We are excited to announce that one of our favorite contemporary furniture design teams, Molo, just launched a brand new fold-up paper lantern called ‘Urchin’. Molo’s Urchin Softlights are a series of gorgeous expandable lamps composed of flexible-yet-durable honeycomb craft paper. Urchin embodies Molo’s versatile design philosophy and is as adaptable as their paper [...]
Sandell Sandberg projected the Ygne summer house situated on the island of Gotland, one of Sweden most popular summer holiday spots.
The house was build to recess into the natural environment. Floor to ceiling windows wrap the house from the entry facade into the inner courtyard, allowing the wooded exterior to become part of the interior [...]
The Gosho Restaurant, designed by aNC Arquitectos, is located in a 5 star hotel in Porto, Portugal.
The project contains several specific areas for the several types of japanese food that the restaurant serves, with a total capacity of 101 seats.
The atmosphere of the restaurant cherishes being in public, through different themes. Besides evoking traditional japanese [...]
Jacobo García-Germán redesigned an old apartment of the XIX century located in Madrid, Spain.
After demolish almost every interior wall of the apartment, they got an lineal space limited by two diaphanous rooms with multiple uses connected through a large corridor around two patios.
Inside this rooms everything happens, like in daily life were objects, things, plants [...]
The Super Sense Spa, designed by architecture and design studio KUU, is three level spa located in Shanghai.
An additional floor in steel was added and the staircase leading up lands at several platforms which are for the spa’s complementary purposes such as consultation, beauty treatment, manicure or pedicure.
Photos by Jeremy San
Mosque design in the Ehrenfeld district of Cologne, by Paul Böhm
In Europe, mostly in Germany, new projected mosques have sparked an ideological debate (article in Der Spiegel, Go-Ahead for Germany’s Biggest Mosque). What is the Muslim’s place in the European society and what do mosques communicate to the general public? Basically, cultural diversity [...]
The San Francisco based interior designers Vernon Applegate and Gioi Tran are now also designing furniture, and one of their first pieces is the Nazari Bench which reflects Applegate’s interest in modern architecture.
