We love coffee, we love design, we love pink, and we love yellow… so naturally this coffee shop in Athens, Greece caught our eye.
Designed by studiomateriality, this coffee shop is unusual , eye-catching and oh so “instagrammable”.
The bright colour palette is accented with fish carpets, face lamps, and a funky laboratory feel.
Life is better at full weird speed.
This year’s IT thing to photograph and obsessively post on Instagram is Le Refuge, a pink “jungle” bed installation designed by artist Marc Ange at the Wallpaper* Handmade exhibition space during Milan Design Week.
Over 3,000 posts were uploaded on Instagram referring to it as “magical” and a “fairy tale”.
The artist Marc Ange calls it “a place where one finds comfort and peace. It is the projection of a childhood memory. Its large leaves form a shelter under the sun, away from reality, just like those of the imaginary jungle that grows in the room of a child who seeks escape.”
We can’t resist these giant pink metal leaves and the beautiful shadows it creates. We need one in our office.
In the Spanish municipality of Llanera, the Kaos Temple was handed over to artist Okuda San Miguel as a creative project. Given carte blanche on the interior of the old church, San Miguel traded pews for ramps, while bringing low-poly illustrations and vibrant colour to the space! Known internationally as La Iglesia Skate, the colourful church has become a hot spot, attracting tourists and skaters alike from far and beyond.
Clever furniture pieces from Italian designed Resource Furniture.
Iwan Baan designed this below-ground woodland workspace for architects at Selgas Cano.
Mass Studios in Seoul, Korea is one of the only buildings in the world that was landscaped both outside and in.
I’ve got to include one form my hometown. This is Upperkut – a communications agency that resides in the basement Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church here in Montreal.
Designed by the architecture and design firm Camenzind Evolution, Google’s EMEA Engineering Hub office in Zurich takes up seven stories of 12,000 square metres of floor space for up to 800 employees. Each floor has a cohesive theme throughout. The communal spaces have large, cocoon-like meeting areas and employees can slide down a pole from the floor above into the space.
Ogilvy & Mather’s Guangzhou office received China’s Most Successful Design Award in 2008. Designed by M Moser and Associates, Ogilvy & Mather’s carnival themed office is the first interior design project to receive this award.
The Magic Hole chair, designed by Eugeni Quitllet in collaboration with Starck design, is meant for use outdoors and incorporates a hole to hold newspapers or other objects.
The Barnacle chair by Ania Wagner is made from sustainable wood and lined with a cultivated industrial felt. You can sit in it or flip it over for multiple people to lean on it while seated on the floor.
The Flip Stool is another multi-purpose piece by Ania Wagner that I had to include. It can be used as a stool, storage piece or magazine rack.
The New Bambini by Toshimitsu Sasaki is an adjustable chair for the whole family. The chair easily adjusts from a rocking chair to a baby’s high chair to a stool for kids and adults. Brilliant!
The Oz chair by Cate & Nelson is a low chair with layers of felt you can flip to change it’s color. A chair you can match to any space or mood.
German and Swiss product designers Fabian Nehne and Martin Meier created this lamp inspired by the additive color model RGB. Fabian Nehne is working as a senior designer at Deutsche Telekom and Martin Meier is the senior designer lead at IDEA Munich. I haven’t been able to find out if it’s being sold anywhere yet or if it’s still in the prototype stage.
Meet the K Workstation by MisoSoup; an innovative and space-saving desk design. This desk is perfect for small apartments, dorms or any other trend-setter’s room where space is at a premium.
Got More room? The MILK desk by Scandinavian designer Holmris Hansen A/S is an Apple user’s dream. This desk has 4 customizable sections on the left hand side that can be used for anything from storage compartments to trash bins and pencil holders to a fish tank. This sleek design neatly stores cables out of sight and is height adjustable.
Once I found out about height adjustable desks I was sold on the idea of getting one for my workspace. About 6 months ago I purchased Geek Desk legs from Bonanzle and bought a desktop from IKEA. Having a desk that adjusts electronically in seconds from seated to standing height is irreplaceable for those long days at the computer. I’ll never work in a cubicle again. (FYI: The picture above is not me or my space- I’m not a dude….)
Chairs for the Dysfunctional are a series of seats designed to illustrate different social sitting habits. More than that, they question the way we interact with inanimate objects in our daily lives. The chairs were designed by Alice Wang; a recent graduate of MA Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art.
Click here to read more about this and other Alice Wang projects.