Hawkesbury Residence/Marmol Radziner

More Marmol Radziner magic…this time in Mt. Barker, New Zealand…

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Felt Office

…warm and fuzzy…

office 04/i29 interior architects

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You Are Invited

Let’s get together at Napa Valley Party Barn created by local designer Erin Martin…

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Four Eye House/Edward Ogosta Architecture

A desert weekend residence designed for a family and their dog by California based Edward Ogosta Architecture.  Let’s visit…

A weekend desert residence for a family and their dog, the Four Eyes House is an exercise in site-specific experiential programming. Rather than planning the house according to a domestic functional program, the building was designed foremost as an instrument for intensifying a number of onsite phenomenal events.

Four “sleeping towers” are oriented towards four spatiotemporal viewing experiences: morning sunrise to the east, mountain range to the south, evening city lights to the west, and nighttime stars overhead. Each tower contains a compact top-floor bedroom, sized only for the bed, and each with a unique aperture directed towards the view. These bedrooms are equally-sized and unassigned, such that the family’s sleeping locations can be rotated based on each individual’s desired viewing experience.

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The magic of Wang…

Fashion designer, Vera Wang, at home in Beverly Hills…and,

Fashion designer, Alexander Wang, at his New York office…

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Weekend

I know what I plan on doing this weekend…have a good one.

duplex en vigo/castroferro arquitectos

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Choices, Choices

Bed in the living room…which would you choose?

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Work It

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Cocooning

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Snow Blind

Fresh snowfall in Chicago…everything is glistening and bright…

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Friday Shopping

Today is Friday and with the weekend coming up it is always fun to think about a bit of shopping.  We are visiting the Martin Margiela Beijing flagship store location.  Here we find a fab collection of apparel, accessories, and home collections.  In addition, we can have serious fun on the aluminum slide which brings us from the second floor to the first floor in the most unusual way.  Happy weekend.

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Crusch Alba/Gus Wustemann

We are off to a fabulous flat in Barcelona in the Gotica area.  By placing a Crusch Alba, or white cross in the center of the apartment, Gus Wustemann was able to bring in light.

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On Top

Innocad Architecture created a fresh atmosphere for their clients by remodeling a rooftop apartment using a mixture of European design and New York lifestyle.  PH New York is located in the meatpacking district.

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The Glacier/Gus Wustemann

Gus Wustemann was asked by clients to design a new generous loft in the dark attic of a house in Lucerne, Switzerland.  Gus was given carte blanche on this project and the result, I think, is brilliant…literally.  Glacier, rock, and ice blocks can be seen in the ‘landscape’ of this gorgeous loft.

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The ‘Rise’ of the Designer Bakery

I think there is nothing more satisfying than warm, freshly baked bread with my cup of coffee in the morning.  Is there anything more comforting and familiar than a homey loaf of bread?  Now enter the ‘rise’ of cool designer bakeries.   No longer do we just enjoy the taste of our baked goods,  but we now are invited to also visually feast our eyes at many new bakeries.  Not surprisingly, the dramatic dawn of the designer bakery took place in Milan.

Blé Bakery on Agias Sofias in Thessaloniki, Greece/Claudio Silvestrin

Elektra Bakery, Edessa/Studioprototype Architects - Furniture by Xavier Pauchard and lighting by Tom Dixon.

Joseph – Brot vom Pheinsten, Vienna

Baker D. Chirico, Melbourne, Australia

VyTA Boulangerie Italiana, Turin, Italy/Daniela Colli

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