We know there are many aspiring interior designers who read Contemporist, so we decided to ask a real interior designer about the everyday reality of what it’s like to work as an interior designer.
Antonieta D’Introno is an interior designer located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; through a series of questions we asked her, she gives us some insight into the day-to-day realities of what it’s like to be an interior designer.
Seattle based architect Peter Cohan has shared with us the Cedar Park house he has designed.
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Italian architects Studio Nicoletti have completed the Astana State Auditorium in Kazakhstan.
The Dornbirn, Austria based architectural firm of DI Bernardo Bader, designed the Metzgerstüble bar and café, located in the small Austrian town of Mellau.
Lula Dot, the design studio of British designer Lucy Norman, which “aims to upcycle London’s waste into lasting beauty,” has created the Light Reading chandelier.
From the designer:
More books are printed every year, read and discarded. Even though many are taken to charity shops, they mostly go unsold and the charities have to pay for the books to be sent to landfill. For example 10,000 books a week from one charity will go to waste. There is currently no infrastructure set up to recycle the paper from books because the paper is low grade and the glue on the spine must be removed. These wasted books are used to create a beautiful chandelier. Every page is folded in half, producing a circular arrangement which hangs around a ceiling light.
Bjarko | Serra Architects have designed a home on Hat Island, which is near Seattle, Washington.
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American designer Alicia D. Keshishian is known for designing bold, colorful, custom contemporary rugs that are all hand-made in Nepal with Tibetan wool. We thought Contemporist readers might be interested in learning more about her, so we sent her some questions, but before you read them, we suggest watching this short video about her on YouTube – here.
Spanish architects A-cero have sent us their latest completed project, a house in the “La Finca” development in Pozuelo de Alarcon (Madrid).
Fashion chain Zara’s flagship store in west London’s Westfield shopping centre has a façade made from panels of HI-MACS material.
Designer Zara Estudio and fabricators Gruppo Candido Hermida chose HI-MACS in a Toffee Brown hue, and combined it with a metal trim between the pieces. Using 81 panels of HI-MACS and 3 sheets of steel, the angles and 3-D shapes allowed them to create an intriguing effect.
Australian designer Christina Waterson has created the Bloom Series of furniture and homewares.
The series includes a stool, magazine rack, and ornaments that celebrate natural geometries.
Dublin based ODOS Architects have sent us photos of a restoration and extension they have designed for a farmhouse in the town of Ballymahon, Ireland.
Australian architect Bojan Simic has designed the Orb House in Melbourne, Australia.
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Canadian designer Omer Arbel has created the 28 series of pendant lamps for BOCCI.
28 is a result of a glass blowing technique developed by Omer Arbel whereby air is intermittently blown in and then sucked out of an intermittently heated and then cooled glass matrix. The result is a distorted spherical shape with a composed collection of inner shapes, one of which houses a low voltage lamp.
28 pendants are designed to cluster in hexagonal shapes which nestle into each other to create patterns as dictated by the needs of the interior.
Standard 28 pendants are made in clear, white and frosted glass (with several other standard colour schemes contemplated in future months). However, 28 is a design which lends itself to infinite compositions and gradations of colour. Bocci’s glass atelier in Vancouver thrives on bespoke work and is able to work with our clients with great versatility on custom colour compositions to match the vistion and needs of a project or interior.
We’ve previously featured the exterior of the new Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi – here and here, but now we can also feature the interiors thanks to Jestico + Whiles, the hotel’s interior designers.
British designer Tim Fishlock has created Gulp.
Tim says:
Gulp is three thousand translucent drinking straws interwoven to form a dense, spherical lampshade. Made from one continuous length of interconnected straws, you could – if you possessed Dyson-like suction – put one end in a drink and gulp it down through the other. Each piece takes seven days to make and is made to order.
