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The Ribbon Stairs : Beautiful or Dangerous ?
Czech architecture firm HSH architects created this ribbon staircase for a home in Prague out of 10mm thick sheet metal. Pairs of adjoining steps connected with an oblique external side joist form a bracket anchored in the wall. Each of the ...
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Casa Negra in Buenos Aires by Andres Remy Architects
This beautiful house – Casa Negra or “the Black House”- comes from Andres Remy Architects and is located at a 30 km distance from Buenos Aires, Argentina, in a spectacular natural environment. In taking on this project, the team ...
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Turn Your Bathroom into a Truly Unique and Personal Place
Ricardo Rodriguez from Spanish company, Glassdecor sent us this new interesting idea for dressing your bathroom walls, ceiling or floors with an image of large format. Designed for modern bathrooms these tiles make everything possible and can turn ...
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Elegant and Stylish Interiors From Sally Conran
Sally Conran is an art director and stylist whose passions involve interior design, lifestyle and last but not least- and you probably did not see this coming- food. For today, we made a selection of some of her works regarding interior ...
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Low Key, SiteResponsive Beach House in Sorrento by Marcus O’Reilly Architects
Marcus O’Reilly Architects has carefully designed a low key, site responsive beach house in Sorrento on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula in Australia. The timber clad structure reinterprets a longstanding beach house tradition in the area. It uses ...
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IKEA Launches Catalogue as iPhone App
For all of you who have an Iphone , IKEA is releasing its ever popular catalogue as an iPhone app. The iPhone application will be initially launched to the UK market with the UK version of the catalogue available to download from tomorrow, 3 ...
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Before and After : Contemporary Interiors From “The Design Firm”
I know most of you enjoy seeing shows on TV showing how things are made, and admit it, you have a nasty feeling of contempt when seeing how things were before any huge improvement. We thought this would also be the with these pictures. We found them ...
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Multifunctional Wall Mount Tv Stand from Fimar
The Creative Side System TV looks like a typical modern flat panel display wall mounted unit, but it hides a keen extra feature which further optimizes space. The inside reveals a decent storage cabinet for discs, cables and plugs which could give a ...
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Original Sinks With Decorative Patterns
Kohler is a design company creating and selling kitchen and bathroom items worldwide. For today we would like to show you these unusual sinks, which we hope will give you an idea of a fresh way to improve how your bathroom looks. Using vivid ...
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Set a Beautiful Table for The Holidays: Fresh Decorating Ideas
With the Holidays coming up, we’re sure most of you are looking for ideas on how to make the best of these upcoming special days. We would like to be a part of your quest and try to help you. We hope that we will transform your job of ...
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Kitchen Design Ideas From Binns
Founded in 1963, “Binns kitchens + bath design” is a design company located in Toronto and Ontario. The firms comes up with new ideas but also does makeovers. We liked the fact that they have a large variety of kitchen designs and we ...
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Giveaway : SlouchBack Helps You Make Any Surface A Comfortable Couch!
I’m happy to announce a fabulous GIVEAWAY by our sponsor SlouchBack . Now you might “ Ask what is SlouchBack ?” Here is the answer + some pics & a video. “Developed by two university students as a comfort solution to their ...
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The Fluxus, a Wavering Murano Glass Sculpture
The Fluxus , a wavering Murano glass sculpture, has been created for the White Gallery ( an impressive lifestyle store dedicated to Fashion, Food, Design, Art and Fragrances ), the new luxury lifestyle store due to open in Rome on the 2nd of ...
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Zip-Up the Lights : Cache-Cache Lamp by Victor Boeda
Victor Boeda is a designer from Paris whose creations are quite impressive. For today we decided to show you this original lighting design. It is called “Cache-Cache” lamp, which in French stands for “hidden”. This is ...
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Exhibition in Spain by Cadaval & Solà-Morales
Cadaval & Solà-Morales is a design company founded in 2003 in New York, but moved their headquarters in Barcelona and New Mexico in 2005. Winner of impressive awards, their main mission is to constantly conduct research in order to come up with ...
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La Roche Chair, A Creative and Unusual Design
From Milla Rezanova, comes the new “ La Roche Chair ” concept, with a shape that has the ability of making you stop for a minute and analyse it in detail. Sustained mostly by its outer “cloak”, the chair almost seems like ...
