Renovation of a Finnish Culinary Institution: Palace Restaurant Helsinki by Note Design Studio.When the celebrated signpost of Finnish gastronomy approached Note Design Studio about a refurbishment, they didn’t ask for a modern and trendy interior. Instead, they wanted something that would withstand the time and honour the history...
Arflex Legacy: Artful Italian Design Knocking it Out of the Ballpark for 70 years.Considering the fact Arflex celebrated its 70th birthday last year, these guys are clearly onto something. Sure, they keep nailing it with their lust-worthy, high-quality furniture, and razor sharp art direction, but many other brands...
Photographer Reverses Gender Roles in a Clever Interpretation of Sexist Vintage Ads.This fresh series of photographs was dreamt up by Lebanese artist and founder of Plastik Magazine, Eli Rezkallah, featuring a collection of fictional advertisements, refashioned from real print ads torn from the Mad Men era. With her...
Wanås Hotel in Skåne, Sweden Set Within 18th-Century Buildings Converted by Kristina Wachtmeister.Surrounded by the renowned sculpture park The Wanås Foundation, and history dating back to medieval times, Wanås Hotel offers Nordic design &...
Dilapidated Department Store in Brixton Becomes Squire and Partners’ Own Workspace & Creative Hub.Stop the presses (or whatever the online equivalent is) because we’ve just discovered one insanely cool office space! The Department Store is the headquarters of London based architecture practice, Squire and Partners. As the name...
Common Sense Exhibition at Lina Bo Bardi’s Glass House in São Paulo.Common Sense brought together 7 renowned designers who produced original pieces from Portuguese stone, presented inside Lina Bo Bardi's iconic Glass...
In Pursuit of Beauty: Inspiring Visit to Expormim in Valencia, Spain.You know that feeling you get when you enter a special place where the building, the product, the history and the context all align in perfect harmony, and you can literally feel the hairs on your head stand up, followed by an onset of...
Stories On Design // Modern Arches.Today’s Story is dedicated to one of architecture’s most fundamental elements, the one present in its very nomenclature: The Arch. Perhaps you would have noticed the resurgence of Arches in many modern projects, from architecture...
The Dewberry Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina by Workstead.Brooklyn based design studio Workstead were given the monumental task of fitting out the 9,000 square meter hotel with a mixture of lush public and private spaces – and boy did they nail it! The Dewberry operated in the Mendel Rivers...
