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Styles

At home with Piero Lissoni

No Comments 24 June 2011

Designer and architect, Piero Lissoni, has an insight into what styles function best for people. With an art for the subtle, the neat and proportional, Lissoni’s interior designs and home furnishings are legendary. After gaining a degree in architecture at Milan Polytechnic, Lissoni went onto work for Boffi Kitchens as in house Art Director & [...]

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Seating

Modern seating by SZADO

No Comments 23 June 2011

Contemporary furniture designers, SZADO Design, produce wonderful and creative seating styles. Although the seats are mostly minimalistic in appearance, they lack nothing in imagination. You’ll notice how each chair resembles its given name. The Roadster, Speedster and Grand Prix are so vehicular-like they look as though they’re missing a steering wheel. The Pope, Noel and [...]

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Bathroom, Styles

Aquaramaline bathroom suites

No Comments 21 June 2011

Incorporating modern wall-hung furniture with shower cabins and luxury bathtubs, Aquaramaline bathrooms offer innovative and sophistic styles in minamalist bathroom design. The subtle use of colours – whether it be chocolate, aqua, peach or decorative tiles – the whole bathroom suite retains an air of calm and serenity. The multifunction shower cabins, which are complete [...]

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Furniture

12 surrealist pieces of furniture

2 Comments 16 June 2011

These twelve wonderful pieces of furniture are the creation of Alain Bélanger, a self-taught furniture designer from Canada and previous winner of The Niche Awards. Here’s how Alain describes his inspiration and creativity: I design and build art furniture in limited editions that push the limits of the unconscious, somehow going beyond the sensuality of [...]

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Styles

How to achieve the designer look at a low cost

No Comments 22 February 2011

Flipping through a design magazine could get most people down in the dumps, simply because they know they can only admire the beauty they see and never really execute it in their own homes; not that they don’t want to, it’s just that they cannot afford the exorbitant cost that such designs entail. But if [...]

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Styles

Product wars – design vs design

No Comments 07 September 2010

Product Wars is the brainchild of Designer Pages, a neat website where users can vote on a battlefield scenario involving two similar design products. Choose a category from the left sidebar menu and start casting votes on your favorite design products. If you can’t make up your mind on which product to choose as a [...]

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Kitchen, Styles

Modern purism kitchens

No Comments 24 January 2009

Modern purism kitchens from Poggenpohl are based on the purism art movement, the severe form and clear structure of composition, a style which also found its expression in the Bauhaus school of design. Founded over a 100 years ago in 1892, Poggenpohl has a long tradition of setting trends in modern kitchen design, notably as [...]

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