Hi-Lo Hotel Lobby in Portland, Oregon by Jessica Helgerson.Back in 1999, Alex Calderwood opened the Ace Hotel in Seattle and forever changed our notion of what a luxury hotel could be. Another recent edition to the category is Hi-Lo Hotel in Portland, which promises a comparable sort of cool,...
Poli-Piel: Jorge Penadés Serrano’s First Solo Show at Gallery Machado-Muñoz in Madrid.Jorge Penadés has kept up his innovative exploration of left-over materials with a new eight-piece collection that pushes the potential of leather as a sturdy structural material, presented as part of Madrid Design...
CASAPLATA Restaurant & Cocktail Bar in Seville by Lucas y Hernández-Gil.CASPALATA in the heart of Seville suggests a new kind of vision and future for restaurant and cocktail bar design. Madrid-based studio Lucas y Hernández-Gil have purposefully sidestepped tried and true nostalgia in favour of creating...
Hotel National des Arts et Métiers, Paris by Raphael Navot.New among Paris’ boutique hotels is Hôtel National des Arts & Métiers. Set somewhere between the Marais and Montorgueil quartiers in the third arrondissement, the hotel takes its design cues from the Centre National des Arts &...
Marble-Made Tent in the Galaxy: Romola Restaurant in Madrid by Andres Jaque.Bursting from the former garage space of a 40s-era Luis Gutiérrez Soto building in Madrird, Romola Restaurant immediately reminds me of the jade powder room in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz. Its futurist...
Spirit Faces: Anna-Wili Highfield’s First Show at Olsen Gruin Gallery NYC.After a 10-plus year hiatus, Australian artist Anna-Wili Highfield has returned with a collection of mixed media sculptures at Olsen Gallery’s New York City outpost, Olsen...
The Gift Hotel: Cooltown Animated Video Campaign by Six N. Five for Massimo Dutti.Spanish fashion house Massimo Dutti asked Six N. Five to come up with a new, non-conventional ad concept to introduce five new products and communicate their more emotive, sensory elements. Six N. Five's The Gift Hotel is a set of five...
Online Furniture Brand élément de base Opens a Pop-up Shop in Old Montreal.This pop-up shop in old Montreal features pure and simple lines and on-the-money setting created by the talented duo behind Creative...
Blushhh Secret Shop in Kiev, Ukraine by AKZ Architectura.AKZ Architectura's latest project is a fine example of today’s ‘Instagrammable’ interior, carefully balancing function with a ‘social-media-worthy’...
