One of the rooms in The Rooms of Rome
GABRIELLA CRESPI ( Italy )
The art of this iconic Milanese designer the game between nature and sophistication with futuristic aesthetics was allowed in collections such as the furniture Plurimi or the Rising Sun bamboo lamps. Bourgeois craftsmanship, functionality and organic materials.
A risk that she ran without fear and that she moved ** from Milan to Rome ** after her divorce, moving to the historic Palazzo Cenci.
A short distance from here is the brand new bet of Kike Sarasola and hers Room Mate Hotels: ** The Rooms of Rome **, by the architect Jean Nouvelle and inside a palace owned by the Fondazione Alda Fendi-Experimenti .
The Braun Radio 310 stereo designed by Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams ( Germany )
“Good design is as little design as possible” , wisely stated ** Dieter Rams **, designer of Braun and Vitsoe, in his “ten principles”.
Genius of yesterday and so current today, is the focus of attention of the filmmaker Gary Hustwit in rams **(2018) **, a documentary that ignites the flame of desire to find ways of traveling that are coupled with his way of understanding design: honest, discreet, understandable, aesthetic...
As the Hotel Purs in Andernach , created by the Belgian architect, interior designer and art collector Axel Vervordt in a space that keeps history alive through modernity. Let's go?
ADOLFO DRONE ( Spain )
Reduce an object to its maximum expression and visual appeal. A task that Adolfo Abejón achieves in Barcelona with the creation of pieces such as its unmistakable Slim lamp, the Cobra chair or the Melancolía vase.
Slim S Yellow Lamp by Adolfo Abejón
Pieces that have already been installed in the mental file of the connoisseur of the good local design. Like establishments like the hotel ** Casa Bonay **, a bohemian meeting point where the work of creators such as the carpenter Marc Morro or the fabrics of Teixidors They invade every corner.
Your new acquisition? The **King Kong Lady Restaurant , of the brothers Stefano and Max Colombo , makers of ** Xemei and Bar Brutal .
Interior of La Cabra Coffee in the Danish Reform showroom
PAUSTIAN (Denmark)
The desire to have it all (and to change the course of interior design in our homes) possesses us when entering this legendary store based in Aarhus . Cradle of innovation, it is known for giving hype to designers who would later be (and are) emblems of the guild, such as Alvar Aalto, Philip Arctander, Cassen, Fritz Hansen and Jaime Hayon.
It is also two steps away from La Cabra Coffee Roasters , a world leader in specialty coffee , with its own roaster and a careful image in its products that has been installed this year in the showroom of **Reform**, experts in high-end “hacking” of **Ikea** kitchens.
VITRA 100 MINIATURES ( Australia )
As more details begin to unfold the collaboration of James Turrell and Marina Abramovic in the creation of Motown hotel spa in Tasmania , we continue with our sights set on Australia through a route extended by melbourne , Perth and Brisbane, places where Vitra's ** Vitra 100 Miniatures ** exhibition was installed until March in the shops of ** Living Edge **, encapsulating and replicating in miniature the history of industrial design.
Further south, in Mornington Peninsula (Melbourne)**, The Jackalope Hotel, by Carr Architects and Fabio Ongarato Design**, offers the perfect retreat for Pinot Noir lovers. Don't miss anything.
Corridors of the Jackalope Hotel, on the Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne
HAAS BROTHERS ( USA )
Based on The Angels and with a career that ranges from television to cinema, including his own furniture brand, **interior designer Kerry Joyce** finally dares to publish a book - _Kerry Joyce: The Intangible (Pointed Leaf Press) _ -in which the style and imprint of it is traversed.
1930s Santa Monica home decorated by Kerry Joyce
It's L.A. also the one that opened the doors to the free and crazy style of The Haas Brothers , the eccentric manufacturing twins, **designers and artists who mix cinema, art, design and fashion** and who, with Ferngully, presented -until April- a chronology of their work at the contemporary art museum The Bass ( Miami ).
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Unique Sloughy Mini Beast, by The Haas Brothers (2014)