Trevose Harbour House

Room divider for the recently opened Trevose Harbour House in St.Ives, separating the breakfast area from the snug. The owners have a healthy amount of mid century modern classics and I made this piece to fall in with the style. It all looks amazing, some of the views are stunning and the owners (Angela & Olivier) have put their heart and soul into Trevose, so its well worth a stay if you are in the area. They are also opening the terrace cafe soon.

EMF

Projecte de restauració del paratge de Tudela-Culip (Club Med) al Parc Natural del Cap de Creus from ielei on Vimeo.
The story goes, Old Club Med resort in Spain gets reclaimed to protected park status and has to be demolished. Cue landscape architects EMF to re-integrate the complex to nature.
It's quite interesting, leaving traces of DNA, but I wonder why the reaction was to leave this evidence and not do something completely new?  I guess reinstating the natural environment is unusual, and maybe EMF felt it was important to know that it happened, and this is why the work nods at the history of the site.

The Floating Church

Apologies, this is really doing the rounds on the web..... but.... it is an interesting image. The mad thing is that church is still in its exact original position, everything else has been excavated to make room for a 2 storey basement extension.

Oscar Tusquets Blanca

No flashing 'Les Miserables' advertising and overly bright strip lighting here, with Oscar Tusquets Blanca's effervescent and jubilant re-imaging of Toledo Metro station in Napoli. What an agreeable sight to start you commute to work.

Havelock Walk

Its Open Studios @ Havelock Walk this weekend. Art, architecture, design (and knowing that lot, probably a big fire in the evening!) 

Good luck with it guys.

Martin Boyce

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (NYC) presents Martin Boyce.

"But this passageway has neither entrance or exit...." Haruki Murakami.

"Through a series of architectural interventions - free standing windows and hanging lanterns - Boyce transforms the space into an immersive and dream-like landscape."

Where shall I lead you today? .........I know, 1920's Americana, and the release of two gems from the period. The wonderfully named Imaginational Anthem Vol.6  and the lighter, fiddle and banjo of Charlie Poole and the Highlanders. If you want to escape to another place, these will definitely work.

Richard Bottwin

Richard Bottwin - "A sense of disorientation, implied weightlessness and the element of surprise are created by the reductive forms and subvert the modernist vocabulary of the simple constructions."

Kundera Chair

In my (humble) opinion, Kundera, by gud conspiracy is so much more successful, pleasing and well crafted than Konstantin Grcic's Medici Chair, which won the recent big Design Museum prize for 2013.
Rem Koolhaas OMA  is currently reinventing the Old Commonwealth Institute building for the upcoming Design Museum move, which is very exciting. But I really hope the curators pull their socks up regarding the stuff they are going to put in it, as this years awards are a joke.
Swiftly moving on, and back to Kundera, I really like the precision, its lean but healthy, the seat is slightly over-pitched (in a good way) and there is a real honest symbiosis between form and construction.

Liliana Ovalle

Some interesting suff from Liliana Ovalle. Particularly fond of the tables which are counter balanced with hand carved soap-stones, like glorified Stage-weights.

Thomas Kral

Good use of a trough by Thomas Kral with his Homework desk.