For your smart home

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The perfect combination between blue and pink, metal and stone:

The perfect combination between blue and pink, metal and stone:

BUDRI | RABBET COLECTION, Design by Patricia Urquiola

This is just a part of what she created with marble, but I like also that she combined it with copper.
'In the Age of Copper' is one of my favourite modern trends.

Functional Art

I like very much the idea of Functional Art and as interior designer I can say that this is probably one of the best ways to integrate art in your interiors.
Sound Reactive Smart Cloud Light - Using motion sensors the cloud detects a user's presence and creates a unique lightning and thunder show dictated by their movement.

The system features a powerful speaker system from which the user can stream music via any Bluetooth compatible device.

Using color-changing lights the cloud is able to adapt to the desired lighting color and brightness. The cloud also has alternative modes such as a nightlight and music reactive mode.

Features a powerful Philips LED bulb which provides plenty of "sunshine."

Rocky Bookshelf by Charles Kalpakian

Skyline Chess Set - the skyline chess set recreates the london cityscape over the checkered black and white plane of the beloved, ever-popular board game.

Designers Ian Flood and Chris Prosser have translated traditional set pieces into prominent london landmarks, drawing from both the symbolic value of the built form as well as their role on the chess board.

Cloud Concrete Toilet Paper Storage

Multicolored Pompon Stool No.03 - manufactured completely by hand. It is upholstered with over 38 handmade wool-pompons. Measure is: seating hight 55 cm, seating diameter 43cm. Total weight is about 5kg. This object is 1of 10, made out of a vintage stool. Legs are metal.

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Small batthrooms with great design

Great design is the design that can make use of even tiny spaces and create the atmosphere and function that let you forget about narrowness. Like these small bathrooms below:

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Maple Street Design Studio

THAT is Good Design!

The show features 75 contemporary chairs scattered throughout the house, but their designs are especially organic and show how good design can make even a comparatively boring classical environment modern and interesting. And bring some beautiful colour accents to this dull monochromatic atmosphere!

Definitely a place I would like to see!
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Designer approach to recycling

Photo by Sean Fennessy.

As my regular readers already know, I am Fascinated with glass, its beauty and enormous range of colours, forms and applications, but what I even more like about it is the possibility to be recycled. And one great example of clever designer approach to recycling glass is what Melbourne based glass artist  Ruth Allen is doing and her  Sustainable Stubbies! Functional vessels created from repurposed bottles, beautiful lighting. Enjoy:

Look at her Champagne pendant from the new Sustainable Stubbies LIGHT range:
Aren't they beautiful?

Photo by Sean Fennessy

"The bottles are taken through a hot process that strengthens the product by nature of ‘annealing’, resulting in a vessel that can withstand hot liquid, a dishwasher and the test of time." source
I think that this is one of the best ways to  recycle glass and a great example of sustainability in action.

Wonderful eclectic

What do you think of eclectic style? I have always been fan of a more free coordinated interior design, not restricted by certain styles or periods, but with good taste and professional approach. I have collected some inspiring examples:

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London Design Festival: Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

Credit: Nick Barr Copyright Nick Barr 2013

Photo Hendrik Zeitler
And some more very beautiful interior designs, created in eclectic style:

WRONG for HAY debut, Sebastian Wrong for Hay at the London Design Festival

 They are also part of the many interesting events during  London Design Festival 2013 .Inspiring, aren't they? I like that this style seems to be one of the trends in interior design that are obviously going to be popular again.

Smart Design

One of the main tasks of design is to solve problems and very often the striving to find the best solution results in some very smart designs, as my readers have already seen. Today I just came across the next smart design proposal -   Jumpseat, a chair especially developed for auditoriums by  the creative team at Ziba:

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"As a design firm, it was also important to us that the seating visually complement the space. Its clean, minimal surfaces and honest use of materials demanded something both elegant and technically creative.The Functional Genius of Bridges and Spines.The immediate challenge was geometric: how do you make a seat that supports an adult, but nearly disappears when not in use? Typical seating is at least 12 inches thick when closed; our risers only allowed four. This ruled out off-the-shelf hinges and other support mechanisms as either to bulky or too weak, and directed the designers to look outside for inspiration.
The two fields with the most to offer were structural engineering and human anatomy. Bridges and tall buildings are incredibly efficient, bearing enormous weight with a minimum of material, in strictly constrained footprints. The cantilever bridge in particular is able to support vast loads in awkward places through the careful pairing of elements that support tension and compression.
We also found an analog in the human spine. Spines are thin and flexible, yet strong, and offer a free range of motion right up until they lock in place at their furthest extremity. They do this by stacking a series of discrete, rigid elements — vertebrae — and tying them together with strong but flexible ligaments.
What these two structures have in common is the use of thick, rigid compression elements and thin, ductile tension elements. Substituting plywood and sheet steel for bone and fiber, we had a promising strategy for making an articulated cantilever seat."