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“I think my work stands out because I follow my gut” says Kelly Wearstler

April 23, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Kelly Wearstler is often hailed as contemporary interior design’s most recognisable name. In this interview, she tells Dezeen about crafting her textured and eclectic style. American interior designer Wearstler has been dressing rooms since her mid-twenties, rising to become one of the discipline’s most significant names. “I’m obsessed with nuance,” she told Dezeen. “I view

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Patrick Carroll presents knitted “paintings” at JW Anderson store

April 19, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Artist Patrick Carroll has used recycled yarn to create hand-knitted painting-style pieces for the Days textile exhibition at JW Anderson’s Milan store during Milan design week. Carroll presented translucent artworks that look “as if they are paintings”, which were made using a 1970s flatbed domestic knitting machine and displayed on wooden stretcher bars – the

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Patrick Carroll presents knitted “paintings” at JW Anderson store

April 19, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Artist Patrick Carroll has used recycled yarn to create hand-knitted painting-style pieces for the Days textile exhibition at JW Anderson’s Milan store during Milan design week. Carroll presented translucent artworks that look “as if they are paintings”, which were made using a 1970s flatbed domestic knitting machine and displayed on wooden stretcher bars – the

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Marimekko transforms “real Milanese institution” into flower-clad cafe

April 18, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Jumbo poppies synonymous with Marimekko cover the floor of Bar Unikko, a pink-hued pop-up cafe created as a Milan design week pit stop to mark the print’s 60th anniversary. Named after Unikko, the recognisable poppy pattern designed by Maija Isola in 1964, the cafe is a pop-up project at Bar Stoppani in Milan. Marimekko purposefully

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Maria Vittoria Paggini’s gives her home “porno-chic” makeover for Milan design week

April 15, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Designer Maria Vittoria Paggini has used colourful wallpaper and murals depicting nude bodies concealed behind peepholes to transform her home for Milan design week. Located in the 5vie design district in the heart of the city, Casa Ornella is annually redesigned by Vittoria Paggini who presents the project during Milan design week. This year, the

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Eight hotel interiors characterised by eclectic designs

April 13, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

From guest rooms filled with fashion designer Christian Louboutin’s personal antique collection to Ibiza’s oldest hotel where handmade masks are mounted on the walls, our latest lookbook features eight eclectic hotel interiors. Eclectic design brings together objects and styles from a range of sources – often mixing contemporary and vintage pieces. While many hotels are

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Eight buildings with inverted-pitched roofs that resemble butterfly wings

April 8, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

An angular English home extension and a timber-clad Guatemalan retreat feature in our roundup of buildings with butterfly roofs. Otherwise known as inverted-pitched roofs, the V-shaped structures take their name from the angled form of a butterfly’s wings. Architects and designers sometimes use butterfly roofs to help conceal a building within its setting, enhance interior

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Uchronia founder designs own home as “love letter to French craft”

April 3, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Glossy walls, ruched curtains and oversized flower-shaped cushions characterise this eclectic 1970s-style Paris apartment, designed and owned by Uchronia founder Julien Sebban. Called Univers Uchronia, the apartment is in the city’s 18th arrondissement, close to the Uchronia office – a Parisian architecture and interiors studio known for its bold application of shape, colour and reflective

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Life Reusing Posidonia was a prototype for “hyper-local architecture” on the Balearic islands

April 2, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Next in our Social Housing Revival series we examine Life Reusing Posidonia – a group of 14 dwellings on the Mediterranean island of Formentera designed by architects at the Balearic Social Housing Institute using locally sourced materials such as dried seagrass. Completed in 2017, Life Reusing Posidonia is a multi-award winning project consisting of 14

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Cavernous restaurant by Spacemen feels like “stepping into a giant pot”

March 25, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Architecture studio Spacemen has designed the Bar Kar restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to resemble the earth ovens historically used to cook and smoke food in the ground. Based between Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur, Spacemen conceived the interiors for Bar Kar “around the concept of primordial community cooking”. Guests enter the eatery through a winding pathway

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