Displaying posts from October, 2014

We received this email from Bella last week: It’s our fifth birthday at FutureDeluxe and to celebrate we’re launching a series of new projects and we wanted to give you an early heads up. We’ve got a new brand identity, a bespoke launch film (the first of five!), a new website, and a brand new London studio. We thought you might be particularly interested in our new studio. It’s a brand new space on Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch, designed in partnership with 44th hill and features bespoke artwork by light artist Andy Doig. Oh YES!!! This has all of my favourite elements in it – funky lighting, reclaimed wood, fun neon signs, and a wee bit of religious kitsch. Sweet office for these creative folks!

Lindsay Coral Harper is an interior designer based in New York City. Fresh, young and modern with a twist on the traditional, Lindsey’s designs radiate bold pattern, texture and color. I really REALLY love this first kitchen. The graphic pattern on the floor is fantastic! Grey, black, white with bits of yellow is a beautiful colour palette. 

P.S. Lindsay’s About page cracked me up – ‘Lindsey currently has clients all over the country and some as far away as London and Montreal‘. It’s a 6-7 hour drive from NYC-Montreal. 🙂

Over the past few weeks I have been dipping in and out of the portfolio of Blakes London for kitchen inspiration. Today I’m back again with a streamlined design that mixes old and new, light and dark all with accents of on trend brass and a touch of retro.

I was going to write about the juxtaposition of the drama of a site and the mundane of everyday living but then I read the architect’s descriprtion and it was just so right…

Holidays beside the waters edge, water skiing and trout fishing, are wonderful memories for families. The bach is a keeper of these memories, which are at stake when work is done to preserve and update it. 

It was a process of saving and improving, of folding in another layer of history in a way that would not obliterate the past. The result is a nest of humble kiwi buildings, some parts new some original, that will now cope admirably with the demands of the future.

Lakeside classic, Tarawera, New Zealand by Mercer and Mercer Architects.

It has been a little while since Jo featured Melbourne architects Nixon Tulloch Fortey so I thought I would do a little update on their stellar designs. They are all about minimal architecture on the inside and maximum impact on the outside. This first kitchen, despite me not usually liking all white kitchens, has me totally drooling. It is just so clean and sleek! I love this firm.