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Light Bureau subtly illuminates fjord-side rest stop in Norway

November 28, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Scandinavian studio Light Bureau has introduced minimal lighting to this rest-stop toilet along the Norwegian Scenic Routes so as not to distract visitors from the surrounding landscape. Espenes Rest Stop accompanies the Hardanger stretch of the Norwegian Scenic Routes – 18 roads that offer picturesque drives across the country. The structure itself was designed by

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Lighting Is Used To Create A Warm Glowing Atmosphere For This Restaurant

October 23, 2023 Erin 0

FUNUN LAB has shared photos of a Japanese-inspired restaurant they designed in Beijing, China, that includes a variety of lighting that helps create a unique interior. The designers explain that the experience of dining is also an important feature of Japanese aesthetics, with the highest enjoyment of food involving the exchange of sensory experiences, where […]

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Lighting Is Used To Create A Warm Glowing Atmosphere For This Restaurant

October 23, 2023 Erin 0

FUNUN LAB has shared photos of a Japanese-inspired restaurant they designed in Beijing, China, that includes a variety of lighting that helps create a unique interior. The designers explain that the experience of dining is also an important feature of Japanese aesthetics, with the highest enjoyment of food involving the exchange of sensory experiences, where […]

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Gallery Fumi marks 15th anniversary with design exhibition informed by biology

September 13, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

To celebrate 15 years of Gallery Fumi, the London gallery is hosting the Growth and Form exhibition of “functional art”, featuring sculptural furniture and lighting with organic forms. The Growth and Form exhibition includes new works by 16 of the 28 past Gallery Fumi exhibitors, responding to themes of transformation, regeneration and biological growth patterns.

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Floating Pavilion / Daxing Jizi Design

September 5, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

The spatial installation “Floating Pavilion,” created by Daxing Jizi Design, is presented at the 3rd Public Urban Festival “Let’s Gala” held at Longgang Vanke Plaza in Shenzhen. The artfully-arranged matrix of glowing pavilions illuminates the square during the night, transforming the everyday urban space into a captivating realm filled with fantasy and creativity, and turning it into a public place brimming with emotions and vitality. The installations’ organic forms and the immersive radiance offer an excellent place for relaxation and contemplation in the evening. It stimulates resonance and connections with local culture, and seeks to explore more possibilities for urban public life.

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SFMOMA furniture exhibition features “conversation starters”

July 11, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Designers including Bethan Laura Wood and Maarten Baas have contributed a range of “sometimes jarring” chairs and lighting to an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Called Conversation Pieces: Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue, the exposition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) features 45 pieces of furniture and decor “that

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Studio Kiki imbues Carlotta restaurant interiors with “old-school glitz and glamour”

June 26, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Design firm Studio Kiki has created warmly-lit interiors for an Italian restaurant in London to mimic the decadent but familial atmosphere of a 1980s Italo-American trattoria. Located on Marylebone High Street, Carlotta is the latest project by the Big Mamma restaurant group. Studio Kiki, the group’s in-house design team, created its interiors to capture a

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Selenite Dreams Installation / BUREAU

May 31, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

Plaster, the extracted form of gypsum, essentially composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, appears as a good figuration of the BUREAU’s general attitude towards architecture. If we were to define ourselves as minor architects, following Jill Stoner’s book «Towards a minor architecture», working with what is considered a minor material seems quite d’à-propos. It is one that has been utilized to prefigure and anticipate masterpieces in the numerous “galéries des plâtres” around the world, fabricating figurative positive molds of definite sculptures, forever “graved in stone”. The plaster seems more malleable, elastic, and fragile.