There is nothing better than returning to nature again and again in one way or another. If we can't afford a walk every day, we can simply bring nature home. The team of Slovenian designers DSGN Domus returns to it with aesthetically perfect wooden products, and its 'partner in creativity' Fat Rat with symmetrical and urban prints of wild animals.
Architecture & Interior
Design firm apostrophy's has given its Thai office a complete facelift by renovating it. 'apos²' thus now combines new, important segments such as a learning media center, a design laboratory and common spaces for interdisciplinary interaction.
Modern trends for the home in 2015 herald elegant luxury, serenity, creative recycling and versatility in furniture and interior design. Modern interiors include classic, retro and contemporary, traditional and new materials, fresh colors, decorative and exotic motifs, ethnic patterns, artistic details and a surprising mix of textures.
Technology becomes miraculous when it disappears. The best inventions are natural, a perfect blend of functionality and purpose, freed from cables and sharp edges, i.e. everything that betrays them as artificial. The Sony Symphony lamp is such a technology. It is a table lamp that can transform into a chandelier, and its "hidden" talent is a wireless speaker, so that it offers sound in addition to light.
Despite the fact that in our country we cannot drink the coffee of the most famous chain of coffee shops, Starbucks, we know its taste at least from wanderings abroad. Their newest, largest restaurant in Seattle will not leave anyone indifferent.
In Prague, it is possible to rent a Partyhouse container, converted into a combination bar and living room, which offers visitors everything to organize an unforgettable party.
Last summer, architecture students Federico Forestiero and Mark Torrens at Beam camp for children in New Hampshire, together with them, built a floating structure, the floating mill "creatura", whose photos flooded the Internet.
Following the example of larger cities, the first Start Up coworking spaces were recently opened in Velenje, which offer young entrepreneurs and self-employed creatives a perfect working environment.
Some dogs are tireless eaters, they eat at the speed of light and instead of chewing their food well, they inhale it. While there's nothing wrong with a healthy appetite, eating like this can lead to bloating and choking and digestive issues. The Oppo Food Ball dog bowl helps prevent such accidents.
What is the future of furniture? Paper and tape. At least according to Bulgarian designer Petar Zaharinov. His latest collection of TapeFlips is made entirely and exclusively from these two components. Adhesive tape, which is glued in a checkerboard pattern, thus enables strong and collapsible tables, chairs, bookshelves, beds and even storage boxes.
Orwell is a piece of furniture that represents a sofa, a bed and a "house" at the same time. The name echoes the original idea of the product, which embraces the intimacy that we sometimes lose even inside our own home.
Close to the Spanish Valencia stands the minimalistic designed Casa Balint - a house that hides a game of geometry, light and shadow in its design. With this project, the architectural studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos wanted to bring some urban art to the green surroundings of the golf course.