Organic Geometry: Polyhedral, chest of drawers by Mattia Bonetti.

Colour Splash: A Residence in Naples.

An apartment in Naples transforms into a fun & contemporary work of art thanks to interior designer Enrica Torrigiani.

• LC6 table by Le Corbusier;
• Kazuki Chair by Kazuhide Takama;
• double-canvas M.D.P. "24" and "25" by Valeria Corvino;
• Bodhi coffee table by Giorgio Gurioli.

Octopus Tentacles. Enough Said.

Indoor/outdoor chair Senza fine by Gaetano Pesce (again).

I’m ok with the skyline and everything but.. This?! It looks all.. squishy, and wormy, and squirky and… What’s up with all those tentacles?!

I don’t know.. Would you sit on it???

Take a Nap on Your City's Skyline: It's Only a Sofa!

Notturno a New York by Gaetano Pesce.

It's all a game: Olimpia Orsini's interiors.

An apartment in Rome, perfect blending of antique and contemporary pieces.

• central canvas: Death, by Paolo Maione;
• 1700s boiserie;
• Louis XVI chair & applique;
• table an Louis Vuitton trunk: 1900s;
• table lamp by Massimiliano Adami;
• skull-stool by Antonio Cagianelli.

Interior designer: Olimpia Orsini

Protestant Cemetry, Rome: "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter".

Hello Readers. 

Have you ever been to a cemetry? Some of you might have felt strange visiting one, others might have felt totally sick (it happend to a friend of mine once).. Others might have felt peaceful. Well, that's exactly how you feel when you visit the Protestant Cemetry in Rome: peaceful.

This Cemetry is officially known as the Non-Catholic Cemetry, or the Englishman's Cemetry (many of its tombs being English).

The earliest burial dates back to 1738, while the most famous graves are those of the english poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

I've been there quite a few times trying to capture it's particular atmosphere, and fortunately, something helped me.. Giving me just the light I needed.

Enjoy.

Ta-rae Lamps: Catch The Thread of Design.

Admit it: you didn't expect this to come. Korean design studio Design Virus surely went over the top with this lovely and informal lighting expedient.

"Ta-rae” is a word in Korean that represents lumped up threads or strings. Design Virus took the “ta-rae” as a motif for its design, and created the Ta-rae lamps.

Want to know more? The Ta-rae Lightings are composed of ten "Seoul Colors" that give them a particular eastern feel.

First sketches.

Last thing: the on and off switch? It's made of thimble.

Roma Gay Pride 2010: When Love Met Colour.

"The time has come" to show you some of my photography.

I have started taking photographs some time ago, and not too seriously. Suddenly I realized that I could do much better than just waddle around with a camera in hand. And that's when some pretty good things came out.

This first group of photographs I'm about to show you date back to July 3rd 2010, day in which Rome's Gay Pride took place.

I must admit I had plenty of fun taking these pictures, as the whole event took place in a peaceful and joyful way.

My main goal was to work on faces, in a reporter/portrait-ish kind of way, and these were my results:

Hope you enjoyed them.

It's Qirky Design Won't Leave You Uninterested: Hotel Viura.

Bored of your city's skyline? Then Spain's the place you'd escape to.

  

Designhouse (a Spanish design firm) has recently built an amazing hotel in the region of Rioja Alavesa, a place famous for it's outstanding white wines.

The hotel in fact, is named after the most widely planted grape variety in Rioja, Viura.

Hotel Viura’s architecture creates a shocking contrast with the traditional village in which it's set: its concrete cubes pop out of the ground in an easy and fun kind of way. (I'd say almost disorganized?!)

Floor to ceiling windows throughout the hotel ensure that there is always a breathtakingview of the village, the Sierra de Cantabria or the church.

 

Doesn't it make you wish for your holidays to start? Personally, it makes me crave for them.

Log: Next Time You Spot One You Won't Throw It in The Fire.

This Chrismas you'll be stealing logs and wood from your granny's fireplace.

Tired of the same old "Armani-Hotel-in-Dubai" look? Here's the answer: logs. You've seen them cut down, sticked together, chopped and glued back again. But logs alone? I couldn't even remember what a log looked like till yesterday.

Fortunately, this year's design has been rediscovering Country "chic", and it gave us all a small breath of fresh air.

"Log-Love" probably had it's boom ten years ago with the Booktree libraries by Albert Geertjets:

But amazingly, it stopped there (and was replaced by all-known chrome-ish, alien-ish designs).

Now.. It's back again! (Yay!) My new personal favourites include works by Skillart, Loyal Loot Collective and (hear hear) Ralf Lauren.

Drop Vase by Skillart (log included!)

Modern Spa by Ralph Lauren (painted log transformed into coffe table: now aint that what you call minimalism!)

And last but not least, the lovely, lovely, lovely Log Bowls by Loyal Loot Collective.

I instantly fell in love with them. Their vibrant and colourful glossy finish makes you think of candy.. Caramel.. Or just a great bowl of soup.

"Each bowl is handmade using only locally reclaimed trees of all varieties (fallen or cut down due to infrastructure, re-landscaping, droughts, or stormy weather)." (Five stars for that.)

And the bowls come in a large variety of colours and sizes!

Don't you just adore them? I definitely do.

A Colour Palette as Sharp as a Knife: Introducing Francoise Nielly.

French painter Francoise Nielly is surely one of the most original artists anyone could possibly look for. Born in Marseille, her father was an architect, and transmitted her his passion for image in all its forms. 

Though Nielly was interested in more than just image: she absorbed the colour and light of Marseille, Cannes and Saint Tropez and made it her own.

Having digested any possible form art, from photography to illustration, she soon returned to her roots: painting. Her intriguing works full of raving colours seem to literally rip the canvas.

The tecnique "Miss Fluo" uses is both sophisticated and complex, spontaneous but raw. Oil colour is scraped with knives, coated with metal spatulas, splashed, and pretty much anything you can think about, creating an agressive, in-your-face, and explosive final effect.

But it's not just her dazzling tecnique that attracts the observer: even her subjects are queer and captivating, all about exotic features, lustful lips and almond eyes.

 Her likes? Life, wide open spaces, sushi, blue lagoons, Internet, humor, books, Paris, New York and Vancouver.

My likes? I'd simply say.. Francoise Nielly.

Hairy Sock: Kiskyte Ruta and her Personal Wonderland.

Hello Readers,

and welcome to the first post ever dedicated to design. This time - in particular - jewlery. I have recently grown fond of an adorable project created by lithuanian artist Kiskyte Ruta.

Hairy Sock is a jewlery label lovely Miss Kiskyte started some time ago. It transforms basic and recycled materials (such as pens, artificial hair and clothes lines.. Kudos for that) into unique necklaces, earrings and pins.

Pearl Person Brooch

 Pencil Drawing Necklace 

Laundry Double Brooch (and doesn't that look just like she got inspiration by walking down a street?)

Gold, stones or crystals? Not needed! This girl is the creator of a new and anticonformist concept of beauty. 

When it comes to jewlery she simply says that she "doesn't like uninteresting." 

Ruta, your beautiful creations surely aren't.

www.hairysock.com 

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