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

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.

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.

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.

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