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Isabelle Heilmann converts Parisian textile workshop into loft apartment

February 11, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Interior designer Isabelle Heilmann has used glazing and level changes to turn a former textile workshop in Paris into an open-plan apartment with a dedicated home office. The owners of the property on Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud asked Heilmann’s studio Epicène to rationalise the interior and create a space for home working while maintaining the apartment’s

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Soba restaurant Kawamichiya takes over century-old townhouse in Kyoto

February 5, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Japanese studios Td-Atelier and Endo Shorijo Design have transformed a townhouse in Kyoto into a noodle restaurant that combines traditional residential details with modern geometric interventions. Kawamichiya Kosho-An is an outpost of soba restaurant Kawamichiya, which can trace its history of creating dishes using buckwheat noodles back more than 300 years. It occupies a 110-year-old property

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Tactile materials “accentuate the value of shadows” in Bolívar House

February 4, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spanish architect Juan Gurrea Rumeu used a palette of warm, textural materials and carefully positioned voids to create atmospheric living spaces inside this house he designed for himself and his wife in Barcelona. Rumeu and his wife, the Madrid-born artist Beatriz Dubois, decided to move to the architect’s home city for work after living for

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Yatofu fosters “relaxed holiday atmosphere” in Jianze showroom

February 2, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Design studio Yatofu has completed a furniture showroom in Hangzhou, China, featuring a playful pastel colour palette and a display area housed on a steel-mesh platform. The 80-square-metre retail space belongs to Chinese design brand Jianze and forms part of an emerging cultural district in the city’s Liangzhe New Town. Yatofu set out to create

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Plantea Estudio plays with light and shadow for Acid cafe interior

January 30, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spanish studio Plantea Estudio has completed a cafe and bakery inside an early 20th-century building in Madrid, contrasting the original dark tones of the interior with modern steel surfaces. Taking over a former gem store on a busy street in the Justicia district, the Acid cafe and bakeshop was designed to provide a place for

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Anastasiia Tempynska designs futuristic interior for laser clinic in Kyiv

January 21, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Ukrainian designer Anastasiia Tempynska combined futuristic details with fleshy materials that evoke the human body when creating the interior of the 13 Laser clinic and spa in Kyiv. Tempynska created an interior for 13 Laser that reflects the innovative technologies used by the clinic to perform procedures such as laser hair removal and skin resurfacing,

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PSLab’s monochromatic Berlin showroom is a “sacred place for light”

January 15, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

A pared-back palette of raw materials creates a calm backdrop for PSLab’s lighting products inside the brand’s Berlin workshop and showroom space, designed in collaboration with Belgian firm B-bis architecten. The newly opened studio occupies the ground floor and basement of a 1907 residential building in the city’s Charlottenburg district. PSLab, which designs and manufactures

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Olga Fradina uses natural tones and textures for interior of Ukrainian holistic healing centre

January 14, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Ukrainian designer Olga Fradina has completed a monochromatic interior for Space, a wellness centre in Kyiv, where textures rather than colours provide interest and create a soothing atmosphere. Space is a holistic wellness centre that includes areas for practising yoga, meditation and acupuncture, as well as traditional healing practices such as reiki and qigong. The

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External Reference uses 3D printing to create organic displays for La Manso store in Barcelona

December 21, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

3D-printed shelving structures informed by Catalan-modernist buildings were used for shelving in this store designed by External Reference for a Spanish jewellery brand. Experimental jewellery designer Adriana Manso asked Carmelo Zappulla’s studio External Reference to develop a suitably unusual interior concept for her first physical store in the city. The project involved designing a window display

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Ice-block pavilion Falling Hours functions as a giant hourglass

November 21, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architects from the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design used a cable membrane structure and bricks of river ice to create this installation in Qinhuangdao, China, which has been shortlisted for a 2023 Dezeen Award. A team from BIAD, led by architects Xiyan Yang, Guanjia Li and Chenzhi Yan, designed and built the Falling Hours pavilion

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