Dutch studio i29 have coated everything in grey at this pop-up furniture shop in Amsterdam. Located inside fashion store SPRMRKT, the As Good As New concession is the launchpad for the designers’ new furniture collection, created from second hand pieces they’ve found in flea markets and charity shops…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Editor's Picks,PaintingDecember 27, 2012
Pedro Campos is an incredible hyperrealist painter from Madrid, Spain. Using oil paints he recreates incredibly realistic still life shots that many might mistake for a photograph. He’s worked in a variety of creative fields from interior decorating, illustration (at an ad agency), to art restoration on furnishings, paintings and sculptures. He actually didn’t even begin oil painting until the age of 30…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Adaptive Reuse,Art in Architecture,Attractive,Ceramic / Tile,Dynamic,Elegance / Artistic,Excited,Exotic Idea,LIGHTING EFFECTIVE,Modern Contempory Style,Ornaments & Details,Romantic,Sexy,Terminal / Station Interior,Travel,World's Best Places to VisitDecember 21, 2012
The project of the Catalan architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca also affected the area above, transformed into pedestrian zone and upgraded aesthetically. The communication between internal and external space is entrusted to the skylight-structures-that, from the street, carry the sunlight in the rooms below…
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Ekko Spatial Wooden is the permanent public installation created by Thilo Frank. Depending on the positioning of daylight, the 200 wooden frames create shadows cast alternating patterns. The visitor is challenged to perceive and explore the three-dimensional shape…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Editor's Picks,PaintingDecember 18, 2012
UK-based illustrator Carne Griffiths creates these striking portraits with uncommon medium examined as tea brandy, vodka, whiskey, graphite and ink calligraphy. His drawings most frequently explore human and floral forms, as, says he’s “fascinated by the flow of line and the ‘invisible lines’ that connect us to the natural world…
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The newest iteration of the gravity-defying installation Big Bambú by American artists Doug and Mike Starn is currently being installed in the MACRO Testaccio, Rome, as the protagonist of the sixth edition of the Enel Contemporanea, curated by Francesco Bonami. This year’s edition of the event celebrates the 50th anniversary of Enel…
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Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Art in Architecture,CANTILEVERED,Exotic Idea,FUNCTIONAL,Green Project,Harmony With The Context,MATERIALS USED,Playground,Public Facilities,Shelter / Pavilion / Kiosk,SUSTAINABILITY,Travel,Tree House,USABILITY,Wooden,Wooden HouseDecember 10, 2012
Chop Stick, created by the Swedish architecture duo visiondivision, provides visitors to 100 Acres a place to sit, swing, and enjoy refreshments in an outdoor pavilion crafted almost entirely from a single tree. The 100-foot-tall tulip tree—the state tree of Indiana—was found in a forest near Anderson, Indiana, and transported to 100 Acres with a large portion of its limbs intact…
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