The Kameha Grand Bonn by Marcel Wanders
The Kameha Grand Bonn showcases a new, creative and holistic approach for a modern corporate hotel; a hotel that unites the vibrant and lively atmosphere of a business hotel with the style, intimacy and exclusivity of a luxury grand hotel.
Yuki Tanaka is the establisher of YUKI TANAKA Architecture & Interior Design. She first took interest in architectural design when she was a high school student and a building in her neighborhood was designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando.
Opposed to the previous project “WITH”, this house is located on an urban area in Kanagawa, Japan. When constructed there were already 3 houses built in the North, East, and West, less than 1 meter away from a property line.
In the past 60 years, as information technology progressively have changed in Japan, our housing industry has rapidly become adjusted to it. This “forced adjustment” to our society has caused a transformation to our traditional lifestyle, and the housing space has been often talked by “nLDK” ; n (number of private rooms) L (living) D (dining) K (kitchen). The concept of nLDK is to describe how much value your house has. The spatial flexibility and relationship (private and public) among n, L, D, and K are separated and lost, and as a result, “function” started to walk alone. Read More...
Keisuke Fujiwara is the director of the Keisuke Fujiwara Design Office Company, based in Honmachi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. He’s currently working on his company with a team of three members. The design office covers architecture, interior design and product design. Keisuke Fujiwara converses about what makes his company consistent and why his team is so important.
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Color and light have the power to change our mood very directly. The more natural light you’ve access to, the better. But an all white painted room with white upholstered furniture might keep you alert for a very short period of time, but later it gets too bright and tiring. Warm tans will actually help you focus better than in an all white room.
To help you get creative, there are certain colors that can be applied in your interior. It’s not only about what they stand for that will do the trick, but also how much of it one should use.
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Cottage style (shabby chic) is an inviting and personal look. The fundamental nature of a cottage interior is blending the contemporary with the traditional. Like placing old china in the new shelf. The cottage style takes most influence from Vintage interior design and Victorian interior design.
Although some periods in the past can be referred to as "vintage", the vintage interior design is mainly influenced from the 1940s and 1950s. The look is down to earth and have taken a lot of inspiration from nature. The rose for instance is one of the most occurring patterns that can be seen in this theme.
The most common and used patterns and shapes in vintage design are leaves, floral (mainly roses) and circles.
All white rooms are good when wanting to enhance rooms’ appearances and make them seem more spacious, but there are plenty of other hues that can be taken advantage of.
One accent wall with a bold color in a room gives the impression of a more space, as it gives a strong statement to the room and makes the other walls, ceiling and floor appear bigger if they have paler colors. Having the same color on the wall and ceiling will also enhance the illusion of a greater room. There are some rules though when it comes to painting the home. Read More...
When being on a budget it’s smart to make the most obvious things the focal points. In the bedroom, the bed is the most obvious item; so give it a lot of attention. Like having new cushions and sheets that stand out from the other shapes and colors of the room. Try to have the bed free from any objects that don’t belong there, so that you later don’t have to put way a bunch of things when you want to lie down.
Light and color depend a lot on each other; actually it is more or less the same thing. Natural light holds all the colors that can be found in a color spectrum. Light has different wavelengths, the longest wavelength is red with about 625-740 nanometers and the shortest is violet with about 380–450 nanometers.
Knowing the link between color and light will help a lot with your interior decorating. For instance if you paint two rooms the identical colors, the rooms can have completely different looks depending on the available light that breaks into the rooms. Read More...
Jeff Miller is an American designer who specializes in industrial design. He designs product, furniture and interior design for clients all over the world.
He’s born 1968 in New York City and studied in Pittsburgh in Carnegie Mellon University, where he graduated 1990.
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Blogger Grace Bonney devotes her site Design*Sponge to news and info about furniture/product designs, as well as other aspects in the home. She is the editor of the site, which was established in 2004.
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