Inside Outside

The summer has started now for real! Hopefully, we have had the worst rain showers for now and it’s finally time for the sun to start shining. The overlap between outside and inside in the interior design industry already has been happening for a while. Urban jungles are created inside the house and outside they are being decorated as a second living room with rugs, cushions, benches and outdoor workplaces included. We also see a growing number of big interior brands who start to present their own exterior collection next to their decoration collection, so you can keep on using the same style for both indoor and outdoor.

Is your 2nd leaving room already summer proof? Check out the serveral inspiring examples to connect your garden and living room.

Simon Watson – Lost in time        Hay – outdoor collection

 

TINY K HOME                     ZEN GARDEN

 

Bron: Blood and Champaign

 

WOOLLAHRA

 

LE SINOPLE, PARIS             GIANNI BOTSFORD – SUTHERLAND PLACE

 

Bron: Thestylebox             Francis Brodi House 

 

ZW6                          JJLOCATIONS

 

FERNANDA MARQUES

 

PIA ENGHILD            NEUMAN HAYNER ARCHITECTS

 

INSIDE OUT           NATHAN BURKETT 

 

Restaurant Vegetal                  Birgitta Wolfgang Drejer

 

Transparent

In the past two months, the Rotterdam based firm of architects MVRDV has realized three projects in which glass and tranparency were central, are the focus.

According to Winny Maas, one of the founders of MVRDV, “The glass enables global brands to combine the overwhelming desire of transparency with a couleur locale, and modernity with heritage. It can thus be applied everywhere in our historic centres.”

Transparent spaces are often experienced as more accessible, they are more open and spacious. We lose the dark corners because of more transparency and can therefore illuminate the entire space better. According to MVRDV, the use of so much glas and transparent materials can be traced back to the changes we see in our society.

“We are moving into a transparent society, businesses are becoming more open with the public, and people care more about what goes on behind closed doors,”  Winy Maas told Dezeen.

Crystal Houses – MVRDV

De big bubble – Alex de Witte              0,1,2,3,4 – Shaun Harris

Infinity Kitchen – MVRDV

133 WAI YIP STREET – MVRDV

Tribute to Domus – Fabrica / Benneton                             Drift Sconce  – Grain

Brute Platform – Gashetka              Urban Philosophy – Nissa Kinzhalina

Commodore – Glas Italia / Lissoni

Layers – Glas Italia / Nendo

Perspective no.2 – OS ∆ OOS

 

 

 

 

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

Moire effect

In interior design and architecture, nowadays, we see that the moiré effect is being used increasingly.

Moire patterns are created whenever one semitransparent object with a repititive pattern is placed over antoher. A slight motion of one of the objects creates large – scale changes in the moiré pattern.

David Derksen is one of the designers who used this effect in his designs, and showed it at last years Salone del Mobile 2015  with his Moiré lights.  He calls it ‘a celebration of the intriguing moiré effect. These lamps invite to play and become fascinated by the moire principle. Squares, hexagons or rings seem to appear and to move, making this into an almost hypnotic effect.

David Derksen – Moire Lights

One of David’s projects that was launched on Salone del Mobile last April in Milan were his Lucid lights. De collection consists of light objects with a perforated casing, which are carved out of aluminium.

David Derksen – Lucid Lights

‘There’s a lot to love about a humble shape that’s cut out repeatedly, creating large patterns across big scales. So many variations are possible with perforations overlaying them creating a moorish effect. Cutting out thick boards will express the edge of the material which creates a completely differen look to when a thin sheet is punctured, etc. Scale, proportion and material selections play a huge role when choosing and designing these types of patterns’ (yellowtrace).

Let inspire you trough the variety of products, fashion, interior and architecture from the past years >>>

Lululemon / Murdock Young Architects   

Agata Bielen – Gold Line                     Architecture 00

 

Nina Mair – Mashrabeya       Arch Studio 

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec – Stampa Chair

Junpei Tamaki + Iori Tamaki – Snowscape cabinet

 

 

Álvaro Díaz Hernández – Wire Collection        Robert Morris – Sprüth Magers Berlin

 

MLZD – Janus Museum, Switzerland       Studio Gang

Tom Dixon                     Jesse Visser – Harold

Creating Spaces

Open, Transparent and Flexible. This is required by many people for a living and working space.

A space that posesses all these functions and fulfills all the requirements challenges the user to utilize the entire space, to engage and to interact. But a room with these features can also have it’s disadvantages. For the acoustics, privacy and the possibility to focus it’s not the best option.

Furthermore, in te interior of your offices you want to take into account different types of employees in order to get the most out or your people and the environment.

We are noticing that more and more designers come up with solutions to reduce the feeling of privacy and intimacy in open workplaces and public areas. The space is then often divided into various zones in a transparent manner. Hereby, you can both enjoy the openness and the privacy and it gives you the possibility to create multiple characters in one room.

The trend ‘creating spaces’ offers protection from overstimulation, it allows intimacy in varying degrees, meets the changing needs of both humans and environment and it shows the way in which design affects the space.

Fringe – Thijs Gilde

Free Standing Screen – Matteo Grassi & Franco Poli

Trois Conversations – Constance Guisset

Ear Chair – Jurgen Bey & Prooff

Tuango – Anne Sophie Goneau Design

Focus – Zilenzio

Standalone – Axia Design & Prooff

Modular Screen System – Benjamin Hubert

 

 

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