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For the Sake of the Future: Learn From This Environmental Scientists’ Impressive, Infinite Energy Home
The idea of sustainability, or ecological design, is to ensure that our actions and decisions today do not inhibit the opportunities of future generations. This kind of conscious architecture and design seeks to enhance efficiency and moderation in the...
Hypnotic Disclosure: It Reflects Transformation, Not Costume Change Frill. This is Jewellery With a Purpose
Her calmness of mind seems to be only one among many of her beautiful jewels of wisdom; and her works have life in them. If the artist herself were something we could slide onto a finger or around a wrist, into an earlobe or fasten at the back of our...
Major Retrospective Exhibition in Rome with Precious Material from Worldwide Collections and Archives
The architect and the cities exhibition is on the Italian architect Aldo Rossi and presents over 800 drawings, sketches, notes, letters, photographs, models and documents. It celebrates Aldo Rossi over 20 years after his death and offers an opportunity to...
Unadorned Silhouettes: Peek into the Cognitive Creativity Process Behind Three Irresistible Lighting Designs
Created by renowned Japanese designer Ichiro Iwasaki for Vibia, the Flat collection features distinctive, disc-shaped diffusers that form horizontal planes of light. The flat metal plates reflect light off their surfaces, casting an enveloping, wrap-around glow...
Isn’t It Beautiful? Lexus Team Raises Ride Comfort and Drive Performance to Radical New Heights
Impeccable ride comfort has always been a defining quality of Lexus’ flagship sedan, the LS. The model helped found the brand 30 years ago, and the benchmark set by the original LS has inspired the teams developing successive LS generations to always seek to...
The Secret Starts With a Black Dot in Exceptional Privacy Where Hours Become Seconds
There being a substantial or subtle strangeness and ambiguity behind all that is beauty, really reveals more of it, doesn’t it? You might imagine someone of her creative calibre to take themselves super seriously. Thankfully, on the contrary, a curious and...
Between Details and the Bigger Perspective: How Innovative and Compassionate Can Furniture Design Really Be?
Relentless enthusiasm, imagination and dedicated passion turned into no less than four years of designing a sofa system. What does it take to turn a simple challenge into this pragmatic, transformable new Costume sofa system that protects our planet’s...
Towering Oak Trees in California’s ‘Horse Country’ Inspire a Contemporary Farmhouse Vision that Comes to Be
Woodside is a small town in San Mateo County, California on the San Francisco Peninsula. It’s home to many horses and is among the wealthiest communities in the United States. Turning off one of its busy roads, a pair of house hunters drove over a bridge...
Artist Chris Soal Talks Bottle Caps and Toothpicks, Being Human and the Vanishing Burden of Goals When Taking It One Step at a Time
His fascination with the regular, somewhat mundane objects sparked after he shot a photograph of some toothpicks in a jar where he was having dinner. Initially dismissing the image as totally trivial, an experimentation a couple years later developed how Soal...
Step Inside this Meticulous Liverpool Penthouse Project by Highly Hailed UK Design Practice
Cochrane Design was enlisted for the interior design and conversion of three penthouse apartments into one luxury penthouse. The client wanted a home which was luxurious and timeless as well as bold and dramatic, meaning all the elements intentionally discover...
Cuisine Talents Partner with Forward-Thinking Japanese Luxury Car Brand to Publish Gorgeous Global Digital Cookbooks with Evocative Recipes
Lexus International has launched Culinary Perspectives, the first of two installments, this volume of the cookbook offers insight into the brand’s culinary partners who share an enticing menu of recipes robust with exotic flavours of the Eastern and...
Peak Form Perfection – The Never-been-this-Masculine New Audi TT RS Range
The heart of the Audi TT RS Coupé is up front: the 2.5-litre TFSI-series 5-cylinder engine. With 294kW of power and 480Nm of torque, you will pass the acceleration test of 0 to 100km/h in 3.7 seconds. The standard 7-speed S tronic and the quattro permanent...
Bathe in Privacy and Blend in on the Edge of an Extreme Hawaiian Landscape
Situated along a rugged stretch of coastline, this getaway family retreat embraces the spirit of Mauka-Makai – the symbolic flow of lava from mountain to sea. This site in Manini'owali Beach, loosely referred to by islanders as Kua Bay in Kona, captures the stark...
How to Benefit Most from Mandatory Downtime: The Art of Sleep
Vital sleep sanctuaries in which we humans adopt a horizontal position of solitary unconsciousness, the bedroom can be treated as a ‘dream vacation’ so to speak. And if things don’t work out well there, well, they won’t work out well in the living room either. How to...
Instinctive Skill Between Architecture and Art Merges into Light Fixtures to Tell of Nature’s Sacred Geometry
They appear to float from the ceiling, like jellyfish softly illuminating the space, enhancing the relaxed sophistication of spaces such as the culinary jewel of the landmark cultural building on the Swiss shores of Lake Lucerne. The adaptable and versatile...