This award-winning show garden by Melbourne-based Alison Douglas Design is just the inspiration I need for that awkward spot at the end of my garden. I just have to explain to my husband why I need to buy a large concrete culvert pipe.
PIPE DREAM is a hidden oasis in our busy city designed as an antidote to our epidemic of being time poor. The meditation moon gate/day bed, reflective water feature and fire pit are all created from concrete pipes. Concrete was chosen as a feature material to reference the ‘concrete jungle’ we inhabit… Pipe Dream is a place to stop, meditate, reflect and breathe. As this is easier said than done one might call it a ‘Pipe Dream’.
I find dark spaces so intriguing, especially while white Scandinavian spaces seem to have been all the rage as of late. Nothing against white, I am just a bit tired of it. I have not regretted painting my living room dark grey (Farrow & Ball’s Down Pipe) and I have plans to darken other spaces around my house. As soon as I get some breakfast in me today, I will be working on painting my bedroom a dark-ish colour – Farrow & Ball’s Mouse’s Back. The 100 m2 apartment of designer Sylvester Kotsolek in Berlin from Architectural Digest Russia caught me eye – because the entire space is black! This is so moody and gorgeous. Kudos to Sylvester for having the guts to go black.
It’s the weekend and instead of spending this glorious summer day at the beach (at least here) some of us have to work. If my office was designed by Ilse Crawford I would probably never want to go home. You’d find me sleeping under my desk every night especially in this first workplace, a British advertising agency in a former 1960s British Rail maintenance depot. The second space is Studioilse‘s own offices. Both with lovely light pouring in through walls of windows and a relaxed, domestic scale.
I will be right here. All weekend long. Except for when painting my bedroom FINALLY. 🙂 Via de-dujes.