El Montero Restaurant by Anagrama // Saltillo Coahuila, Mexico.“Interior branding” or “branded environments” is a term which has been getting a fair bit of traction in the recent years. This is not at all surprising – in today’s day and age with such incredibly fierce competition in the...
Restaurante 560 by JoĂŁo Tiago Aguiar Arquitectos // Lisbon, Portugal.Completed in 2009, Restaurant 560 occupies 80sqm of an old building's street level in Lisbon's city centre. The interior is divided into three disctinct zones - the shopfront and entry, dining space in the middle and a service area at the...
Hotel Mera Brasserie by LOFT Magdalena Adamus // Sopot, Poland.Hotel Mera Brasserie is located in a seaside town of Sopot in Poland. It was designed by a Polish studio LOFT Magdalena Adamus. What I really like about this place is the way it balances the serious with the casual. It is sharp and...
Sculpting and Manipulating Space With Light.Although I am a huge fan of beautiful fittings which capture, cradle and bounce light within interiors, today I wanted to explore a more conceptual side of this medium - the idea of projected light as the means of manipulating space. For...
Wall Piece with 200 Letters // Mikko Kuorinki at Kiasma Museum in Helsinki.Between March 2010 and February 2011, Helsinki based artist Mikko Kuorinki formed one new text on the wall of Kiasma museum each week. Using removable letters and mouldings, Mikko assembled a number of intersting, inspiring, and moving...
Concept Office “Attic” by Vasiliy Butenko.Concept office "Attic" by Ukrainian designer Vasiliy Butenko is a bit of a winner. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this project is another wonderful example that workplace interiors can be imaginative, elegant and high on...
Design Free Thursday // The Illustrated 99% Conference 2012.Regular yellowtrace readers (are not only the sexiest bunch around, they would also) know about my weakness for quotes. And pretty pictures. Combining the two is sheer genius which rates quite highly on my "extreme love" scale. These...
All That Glitters…There's been a lot of talk about gold and brass all over the internet and design magazines in the last little while. This is hardly a new trend - brass made a huge come back some time ago in the world of architecture, interiors, fashion...
Architect’s Office by Nuno Sampaio Arquitetos | Portugal.Well... If this isn't the quintessential architects office then I know nothing about anything! Seriously, this workplace literally screams "architects" to me, which is a bit of a paradox given it so understated and restrained. Designed by...
