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Tres Encinas restaurant in Spain Gets Re-designed

by Loredana Sava, posted in Design And Concept, on June 16th, 2011

Tres Encinas has a history of over forty years of serving people in Madrid with tasty seafood. However, the present owners thought it was time to make some changes since we entered a new century and millennium and hired a Turkish design firm to do the necessary adjustments. Well, these guys did a great job with the re-designing because they tried to keep the old air and general atmosphere of the restaurant , but also added some new touch of modernism and contemporaneity.

They maintained the local tradition of craft and work, so they used hand – crafted metals and wood to change the image. This gave the restaurant a hint of Art Nouveau and it is a delight to see how metal lines connect the ceiling with the repetitive tiles on the floor in a grey and intricate network. All the decorations on the walls and on the floor suggest sea life and marine creatures, keeping the specific of the restaurant alive and giving it new shapes and forms of expression.

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Simple, modern and interactive pavilion design

by Simona Ganea, posted in Design And Concept, on June 15th, 2011

When the weather is good, nobody likes to stay inside the apartment or in the house. It’s like nature begs you to go outside. So when you do that, it’s also a very good opportunity to interact with other people. It’s not easy to agree on a place or activity that you could all do together and that everybody likes. Sometimes you just wish you had a comfy place where you could just sit and talk. Now you can have it.

This very modern and beautiful pavilion has been designed especially for these types of situations. It’s perfect for relaxation and it also provides with a very inviting place where you can chat and interact with each other. The design is very clever as it’s split into two areas. There’s a more private area for two persons in case someone wants some privacy, and there’s also a larger area designed for four persons where they can have a drink or simple chat, play games and other stuff.

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3D furniture collection by Martin Gallagher

by Simona Ganea, posted in Design And Concept, on June 14th, 2011

Nowadays almost all new movies are 3D. It’s an invasion! It’s become such a common detail that people have started coming up with all sorts of 3D designs. For example here’s a furniture collection actually called “3D”. It’s been designed by Martin Gallagher and it’s a very modern furniture collection.

The 3D collection includes a very beautiful and versatile coffee table and 3 stools that share the same design and characteristics. The most beautiful thing about this collection is that it’s both good-looking and very functional and versatile. For example, it even allows you to adjust the height and overall scale by simply removing or adding plywood layers. However, only the coffee table has this characteristic. This doesn’t mean that the stools are less functional. In fact, each stool can also act as a very good side table. Moreover, the stool upholstery is available is a large variety of different colors. This allows you to choose a vibrant color to spice up the décor or maybe a more quiet tone to match with the rest of your furniture.

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Convenient table-cabinet from Attua Aparicio Torinos

by Simona Ganea, posted in Design And Concept, on June 13th, 2011

As the humanity is continuously expanding, it’s natural for space to be a big problem. It you think logically, at the beginning there were probably just a few people, or ancestors of those. As time has passed, they’ve been…busy and multiplied. They still continue to do that. But, clever as they are, people have tried to solve this problem so they have come up with numerous ideas of how to save space.

A very good example for that matter is this very ingenious combination of a table and a cabinet. It’s actually the cabinet that is more visible. The table just pops up of the cabinet when needed. It’s a very surprising piece of furniture. It’s very useful and functional and it doesn’t take much space. It’s like you’d only have a cabinet, that you need anyway, that comes with a surprise table, that you also need.

This creation allows you to save quite a lot of space. You don’t have to sacrifice anything just because the space available is restricted. You just have to know where to look for furniture and what to choose. Imagination is very important in this process. You have to be able to transform an inconvenient into something positive, or at least neutral. In order to be able to do that you’ll also need some help from designers.

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Contrabass bar cabinet

by Simona Ganea, posted in Design And Concept, on June 10th, 2011

I’m sure that a lot of people are fans of good music. It’s so hard to define what good music means because everyone has its own tastes and preferences. However there are some genres that are evidently superior. But no matter what type of music you like, this cabinet will definitely match your preferences and your love for music.

When your friends and guests will first see this beautiful piece they will surely think you got a real contrabass. But when you open it the surprise will be even bigger because it’s not a contrabass that’s inside but a very nice bar, which is even better. It’s a very clever and ingenious idea. The bar is very fun and stylish and very well hidden inside that lovely shape. It’s a very good replica of a real contrabass and this makes it even more special.

So if you’re looking for a fun and unusual piece for your home, this might be the best choice you could make. It gives you the opportunity to surprise everyone and also to enjoy having such a beautiful instrument in your home, even if it’s just a fake. I don’t know the opinion of art critics in this matter, but I’m sure they could find something wrong with it. Anyway, if you’re a normal person and not an exaggeratedly picky one, you’ll probably love this piece.{from portobellostreet.es}

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Pirates Themed Theater worth $2.5 million

by Loredana Sava, posted in Design And Concept, on June 9th, 2011

Pirates of the Caribbean has been a very successful franchise and a lot of people all over the world have become fans. No wonder that pirates have gained more and more fame and many people have found it inspiring. So many of them have decided to re-design their homes so as to obtain a pirates themed room, house or … theater. That is the case of this building I am presenting to you today and which is being under construction in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.

The latest movie of the franchise is called “On stranger tides” and it has recently been released in cinemas. So it would be wonderful to be able to watch it in your own wonderful home theater. Of course, I am sure you will not spend $2.5 million for this, but some people are willing to do this.

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Interactive sculpture by Tomomi Sayuda

by Simona Ganea, posted in Design And Concept, on June 2nd, 2011

Oshibe, which in Japanese means stamen, is also the creation of Japanese designer Tomomi Sayuda. Basically, the interesting thing about this piece is that it operation on the principle of synaesthesia. The sculpture attemps to mesmerize you on multiple levels by exciting your senses. It’s not such a revolutionary piece, but still it’s very interesting.

Oshibe is an interactive lighting sculpture that also plays ambient sounds. As the designer declares, this project was inspired by eggs, plants, light and the moon. It’s an odd combination when you think about it but if it works for her who are we to judge. As you can see the sculpture features multiple stamens and eggs. When you put eggs on stamens something unexpected happens: Oshibe plays tender ambient sounds and it also lights up. Each stamen plays a different sound. So the stamens are like a quire as the sounds change according to the number and positions of the eggs.

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