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Sabine Marcelis on the VARMBLIXT collection

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Norm Architects discuss their approach to design with MENU

Norm Architects was founded in Copenhagen in 2008 by Danish designers Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen and Kasper Ronn. Based in the centre of Copenhagen, Norm Architects’ work covers multiple disciplines including industrial design, residential architecture, commercial interiors and art direction. The studio has designed a wide range of interior products for some of Scandinavian designs leading brands including lighting for &Tradition and modern furniture and home accessories for MENU. Discover more at nest.co.uk https://www.nest.co.uk/browse/designe...

#architects #copenhagen #jonas bierre-poulsen #kasper ronn #norm architects #interview

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Aleksandra Domanović: a new reflection on seeing and perceiving

Berlin-based artist Aleksandra Domanović has been exploring technology, history, and identity in sculptures, videos, and digital artworks for over a decade. Her research-based practice was on full display in Becoming Another (2021), Audemars Piguet Contemporary’s first artwork commission presented in the German capital, which opened during the autumn edition of Gallery Weekend Berlin... continue reading on https://www.nowness.com/series/anatom...

#aleksandra domanovic #berlin #technology #history #identity #sculptures #video #digital artworks #art #nowness #interview #documentary

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Discover Doug Aitken's living installation 'Green Lens' Green Lens is a living artwork and installation located on the island of Isola Della Certosa in Venice, Italy. The interactive sculpture transforms a landscape that was once a military munition and bomb factory until 1960 when the island was neglected and abandoned.

#art basel #art #installation #doug aitken #venice #isola island #interactive sculpture

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Friends of Friends x Reform/ Berlin

We visited our long-time friends and talented designer of FF’s lovely office kitchen, Michael Andersen and Jeppe Christensen. Their own friendship was born from a shared dream - reforming the kitchen industry. Watch the video to find out about their reformative  approach to design, and their aspiration to push boundaries through their work. For the full interview visit: https://www.friendsoffriends.com/prof...

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Sunken concrete floor expands Victorian terrace house in London

DGN Studio has extended and renovated a Victorian semi-detached terraced house in East London, introducing a sunken concrete floor to maximise the ground floor ceiling height. Called Concrete Plinth House, the original brief – to transform a disconnected and dark north-facing kitchen into a bright and open space for gatherings – expanded to include lighter-touch renovations of the rest of the house. Read more on Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/?p=1549743 WATCH NEXT: Linear brick wall conceals earthy and tactile interiors of Devon Passivhaus - https://youtu.be/QOrOZlMx4O8 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest architecture and design movies: http://bit.ly/1tcULvh

DGN Studio have transformed a dark Victorian semi-detached terrace into a serene, brutalist-inspired home in East London.

Concrete Plinth House is a minimal residence which is tasked with crafting versatile spaces suitable for relaxation, entertaining, and hosting intimate dining and arts evenings. The clients, a young couple, initially appointed DGN Studio to reconfigure their dark north-facing kitchen into a light communal area for events and gatherings and to reorganize the upstairs bathroom. However, the brief quickly evolved to include a light renovation of the upper floor.

Doing away with the typical Victorian arrangement of small disconnected rooms, DGN Studio opted for a functional floor plan that flows both physically and visually. Parallel stepped openings link each space and offer long open views from the entry and front living room through to the rear garden. Dinesen timber floors and muted terrazzo tiles draw visitors into the kitchen where the clients’ love of concrete is celebrated. Long, low concrete benches grow from the concrete floors to line the perimeter of the kitchen and dining space as multi-purpose seating, staging, and display options. The concrete kitchen worktop floats on smokey Farrow & Ball ‘Railings’ cabinetry, met by microcement rendering to the upper walls. A hidden cellar door leads down to a utility space to keep functional clutter out of sight.

The heaviness of the concrete is balanced by the use of soft oak joinery and a large skylight above the kitchen island. Simple oak sash windows draw in yet more light in a nod to the traditional glazing of Victorian-era terraces, and extend the width of the kitchen onto the leafy side return passage.

Challenged with an oppressive ceiling height in the existing kitchen, DGN Studio lowered the floor level by half a metre and opted for an expressed timber ceiling structure to give the new extension the best possible light and height. The lowered floor level is expressed structurally as a concrete tray from which three concrete columns rise to support a T-shaped steel frame which in turn carries the upper level of the house.

The internal concrete tray extends into the garden where the concrete retaining walls, plinths & steps form benches and informal seating.

The architects have played with depth and functionality on the tight urban site. The interior concrete benches are utilized outside too; the sash windows perforate the long, low concrete forms creating intermittent nook seating all along the side return and rear patio.

https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/concrete-plinth-house-by-dgn-studio

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Stefan Diez's sofa for Magis is designed to "rethink the traditional sofa system" | Dezeen

In this video produced by Dezeen for Magis, Stefan Diez explains how the new sofa system he designed for the Italian furniture brand is both user-friendly and part of a circular economy. The Costume modular sofa, designed by Munich-based industrial designer Diez for Magis, is made of recycled plastic and designed to be easily assembled and dismantled by the user when needed. The sofa's modular construction was designed to make cleaning, repairing and replacing its components simpler than with traditional sofa systems. "Magis approached me with a brief to re-think the traditional sofa system," Diez explained in the video. "They challenged me to come up with a sofa with an industrial soul, that was modular in nature, could be easily assembled and dismantled by the user and fit into the principles of the circular economy," he added. The system is broken down into four main components: a seat, a pair of armrests and an ottoman. Read more on Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/?p=1642661​ WATCH NEXT: Konstantin Grcic discusses his 'rational, intelligent' Bell Chair for Magis - https://youtu.be/pFHl_i66Zk0​ Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest architecture and design movies: http://bit.ly/1tcULvh​​ Like Dezeen on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dezeen/​​ Follow Dezeen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dezeen/​​ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dezeen/​​ Check out our Pinterest: https://uk.pinterest.com/dezeen/

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Virgil Abloh - Braun

Since the iconic Braun Wandanlage began development in 1961, technology has evolved. And now, 60 years later, Virgil Abloh has reimagined it for 2021. Abloh has analysed and explored the original designs from the inside out, utilising his personal influences to create a piece of "Functional Art" that still maintains Braun’s original principle that good design is built to last.

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Ctenophora, Echinoidea and Morning Dip by Ninetyoneninetytwo | The Mindcraft Project | Dezeen

Undersea creatures influenced the diversely textured forms of design studio Ninetyoneninetytwo's object series, highlighted as part of our Dezeen x The Mindcraft Project 2021 collaboration. Ninetyoneninetytwo created the Ctenophora Vase, Echinoidea Bowl and Morning Dip Side Table – all made of recycled plastics – for The Mindcraft Project exhibition of experimental design from Denmark. The studio specialises in 3D printing, and this series is meant to explore how sustainable that process can be while challenging people's understanding of what a 3D-printed object looks like. There is a diversity of textures on display — smooth, almost cartilage-like ribs on the vase; a translucent, softly rippled surface on the side table; and the tangled, wiry nest of the bowl. Read more on Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/2021/03/24/nin...​ See The Mindcraft Project 2021 exhibition at: https://mindcraftproject.com/​ Video is by Benjamin Lund: http://benjaminlund.dk/​MOSTRAR MENOS

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The Concrete House

The Concrete House in Sussex UK is a self-build home that was featured on Channel4's Grand Designs in 2018.  We spent two days with the owners photographing and filming the property in a collaboration that would benefit us mutually. Concrete House was designed by RAW Architecture Workshop in close collaboration with the owners. Styling for our shoot was by Chapter Eight Design.

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S-AR immerses ‘casa cosmos’ in the lush vegetation of mexico’s oaxaca coast

S-AR has completed ‘casa cosmos’, a small, single family house located nearby puerto escondido on the pacific coast of the state of oaxaca, mexico. the house is composed of three main elements: a concrete nucleus that encloses the main living spaces; an external grid of beams and columns also made of concrete; and the roof, which functions as a lookout towards the landscape. a skin of a mechanical wooden lattice replaces most walls and windows and reinforces the home’s strong relation with the surrounding landscape.

the grid is connected to the central nucleus, which allows the extension of activities of the whole house to the exterior. its form generates patios, terraces, perimetral circulation and a pond, while modifying the perception of the real dimension by the experience of inhabiting the house. the building’s roof, which functions as a lookout towards the landscape, holds a water mirror for ‘reading the stars, constellations and the cosmos that surround us at night’, as S-AR notes.

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Tarry + Perry documents monastic qualities of concrete house in Sussex

Architecture photography studio Tarry + Perry has documented a concrete house hidden within a verdant site in southern England to spotlight its monastic character and unexpectedly warm interiors. The rural dwelling, appropriately named Concrete House, was designed by former office RAW Architecture Workshop for a young family in East Sussex. Tarry + Perry is the first photography studio to have captured the dwelling since its completion in 2018. Read more on Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/?p=1605547 WATCH NEXT: Linear brick wall conceals earthy and tactile interiors of Devon Passivhaus - https://youtu.be/QOrOZlMx4O8 Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest architecture and design movies: http://bit.ly/1tcULvh

#interior design #architecture #tarry + perry #england #dezeen

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House Tours: Blue in Brooklyn

In my years of photographing spaces for Apartment Therapy, I've been to some pretty cool places, but never any place quite like this. Designer Harry Nuriev's Brooklyn apartment is like a pop art wonderland, a sculpture garden that you can live inside. You may have seen Harry's home before — or perhaps one of the spaces he's designed as the founder of Crosby Studios — but this is a closer and longer look at an intriguing space filled with surprisingly affordable DIY ideas.

#interior design #ny #brooklyn #apartment #harry nuriev´s #blue #crosby studios

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In Residence: Mark Haddawy

High up in the Hollywood Hills sits the Lautner Harpel House, an unrivalled example of signature Californian architecture. After acquiring the house in 2006, design restorer and Resurrection Vintage co-founder Mark Haddawy took on the mammoth task of refurbishing the house exactly to its original 1956 design.

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In Residence: Muller Van Severen

Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen—the creative duo behind Ghent-based design studio Muller Van Severen—are no strangers to having unknown visitors explore their carefully curated home. For the 2017 edition of Design Miami, the couple created an exact replica of their living room as an installation, collaborating with global room-for-rent service Airbnb. Earlier this year, filmmaker Emile Rafael travelled to the Belgian city to meet the designers in the space they call home, bringing our usual In Residence treatment to a space that we would become softly obsessed by. The home itself, a large 19th century building accompanied by an adjacent studio, was originally an orangery that has later been renovated into a modern workspace. Prototypes and samples sit alongside materials and references, hinting at the thoroughly-researched process by which their highly refined furniture and objects come into existence. The objects conceived and produced by Muller Van Severen tend always toward the deceptively simple, favoring geometric lines and subtle silhouettes over complicated fussiness. Their home also plays host to many collected objects, as well as a small wooden chair designed and built by their daughter. Bloc colours, supported on legs and frames of black, copper, and gold, mean that the objects remain light and uncomplicated, while also revealing—on closer inspection—their finely balanced engineering. Soft leather seats are suspended in frames of sharp metalwork; while plastic shelves rise confidently and sparsely against the wooden floors. Honest, solid materials prevail over fussy and complicated resources. The resulting furniture speaks confidently for itself.

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