UK Restaurant & Bar Design Awards are on for another year (eagle-eyes amongst you would have notice that I blogged about one of the entries already this week). While I’m not here to talk about these awards in general (you can do your own research and check out all the entries here), I just wanted to bring your attention to something interesting I spotted.

These two restaurants – Sur Mesure designed by Jouin Manku Studio (above) and Camélia designed by Jouin Manku Studio (below) are both located in Paris, both belong to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, and both feature interesting 3D folding wall treatments in warm white colours…

This interior made me feel happy the minute I saw it. I’m not really sure what it was that made me smile so instantly – perhaps the tree-like sprouting form hovering over the communal tables, vibrant accents of colour on tiled counter fronts and undersides of timber shelving, fun overall aesthetic… Probably all of the above.

Even though I am not normally a fan of gimmicky elements for decoration sake alone, I almost forgive the designers for breaking the basic rule of “honest design” just because it’s so much fun…

As though Swedish fashion house Acne wasn’t already so-hip-that-it-friggin-hurts, they had to go and commission this amazetown studio in the old Marais area of Paris. That would be right, wouldn’t it? Designed by a Swedish architect Andreas Fornell from BozarthFornell, Acne’s second Parisian store is housed in a former metal shop and combines the robust industrial feel of the old garage with clean, sharp and contemporary finishes…

I spotted this delicious looking fashion editorial over on Vogue’s online pages, featuring Natalia Vodianova (wearing clothes by the likes of Proenza Schouler, Marni, Etro, Prada, Valentino, Marc Jacobs, Balenciaga and Dior) photographed by Mario Testino in his incredible LA home. Beautiful clothes aside, it was Testino’s home which blew me away really hard. To be honest, I don’t know why I was so surprised by it—I mean—of course one of the world’s most well known and celebrated fashion photographers would have a totally amazeballs home, right? The man’s job is photographing and capturing exquisite beauty, and you’d hope that decades of this work would have rubbed off on his design taste buds…

Remember my post last week on three products on my lust list? Well… that post, and more specifically those crazy QUELLE FÊTE (II) melting disco balls are what reminded me to blog about this cooltown installation by Studio Bertjan Pot. Because those big shiny melting balls feature in this very interior (oh stop it, how else would you describe them?!)

This is what Studio Bertjan Pot have to say about the project…