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Sunday 03 April, 2011
Adams Fleming House / Levitt Goodman Architects
© Ben Rahn / A-Frame On a street of historic, working-class cottages in Toronto’s west end, adjacent to a railway line and a supermarket parking lot, a vacant auto-body shop may have seemed like an unlikely impetus for a residence with a domestic character. The clients—a graphic designer and a furniture designer/craftsman—had a limited budget [...]
Thursday 23 December, 2010
Enchanting Home in London with an Angelic Interior Design
This beautiful home with wide open spaces on Portland Road in London`s Notting Hill was created by Michaelis Boyd Associates. It is part of a set of three eco-friendly constructions, each with elegant interiors, private decked roof terraces and modernist furniture. Each house is insulated to prevent heat loss and there are a few other [...]
Sunday 26 April, 2009
Cadena Touraine’s “Divine” Furniture
Vincent Cadena and Emmanuel Touraine’s Divine furniture collection for Ventury Studio in France are as graceful as they are chic. Very correctly marketed as a “couture line of furniture,” each of Divine’s editions are detailed slightly differently: “Glam” to serve as an fashionable accent in a modern room design, “Steel” a balancing piece for a [...]
Saturday 10 January, 2009
Alexander Pelikan\’s Flatpack Downloadable Chairs
Cliclounger from Alexander Pelikan We love downloadable designs. Why move material when we are interested in ideas, creativity and talent? Dutch designer Alexander Pelican does too. He designs modernist furniture inspired by Reitveld and writes: