Posts Tagged ‘France’
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Sports and Leisure Center in Saint-Cloud by KOZ Architectes, via ArchDaily. Photos by Stephan Lucas. This building, designed for children, is so well thought out it’s worth going to ArchDaily and reading the well-written and slightly franglais rationale.
Excerpts: “The building uses colour very openly and assertively, with a wide palette ranging from red to green, by way of yellow, pink and orange.
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Tags: architecture, cheerful, children, colorful, coloured, colourful, favourite, France, glass, kids, KOZ Architectes, sports, Sports and Leisure Center in Saint-Cloud, Stephan Lucas
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
See a previous post for more information on this famous modernist house by Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray. There has been a lot of concern about the house’s survival, but as these recent photos by my Danish internet friend Vibeke Jakobsen show, it’s safely undergoing restoration. The house looks so much better – compare these to the photos in the previous post.
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Tags: architect, corbusier, E-1027, Eileen Gray, favourite, France, gravestone, house, Irish, memorial, modernism, modernist, neglected, ocean, underrated, unsung, women designers
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
These photos are from an an article by Terence Conran in UK’s Telegraph online, based on his new Eco House Book(Octopus, 2009). This house is completely off the grid, and was built by one man alone over an 18-month period. Its shape mimics traditional Normandy rural architecture and in many ways its living methods are just as traditional; at night it’s lit with storm lanterns.
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Tags: book, country, eco, eco house, ecological, France, French, indoor swing, Normandy, plywood, Sir Terence Conran
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
2thewalls is the closest thing on the internet to the much-missed and now cult-status Nest: Quarterly of Interiors. Finding 2thewalls is a bit like falling down the rabbit hole, and not just because reading it feels like deciphering text printed on a zebra crossing.
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Tags: 2thewalls, Alice in Wonderland, art, Atelier Lalanne, blog, Claude Lalanne, dare, design, desk, escritoire, fantasy, favourite blog, France, Francois-Xavier Lalanne, French, furniture, hippo, historical, history, hybrid, KEEHNAN, Nest Magazine, Nest Quarterly of Interiors, rabbit hole, staircase, stairs, studio, table, unconventional
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
This disassemblable spiral staircase by French industrial designer Roger Tallon is, not surprisingly, in the design collection of the MOMA. It is both ingenious in engineering terms and beautiful. Tallon is one of those prolific and versatile designers responsible for a diverse collection of projects. Among many other things these include the Wimpy chair, cutlery, TVs, sinks, France’s streamlined TVG high speed train, and more recently he was the design director for the Eurostar trains as well.
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Tags: 1964, 60s, assemble, cast aluminum, classic, designer, escalier M400, favourite, France, French, Galerie Sentou, helicoid, industrial design, metal, minimalist, modular, Roger Tallon, silver, simple, spiral staircase, stairs, steel, TGV, Wimpy Chair
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
Various incarnations of the cafe in the Palais de Tokyo art museum in Paris, and its simple but excellent lamp array. A selection of Flickr photos by pavilion tone, Purple Cloud, roryrory, photocapy, and jennylampstand. Michael Lin’s flower floor was recently removed.
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Tags: Add new tag, art, cafe, colour, France, gallery, lamps, lantern, lighting, lights, Michael Lin, mod, modern, museum, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, restaurant, rice paper
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