SELECTED | Menu


Some pictures from Menu 2014 has started to pop up in the blogs and they are all very promising. The Danish company will launch several new products, including  Kenyon Yeh Wall Table, the Gridy Fungi shelves - inspired by the shelf fungus that grow horizontally out of the trees - and some new items done in collaboration with Norm. To know more, please visit Menu here.

Spotted on houseandhold.com, with thanks.
Wow, 2014 is going to be a magnificent year for Menu!
New products include the Grethe Meyer Pendents,  Afteroom Table & Chair, Kenyon Yeh Wall Table and a handful of accessories, including new designs by Norm. - See more at: http://www.houseandhold.com/blog/2014/01/menu-2014#sthash.rlixmHOS.dpuf
Grethe Meyer Pendents,  Afteroom Table & Chair, Kenyon Yeh Wall Table and a handful of accessories, including new designs by Norm. - See more at: http://www.houseandhold.com/blog/2014/01/menu-2014#sthash.rlixmHOS.dpuf
Wow, 2014 is going to be a magnificent year for Menu!
New products include the Grethe Meyer Pendents,  Afteroom Table & Chair, Kenyon Yeh Wall Table and a handful of accessories, including new designs by Norm. - See more at: http://www.houseandhold.com/blog/2014/01/menu-2014#sthash.rlixmHOS.dpuf

A house in Portugal


Studio Aires Mateus and SIA Arquitectura Studio joined together to design and built this country house in Melides, Portugal. The landscape is breathtaking: the house is set on the top of the hills and looks out to the Atlantic Sea. The plan is opened towards the sorroundings in a way that recalls La Rotonda by Andrea Palladio, though here the classic symmetry has left place to a contemporary distortion of space and volumes that plays with our perception of the actual size of the four blocks of the house. 
The interior develops around a central terrace, a typycal Mediterrenean feature, connected to all the rooms: a void as the core of the space. Everything inside is white; the blue of the water and the sky, the green of the vegetation, are the only two colours allowed to "enter" the space. The result is a tranquil, meditative space where mind and people can rest.

Photographer: Fernando Guerra

Via Yatzer



PLACES | Bulthaup showroom


This raw, essential space was designed by for the new showroom of the German kitchen company bulthaup in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company was founded in 1949 by Martin Bulthaup in Bodenkirchen. After his death, his son Gerd became the head of the company and gave the bulthaup's design philosophy its ultimate direction, thanks also to the contact with the designer  Otl Aicher, founder of the Ulm School of Design known for its favour for simplified forms and functionality.

The space, that resembles an industrial loft, was divided into three different sections: on one side is the design area, opened to the public so that the visitors can see the designers at work; the other is the showroom itself and, finally, the kitchen islands dedicated to the kitchen courses in situ. One of the most interesting elements is the internal façade, constructed entirely from doors taken from the containers used to transport the kitchens for display.
The output is an architecture that is able to dialogue with both the iconic design principles of bulthaup as well as with the process that brings their products to life.

Photographer Amit Geron

Jam&Cheese Barcelona







Yesterday we were invited to the first Jam&Cheese session organised by Banjo Music with Collage Studio for event planning and minimal graphics: a few hours of great music and delicious food in a perfect Kinfolk style, thanks also to the beautiful flower arrangements done by the talented Sauvage duo. The vent was hold in one of my most loved places in Barcelona, L'Hivernacle (The Greenhouse), an ancient warehouse now transformed into a garden shop in recent times. 
We had a great time and were very impressed to know the musicians that played together the whole night were having their first session together.  The atmosphere was light and extremely enjoyable that we hope more events from Banjo Music and Collage Studio will come soon!

Renai & Renai

 



Renai&Renai is an Italian company based in Conegliano, Treviso, that operates in  the communication and photography realms. Alongside the styling work for companies like Doimo and Bontempi, they also offer beautiful locations for shooting used by some of the most renowned Italian agencies. I collected some images among the many available on their website to show you some of these spaces. First series belongs to a styling by internationally renowned Studio Pepe.

Via Renai & Renai, with thanks.

SELECTED | Normann Copenhagen 2014



Leading Danish company Normann Copenhagen has just released their new catalogue for  2014 with new products and beautiful styling of colour and contrast.Check the catalogue here.

FOCUS ON | Dark walls


Moody colours are hot and we noticed it in the net, especially in Pinterest. Scandinavian fans have seen already lots of great example of black interior surfaces but they were mainly accent walls. These days, it seems the trend has conquered the whole house but also moved towards a more reflective palette of blue and green hues. 
Though I'm still a great fan of white interiors - and always will be, I have to admit I feel intrigued by this blue-greyish tone and I wouldn't mind to give it a chance.



MONDAY CRUSH | Keep life simple






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Irina Graewe


The Monday Crush will arrive soon, no worries, but I just spotted these beautiful pictures by Irina Graewe and I couldn't help sharing them. Irina is an interior editor and stylist living in Hamburg. After her degree at the London College of Fashion - and a background as taylor at Jil Sander - she moved towards interiors and design, first as assistant to the Creative Director at Architektur&Wohnen and, after four years, as freelance interior stylist. 
Her work has a strong narrative appeal: she is not just styling the elements, she is telling us a story with them. To me, this imaginative approach is extremely interesting because it involves the observer by capturing his imagination: we are almost forced into completing the story and, in this way, we get involved and create a bond with the objects. I have seen this imaginative approach used by fashion designers at the beginning of the creation of a new collection and I find extremely interesting. 

In the end, aren't designers storytellers of the matter?

Via Lotta Agaton, with thanks.

Our Home #1

  

Most of you have probably seen the interview I did for Llamas Valley Autumn issue and all the post where I talk about it. I have a great moment of that day and today I wanted to post some pictures from the photo shooting. Some were not published online and I decided to share them with you today.

Living in a rental has got some positive aspects (such as flexibility) and some very negative ones. My to-do wish list is so long you won't believe it! I would like to fix many things, including the spatial organization but, as you may understand, this would mean taking a few walls down - not a very easy thing to do when you are renting. I also would like to move the kitchen and add industrial style doors on one of the walls of our studio. Minor changes, you see!

Photographs by Tim Adami, with thanks.