The home of an art lover should be artful itself, so believes the client of Humberto Hermeto about this Brazilian home. Casa JE is more than just a home, however, it is a multi-use building featuring a large art gallery in its lower section. The home is segmented between this [...]
0If you’re like us, you’ve got notes everywhere– in old binders, on wall-stuck post-its, on your computer desktop… Having just moved in to a new office, we’d like to add a new dimension to our hand-written brainstorms, and a dry erase board is a logical step forward. Why get a [...]
0The Bowen Mountain House in New South Wales, Australia evolved from a basic weekender home to a full-service mountain living campus. What started with a simple, yet refined structure came to include a swimming pool, a pool home and a sauna to round out this home’s relaxation experience. Corrosion-treated steel, reclaimed [...]
1The Japanese design brand O-E-Y have produced a new set of chopsticks and dining accessories in bright, living color. The Mutsumi Hashi Chopsticks are a range of chopsticks wrapped in colored Japanese paper twine and silk. The are bound on their non-business end with a stylish loop, ensuring your pair [...]
0The architecture team at SAOTA has completed work on a contemporary stunner on the shoreline of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. This sprawling, airy complex includes two separate structures (a home and an office) fused by a central section that includes a spa, sauna, pool, garages and a media room. The design [...]
1The Iseami House by Robles Arquitectos is a work of science as much as it is an achievement of design. This home rests on a hill above the ocean on the Peninsula de Osa in Costa Rica, a location with 5% of the world’s biodiversity– yet 20km away from the [...]
1The 2011 Ikea Catalog is now officially available online. The new Ikea Catalog is packed with 376 pages of inexpensive, flat-packed interior design goodness, with a focus this year on storage solutions for the home and office. While the phrase “storage solutions” doesn’t inspire excitement in most of us, the [...]
0The great Karim Rashid has designed an instant classic in the world of modern furniture, the Vondom Chair for Vertex. The Vondom Chair (and table) are smooth, angular and symmetrical, an exercise in design reflecting a low-fi take on modern seating. The angles of the Vondom Chair are in tune [...]
1The tropical nature of Singapore is one that should be embraced in architecture, with structures that make outdoor living central to their experience. The Tangga House Singapore by Guz Architects executed brilliantly upon this philosophy, creating a large home with a tiered courtyard as its centerpiece. The courtyard features an [...]
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