Weekend reading

This weekend I am catching up on my long pending reading- books and magazines I bought during my trip to the UK and Holland a couple of months ago and here’s a lowdown.
Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) undoubtedly remains one of the most revered architects of all time. He made living in the wilderness cool with his Prairie [...]

Colour me beautiful

I discovered the fabulously French Genevieve Lethu store at Mercato Mall who stock colourful home accessories that are a cross between Provence style and contemporary chic. Since kitsch is back in fashion, (don’t believe me? just check out the October issue of Icon magazine) I thought this would be a great way to bring some colour into interiors with [...]

Award-winning landscape architecture

I’ve to share with you the work of Lebanese-based architect Vladimir Djurovic who recently won the prestigious Aga Khan award for his Samir Kassir project in Downtown Beirut. It’s a reflective tranquil space with Ficus trees and a water feature surrounded by wooden planks and nautral stones and stands in stark contrast to the hectic [...]

Sound of music

Here’s the latest gadget for discerning audiophiles- the Steinway Lyngdorf speakers called Model D by the high-end Danish audio system producer Lyngdorf and music instrument company Steinway & Sons. As much a work of art as technology, these  high-performance audio systems combine design and fine crafstmanship.
 The speakers that weigh almost half a ton are yours [...]

Helvetica rules

Traffic design gallery- Dubai’s hippest hot spot for the creative community will be screening the typeface phenomenon documentary Helvetica from December 9-16 co-inciding with Dubai International Film Festival (George Clooney and Sharon Stone will be shimmying down the red carpet) . Entry is free for the documentary but seats are reserved and on a first-come-first-served basis.
Helvetica was [...]

Cool messenger

Are men too prone to ‘It’ bags of the season? And we thought it was only the fairer sex who made getting on a waiting list for a super expensive bag sound glamorous. Personally, the waiting game doesn’t do it for me. While the latest isue of GQ would have us believing that the old-fashioned [...]

Design for a good cause

Now I shouldn’t even be here today. I should have been in Singapore clocking up some miles for a free ticket and on the side also attending the Singapore Design Biennial. Bah! Anyway here I’m, enlightening all you good people about important issues in Dubai.
For starters, the design aficionados-cum-good samaritans at the Traffic gallery are organising a charity [...]

Pecha Kucha Dubai

There is an important bit of information that I missed out on earlier about the Pecha Kucha night. It is being organised by aaUAE that is architecture association UAE chapter. They are a cool bunch, I met with Hisham Youssef- the head honcho of aaUAE and Richard Wagner the official spokesperson at the Bernard Khoury [...]

Designs on Dubai

Finally I have got down to doing what I have been planning to do for a long time- blog. Although I have a full-time job as a journalist, there are so many dos and donts that you actually start doubting yourself and your writing abilities. There are no editors who constantly keep telling you that [...]