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India Mahdavi references Bauhaus geometry with patterned interior for Berlin’s KaDaWe

April 27, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

French architect India Mahdavi has used different shades of quartz to create bold, geometric floor patterns in the womenswear section of historic Berlin department store KaDaWe. Mahdavi wanted to celebrate the cultural history of the German city with her design for KaDaWe, short for Kaufhaus des Westens, which has been open in Berlin since 1907. She chose to borrow from the geometric style of the Bauhaus

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Vincent van Duysen’s first Molteni&C flagship store opens in Milan

April 23, 2017 Alice Morby 0

For his first flagship design since becoming its creative director, Vincent van Duysen has created a space for Molteni&C that feels like a “secluded home from home”. The Molteni Group tasked the Belgian architect with designing its biggest flagship store to date, which is located on via Cavallotti in Milan’s new Durini design district. Van Duysen,

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Vincent van Duysen’s first Molteni&C flagship store opens in Milan

April 23, 2017 Alice Morby 0

For his first flagship design since becoming its creative director, Vincent van Duysen has created a space for Molteni&C that feels like a “secluded home from home”. The Molteni Group tasked the Belgian architect with designing its biggest flagship store to date, which is located on via Cavallotti in Milan’s new Durini design district. Van Duysen,

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vPPR converts former Shoreditch warehouse into shops and flats linked by private walkway

April 22, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

A public and private street flank this former warehouse in east London, which local studio vPPR has converted into a mixed-use development containing shops and apartments. The building is situated on Redchurch Street in Shoreditch – a popular shopping destination home to some of the city’s trendiest brands and boutiques. vPPR was tasked with reviving the imposing brick warehouse and

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Antonino Cardillo bases textured all-green gallery interior on Wagner opera

April 17, 2017 Alice Morby 0

When refurbishing the interior of this gallery in Rome, Antonino Cardillo looked to the colours and textures used in the opening scene of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold opera. Cardillo’s Crepuscular Green project is an interior refurbishment of an art gallery located in San Lorenzo, Rome. Described by the architect as a “green golden grotto”, the

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WeWork opens “whimsical” co-working space in former opium factory

February 9, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Shanghai studio Linehouse has transformed a former opium factory with green-painted metalwork and pastel-coloured terrazzo to create the Chinese flagship for co-working company WeWork. Located in Shanghai’s Jing’An district, the 5,500 square-metre WeWork Weihai hosts more than 1,300 members of WeWork, a co-working company that offers rented desk spaces at relatively low cost, with shared amenities for workers. Local

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FAT design pie shop and scoff house

January 12, 2007 Marcus Fairs 0

Fashion Architecture Taste have completed two new projects for restauranteur Oliver Peyton in London. Meal’s is a 60-cover restaurant inside venerable furniture store Heal’s on Tottenham Court Road. FAT’s rustic, farmhouse-style interior features oak-veneered decorative screens and trompe l-oeil tables. Peyton & Byrne, meanwhile, is a traditional-style take-away bakery set in the entrance of the

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