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Showing posts with label Not Another. Show all posts

Monday, 17 June 2013

Pakta Restaurant - El Equipo Creativo









In the Quechua language of Peru Pakta means “union”; in this case the union of two cultures and their respective cuisines . The interior design created by El Equipo Creativo emerges from this same idea, considering that Japanese cuisine is the basis of the nikkei gastronomy but wrapped in Peruvian tastes, colours, traditions and ingredients. With this in mind, the basic elements of the restaurant such as the bars, the kitchen and the furniture are designed with a clear reference to the architecture of the traditional Japanese taverns.
An explosion of colours evocative of Peru envelopes the space. This chromatic “second skin” is achieved by use of a direct reference to the Peruvian loom, offering a surprising combination of colours which contrast with the austere Japanese design, and underlining the deep-rootedness of this artefact in Peruvian arts and crafts. However, the re-interpretation of the Peruvian loom goes further, sequencing its own elaboration process on the walls of Pakta, transforming this flat surface to offer a tridimensional character to the space, adding vitality and movement and blurring the limits which mark the locale. The traditional Peruvian weaving looms are wooden mechanisms where colored threads intertwine in various directions, forming a suggestive tridimensional space which generates an attractive atmosphere transformed and reinterpreted in Pakta...


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Wednesday, 6 March 2013

The picnic - Raw Edges





Renowned design duo Raw-Edges has designed the Kvadrat stand for the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2013. The picnic features a massive wooden structure of Dinesen Douglas Fir and an installation consisting of 1,500 textile strips made from a selection of twenty different Kvadrat textiles. The designers envisioned recreating a picnic in an intimate forest atmosphere. Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay about the concept: “wooden cabin, soft roof tiles, fish skin and a picnic under a weeping willow, all mixed in a massive pot with Kvadrat swatches. Served within a commercial fair with our aspiration to create a bit of relaxing surreal situation but very warm and welcoming.” The stand is built out of two main elements: the wooden structure and the textile strips hanging from the ceiling. The wooden structure functions as display for the Kvadrat swatches and corresponds with the appearance of a wooden cabin. Made from Douglas Fir from the Danish floor company Dinesen, the horizontal wooden panels have been angled in such a way so that they can hold the textile samples, allowing the visitors a closer look. The impressive textile installation resembles vertical roof tiles and creates a three dimensional volume. Functioning as a space divider,
the strips were inspired by weeping willow trees, creating an intimate space within the big exhibition hall.


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Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Andreas Verheijen - Flower Engineer






Floral designers are just floral designers but Andreas Verheijen is a "flower engineer." The strange title may sound like a bit of bad PR until you see his work. It's startling, it stops you in your tracks. Are they real?

Free Movements Competition for Roche


Academic work. Competition for Roche (healthcare company).
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks jointsIt can be a disabling and painful condition, which can lead to substantial lost of functioning and mobility.
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umatoid arthritis' patients have some difficulties in dailylife's tasks: they can't completely close their hands, they have to rest more time than usual, they can't be for a long time in the same position during the sleep or while sitiing, ...


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YooA and Camira




SHE has a background as a provocative political playwright in her native South Korea.  But now YooA Kang, a 43-year-old mother of a young son, aims to become a new force in British textile design and is on a personal mission to boost traditional wool textiles in Yorkshire, the county she has made her home.
All of this is happening while she completes the final year of her degree in textile studies at the University of Huddersfield, long a major centre for the subject.
Born in the Korean city of Gwangu, and educated at university in Seoul, where she studied philosophy, YooA’s first career was as a playwright whose works provoked the then government of South Korea so much that she was forced to quit her studies and was placed on a blacklist.  She met an Englishman working for a Korean company and accompanied him when he returned to his native Heckmondwike, in the heart of the traditional Heavy Woollen area of the West Riding.
The couple married in 2004 and have a son, now six, but later separated.  Initially, YooA felt isolated in her new home. “I spent ten years learning American English in Korea, but when I came here I found I just couldn’t speak to anyone, not even in a shop.  I was in a shell for two years.”...

Camira Fabrics



Second Nature
We’re all becoming increasingly aware about environmental impacts, which is why eco-conscious products are becoming the natural choice for many people.


We’re all becoming increasingly aware about environmental impacts, which is why eco-conscious products are becoming the natural choice for many people.


Our trademarked Second Nature brand is our promise to you of environmental well-being in fabrics across specific environmental categories: recycled raw materials; renewable & compostable fibres; climate neutral fabrics.

