Egg3 sale in Singapore

If you happen to find yourselves in Singapore in the next couple of days, do go to this wonderful store Egg3 who are having their end of season sale with discounts of up to 50%. It’s a treasure trove of unique and quirky homeware, tee-shirts and gift accessories. Whenever I go back to Singapore, this is [...]

The Omnia redesigned by Ali Tayar

New York-based architect Ali Tayar has redesigned The Omnia hotel in Zermatt, Switzerland. Tayar conceived the 30-room boutique hotel as an avant-garde contemporary American mountain lodge in the Swiss Alps, furnished with some of the greatest 20th century design classics by Mies Van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen amongst others.

Cool hotels-part II

Here are some more cool hotels that are on my list for 2008.
Top: Dar Beida is a restored Moroccan House and is undoubtedly is one of the coolest places to stay in the hippie-chic town of Essaouira overlooking the Atlantic ocean, where Jimi Hendrix wrote the hit song Castles in the sand. The house-turned-hotel has been [...]

Design wishlist for 2008

From top to bottom: Taccia lamp by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Flos; Crochet table for Moooi by Marcel Wanders; Legend Bibliotheque by Christophe Delcourt for Roche Bobois; Barcelona Chair (left) by Mies van der Rohe, Wishbone Chair by Hans Wegner (right); Madamoiselle chairs by Philippe Starck in Missoni prints for Kartell; LC4 Chaise Lounge [...]

Design Events for 2008

Mark your calendars. Here’s a little round-up of most of the important design events/furniture fairs for the year 2008. A couple of dates are yet to be confirmed but there’re tentative dates to help you plan your schedule better. See you there!

IMM Cologne, Germany, January, 14-20, 2008 http://www.imm-cologne.com   
The Office Exhibition, Dubai February 4-6, 2008 www.dmgdubai.com
Stockholm Furniture Fair, February 6-10, [...]

Cool destinations

 

From top to bottom: Jeronimos hotel, Lisbon; Six Senses Zighy Bay, Oman; 9Hotel, Paris; Aji’a on Bosphorus, Istanbul.
Forget New Year resolutions (they’re only meant to be broken anyway); instead make holiday plans and add these cool hotels to your list. Design hotels genre is the in thing, even though I read somewhere Ian Schragger saying that they [...]

Tripod chair by Poul Kjaerholm

 
This yellow tripod chair is based on a 1953 prototype designed by Danish designer Poul Kjaerholm and manufactured by two New York based galleries- R Gallery and Sean Kelly Gallery. It was recently on display at Art Basel Miami and Design Miami. It is available in 25 limited-edition pieces in gray, yellow, black and blue each.
 The boundaries between art [...]

Most iconic houses

Top: FallingWater; Below: The Glasshouse (photography: Paul Warchol)
 I fell in love with FallingWater and The Glasshouse at first sight. Designed by two of the most talented as well as controversial American architects of the 20th century- Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson respectively, these houses are not mere structures, they are monuments.
They are both pure and convey their [...]

Cutlery lighting by Francois Legault

Here’s a lamp made of cutlery by Canadian lighting designer Francois Legault. He has an entire collection of lamps, chandeliers made of steel cutlery. And recycling is of course the in thing.
See more images or download the entire catalogue at this link http://www.unik-sculpturallighting.com/Productline/tabid/481/Default.aspx 
www.francoislegault.com

Print Room by David Archer

Since the final newspaper rolled off the printing press in the early 1990s, the print room at the Daily Echo building in Bournemouth has remained in most parts, largely empty until now. The Print Room Brasserie and Ink Bar that occupies the former print floor of the Grade II listed Seal and Hardy building on [...]