Tamawa Lamp by Hubert Verstraeten

Tamawa is a radical style exercise that uses bakelite spheres as a mono material. It is a design story that takes up there where the seminal ‘Hang it all’ by Charles & Ray Eames lifted off in the 50s: coloured balls (the official snooker colour line-up) varying from 112mm to 16 cm in diameter. This is the framed vocabulary that designer Hubert Verstraeten has used to create a range of objects in unlimited conception.

Tamawa Lamp, by Hubert Verstraeten, at Tamawa

Evian Packaging by Paul Smith

Paul Smith has designed a bottle for Evian which will be on sale in limited amounts until Christmas. The London based designer describes the package as “…a nice glass bottle with colourful stripes around the top, printed with organic ink!”

Evian Bottle, by Paul Smith

Relax Lounge Chair by Sørig

Relax Lounge furniture, by Sørig, for Stübert Collection

Gleam Pewter Collection by Miranda Watkins

British designer Miranda Watkins has designed a series of vessels made of pewter with a highly reflective finish. Made in collaboration with the manufacturer A.R Wentworth of Sheffield, the collection comprises bold contemporary designs in a high shine finish with clean lines and gentle, swooping curves. The sheer simplicity of these designs achieves a modern, yet classic feel, while effortlessly conveying the beauty of pewter.

Gleam Pewter Collection (from top to bottom): ’Groove’ bowl, ’Rib’ and ‘Double Groove’ vases, ’Flare’ vase, ’Spin’ and ‘Wide Flare’ vases, ’Groove’ vases by, Miranda Watkins in collaboration with A.R Wentworth

Model: Perot Museum of Nature & Science

Proposal for the new Perot Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas. The museum is designed to engage a broad audience, invigorate young minds, and inspire wonder and curiosity in the daily lives of its visitors.

Perot Museum of Nature & Science, by morphopedia

Calibra Sofa from Bernhardt Design

A sofa, love seat, and armchair with a tapered polished-aluminum legs and many upholstery options.

Calibra, by Harry and Claudia Washington, for Bernhardt Design

Nomiya Space Restaurant at Palais de Tokyo

The Nomiya restaurant is replacing the Hotel Everland on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo for one year. Designed by the artist Laurent Grasso, the glass cube is part of the ‘Art Home’ culinary project by the Palais de Tokyo and Electrolux. The Nomiya concept developed for the Palais de Tokyo is a project that’s both inspired and named after the tiny Japanese bars. In the creation of Nomiya, Laurent Grasso was assisted by his brother, Pascal Grasso, an architect. Nomiya Space is a rectangular glass box about the size of a shipping container. “We tried to create an overall impression of airiness, transparency, floating,” said the French artist Laurent Grasso.

Nomiya Space, by Laurent Grasso, for Art Home
via: Travel with Frank Gehry

Scalo by Beoc for Cerruti Baleri

Scalo is built to open, to rotate and to become a new form, revealing its hidden identity that gives it its name: a small colourful library step ladder (scala) that doubles as a small bookcase. Like a magic key that opens up new uses, the stainless steel lock, once re-inserted in the back of the object, will set it in the open configuration and allow it to be moved around.

Made of bent plywood that doesn’t reveal any hinges or other mechanical component when it is closed. Scalo is made of bent plywood in natural ash colour with laminated lead-gray interior or in moka ash colour with laminated red interior.

Scalo, by Beoc, for Cerruti Baleri

Paraty House by Marcio Kogan Architects

Paraty House’s two reinforced concrete boxes, sit atop each other, connected on the mountainside of one of the islands of the colonial city of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), like two modern prisms between the large colossal stones of the Brazilian coast. The building projects outward from the mountain, almost onto the beach, in an 8m cantilever. The house finds balance in the topography of the land, creating an extensive open doorway and living space in the practically untouched nature. Paraty House features a furniture collection showcasing 20th century design, including works by many well-known artists.
The residents arrive by boat. After stepping out onto the sand a metallic bridge positioned over a crystal-lined reflecting pool leads to a set of stairs connecting to the lower volume. This volume contains the living room, kitchen and service area. The continual internal area has a 27m span and huge glass windows to take advantage of the view of the sea.

Paraty House, by Designer, for Marcio Kogan Architects
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Cassandra Boxes & Credenza by Charles Wilson

The Australian designer Charles Wilson presented his Cassandra boxes and the Cassandra Credenza at this year’s Workshopped exhibition, one of the highlights of the Sydney Design Festival. 

Cassandra Collection, by Charles Wilson