Recycled We’re all learning to recycle in order to reduce landfill, save virgin raw materials and give our waste materials a new lease of life as newly made products.
We’re leading the way in recycled polyester fabrics and we even market a recycled leather.
Renewable & Compostable Using renewable raw materials allows us to replace what we take and make. Renewable fibres include nature’s most well-known environmental textile, pure new wool, and bast fibres from plants such as nettles and hemp. Because they’re protein or plant based, they will decompose fully for back to earth compostability.
Climate Neutral We only offset high content pure new wool fabrics and have analysed their CO2 footprint from raw fleece to finished fabric, including all processes and transportation in between. We invest in offset projects managed by Climate Care, one of the world’s leading emissions reduction companies.


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Playhouse By Aboday - Dezeen



A spiralling concrete slide connects the kitchen and child’s bedroom of this family house near Jakarta designed by Indonesian architects Aboday. Play House is part of a gated cluster of 120 residences in Bumi Serpong Damai, Tangerang.

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The Lowry Centre Salford


Set in a magnificent waterside location at the heart of the redeveloped Salford Quays in Greater Manchester, The Lowry is an architectural flagship with a unique and dynamic identity. Rising from the regenerated docklands, it is a welcoming building, designed to reflect the surrounding landscapes and flourishing waterways, in its glass and metallic surfaces.
The Lowry opened on 28th April 2000, bringing together a wide variety of performing and visual arts under one roof. Opening its door to the best in entertainment and education in the arts, The Lowry aims to give everyone access to new areas of creativity and to embrace its broad community...

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Do Ho Suh Icon 65



Do ho suh had never heard of Rachel Whiteread when he planned to cast his studio in plaster. The Korean artist had never heard of Gordon Matta-Clark when he planned to start cutting holes through buildings.


His student years, as a naive young immigrant to America, were a series of forehead slaps as friends pointed to his brilliant ideas already manifest in books and magazines. But if being an outsider was frustrating, it was also the source of Suh's art. Moving between places and cultures led to him conceiving a way of engaging with architecture - or what he would call "space" - that was both his own and peculiarly appropriate to our time...


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Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Kirk Originals Eyewear - London Flagship






Kirk Originals eyewear company opened its London flagship store on Conduit Street in the West End this week with a swanky launch party.
London-based Campaign designed the pared-down, dramatic retail environment of the 66 square-meter boutique.
The black-and-white color palette, only one eyewear wall with 187 “heads” for frames, and practically no furnishings ensure that customers will focus on the eyewear, not the trappings. Eye examinations and fitting take place in the basement, away from the main display space. Large graphics of winking eyes in the window speak the same, clear language leaving no doubt about what they sell.
 Established more than two decades ago, Kirk Originals is still run by Jason and Karen Kirk from their home near Bordeaux, France. Kirk Originals are available in more than 40 countries.

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Art Gallery of Ontario




It is fitting that the 70-year-old Frank Gehry ended up re-envisioning the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) for his native city of Toronto. As a boy, Gehry visited the AGO often, and the effect of those visits on him and his future career was important. Gehry has lived most of his life in the U.S., but the AGO remake allows Toronto to reap some of the benefits of his massive talent before it’s all too late.
One of Gehry’s early sources of career inspiration was the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), known as the father of Scandinavian modernism. The influence of Aalto’s love of gently curving light-color wood, and his clean and airy architectural lines, can be sensed at the newly refurbished AGO. Whether or not Gehry thought of Aalto when he designed the spiraling plywood-faced staircase for the main entry hall is irrelevant, but the feel of the space is decidedly Aalto-esque. To those of us who love the work of both architects, the newly transfigured AGO is simply fabulous.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Nettle Ale



Hugh:

"We love nettles at River Cottage, turning them into everything from soup to gnocchi and tagliatelle and, yes, beer."

Ingredients

  • 6l water
  • A small carrier bag of nettle tops, washed
  • Juice of 1 lemon, strained
  • Juice of 1 orange, strained
  • 750g caster sugar
  • 30g cream of tartar
  • 5g yeast



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Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Comme des Garçons

Comme des Garçons, Warsaw, September 26, 2007
Comme des Garçons Cracow, March 24, 2006


In February 14, 2004 the Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons became of the first brands to make the guerrilla store concept international when it launched its first guerrilla shop in Berlin. The shop was an immediate success and more have been opened and subsequently closed by Comme des Garçons in more than 20 locations including Reykjavik, Warsaw, Helsinki, Stockholm, Athens and other, making Comme des Garçons a prominent player in the field. With the most extraordinary location being Beirut (July 3, 2007) and the most successful ones located in Cracow and Warsaw (Poland), Comme des Garçons' guerrilla shops may look strange the ordinary shopper. Yet, with many others their eccentric urban spaces help turning a boring commercial practice into a thrilling experience.