5 Things That Are HOT On Pinterest This Week

June 5, 2017 Erin 0

  Hey contemporist friends! Here’s a look at what’s getting a lot of attention on our Pinterest boards this week, so you can see what’s trending. By the way, you can follow contemporist on Pinterest – here.   1. The laser-cut screens featured on this modern house, have a repetitive pattern and provide a unique experience […]

Retro Helsinki bar takes its design cues from 60s and 70s disco music

June 5, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Named after the song Jackie by British baritone Scott Walker, this nostalgia-tinged bar in Helsinki has been designed to evoke a 1970s Milanese bar. The Jackie bar’s designer, Joanna Laajisto of Studio Joanna Laajisto, explained: “I was given a soundtrack of 60s and 70s Italian lounge music and 70s French cosmic disco by the owner, Antti Eerikäinen, to

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Retro Helsinki bar takes its design cues from 60s and 70s disco music

June 5, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Named after the song Jackie by British baritone Scott Walker, this nostalgia-tinged bar in Helsinki has been designed to evoke a 1970s Milanese bar. The Jackie bar’s designer, Joanna Laajisto of Studio Joanna Laajisto, explained: “I was given a soundtrack of 60s and 70s Italian lounge music and 70s French cosmic disco by the owner, Antti Eerikäinen, to

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Retro Helsinki bar takes its design cues from 60s and 70s disco music

June 5, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Named after the song Jackie by British baritone Scott Walker, this nostalgia-tinged bar in Helsinki has been designed to evoke a 1970s Milanese bar. The Jackie bar’s designer, Joanna Laajisto of Studio Joanna Laajisto, explained: “I was given a soundtrack of 60s and 70s Italian lounge music and 70s French cosmic disco by the owner, Antti Eerikäinen, to

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Nook Architects uncovers original tiles and timber beams inside Barcelona flat

June 4, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Colourful restored tile flooring and wooden ceiling beams add character to this Barcelona apartment refurbished by local studio Nook Architects. Completed this year, the 273-square-metre apartment occupies an entire floor of a building in the city’s Raval quarter, just a few metres from La Rambla. While the apartment’s front facade looks out across Boqueria market, a stepped 68-square-metre

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ORA uncovers “hidden layers” when converting 16th-century property into a guesthouse

June 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

In transforming a 16th century-Czech Republic residence into this guesthouse, local studio ORA celebrated an assortment of original details including old plasterwork, semi-circular windows and stone steps. The Štajnhaus Guest House is located in the former Jewish quarter of Mikulov, a town in the Czech Republic’s South Moravian Region. The original property was built in the Czech Renaissance period – the

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Lauren Snyder and Keith Burns create home inside overhauled brownstone in Brooklyn

June 2, 2017 James Brillon 0

Design store owner Lauren Snyder and architect Keith Burns renovated a brownstone townhouse in Brooklyn to create this light-filled home for themselves, where spaces are framed by objects rather than walls. The narrow building in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn was in a state of disrepair when Snyder – owner of The Primary Essentials – and Burns acquired

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