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Amazing Gas Station Design from Kanner Architects
A mix of form and function, the United Oil Gas Station from Kanner Architects is located in Los Angeles, California and is actually a mini-market, a 12-pump gas station, and a car wash. The imposing structure dominates the streets around it and ...
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Tyler Residence in Biloxi, Mississippi
Raising 12 feet above the ground, this property’s architecture plan was not so easy to develop, due to the fact that the house is located on the Gulf Coast , a rather hostile terrain for high buildings. However, the project by Marlon ...
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12 Modern Bedroom Design Ideas For a Perfect Bedroom
Whether you have just shifted to your new home or want to give a makeover to your old bedroom,you need some exclusive ideas to make your bedroom design stand out. So do you want a modern bedroom but do not know where to begin with all of the ...
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What Does A $75 Million Luxury House Look Like?
Have you ever wondered how a 75$ million house looks like ? I’m pretty sure that most of you watched MTV Cribs at least once in your life, but this house is something that only a few people can afford. Called Cielo de Bonaire this amazing ...
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aChair by Ivo Otasevic
Ivo Otasevic is a Serbian architect who designed a multiform chair that, at the same time, is noted for its simplicity of design. a Chair is the name of the object that led Otasevic towards the lights of worldwide recognition in the last Design ...
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Amazing Restaurant Interior Design : Banq Restaurant in Boston
Designed by Office dA the Banq Restaurant is located in the old Penny Savings Bank (1375 Washington Street, Boston, MA) at the base of the old banking hal. Now this restaurant has a very unique design, and I’m pretty sure that every guest ...
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Beautiful Loft Design in London
This fantastic 1118 sq.ft. loft where the predominant color is white has been completely redesigned and refitted to create a stunning, high spec space ideal for entertaining, facing west over London and is unlike any other we have seen in this well ...
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Iconic Pop Pieces Made Entirely from Rubik’s Cubes
Before I start this post I would like to know how many of you know to solve a Rubik cube ? I personally don’t know, and I never wanted to know how to solve one. Now you might ask yourself why I started this post by asking a question about rubic ...
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Design Trends Embrace Nature : Wooden Wall Surfaces
I don’t know how to exactly call this fabulous wall covering from Bleu Nature , a craft-based business located in Northern France. I wanted to call it Ecological, organic, rustic, nature-based design…but I couldn’t choose a name ...
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Open Living Design : The Sebastopol Residence By Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects
Located in Sebastopol California this cozy home was designed for two graphic designers by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects last year. The exterior is constructed from cedar siding with a metal roof and the interior features a Douglas fir ...
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Indoor Saunas from VIITA
Those of you who had a chance to travel to Finland probably enjoyed an original Finnish sauna, along with the feeling of relaxation it implies. VIITTA ® created these beautiful wooden sauna designs, in order to create an original indoor sauna ...
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Amazing Mirror Decorating Stickers
We do not know if this applies to everybody, but sometimes a room just isn’t a room without a mirror. Concerning this fact, the people at Mandellia came up with these fantastic ideas that we invite you to check out below. Some of them may ...
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Blue Rope Meltdown Chair by Tom Price
When I first saw this chair I thought that is a joke, but I’ve found that this is the result of an experimental process developed by Tom Price , which uses a variety of commonplace plastic products to create a strikingly diverse collection of ...
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World’s First Ever Undersea Restaurant – Ithaa
I love new experiences and for those of you who are looking for a new experience there is something really cool. The world’s first ever undersea restaurant called Ithaa ( which translate as “pearl” in the natives’ language in Maldives, Dhivehi ) ...
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Private Residence in Minnesota by Arteriors Architecture
Designed by Tim R. Bjella , what really strikes you at first when looking at this place is its fantastic and original exterior design. The resemblance with a fortress can really lead you on at first, as you are not able to guess in a million years ...
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Innovative Modular Wallpaper : Tear off by Znak
Designed by Znak the “ Tears off ” wallpaper is an innovative modular wallpaper that gives your interiors a face-lift without having to undergo the pain of moving the bulky furniture and getting the rooms whitewashed. The wallpaper is ...
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Modern Black Glass Bathroom Furniture by Stemik Living
The Onyx bathroom collection by Stemik Living is very good looking piece of bathroom furniture. Glossy black doors are perfectly accentuated by aluminium frame, which changes this furniture into a real art masterpiece. Straight and pure lines in ...
