Fritz Hansen in Collaboration with Benjamin Hubert Launches the Pair Chair

At the 2016 London Design Festival, Fritz Hansen pre-launches the stackable Pair Chair, marking their first collaboration with Benjamin Hubert, founder of Layer Design Agency. Channeling the furniture company’s signature modern aesthetics, the design is visually bold but is very adaptable to fit into any interior environment. Its suitability for various uses is a result of its precisely refined development, where over 30 prototypes were created over a three-year period.

Christian Andresen, head of design at Fritz Hansen, explains: ‘Benjamin has inspired us by creating something new with a strong emotional story, while still embracing the Fritz Hansen DNA. We have been seeking to expand our contemporary collection to add to our classic collection of stackable chairs, and with the Pair Chair, we hope to meet the demands of the market. Many products can be made in different colors, but very few offer the pair chair’s visual versatility.’

Benjamin Hubert’s Pair Chair builds upon Fritz Hansen’s heritage of pioneering plywood to create fluid furniture forms. The chair pairs a traditional plywood seat shell with an injection-molded polycarbonate backrest, which utilizes a 10% transparency to give itself a glass-like quality. This composition of materials creates an interesting interaction between mid-century and modern design. Its multiple color options for the seat, legs, and backrest – available with or without arms – further strengthens this connection between its core elements, and creates countless color possibilities.

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Albedo Carpets

Hand made wool carpets named for, and inspired by, the polar ice pack Albedo effect by Marek Ranis. Handmade by Tibetan refugees in Katmandu, Nepal. via

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Windowseat Lounge

Suitable for both public and private spaces, the Windowseat is designed as a comfortable refuge from the hustle and bustle of lobbies, airports or busy __home environments. As office spaces shift toward the open plan, it is important to have a place to escape, to think, to make a call, or relax. While sitting in the Windowseat, the ambient noise is actually muffled and a new visual perspective is created, making the chair a multisensory experience.

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Rounded Ceramic Lamps

A recollection of childhood, of good moods belonging to the past, thinking of a reminiscence imprinted in our memory and turn it into a project, into an object, into lighting. That is exactly what Edmondo Testaguzza did while designing Le Trulle: a collection of suspended lamps reminding in their rounded shapes and their whiteness of the famous Apulian Trulli.

Those special houses, able to last keep on striking us, indeed. In a general process of updating and formal design, old architecture structures become furnishing objects reminding of open spaces, summer warmth conveying good sensations of comfort and relax. Soft lines, with no edges at all where the upper part is in natural ceramic and the shade is a metal thread seem to be combined, in order to create an in-built couple willing to offer lighting to welcoming interiors.

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Unique and Fascinating Restaurant Decor

An original Roman ruins site provides the unique and fascinating surrounding for this new concept restaurant located in the historical town of Oderzo, in the Veneto region. Italian dishes cooked on a Teppanyaki by the restaurant’s Michelin starred Chef involve the customers into the cooking experience. Full height laser cut metal screens provide a visually permeable edge to the restaurant. Their changeability can create various spatial configurations and ambiances and the variegated perforated geometry controls the views.

Glazed floor panels expose the roman foundations below and are mirrored by a bespoke light installation ‘The inverted Wave’, The ‘Kaiseki’ table has been designed such that the surface becomes part of the meal experience. Modular metal elements slot into the central section of the table and can be changed very easily numerous times through the course of the meal itself. via

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Emergent Design Studio Add Modernistic Solutions of Glass and Metal at Lightwell House

This light and contemporary interior design of Emergent Design Studio is situated in the historical shell of Victorian Lion House located in Fulham, London, UK. Combining the two epochs in an elegant and unostentatious way is never easy, but the architect’s succeeded by preserving the gorgeous brick constructs and facade and adding modernistic solutions of glass and metal.

The unusual shape of the housing project – long and narrow is enhanced by some clever architectural quirks including; light wells, glass floors, and cantilevered staircases, which provide an abundance of natural light and open spaces across levels, thus creating a flexible and welcoming family __home environment.

The furnishing of the spaces is elegant, minimalistic and modern – using milder colors (late on a crisp white surface) and natural material palate the premises evoke calm and serene sensation. Some hints of bolder colors – yellow, orange or vital green add the charming twist in the open spaces of this contemporary composition.

The elegance of the smooth wooden floors, the gray hues of the modernistic furniture and appliances in the kitchen and the other social living zones are both classic and contemporary. The open spaces and the abundance of light create the tranquility of this __home and together it the art pieces and the designers’ furniture compose a characteristic and classy interior decor.  Photography by NAARO

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Small Brick House by Tropical Space

LT House is a small brick house with a natural and pure beauty, located in a new residential area in Long Thành District, designed by Ho Chi Minh-based architecture firm Tropical Space.

The owner is a newlywed with the desire of having their house. With the limited area, the architects think that the private space should be shared to have more space for the sharing area. The furniture is designed simply and easy to make. To save the cost, the owner has bought the material and make all of them. Therefore, the cost for this part was saved significantly.

The front and back yards are the buffer space to reduce to hot from outside environment. The front yard is a relaxing area such as for morning coffee. This is the place that the wind, sunlight and the shadow of the brick wall meet each other.

The ground floor is a multi-function space. It is used for both to gather friends and for a small coffee shop in the future. The mezzanine is the family space including two bedrooms (one for the couple, one for the baby in the future), kitchen and dining table. This sharing space is designed for the user to feel the direction of the breeze and touch the shadow and sunlight while they move from the ground floor to the stair and this sharing space.

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