Bright neon colors and subtle pastel shades, uninterrupted and plain – several color contrasts are clearly emerging in home furnishings. Photographic evidence from this year’s Salone del Mobile.
Fernando Brízio has kept every single one of his creations, even from his university years, and now it's paying off: For there is currently an extensive solo show of the Portuguese designer's works in Lisbon including a number of previously unseen pieces. And of course, the "Restart" dress made of fabric colored with felt pen could not be left out. Sandra Hofmeister met and interviewed Fernando Brízio for Stylepark.
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The wall and its new extravagance
by Thomas Wagner
Among designers, the word "trend" is definitely a no-no to be avoided at all cost. Rightly so, as the term refers to something that purports to be new but is actually well known. Yet it is worth looking at the concept a little more closely to discern the mechanisms operating behind it.
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White not only in winter
by Thomas Wagner
British Pop Art artist Richard Hamilton designed the legendary cover of The Beatles' "White Album". The seemingly unprinted sleeve lent the album its name and set it apart optically from all the brightly colored albums. Franziska von Bethmann asked Richard Hamilton how the cover came about.
Architecture
A calabash of fun
April showers bring May flowers: This year it brings the trend color yellow. Be it lemon yellow, Indian yellow or golden yellow - the ambivalent effect of the color is being put to the test.
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Bernstorff Wooden Flooring
by Sophia Muckle
News & Stories | Salone del Mobile 2012
Stark contrasts
Looking back again at the Salone del Mobile in Milan – and it is the black-and-white contrasts that really stand out, bringing an Sixties aesthetics to mind.
Verner Panton once caused quite a stir with his psychedelic design for “Spiegel’s” offices. While parts of the “Spiegel Cafeteria” will soon feature in Hamburg’s Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, the “Spiegel” unveils its new, illustrious office building designed by architectural firm Henning Larsen – this time the Ippolito Fleitz Group has handled the restaurant’s interior design.
The creative possibilities for utilizing colored glasses, dichroic color effect glasses and double-sided optical interference anti-reflective glasses are highlighted by three distinctive sample projects.
The Riverbank House by David Walker Architects is located directly at the Thames in London. A great number of special glass systems by Schollglas have been integrated into both the building's shell and interior construction. The project is presented as a new reference of the company Schollglas at BAU 2011 in Munich.
The detached home created by architect Weichlbauer Ortis in Frohnleiten, Austria, turns a house's customary use on its head.
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A good reading of London's soul
by Lucy Bullivant
Dutch designer duo Scholten & Baijings add subtle patterns and colors to forms, make fabric rhubarb stalks objects of communication, envelop design classics with their "Colour Plaids" and reinterpret traditional Dutch items of furniture. At the Milan Furniture Fair, they premiered designs with Established & Sons. Markus Frenzl caught up with the designers in Rotterdam and Milan.
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Life can be so colorful …
