Premier Collection from Oeuffice

For its first collection, Oeuffice proposes “totems for living”, monolithic objects that dominate the habitat, yet remain entirely functional. These objects are inspired by the geometries that govern architecture, and conceived as domestic altarpieces, infused with a sense of utility, grace and wit. In other words, these “totems” become dominant and narrative objects around which one is invited to stop, to contemplate and to display personal artifacts of importance.

Calico, Laveer, Centina , by Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte and Jakub Zak, Oeuffice

Villa Mayavee by Tierra Design

Located on a dramatic site, which starts high on a natural ridge and slopes toward to ocean. The house has been conceived of as a relaxing retreat for its owners with an emphasis on entertaining guests.

Villa Mayavee by Tierra Design, Photography by Chonnasit Sundaranu, via: Contemporist

Sputnik Stool by Roger Arquer for Zilio Aldo & C

Sputnik’s design presents a single piece of bend metal rod that defines its structure and function. This inner metal piece holds the legs of the stool together, offering a strong structure, while three highs for the footrest. The different heights of the footrest allow several positions for comfort.

Sputnik Stool, by Roger Arquer, for Zilio Aldo & C

Nakahouse by X Ten

Los Angeles based architecture firm X Ten recently completed their remodel of the Nakahouse, a 1960′s hillside home. The home sits tightly in the Hollywood hills where it looks out onto breathtaking views of the city below. The team at X Ten explained that “the existing home was built as a series of interconnected terraced spaces on the down slope property.” Because of zoning and geographical constraints X Ten built off of the existing footprint.

The exterior walls are smooth black plaster, designed to render the building as a singular sculptural object set within the lush natural setting. A series of abstract indoor-outdoor spaces with framed views to nature are rendered in white surfaces of various materials and finishes; lacquered cabinetry, matte white quartz, epoxy resin floors and decks.

Nakahouse, Hollywood Hills, California, by X Ten, Photography By Steve King, via: knstrct

Pensionsmyndigheten Office by Öberg Hadmyr Architecture

Pensionsmyndigheten Office, Sweden, by Öberg Hadmyr Arkitekter
Photography by Jason Strong

Forêt illuminée by Ionna Vautrin for Super-ette

Two trees intertwined, an imaginary animal, a cloud hugging the ground… Composed of a luminous cocoon wearing two trunks of wood, this light awakens the imagination. Two simple wooden cylinders extend as light masts on which lies a misty lampshade in tyvek.

Forêt illuminée, by Ionna Vautrin, for Super-ette

Autoboxes by Andrew Haythornthwaite

During a collaborative workshop organized by Dutch furniture company Arco, New Zealand-born Okay Studio member Andrew Haythornthwaite created Autoboxes, taking mechanical cues from the children’s toy jack-in-the-box, this project explores structures that can expand and contract with an easy gesture. The two resulting manifestations convert storage objects into display units by simply turning a handle, one expanding horizontally and the other vertically.

Autoboxes, by Andrew Haythornthwaite, Okay Studio, Photography by Lucas Hardonk
via, designboom

Blair Residence by Bruce Bolander

Blair Residence, by Bruce Bolander

Wig Pendant by Chris Hardy for FontanaArte

“When I was conceptualizing this design I was inspired by the of society-a unique, organic social structure formed through the relationships that connect an individual to a greater community. This idea of a single mass constructed of smaller individual elements I found to be an interesting concept to visualize through form.”
- Chris Hardy

FontanaArte Wig Pendant, by Chris Hardy Design

House on the Road to Farellones by dRN

The design proceeds from the particularities of the topography, its slope, its vegetation, its views and the requirements of the client. All these conditions allowed a new definition of the program for a single-family house and to turn it into a single-person one in a spot that allows him to get away from the city and live in a close relationship with the landscape of the Andean foothills. The topography is interrupted by an 8×36m horizontal plane running north-south against the slope. The platform generates a stable and continuous surface area that includes a guest room, a patio, a pavilion, a terrace and a pool, which occupy its entire length. The heavy surface of the patio, raised 70cm above the level of the platform, is defined by the base of a pre-existing hawthorn tree. The pavilion is a glass enclosure beneath a light-weight roof, dark in color, an almost empty space from where the gaze traverses the glass in the direction of the foothills, the deep valley, the pines and the space immediately outside, taking in every field of vision the terrain offers.

House on the Road to Farellones, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile, by Max Núñez, Bernardo Valdés, dRN