Heimtextil 2011 shifts the boundaries Heimtextil 2011 is the biggest home and textile distributor trade fair in the world. This year over the period 12-15 Jan 2011 over 73,000 trade visitors from the fields of purchasing, the retail trade, interior decoration, architecture, design and contract furnishing attended, visiting over 2,601 exhibitors from 60 countries. We […]
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Hey if you’re looking for something different, you’d best go for the fresco! A twisted network of interconnected pipes greets the eye, a long snaking cluster of lime and mauve tubes weaving between geometrical shapes, gold chains and slender watch bands. Meanwhile, a chocolate backdrop hosts a school of beautifully rendered goldfish, slowly circling in […]
Turn floors into walls with RAPOXY® Wall coverings bring countless design opportunities to your walls, but what about the final frontier… the floor? Well now you can conquer this final frontier and expand your design aspirations with an amazing product called RAPOXY®. RAPOXY® is a glass-like, high-gloss, highly-resistant coating composition for floors. It’s designed to […]
There’s only one Rumour worth hearing about in Vegas. Creative freedom that lasts! Many designers are now leveraging the freedom and durability of digital wallcoverings as evidenced in the fantastic creative designs in the newly revamped Rumour Hotel in Las Vegas. After seeing what designer Mark Tracy of Chemical Spaces had created for the rooms […]
New York Interior Design studio transforms a warehouse with wallcoverings and many other things Join Cindy Allen editor- Interior Design Magazine on a tour of an amazing 6 storey warehouse transformation in TriBeCa New York, designed by Ghislaine Viñas Interior Design. Watch for all sorts of things appearing on walls, from pine trees to plates.
Surround yourself in colour and pattern, its nourishes the soul! Journey with Herman Miller creative consultant Susan Lyons as she talks about her creative process and colour practice. In this post we examine what drives colour creation at Herman Miller. Alexander Girard was once quoted to say: It is important to have colour around you, […]
Never lose your sense of fun! For an article on the future of playground design, appearing in the December/January 2009 Future issue, artists Mike Perry and Jim Stoten not only collaborated on the illustration that accompanies the piece – they filmed themselves creating it. I would suggest turning the music down on this one. Akward […]
Bold Colour Small Spaces Interior colour design finds a central point and works out from there Meet New York–based design lover and writer Bradford Shellhammer in his raucous 800-square-foot apartment, which is filled to the brim with vivid iconography, classic modern-design pieces, and, of course, a palette of unflinchingly vibrant hues. Watch for the way […]
I never knew Hotel design could be so innovative, Milan delivers in spades Moschino’s first fashion hotel Situated in the Italian capital of commerce, Maison Moschino Milan occupies a renovated neoclassical style 1840 railway station building on Via Monte Grappa. While the exterior of the building stayed true to its origins, its lavish interior terrains, […]
Colour and wallcoverings are all about fashion. Wallpaper or wallcoverings have long been at the forefront of design. Designers working with this space explore the possible combinations of colour, texture, pattern, and materials. In this post we again explore the dimension of colour but this time we focus on the fashions of colour with James […]