I’m focusing on the pretty in the kitchen. Just out of the view of the camera is a gross stack of dirty, un-rinsed, stinky dishes.
This is the subtle art of vignettes.
They are just one small part of the story, but can still stand alone.
And the beauty is if we can take the time to adjust our focus, vignettes are our best friend in our hunt for beauty.
Have you seen the vignette option in instagram? It darkens up the edges of the photo to help set the focus on a smaller part of the picture. Thank you vignettes.
*when I put this photo on instagram I had lots of question about the little wooden scrub brush, I found it at world market, here’s a similar one on Amazon, I also love this ring version. More details about our kitchen are here.
News: Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster have been selected to design high-rise hotels in China for Jumeirah Group.
The hotel company, which forms part of investment group Dubai Holding, chose London architecture firms Zaha Hadid Architects and Foster + Partners to design two of three new resorts proposed in Nanjing, Wuhan and Haikou.
Related story: Foster and Heatherwick team up on Shanghai finance centre
Hadid’s design for the 250-room Jumeirah Nanjing hotel takes the form of two curving towers accompanied by a third low-rise structure.
Located in the Hexi business district, the complex will include a business conference centre, a fitness suite, an indoor swimming pool and a ballroom, and is set for completion in 2016.
Main image: Jumeirah Nanjing by Zaha Hadid Architects. This image: Jumeirah Wuhan by Foster + Partners
Over in Wuhan, Foster’s firm has designed a mixed-use city-centre development just outside the Hankou business district. As well as a 200-room luxury hotel, Jumeirah Wuhan will comprise offices, shops and apartments, all scheduled to open in 2020.
The third new resort, Jumeirah Haikou, will boast a 140-room hotel and 60 private villas on a 136-hectare private island in Hainan Province.
With a setting described by Jumeirah Group as the “Hawaii of China”, the complex will feature buildings designed by Kuala Lumpur-based hotel specialist Denniston International and a golf course by American designer Tom Doak.
Jumeirah Haikou by Denniston International
The three hotel developments will join Jumeirah’s growing international portfolio, which currently includes 22 resorts in the Middle East, Europe and Asia.
Company president and CEO Gerald Lawless said China was “a significant market for Jumeirah”.
“We are honoured to have been asked to operate these three new hotels in key cities, bringing our pipeline of new properties in China to eight, in addition to Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel in Shanghai,” he said, referring to a hotel completed in 2011 by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.
Dutch Design Week 2014: Dutch designer Roderick Vos has created a collection of tables and benches using structural supports with H-shaped profiles, more commonly found in architecture .
Designed by Roderick Vos for Dutch furniture brand Spoinq, items in the Blakeley collection are constructed from H-beams – also known as a Rolled Steel Joists (RSJs).
The steel beams are cut to length using computer numerically controlled (CNC) cutting technology and welded together into a choice of base configurations.
Related story: Piet Hein Eek and Roderick Vos collaborate with disadvantaged makers for Social Label initiative
Wooden slats are then glued together to form the tabletops, and joined to the bases with eight-millimetre bolts.
“It is a very low-tech table,” Vos told Dezeen. “I tried to make an elegant, refined-looking table, but at the same time focused on simple manufacturing processes.”
“The constructivist approach to product design has always appealed to me. I have always had a certain fascination for the H-beam. Of course it is mainly used in architecture, but one can use this steel beam very well for other purposes like the construction of a table base.”
The collection includes three bases, available in a wide range of colours, and 100-centimetre-wide tabletops in a choice of oak, ash or walnut and 200, 225 or 250 centimetre lengths.
“We focused on creating an alphabet of different table bases that we could mount the three existing tabletops onto,” said the designer. “The simplicity of the construction and the details has given these designs, unexpectedly, an almost Japanese touch.”
A range of similarly designed benches completes the range. “When the tables were realised, it was obvious that we had to include three benches in the same handwriting,” said Vos.
“I hope they will be loved by young and old – the simplification of a design gives the product a longer life span.”
Studio Roderick Vos launches the Blakeley collection at Eindhoven’s Dutch Design Week, which continues until 26 October.
Tim Defleur, jeune designer français revient sur BED pour nous présenter sa dernière création baptisée Séparation(s), véritable jeu de rideaux ajourés organiseurs d’espaces.
«À l’heure où les espaces de vie sont de plus en plus restreints, où l’on cherche à recréer des espaces plus intimes après la tendance de l’open space, où de nouvelles nécessités engendre de nouvelles fonctions dans l’habitat comme par exemple le télétravail, SÉPARATION(S) permet de délimiter des zones tout en laissant circuler la lumière et sans gêner la perspective. Une séparation translucide donc composée d’un grillage plastique de carrés de 5mm, qui est disponible en 3 largeurs : 1.5m, 1m et 0,5m. Pour une longueur qui sera à déterminer par l’utilisateur en fonction de sa destination.
Avec ou sans dégradé, SÉPARATION(S) donne de la hauteur aux pièces en jouant sur les rythmes verticaux et la superposition de layers. La baguette de finition haute – fixée dès l’achat – permet la fixation simple et rapide au support : mur, plafond ou autre.«
Entre rideaux et paravents suspendus grillagés en dégradés de couleur vous permettrons de diviser un espace tout en laissant passer la lumière, le jeu de superposition et perspective isoleront des zones de travail tout en valorisant celles de détentes. Il sera possible de découper à souhait ces rideaux pour des échanges plus directs entre collaborateurs.
De quoi vous épargner la vision dérangeante de certains collègues…
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Main image: Jumeirah Nanjing by Zaha Hadid Architects. This image: Jumeirah Wuhan by Foster + Partners
Jumeirah Haikou by Denniston International
