* Design: Guinness Deep-Sea Bar by Jump Studios

Design: Guinness Deep-Sea Bar by Jump Studios: “..Jump Studios, recently completed the interior of a submarine for the first ever Guinness deep-sea bar, which recently plunged the depths of the Baltic in the Stockholm Archipelago. Jump was asked to create an interior for the vessel (fitting a space approximately 11m2) that reflected the Guinness brand statement ‘Alive Inside’. And the solution was a fluid concept, constructed from GRP (glass reinforced plastic), that captures the feeling of being ‘immersed in a dynamic, flowing experience’..”  Yes, a bar, and, yes, inside a submarine..more images in main article (click on the above image)..

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image: Courtesy of Jump Studios; article: Furuto , Alison . “Guinness Deep-Sea Bar / Jump Studios” 13 May 2012. ArchDaily. <http://www.archdaily.com/233240>

* Residential Architecture: Capital Hill Residence by Zaha Hadid Architects

Residential Architecture: Capital Hill Residence by Zaha Hadid Architects: “..The project is located on the north-face hillside..where natural vegetation such as pine and birch trees grow up to 20m high. Within this stunning location the programme of the villa is divided into two main components. The first one is strategically placed to be merged with the sloped landscape, while a separate volume fl oats, 22 meters above the ground to benefit from the dynamic views of the Barvikha forest over the trees. The form for the villa comes from the natural topography. With its fluid geometries, the building emerges from the landscape, remaining partially embedded in the hillside, in order to articulate the existing surroundings with the artificial landscape. The program is organized vertically on four levels..”  Futurist, opulent, strange..interior design by Candy & Candy Ltd..

See our posts on other work by Zaha Hadid Architects: Architecture: London Aquatics Centre for 2012 Summer Olympics by Zaha Hadid Architects, Architecture: Bogota International Convention Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects, Architecture + Design: Mesa Table by Zaha Hadid Architects and Architecture: Guangzhou Opera House by Zaha Hadid Architects.

image: Courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects; article: Arthitectural

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Residential Architecture: D House by Panorama

Residential Architecture: D House by Panorama: “..The first floor plan is rotated 45 degrees in relation to the ground floor, creating a double-height space over the kitchen/dining area..”  Superb.  Views, exterior texture and geometrical sense, interiors..

image + article: Dezeen

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Part 2: Milan Design Week Wrap-Up – Highlights of Salone del Mobile Milan 2011

Entre Deux screen, by Konstantin Grcic for Azucena, has two curved, hinged panels of anodized aluminum.

image: Mattia Zoppellaro/The New York Times

Pilar Viladas has written Part 2 of her Salone del Mobile (Milan Design Week, or Milan Furniture Fair to some) wrap-up, entitled, hardly coincidentally, “Milan Report | The Wrap-Up, Part II” in the T-Magazine (or is it The Moment?) section of The New York Times, highlighting some of (t)he(i)r favorites from this year’s outstanding, vast, offering.  Among those favorites you’ll see, in the fine photos by Mattia Zoppellaro and others, Konstantin Grcic‘s discretely paranthetic folding screen, Entre Deux, above,  Maria Volokhova‘s slightly disturbing Dolci Lacrime teapot, the seemingly beribboned Plaid Bench series by Raw-Edges, below, and others.

Plaid Bench series by Raw-Edges, shown at Dilmos, is made of interlocking benches in different colors

image: Martino Lombezzi/The New York Times

 See our previous post on the first part of the wrap-up of Milan Design Week by Pilar Viladas, here.

And all our previous coverage of Salone del Mobile 2011 Milan, including interviews, photo essays, articles, videos and more on Facebook, here.

 

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Charlotte Perriand – Wonderful Exhibition of Furniture, Photograpy & Art

Charlotte Perriand, “Fauteuil pivotant” (Pivoting Armchair), original design 1927, © 2010, ProLitteris, Zurich manufacturer: Cassina 1978

image: Nicola Zocchi/Dezeen

The design blog Dezeen has published a very nice post on the exhibition of furniture, photography and artworks by pioneering Modernist designer Charlotte Perriand at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (The Museum for Design) in Zurich, Switzerland. Though one is, of course, already more than familiar with Perriand’s marvelous work, this exhibition offers an even more vibrant homage to this very dynamic, creative designer and artist.  Exhibition through 24 October 2010.

As the Museum for Design puts it:

“Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999), one of the most innovative interior and furniture designers of the 20th century, did not only strive towards a change in forms but also towards an improvement in social conditions. After the tubular steel furniture, which she developed particularly in partnership with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, she preferred the natural material of wood with its free forms. At the same time her photography, which she approached in a radically modern way, became an impulse for her work. There followed grand stagings of magical objects found on beaches or in junkyards. Charlotte Perriand shared this interest for the poetry of “Art Brut” with Pierre Jeanneret and Fernand Léger, with whom she repeatedly worked. The opening of the archive now provides a longoverdue opportunity to rediscover this important pioneer as a furniture designer, as a photographer and—with her reconstructed large-format collages—as a socially committed woman.”

Clearly a must-see.

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