoors and outdoors...
Design Free Thursday | Confessions Of A Designer.I know that this is not strictly a DFT kind of post as it is directly related to designers and their daily challenges, but I thought you guys wouldn't mind if I bend the rules slightly, yeah? Even thought these are quite specific to...
Ochre Barn by Carl Turner Architects | Norfolk, England.Ochre Barn is a multi purpose development that houses a retreat, studio space and a private residence for Carl Turner, principal of London based studio Carl Turner Architects, and his partner Mary Martin. Despite it's rural setting at...