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Helal New Moon Residence, An “Oasis” Of Modern Design
Located in the middle of a desert site, building this structure must have definitely not been an easy job. However, the team from Ehrlich Architects took advantage of some of the “qualities” of this place (lying deep in the Persian ...
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Luxurious Interior Design: Modern Mansion in London
Global Interior Design were initially engaged in the project of designing a luxurious entrance for a residence in London. However, seeing the results, the owner of the house decided that the company should rearrange the whole space. This is how ...
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Contemporary Summer House in Menorca
The creative designers from Dom Arquitectura are to be blamed for coming up with such an astonishing summer house in Menorca — one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain. Inspired by the ...
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New Style Mobile Office Made of Cardboard
Created by Liddy Scheffknecht and Armin B. Wagner , the “Pop Up” is an office you can take your office anywhere you can carry a giant piece of cardboard. The 94 x 275 x 200 cm installation, which is designed by by Liddy ...
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10 Contemporary Living Room Ideas From Alf Da Fre
If you happen to be a fan of modern Italian interior design, then you certainly heard of Alf Da Fre , an important brand in the field. Today we decided to show some of their ideas on minimalist and contemporary home arrangements. These particular ...
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Helsinki Named World Design Capital 2012
Icsid (the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design) announced November 25 that the designation was conferred to Helsinki because of the city’s design initiatives’ positive impact on everyday life. Helsinki has won the ...
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Amazing Architecture in Black&White – CCO1 House From Levenbetts
We really liked the way these pictures were taken and especially how the black&white house seems to rise from the snowy lands. But these are rather irrelevant facts when confronted with some of the more “technical details”. The ...
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R3 Triangle Building in San Diego from Lloyd Russell
Raising above the surrounding elements, the “ R3 Triangle Building ” from Lloyd Russell seems to reign its environment due to its unique and impressive architecture. The building was constructed for mixed purposes (residential and ...
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Alki Townhomes in Seattle by Johnston Architects
From Johnston Architects , comes Alki Townhomes, a project which implied the construction of two similar residences that look as if concentrated in a single unit. The houses are located very close to Alki beach, which makes it a great escapade and ...
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A Light Weight Design: The Primitive Series
Turin Design studio Nucleo have developed the appropriately-named “Primitive Series” of furniture which pretty clearly looks like weightless white granite. Although made from cardboard or foam and actually covered with resin to give it the style ...
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Maroubra Residence in Australia, a Display of Beautiful Interior Design
Designed by Eddie Kenda and built by Halemist, this beautiful house comes from “The Architecture Company” and is located in North Maroubra, Australia. Being given that its location is by the beach, the views from the residence are ...
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USB Sofa, A Couch With a Different Type of Storage Space
Designed by Cabracega Studio , these four sofas in the images below are able to store… 14 GB of memory. They were especially designed for users to gather around and exchange information in a more unconventional way: through USB cables. The ...
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Social Housing Solution in Degana, Spain
Architects Nacho Ruiz and Jose Antonio Ruiz Allén Esquiroz from Zon-e Arquitectos have been commissioned to come up with a social housing solution in the small mining town of Degana in Spain, and by the looks of it, they’ve done a sterling ...
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Minimalist Black & White Kitchen Design by Futura Cucine
In the last few years kitchens have changed because we have become more demanding of our time and having less of it to spend cooking. Many of us are on the move, always busy, looking for time saving methods. Then, there are those of us who are more ...
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Z House by Eva Harlou
Designed by Eva Harlou the Z-Hous e is a 700 sqm house located on the eastern coastline of Jutland, Denmark. The minimalistic Z-shape of the house is a simple geometrical shape that creates a three level house with outdoor terraces on two ...
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Beautiful Poufs in an Array of Stunning Colors by John Derian
The heart of Moroccan design is vibrant colors and patterns, tiled courtyards and elegant rooms. If you have fallen in love with all things Morocco then you’ll love these handmade Moroccan poufs designed by John Derian . Each of these ...
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Complex Apartment in Oregon from Sienna Architects
Today we would like to present some interesting apartment interiors that we think fall in the category of “complex” arrangements. That is because there ere many elements that needed to be combined and placed together in the same room. You ...
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