New Basics

Our interior is continuously changing. Where people previously invested in full interiors that could last for years and that were durable and timeless, we see nowadays that people regularly adapt their style and therefore also their interior.

Trough the shifts in the retail and hospitality sectors we also see more temporary ‘pop up’ concepts emerge and we rely on basic materials more often to create our interior with. This material relatively tend to be less expensive, it has a more natural look or it’s just less common in the field of decorative application and gives your interior therefore/thereby more personality.

Chipboard

Paris family house (Paris 10) – Atelier Premier Étage

 

Pocket Galerie – Atelier Premier Étage

 

Stories by the water

Matz Engdahl – Funt

 

Sophie Hardy – Breaking Surface

 

Jonatan Appelfeldt – Marbelous

Hemp & Electric cables

Henry&Co – Taaac & Ecoepoque

 

Colored MDF

Bang & Olufsen for Osloform – Serpentine

 

Osloform – Sleep wall clock

 

De intuïtiefabriek / Baars & Bloemhoff – Spatial

 

Daphna Laurens – Prototipi

 

MDF Italia – Minima42 (Units from colored mdf)

 

Bio laminate

Huis Veendam – Biolaminate

Touchable walls

Nowadays, we choose for walls with more statement, both inside and outside.
Trough the use of different shapes, materials, colors, reliëfs and textures, ”ontstaat er een bijzonder decoratief spel element van licht en schaduw”.

Trough this, a typical wall will be transformed into a three-dimensional visual festival. The wall won’t only become important for it’s function, it will also be used as a decorative element for interior and exterior. It provides additional space to show identity and adds tactility in and around the house.

We see, that the issue about tactility, is an important aspect for various architects and designers, not only for the young generation also for the established names.

There is an increase in experimenting with how tactility and texture influence, behavior, needs & perception and the need to add it to a physical environment, what the designer is feeling, reacts as a response to the digitalisation of our society.

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Assemble – Yardhouse                                 Bruce B./ Emmy B. –  Stuttgart, Germany

Buro Belen – Thomaskerk

Pauline Gorelov – Hyperstructure

Luffalab – Indigo

Zilenzio – Fazett                                                            Culdesac – Urbatek

            Giles Miller – Hemsworth leather                                   Kowa collection – Ichimatsu

Pia Jensen – The infinity of a room

 

Forbo – Bulletin Board Collection

 

Prismatic

In Februari started my internship at Broeinest. It’s a material library & meeting space where creators of physical environments get inspired, work, meet, learn & play.
During my internship I have learned a lot of aspects that are important for my development as a future lifestyle professional. One of my tasks, and the reason why I’m writing this blog,  was writing blogs for the website of Broeinest, focussing on materials and interior design that will inspire all the visitors of Broeinest’s website.

The first blog that I’ve wrote for Broeinest is: ‘Prismatic’ 
This link will guide you to the original blog that I’ve written in Dutch at the website of broeinest: http://www.broeinest.nl/blog/prismatic/

To make it readable for everyone, I like to share it with you on this blog in an English version.

In the interior and fashion industry the usage of Dichroic glas is increasing.
‘Dichroic’ means ‘two colours’, this material was developed in the late fifties by NASA to protect against the potentially harmful effects of direct sunlight and cosmic radiation. This type of glass has the unique characteristic that the transmissive color, totally differs from the reflective color.

Several designers respond to the infinite interplay of light and reflection.
The designs seem somewhat surrealistic and it creates a sense of illusion.
The objects protect natural phenoma of light in daily life and can make any dull room lively by creating complex patterns of light and shadow, that change depending on the position of the viewer or the light source.

Mise & Abyme Tunnel – Allegri & Fogale

 

PRISM – Studio22

 

HOLON – Jetske Visser & Michiel Martens

 

Anno Tropico – Formafantasma

 

Shimmer – Glass Italia & Patricia Urquiola

 

Eastpack – Sabine Marcelis  |  Seeing Glass – Brit van Nerven & Sabine Marcelis

 

Day & Night Light – Éléonore Delisse

 

Prismatica – RAW

 

Dichroic Glass – Chriss Wood