Watch Matti Klenell’s lecture live from Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2019

February 6, 2019 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Swedish designer Matti Klenell discusses the design of the new public spaces at Stockholm’s Nationalmuseum during his lecture at the Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2019. Watch the livestream here from 9:00am UK time. The livestream has not started yet. You will be able to watch it here or on Dezeen’s Facebook page from 9:00am

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Agency 59 office by MSDS celebrates “rawness” of historic Toronto car factory

February 5, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Lunch room in Agency 59 by MSDS Studio

MSDS Studio championed the “explicit materiality” of coarse concrete columns and floors when designing the offices for an advertising agency, located inside a former car factory in Toronto. The local studio created the office for Agency 59 in the city’s Tower Automotive Building – a 20th-century production facility for auto parts. Left vacant since 2006, the

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Coppin Dockray mixes contemporary and mid-century in renovation of Jørn Utzon’s Ahm House

February 5, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
Ahm House by Jørn Utzon renovated by Coppin Dockray

A modernist house built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon in Hertfordshire, England, has been given a new life with a renovation by architecture studio Coppin Dockray. Ahm House is the only completed building in the UK by Utzon. It was designed for fellow Dane and friend Povl Ahm, who at the time was part of

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10 restaurants for pigging-out in style during Chinese New Year

February 5, 2019 Dan Howarth 0
Atlas Kitchen by New Practise Studio

To celebrate Chinese New Year and the Year of the Pig, we’ve collected examples of Chinese restaurants with mouth-watering interiors from around the world. Atlas Kitchen by New Practice Studio New York firm New Practice Studio designed this restaurant in Manhattan with natural hues, and quirky illustrations on the walls by artist Qiu Anxiong. Located

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A Little Design creates 17.6-square-metre micro flat in Taiwan

February 5, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Tiny apartment by A Little Design

Taiwanese studio A Little Design has converted a former piano studio in Taipei, Taiwan into a tiny apartment with built-in, space-saving furniture. Formerly a piano studio, the apartment measures just 17.6 square metres and has a ceiling height of 3.4 metres. A concrete beam that runs widthways through the apartment further restricts the amount of

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Grzywinski + Pons transforms 19th-century cotton mill into Whitworth Locke hotel

February 4, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of Whitworth Locke Manchester hotel, designed by Grzywinski + Pons

New York-based practice Grzywinski + Pons looks to overcast skies and industrial posters from the 1800s to design the interiors of this hotel in Manchester, England. Whitworth Locke hotel is situated in Manchester’s civic quarter and occupies a trio of 19th-century buildings that back onto the city’s Rochdale Canal. The three connected buildings – previously

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Asketik creates stark white coffee shop in Soviet silk factory

February 3, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Bloom-n-Brew cafe in Moscow by Asketik

Russian studio Asketik has designed a cafe with bright white interiors in Moscow, offset with many indoor plants to soften the industrial space. Bloom-n-Brew occupies a former Soviet silk factory overhauled by Asketik, which also led the branding design, including a new logo and menu with a type-based graphic. The cafe’s name refers to the fragrant smell that is

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