A picco sul mare, the perfect vacation in Valencia by the architect Ramón Esteve

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Let’s start from the infinity edge pool, which cancels the boundary between sea and sky water, creating an effect almost ligersico. Then, continue with the outer walls, overlooking the terrace and sliding right to clear the rupture between inner and outer space. We then, just to mention the most memorable elements, with sessions on low tones of ecru and dark wooden staircase in contrast, a corner...

A picco sul mare, the perfect vacation in Valencia by the architect Ramón Esteve

Cubic multi-purpose furniture item by Alessandro Di Prisco

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“Cubic” is the new project of Italian architect and designer Alessandro Di Prisco (we had already spoken of his letters to furnish the smaller here on designerblog). The project started by a process of subtraction: progressively removing material from a geometric figure made-the cube “-you get a series of empty and full making its partial linear functional. “Cubic” is...

Cubic multi-purpose furniture item by Alessandro Di Prisco

The Danish Arts Foundation Committee for Crafts and Design Kasper Salto and Thomas Sigsgaard are contest winners

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Sixty years ago, the Danish architect Finn Juhl designed the interiors of the UN Trusteeship Council Chamber at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Space is undergoing restoration and renovation, and when in about two years to be completed, will house the works of a new generation of Danish designers. Last December, the Danish Arts Foundation Committee for Crafts and Design invited five designers...

The Danish Arts Foundation Committee for Crafts and Design Kasper Salto and Thomas Sigsgaard are contest winners

Volumes and colors pop for the home of Pedro Torres Vedras Gadanho

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A perfect balance of shapes for the interior of this house in Torres Vedras in Portugal made ??by the designer and architect Pedro Gadanho . Volumes borrowed from the modern influences of the ’60s and ’70s, and overly bright colors ‘pop’: all of which strongly characterize the work of Gadanho and are repeated in different environments in a sort of compendium of the author. Strong...

Volumes and colors pop for the home of Pedro Torres Vedras Gadanho

Anish Kapoor for a cup of Illy

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Equal in all respects to a normal cup of coffee produced by the famous Italian company Illy . At least at first glance. Then peering details, we find that the sculptor and architect of the Indian artist Anish Kapoor has decided to include two particular discrete but highly distinctive. The author of the disturbing (and beautiful) “Cloud Gate” hosted by the Millennium Park in Chicago and...