Loft love

Living in a loft... I guess I'm not the only one that dreams of it. But if you entered an old woodworker's shop, with all the walls and ceilings covered with thick layer of sawdus, could you imagine your dream apartment there? The couple that lives in this beautiful loft transformed it from the very begining, and had to solve many adaptation problems, like for example a lack of functioning kitchen. Before all was neatly painted white, they had to struggle with cleaning all the dust - it was necessary to hose down the walls and ceilings with a power washer! Furnishing was the pleasant part: a mixture of vintage and new, high and low feels perfectly at home within old brick walls.

photos: Tony Solur, via: @properties

Nika Zupanc - Gone With The Wind

Short reportage from "Gone With The Wind" exhibition presented at Milan Design Week 2010. Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc is talking about her latest project and relationships between design art and fashion. Read more about the designer here: Nika Zupanc.

Selgas Cano office: opening interiors

Unusual office building of Selgas Cano architecture bureau was designed by architects themselves and build in the beautiful forest area nearby Madrid. The tunnel-shaped office with curved windows is a perfect example of uniting interior and exterior space. The interior opens to the surrounding nature, but stays pleasantly enveloping and cosy. And notice the cool, air-suspended writing desks!

photographs by Iwan Baan., via: arch daily

Italian inspiration

Soft greys and luscious colours. Natural wood. Vintage and modern. Isn't it perfect?

photos: Adriano Brusaferri and Alessandro Rizzi, via: at casa

A flock of sheep: Hans-Peter Krafft and François-Xavier Lalanne

For everyone, who just like me, shivers at the thought of the real ones stuffed: cute and cuddly, hand-made wooden sheep-stools by Hans-Peter Krafft (design: 1982, manufacturer: Meier)

... or something from surrealist art world: Les moutons created by amazing 60's artist François-Xavier Lalanne. I discovered his animal sculptures recently, quite captivating!


Interiors: Shawn Henderson and Pamplemousse design

But if you prefer cute piglets instead (!!!), have a look here: Still lives by Yvonne Fehling & Jennie Peiz

images via: desire to inspire and design elements

Thin Black Lines exhibition

Japanese design studio Nendo presents an exquisite collection entitled Thin Black Lines at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The exhibition is open until October 31st, so if you are around, drop by!

read more about the exhibition here: Thin Black Lines by Nendo

Ora-Ïto: the industrial designer's apartment

Ora-Ïto's apartment seems like an imagination laboratory where anything can happen: designer furniture, geometric art, Japanese antiques and... a  giraffe - all enclosed in 17th-century mansion with original, beautifully ornamented wooden ceilings. The building is located in the atmospheric, trendy northern part of the Marais district in Paris.

photos by Birgitta Wolfgang Drejer, via: Interior Design