A Touch of Luxury - Onyx

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Onyx is one of my favourite materials for interior design projects - it is not only beautiful, it has softness and it is translusant, and that creates a feeling of a 3D effect. Enjoy some of my latest findings:

A kitchen entirely made of green onyx! source: CK Stones

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Onyx Caramello Backlit Bar at The Grove Restaurant

 But even with this beautiful material it is possible to overdo things. I have seen a lot of such examples. Just make sure that when using onyx you leave it the only accent - it deserves to be the central piece in any interior project.

Collectible Design Fair Preview - a sofa with lentil beans!

 As my regular readers know, I like to publish about design-art - this is one of my favourite themes. Not because I like unusual ideas - that's right if they have some sensible application, but I find it valuable to create inspired one-of-a-kind designs that also have some practical application. That is real art in design :) - for me.
Get some inspiration from the coming Collectible Design Fair, taking place March 5-8 in Brussels.
Unlike a conventional sofa, this sofa has sloping soft surfaces which adapt to the body in a variety of lounging positions. Its soft structure is filled with organic latex and lentil beans, which support the natural curves and movements of the body. The filling in the bean bags is supportive, but it also makes the sofa malleable enough to conform exactly to the shapes required for proper posture - genius design by Nina Edwards Anker from NEA Studio:

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Some more collectible products:

Trilithon, an onyx side table by Eindhoven-based studio OS & OOS | Image: Galerie Philia

Supertoys Supertoys’ Cosmic Flower Table, a slightly translucent design in hand-cast resin 

Have a look at some older design-art inspiration in my blog!

Christmas decorating ideas

I think that this time of the year even those of you who do not have the habit of decorating their home themselves get inspired and begin to think and search for ideas. This post is exactly for inspirational ideas. Enjoy and create this festive mood in your homes!

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The Martini Hourglasses.


Double Candle Holder in Assorted Colors design by Menu

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Confetti Glass Collection Large Bowl



Teakwood Large Bowl with Ball Legs
Light Green Onyx Bowl - Large

Bowls can be used in the most creative way and even just filled with a beautiful selection of baubles and branches, or just fruits easily become an elegant centerpiece for  the Christmas table.
And glasses - in addition to their basic use, they can serve you in many ways to make a beautiful table decoration:
Blown glass goblets, 'Golden Glow' (set of 6, medium) (Mexico)

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"A luxury dream for just few privileged people"

As you have seen in my previous post, too, sensual and smooth spherical forms are conquering bathroom design along with the trend for increased use of natural materials within our modern bathrooms. The new collection “Panta Rei”, by Carlo Colombo for Antonio Lupi presented at Cersaie 2006 represents both of these trends. It is a series of items that are top of the range as for quality and uniqueness of the employed materials. The items of the new collection, Estetica are like real sculptures:

The washbasin “Opium” has unusual ball-shape and is made of moonstone. Externally it is with spherical form, but internally is asymmetric: in order to help its use, the opening has been built towards the outside while the leaning cut aims at lightening its form.

Antonio Lupi Design offers two exclusive items in limited edition and they will be manufactured in 10 pieces per type only.

Washbasin Pila (right) is made of onyx stone and amber coloured.

Onyx, being already used by The Romans and the
Greeks in ancient times, is a stone with a warm colour and intense nuances; it
has a strong emotional power. It is a product that is absolutely exclusive and
its craftmade manufacturing is complex.

The new bath “Arca” (top), a real sculpture, is made of moonstone, has an elliptic form, and is an item that, together with its special smooth and sinuous line, is made even more special by the fact that it is hollow in one single monolith. It is a luxury dream for just few privileged people.

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One more example of the above trends: Claudio Silvestrin's Le Aque for Toscoquatro:

I like its style, although I doubt whether all these luxury bathroom items will not look too clumsy in real bathrooms that are not ocupying a whole floor.

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Natural Luxury

Nature has created some of the most beautiful designs - everywhere, but for interior design natural stones are some of the most valuable materials when we want to have real luxurious feeling. That is true from ancient times. One of my favourite natural stones is onyx for its translucent qualities and beautiful colours. Have a look at some inspiring applications:

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Interior Design Trends for 2019 - Part 1: Materials

It is always interesting to know what is coming - in life in general, but also in our professional life, too. Interior design is an inspiring profession - we create the spaces we live, work and entertain in and we do our best to make them in such a way that everything there is much easier, more beautiful and fun to use. And that is a good reason to look for inspiration in the coming new trends and be informed for the best possibilities we can offer to our clients.

So, I expect that part of the trends that will be popular in the coming 2019 are based on classic, well-known materials and ideas and many other - on the new materials and ideas that we have discovered this year.

arch. Aviram Kushmirski 

Brass is one of the materials that we rediscovered in the past few years and especially its new applications and, like copper earlier, we are going to use it more extensively in our interior design projects. 

Porcelain stoneware can now look like real onyx! And like other natural stones, too. My favourite is ULTRA ONICI:

"The extremely reduced 6mm thickness, together with the advanced Ultra technology, allows an appropriately powerful band of light to travel through the Onice Ultra slabs and backlight the material."!!!‎ source: archiproducts.com

 From the earlier discoveries in the field of interior design materials, I expect that we are going to continue to use extensively the terrazzo and discover more ways to do that.
And another one, very suitable especially for the cold winter days, is plush mohair velvet - it is one of the new materials that Tom Dixon studio  introduced in their production line this year along with high-textured materials like hand tufted wool: