In front of the main train station in Rotterdam (Rotterdam Centraal), on the 75th anniversary of the reconstruction of the city, which was devastated by the Second World War, a massive staircase was opened to the public. This leads to the top of the monumental and historically significant Groothandelsgebouw, which was completed in 1953 and is one of the first major buildings built after the bombing of the city.
Architecture & Interior
Gali is a compact kitchen the size of a photocopier by Spanish architect Ana Arano. Although it is really small, it has everything that the big ones have. This kitchen version of the Swiss army knife is a great solution for anyone who lives in a small apartment.
Show me the bathroom and I'll tell you who you are! Nowadays, the ambiance and feeling in the bathroom is already comparable to that in the living room. There are almost no more restrictions when it comes to furnishing a bathroom. Manufacturers of bathroom equipment with sophisticated designs, modern materials and new dimensions ensure that we can let our imaginations run free when designing our new bathroom.
De-Dimension is an unusual collection of furniture by Dutch designer Jongh Choi, who designed chairs and benches that are two-dimensional pictures on the wall, and three-dimensional objects when taken down and spread out.
Have you ever wished you had more sunshine in your apartment? To be able to watch the sunrise or sunset from the living room? Or both? The solution goes by the name 359. It is a house by the architectural firm PATH Architecture, which created a 144 square meter rotating house that can be turned towards the sun.
In the Stone Age, comfort was not in the first place. At least not with furniture. Back then, they couldn't even dream of the level of comfort we have today, so beds (which weren't beds then) and sofas (which weren't sofas then) carved out of stone naturally didn't offer nearly the comfort of today. Fernando Mastrangelo also tackled stone, who presented furniture at the 2016 New York Design Week, in which he condensed 8,000 years of furniture development. Take a look at the sofa, mirror, coffee table and bench, which hide the evolution of furniture from the Stone Age to today.
Are you a perfectionist? Does it bother you if the picture hangs sideways? Then look away! The furniture studio XYZ Integrated Architecture has prepared the 60 series furniture collection, a series of slanted chairs and tables, which, despite their unusual shape, are completely functional.
The Flying Tent is a quick-folding living tent (sets up in just 7 seconds) that can also be a hanging tent, hammock and cape. It is waterproof and with a mosquito net to protect against mosquitoes.
All the biggest villains in the movies had special chairs that further emphasized their evil. If you want to have such a piece at home, we suggest that you consider the armchair by the Parisian designer Gregory Besson, who made an armchair in the shape of a skull. To sit or not to sit in it, that is not the question here!
On May 12, 2016, the Slovenian company Hosekra opens a camp of the future for five guests on the Slovenian border. The camp on the Croatian border will be made up of a new generation of Slovenian-made mobile homes equipped with a range of premium brands. Hosekra's goal was to create houses from the highest quality materials, which have no competition on a global scale!
Cardboard house Wikkelhouse is not a "spin-off" of the House of Cards TV series, but a house made of cardboard that we can actually live in. Do you think we are "painting" you? No. The Dutch design company Fiction Factory spent four years sawing sustainable houses that seem like they will be washed away by the first rain, but this is far from the case. Find out why not below.
UFO is a futuristic swing by the Italian design group It Oneoff. The name comes from the acronym for Unidentified Flying Object, and in this case it means Unidentified Furniture Object. It is a swing that swings, rotates around its axis and overturns, and its other special feature is that it only touches the ground at one point.