Chairs

This modern chair is something new with both shape and color. The chair is a seamless design created out of one molded piece of metal. The shape is something I have never seen before in a chair with an open back and just one leg for balance sticking out vertically from the back. The chair sits relatively low to the ground as there are no front legs to the chair. My favorite part of this chair is the lime green color.

Agassi Graf designed this patio chair for the Kreiss furniture company. The chair has a beanbag shape but is made out of a weaved steel wire. This gives the chair a very light feel because you can see through it. The white cushions give the chair some substance to counter the weightlessness of its form.

More Interiors

This is a neo-classical styled library in a home in Long Island, New York designed by Thomas Britt. The space immediately caught my eye because of the unique use of color. I have yet to decide whether I like it or not. The majority of the furniture is red and white while the walls are yellow and the ceiling is blue. I am not so sure that a library with such bright colors would allow for very much concentration on the books. However I do love the spiral stairs and the cat walk, as that would be included in my ideal library if I were to design one.

This bathroom designed by David Ling has a very rustic but modern feel. I love the simple look of the white walls, the weathered wood ceiling and the stone tiles of the bathtub. I think it is very difficult to incorporate both a modern and an antique look in a space, but it is successful here. I love the exposed sink plumbing, as it gives the space a more deconstructed look. The open shower only divided from the room by a piece of glass also ties into the deconstruction theme. I also found it interesting the way the designer made the walls be cut off at the top so that they don't reach all the way to the ceiling. This I think brings focus to the weathered ceiling and gives the room a more modern look.

This is the home of a man from Boston in Northern Thailand. There is obvious influence from nature as there are three walls exposed to the gardens and there are many artifacts such as the elephant statues from Thailand. The room is very symmetrical with the bed centered in the room and the door in the center of the wall behind that. I love the matching wooden statues that look like abstract cranes that seem to frame the room and give height to the space. The colors used in this bedroom are also very nice with the natural dark wood on the trim and ceiling, as well as the pumpkin orange color on the far wall of the space. The pop of blue in the center of the room on the pillows is nice as it is unexpected.

At first glance, I thought I didn't like this room because of its rich, southern parlor feel. But then when I looked at it the second time I realized how inviting it appeared. The butter yellow on the walls is a very warm color. It makes you want to come into the room, sit down on the couch, and read a book. The floral patterns on the rug, couch and the chair, seem to work together as they are all different sized florals, so they are not as overwhelming. I also have a big soft spot of this kind of design, as it is very similar to how my grandmother designed her home.

This Manhattan penthouse is very glamorous with its metallic grand piano, velvet floor length curtains and high barrel-vaulted ceilings. I personally do not like this design because it makes me feel like I shouldn't touch anything, as if it were a museum. A person's home should be a place that they are comfortable in and are free to live and interact with the space. One thing that I do like about the space is the monochromatic color scheme. I think sometimes monochromatic looks overdone, but here it works because the designer has used different shades of a rosey neutral mixed with the off-white and metallic silver. It has a lot more dimension than many monochromatic rooms I have seen.

This is the interior of an African Lodge in Kenya. I loved the openness of the room with one whole wall being glass covered by long sheer curtains. It allows the focus of the room be the exterior landscape of Kenya. The room itself is very natural, again reflecting the outdoors, by using woodfloors and wood beams for the roof and walls. The furniture is very simplistic and very neutral, encouraging the vistors to admire the landscape through the window.

Verner Panton

Verner Panton was a very unique and influential designer from Denmark. Although having passed in 1998 his work is still in production as its popularity never died. His work all looks like it is from the sixties yet still works today with an oddly modern feel.

This design called "The Living Tower" is a unique design as it is a piece of furniture that allows different people the opportunity to use the piece in different ways. One person may want to lay down while the other wants to sit. It allows for many different sitting positions yet it does not take up a lot of floor space because it is a sort of tower. It reminds me of a cat condo. I love this piece and could imagine enjoying it in my own home.

This "Moon Lamp" from 1960 was a surprise for me to find on Panton's website. I have seen this design before and liked it, not knowing who had designed it. This particular lamp is versatile because you can move the curved pieces to create the shape you are looking for and can even expose the bulb for more light. The Moon Lamp reminded me of Christyn's time capsule that she presented on Friday.
Verner Panton's interior designs are just as unique as his furniture. In all of the interiors that I looked at by Panton there are lots of bright colors and it is a focal point of each room. This is a picture of the Varna Restaurant made in 1970 in Denmark.

O'Herlihy Architects

I loved this architecture firm's website because of its use of a periodic table of elements theme. They have replaced the elements with the firm's projects and making them links. One section of the links shows the different awards their buildings have won and then when an award is selected it highlights the buildings that have won that award. I think it organizes the website very well and also gives it something extra. I also love that a key is included, showing what each denotion on the table means, just like how the actual periodic table would. O'Herlihy Architect's website is one of my favorites that I've seen because the theme is so unique and unexpected for an architecture firms website yet it also maintains functionality.

Little Architects

I discovered Little Architects when I began looking for internship opportunities for my senior project last year. I was immediately impressed by their website design. The homepage consists of a large panoramic picture of one of their projects along with a short clip of text about the project and then a link to a longer text fully explaining the project. The homepage features 4 projects of which they change frequently to display the most recent. Then looking through the links listed at the top of the homepage, the way the viewer is able to navigate through the pictures and the different places they have designed is very easy and well designed. Overall, I loved the simpilicity of the site, putting the focus on the large pictures, which is where the focus should be for an architectural firm.