January 23rd, 2012 | by Fifi | published in Lifestyle
These days, women are all obsesed with fashion. This could be good if it is connected to creativity and it is not related to a bunch of suitcases full of money. Jungle Fever is a new spin on accessorizing…. It’s already the second decade of [...]
December 31st, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Design
The opening of the Brooklyn specialty store Beautiful Dreamers by the stylists April Hughes and Marina Burini answered that question on the tip of everyone’s tongue this time of year: Where to go for extraordinary holiday hostess gifts?“We wanted to create a destination for all [...]
September 5th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Design
THINK HUMAN… Any design week will open a city’s best offerings up to the local and international public, and in Copenhagen- there is no exception.
June 27th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Architecture
Setsumasa and Mami Kobayashi’s weekend retreat, two and a half hours northwest of Tokyo, is “an arresting concept,” photographer Dean Kaufman says, who documented the singular refuge in the Chichibu mountain range. “It’s finely balanced between rustic camping and feeling like the Farnsworth House.”
March 9th, 2011 | by Fifi | published in Architecture
Prefabricated Cottages that are put on the terrain with the aim of transforming the land as less as possible. In it’s design special attention was given to sun light and cross ventilation to avoid the usage of mechanical systems to achieve thermal and luminance comfort.
October 13th, 2010 | by Fifi | published in Architecture
Environmentalists and designers John and Cynthia Hardy wanted to motivate communities to live sustainably. Part of that effort was to show people how to build with sustainable materials, namely bamboo. They established the Green School, and develop plantations of bamboo plants through presenting bamboo seedlings [...]
October 7th, 2010 | by Fifi | published in Architecture
A studio called Cloud9 designed a suburban house of the future—it also happens to be sustainable. The villa is situated a little over an hour outside of Barcelona in Llers ((hometown of everyone’s favorite mustachioed surrealist, Salvador Dali), in an alien cube set within a [...]
September 19th, 2009 | by Fifi | published in Interiors
The 6 star hotel resort Soneva Kiri is located on Koh Kood, an island in the Gulf of Thailand. At this unique site, 24H-architecture designed a series of ecological icons to contribute to Six Senses’ high ambitions in design and ecology. Most prominent is The [...]
