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Posts Tagged ‘Inspiration’
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Los Angeles Design Group have created an interior design for RK Apothecary, a store that sells bath and body products. The RK Apothecary space before the redesign was small and dense with structural and mechanical elements that could not be altered.
The LADGs design had to respond to the existing interior because the client did not have the luxury of gutting it and beginning fresh. The pods have anatomic similarities to the humble strawberry, whose “exterior gives little clue to the structural nature of its interior.
” The amorphous white, ridged objects are teasingly sliced at certain points to reveal their blood-red, exotic interiors, lit by a single bulb. LADG also experimented with the idea by using water filled ice bags, intrigued by the way they “slumped, folded and wallowed around obstacles.” The pods’ fluid forms are a stark contrast to the sharp angles and hard concrete surfaces of the existing store.
Designers Andrew Holder and Benajmin Freyinger drew inspiration from still-life paintings by Caravaggio and Rubens.
They say“ these artists used fruit as sumptuous, scene-setting devices in exactly the way we hoped to deploy our to present product in the store. In that sense, the outré fruit is set afloat inside the environment and piled with tempting objects to browse.”
Los Angeles Design Group
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
The French firm Karawitz Architecture have developed a passive house in Bessancourt, France.
The house is closed to the north to limit heat loss and opened to the south benefiting from free solar energy. aesthetically, it is an abstract replica of a traditional house.The second skin of the houses design is untreated bamboo which envelopes the frame in solid wood panels.
The cladding, which becomes grey over time, drew inspiration from traditional barns in the part of the Ile-de-France region where the house is situated. It passes in front of the windows to the north and finishes by unfolding on to the roof. Identical shutters are fitted on large bay windows to the south to provide shade and light in the house, during the day or at night.
Photovoltaic panels on the roof round off the program, producing 2695 kwh/yr in energy. the foundation slab is the only concrete element, the entire structure is created from the assembly oflarge solid wood panels, which have been prefabricated in a workshop.
Karawitz Architecture
Via Designboom
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Tags: Architecture, Architecture Firm, Barns, Bay Windows, Bessancourt, Element, Envelopes, Foundation Slab, France, France Region, French Architecture, French Firm, Heat Loss, house, House Architecture, Houses Design, Ile De France, Inspiration, Karawitz, Light House, Passive, Second Skin, Shutters, Solar Energy, Solid Wood, Wood Panels
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
The Treehotel in Harads, Sweden (within the arctic circle) will initially consist of only six rental units, each with its own theme, set to open this month, and then expanding with an additional eighteen units to be designed and built over the next 5 years. Treehotel, a unique new hotel which has transformed the simple treehouse concept from childhood into a destination for design-conscious travellers, will be unveiled in Harads, Northern Sweden, on July 17, 2010.
The inspiration for the Treehotel project was borrowed from a documentary film that followed three urban friends who came out to Harads and built a treehouse. That treehouse has been used as a rental unit over the last year and ultimately inspired hotel developers to develop this project.
They have all been constructed from wood and glass and feature an electric floor heating system, a state-of-the-art eco-friendly incineration toilet and a water-efficient hand basin.
The interior of each tree house will be uniquely designed using furniture and lighting that complements an individual theme.
According to the company, “What we are offering is a new experience living close to nature in a place of great natural beauty. Where the joyful childhood memories can now be relived in a more comfortable and sophisticated environment.” The inspiration for the Treehotel project was borrowed from a documentary film that followed three urban friends who came out to Harads and together built a treehouse. That treehouse has been used as a rental unit over the last year and is what gave the actual inspiration needed to bring about this project.
Treehotel in Harads
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Tags: Arctic Circle, Childhood Memories, Conscious Travellers, Documentary Film, Electric Floor Heating, Floor Heating System, Hand Basin, Hotel Developers, Incineration, Inspiration, Joyful Childhood, July 17, Natural Beauty, New Experience, New Hotel, Northern Sweden, Sophisticated Environment, Sweden, Tree House, Treehotel, Treehouse Concept, Wood And Glass
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
 This Amy Butler Modena Ravenna Appliquéd Decorator Pillow brings Amy’s passion for color and design to your bedroom. This beautifully appliquéd Modena Ravenna decorator pillow is a apple green pillow with appliquéd flowers across the face. What dreams are made of! This 100% Organic Cotton Modena Ravenna holds true to Amy’s inspiration that bring rich textures of nature and weave them into everyday life. Decorator Pillow Size 18″ x 18″. $39.99. Buy here.
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Tags: Amy Butler, Apple, Appliquéd, Butler, Decorator, Decorator Pillow, Dreams, Everyday Life, Flowers, Inspiration, Modena, Organic Cotton, Passion, Pillow, Pillow Size, Ravenna, Rich Textures
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When you visit California for some inspiration you may want to see this modern home located in the Santa Ynez Valley. Designed by Sotheby’s Home in 2006 this modern house spread over a 7,000 square foot area and has everything a man wants: luxury environment in a massive and modern home.