La Vida Casa Interior design and decor

after five years of construction, london’s design museum is set to open in its new home on kensington high street. the institution, which has tripled in size to 10,000 square meters, is housed within a landmark listed building that dates back to the 1960s. the museum’s interiors have been remodeled by john pawson , while other big names — including OMA — have restored the structure’s distinctive façade and roof canopy the design museum’s complex renovation saw OMA , allies and morrison , arup and john pawson collaborate to bring the landmark building back into use. the original concrete floors have been removed, while the previously existing façade has been replaced with a double-glazed skin — significantly improving insulation and permitting daylight to enter. the new exterior has been detailed to resemble the original blue skin of the building, with matching mullions and a fritted pattern of printed dots inside the museum — which forms pawson’s fi...

french interior designer françois champsaur has transformed a bourgeois apartment near the trocadero neighborhood in   paris   into a modern and strong living space.   the 500 square-meter home explores volume, materials and a certain form of void which leaves space for light and emotion. in it, high ceilings and long corridors lined with rooms are aligned around a U-shape. views of the eiffel tower can be seen from one side while an internal courtyard is present on the other I wanted to pull this setting out of the past and transform it into something powerful and timeless,’   comments   françois champsaur .   ‘I wanted to strip things back to basics by focusing on strong details which have more in common with architecture than interior design in order to detach the apartment from its turn-of-the-century bourgeois look, françois champsaur removed the false ceilings dating to 1970 and replaced the parquet with six-meter lon...

the wheat youth arts hotel is located in the binjiang district — hangzhou — of china, and within the ‘avenue of stars trade’ area. designed studio x+ living , the project caters for young spirits and reflects the striking contemporary lifestyle of the city the entry is not eye-catching — given how it is located inside a shopping mall. upon approaching, two simple words ‘mai jian (wheat)’ could be seen on the small, simple white door of the hotel . x+living creates a small lobby at the entrance; guests need to go through it to reach the hall. at the end of the lobby, instead of using decorations, a vertical display of all guest room supplies is installed; items are painted white and sealed with glass to form a showcase. on the exterior, one can read the word “hallo” in orange-yellow. this peculiar display makes people feel like that all items in the guest room have gathered  to welcome future guests the designer uses music, painting and readi...

منذ انطلاقتها انتهجت شركة لافيدا خطاً تصميميا موحدا يتسم بالتميز والاختلاف عن كثير من الشركات التي تكرر نفسها وفي نفس الوقت قريبا من تطلعات العملاء وافكارهم تعتمد هذه الهوية على عناصر تضمن لكل تصميم انفراد مستقل عن من سواه بحيث ان كل عميل يحصل على تصميم خاص ومنفرد وتمر هوية لافيدا التصميمية ببرنامج تطوير مرحلي ممنهج, بحيث تجعل عملائها في قلب الصيحات الجديدة في عالم الديكور. الهوية التصميمية لدى لافيدا   روح متجددة اساسها الابداع والحداثة والجمال 

Am erican architect   thom mayne   has added two rooms and a new entrance building to a   hotel   complex in   switzerland that also includes work by japanese architects   ando   and   kengo kuma .   the site — which most notably includes the   peter zumthor -designed therme vals spa — dates back to approximately 1500 BC, when the people of the middle bronze age were among the first to appreciate the soothing power of the region’s warm spring water Ma yne, who leads architecture firm   morphosis , was commissioned by the   7132 hotel   to design two new guest suites — ‘wood room’ and ‘stone room’.   as the names suggest, the former is clad entirely with timber, while the latter is made from locally quarried quartzite — the same material which zumthor used for the adjacent spa. both facilities feature a glass shower in the center of the room, with a balcony that overlooks the alpine landscape beyond....

The colors of the rooms in your home are a direct reflection of your personality. While most of us may not spend a lot of time thinking about room color, it affects us every day. Room color can influence our moods and our thoughts. Color affects people in many ways, depending on age, gender, ethnic background and climate. Certain colors (or groups of colors) tend to get a similar reaction from most people; the variations come from the shades or tones used. This is why it’s so important to choose colors wisely when it comes to decorating You don’t have to worry about trends in order to have a beautiful home. Color trends will come and go. The people who live in a home make it beautiful by choosing colors that reflect their preferences and personalities. The trick is to blend the colors you like into a pleasing combination   .

the series of delicate and sculptural seating were conceived when muller van severen were invited to create the furniture and lighting for an architectural holiday home south of barcelona. now, the functional sculptures are showcased at this year’s edition of the biennale interieur kortrijk in belgium, and like its unusual name: ‘wireS#’, wire is the material, the ‘s’ references the shape, and the ‘#’ is a jovial allusion to the material used and to a numbering available in four colors and suitable for both indoor and outdoor use; they embody a delicate nature. the different forms either balance off the ground or lay flat, and the transparency of the wire allowing them to blend into its surroundings. ‘the discovery of this, for us, new material (inox wire net with squares of 2×2 cm), inspired us and incentivized us to the creation of a whole new world in which we could conceive landscapes and sculptures, and in which also color gets an important place. we al...