Bedroom Inspiration from Mèta Design
A little bedroom inspiration today from Italian furniture manufacturer Mèta Design.
Visit the Mèta Design website – here.
Squeezophone 360° Speakers by Claudio Colucci
Kenwood, a Japanese manufacturer of audio electronics, will present the Squeezophone 360° speakers, designed by Claudio Colucci, at the 2009 Milan Furniture Fair.
From Kenwood:
The Squeezophone 360° is both a beautiful object and a technical challenge. The main challenge was to keep a structure in Corian designed by Claudio Colucci and create its sound. Therefore, Kenwood aimed for an omni-directional 360° sound to let the people be able to turn around the object. The realization is spectacular: there is no visible parting line. The speaker looks like a single huge piece. The other merit of Corian for sound is to avoid any vibration at all.
Squeezophone 360° is composed of two stereophonic loudspeakers. Each speaker has a 3-way system consisted of a woofer, a full-range driver and a tweeter. The sound is reproduced in a very natural feeling to surprise and satisfy the most exigent audiophiles.
Visit the Kenwood website – here. Visit Claudio Colucci’s website – here.
RORRIM Suspension Lighting by Ross Lovegrove
British designer Ross Lovegrove has created the RORRIM collection of suspension lighting for Japanese lighting manufacturer Yamagiwa.
Visit Ross Lovegrove’s website – here. Visit the Yamagiwa website – here.
A-Chair Collection by Werner Aisslinger
Werner Aisslinger has designed the A-Chair collection for Italian manufacturer L’abbate.
The collection of cantilevered chairs have a linear structure created by a single steel tube, which is met by a network of steel rods.
Visit the L’abbate website – here. Visit Werner Aisslinger’s website – here.
The Conga Room by Belzberg Architects
Belzberg Architects designed the Conga Room in Los Angeles, California.
The Conga Room, in its new location at LA LIVE in downtown Los Angeles across from the Staples Center, is the city’s premier Latin nightclub. The space will feature today’s hottest Latin performers in its 14,000 square foot live venue space, which includes a restaurant, three distinct bars, patio seating, and a VIP lounge and private room. In addition, the club will host LA TV and world-renowned DJs adjacent to the stage and above the crowd, adding even more excitement to the ambience. Perhaps the club design’s greatest intent is to be true to the energy of the Latin community, to pay homage to its roots and deep history while infusing it with Los Angeles’ fervent modern lifestyle.
Visit the Belzberg Architects website – here.
Jeffersson Armchair and Sofa by Alexander Lervik
Swedish designer Alexander Lervik has created a new armchair and sofa to add to the Jeffersson seating collection of the furniture manufacturer Skandiform.
Visit Alexander Lervik’s website – here. Visit the Skandiform website – here.
The Helix Hotel by Leeser Architecture
New York based Leeser Architecture has won a competition for the design of the Helix Hotel that is to be built in Zayed Bay in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Called the Helix Hotel for its staggered floor plates, it rests in the bay, partially floating in the water and adjacent to the serpentine Sheik Zayed Bridge currently under construction by designer Zaha Hadid. With the Helix, Leeser Architecture has devised a new way to consider hotel culture in the Emirates, highlighting elements that are usually unseen, and playfully enlivening those parts that traditionally remain static and mundane.
Zayed Bay will be a comprehensive development built along a new road, and the site will include office buildings as well as condominiums and retail along the water. The Helix is the centerpiece of this new development.
Visit Leeser Architecture’s website – here.
Intrecci Outdoor Furniture by Carlo Colombo
Italian architect Carlo Colombo has designed the Intrecci collection for EMU, a manufacturer of outdoor furniture, who will present it at the 2009 Milan Furniture Fair.
Visit the EMU website – here. Visit Carlo Colombo’s website – here.
Dolly Lamp by Louise Hederström
Louise Hederström has designed the Dolly Lamp collection for lighting manufacturer Bsweden.
From Bsweden:
Dolly is like a cosy person spreading light and happiness. The inspiration for the floor lamp came from a rotating globe. Resting within the frame, the sphere can be turned to any desired angle. Dolly has been fitted with a low energy fluorescent light and is equally suitable for domestic and commercial use.
Visit the Bsweden website – here. Visit Louise Hederström’s website – here.
EggO House by A69 Architects
A69 Architects have sent us images of the EggO House in Prague, Czech Republic.
Visit the website of A69 Architects – here.
Read the full description after the photos….
Dune Lounge Chair by Jonas Lyndby Jensen
Jonas Lyndby Jensen has designed the Dune Lounge Chair for Swedish manufacturer Skandiform
From Skandiform:
Dune comes in two models with a seat of white or black fiberglass on an oak frame. Like natural sand dunes, the chair has curious curves. It is a useful piece of furniture that in itself can give a room character or emphasise the style of the room’s other furnishings. In the words of the designer, with its distinctive soft shape, the seat captures the sense of sitting in a sand dune.
Visit Skandiform’s website – here. Visit Jonas Lyndby Jensen’s website – here.
The Quezada Residence by Ana Cecilia and Alfred Quezada
Owned and designed by architects Ana Cecilia and Alfred Quezada, this home in the Middle Ridge neighborhood of Mill Valley, California, has recently been listed for sale at $4.175 million.
The 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home of just under 4000 square feet, sits on a half acre of land, nestled among mature oak trees with canyon and creek views.
Visit the for sale listing – here. Visit the Quezada Architects website – here.
Edition Silhouette Rugs by Object Carpet
German manufacturer Object Carpet has unveiled their new Edition Silhouette Rugs.
From Object Carpet:
The Edition Silhouette presents sensuous extravaganza between contrasting poles. Its passionate dynamics unfold in the contradistinctions of material and the lack thereof, between quotes of traditional arts and crafts and cutting edge technologies, between feminine design vocabulary and a masculine range of colours. The rugs of the Edition Silhouette are not simply passed over. They are an exclusive floor adornment in which the aesthetics of a designed room finds its culmination.
Visit the Object Carpet website – here.
House K by 3LHD Architects
House K was designed by 3LHD Architects, and is located in Zagreb, Croatia.
From the architects:
The concept of the house is inspired by the shape of a snail’s shell, which involves a spiral twisting around its own axis, and as such all functional elements of the house follow each other and are built around a central atrium.
Visit the website of 3LHD Architects – here.
Read the full description after the photos….
Systematic Landscapes by Maya Lin
Systematic Landscapes by Maya Lin at the Corcoran Gallery of Art until July 12, 2009.
Organized by Richard Andrews, Director of the Henry Art Gallery, the exhibition shows how Lin, in her new work, continues to explore landscape as both form and content. According to Andrews, “Maya Lin has an extraordinary ability to convey complex and poetic ideas using simple forms and natural materials, wedding a deep interest in the forces and forms of nature with a long term investigation into the possibilities of sculpture to embody meaning.”
Visit Maya Lin’s website – here. Visit the website for the Corcoran Gallery of Art – here.
