Alex’s report earlier this week on fresh pastel colours at the Stockholm Furniture and Lighting Fair reminded me of this collaboration between the Dutch design studio Scholten and Baijings and Danish brand Hay (spotted on Design Boom recently).
’80 sheets of metal’ by Nendo
Today I’m delighted to introduce and welcome my good friend Alex of Vista Studio to share some of the highlights and colour trends from the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair.
Theatre design isn’t a subject I usually cover here on Design Hunter, but while this project may seem a little off topic, it really made an impact on me as an example of how when designers are forced to work within the most challenging of parameters they can be capable of unleashing their creativity, skill and effort to produce pretty staggering results.
Using only £250 worth of brown paper and card, Theatre, Performance and Event Design students at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design were challenged to produce a set design for ‘The Norsemen’.
For their 2013 collection Italian textile house Rubelli have taken the contemporary reinterest in cabinets of curiosities as one of their inspirations.
Japanse design studio Nendo have collaborated with quartz surface manufacturer Caesarstone to create an installation of ‘table-like’ surfaces clustered together to form a seemingly floating landscape.
Stone garden, which like previous Nendo projects exemplifies a simple, minimalistic beauty, was presented at the Interior Design Show in Toronto last month.
More than 140 years after their first shop opened on London’s Jermyn Street, Penhaligons have just unveiled the relaunch of their Regent Street boutique designed by Christopher Jenner.
Inspired by the Beaux Arts style for which Regent Street is famous, the new design reflects the company’s heritage as a luxury brand and its contemporary approach to perfumery.
Most property advisers agree that the kitchen is the most important room in the house when it comes to adding value to a property.
When we renovated our house a couple of years ago we found it the most difficult room to get right. In the end we were delighted with the results, but it involved a lot of planning and hard work. My advice to anyone about to embark on a similar project would be. “Don’t underestimate the importance of getting all the little details right.”
Continuing with January’s storage and shelving theme on Design Hunter, here are some nifty little wall mounted solutions by French designer Inga Sempe for Moustache.
I finally made it along to the Tim Walker exhibition at Somerset House last week.
The exhibition, which is being supported by Mulberry (Walker has shot their campaigns for the past four seasons), accompanies the launch of his latest book Storyteller. It’s been hugely popular, but now is a great time to go as it’s nearing the end of its run so the crowds have thinned out a bit. When I visited there was plenty of opportunity to really linger over the images and experience them up close.
Tim Walker’s work is renowned for its strong underlying narrative, and it’s his use of props that is frequently the key to this. Often surreal and giant sized, these are objects that play around with our sense of scale. Alice in Wonderland is the literary reference that perhaps springs most readily to mind.
Stepping into the East wing gallery at Somerset House you could indeed be forgiven for thinking that you have fallen down a rabbit hole into another world. In a sense you have, for you find yourself in the world of Tim Walker’s fabulously creative imagination – a world of dark dreamlike fairytales where beauty is juxtaposed with English eccentricity and haute couture.
This month’s property picks from Savills include a Scandinavian style eco apartment in Cambridge, a detached family home with sea views in the Scottish seaside town of Gullane and an award winning modernist style new build on a private estate near Kingston upon Thames.