TRAVEL
Points West
For Yodit Eklund, the 26-year-old designer behind Bantu swimwear, the beaches along Africa’s West Coast are a source of inspiration — so she photographed her recent collection there (including the suits above, on the road to Assinie-Mafia in Ivory Coast). […]
La Villa at The Cliff Bay
La Villa at The Cliff Bay is a luxurious hotel located in the stunning island of Madeira, Portugal. This hotel is a perfect blend of traditional Portuguese architecture and contemporary design, offering guests a truly unique experience. The hotel is […]
Escape Machines Pop Up in Paris
DDB Paris created a simple fun ‘Escape Machine’ for the French travel company Voyages SNCF. Wonderful, colourful cubes waiting till somebody goes to bush the button. Then the cube asks where the person would like to travel.
Hateruma, Japan
Today the world becomes more populated and inhabited. Nevertheless, there are places where the sun, sand and sea gusts are the only one friends….Welcome to Hateruma, located near the Tropic of Cancer, part of the Yaeyama Island group, Japan. This coral island is clothed in banyan trees, Indian almonds, bamboo orchids and colourful hibiscus. Somehow […]
ARCHITECTURE
Living In Our Element
Dome in the Desert is an iconoclast renovated space by WE ARE In OUR ELEMENT. Inside and outside the home is visually stunning and full of advance features such as wireless doorbells here and automatic lights. The Faris Team has a […]
Dzintari Forest Park
Dzintari Forest Park has a unique location with 13 ha territory of nature sited in the heart of Jurmala city, Latvia. Because of the greater intensity of development of public and residential objects in the city, the idea is to […]
LIFESTYLE
Miami Beach Style
The recession has cast a shadow on Miami Beach. But it is not a long enough shadow to have darkened the spirits of many heat-seeking visitors, who still descend on South Beach in search of escape. The gossip social history […]
Electric Feel
True to the spirit of sunny Southern California, where surf and stars blend in casual harmony, Planet Blue has emerged as an authentic alternative to the fast-paced retail world of mass malls and faceless crowds.
DESIGN
Unwoven Light
DESIGNSIGH presents fascinating installation called Soo Sunny Parks – Unwoven Light, which animates Rice Gallerys expansive space, transforming it into a shimmering world of light, shadow, and brilliant color. Suspended from the walls and ceiling, thirty-seven individually sculpted units are arranged as […]
Mass MoCA
This MASS MoCA installation of the wall pieces is designed between 1969 and 2007 and is pretty gorgeous. 12/1/08 North Adams, MA — (From left) Wall Drawing 630 A wall is divided horizontally into two equal parts. Top: alternating horizontal […]
INTERIORS
Studio City
\ This space is a private residence on Amanda Drive in Studio City, California originally designed by Rudolf Schindler in 1948. This renovation took a tremendous amount of work, starting with the research into what the original design intended. Furniture […]
Parksite Residence, Rotterdam
A former ambulance garage may seem like an unusual option for a home, but in the hands of innovative Rotterdam design office Doepel Strijkers it proved to be an inspired choice. The strongest point of the 2,800-square-foot space, remodeled into […]