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Modern Circular Carpeting!

NTERIORdesigner — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:32:09 +0000

I fell in love today. This Atlas Carpet Mills’ carpet has an enormous effect on a modern interior! The Contour’s concentric waves span 14″ circles across the floor. Like carvings, the ripples add subtle art to any room. The colors are just as lovely as the form: the two-tone colorways create a slight holographic effect. The predominant color seen depends on the your lighting and viewing location.

The colors, shadows and tactile curves of this carpet literally made my day! My feet would happily wake up to the Contour carpet for years on end.

Chiyogami Home on AvaLiving.com

NTERIORdesigner — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:29:12 +0000

Susan Diana Harris on AvaLiving - January 2010

Susan Diana Harris Interior Design’s “Chiyogami Modern” is featured again this week on AvaLiving.com!

Looking for artwork to compliment our chiyogami-influenced theme, we quickly fell in love with “Fluke the Mutant Cardinal” (below). This collage is one of many by Chelsea Groves who laces her artwork with the Japanese papers. Fluke’s salmon, aqua, cinnamon and tangerine hues now envelop the entire three bedroom home in Mountain View, California.

Fluke the Mutant Cardinal by ChelseArt

Not only are the walls swathed with color, but the details offer opportunities to play with the palette. Chiyogami papers wrap wall plates and peek through glass cabinet knobs. The handiwork of the beautiful wall plates? None other than the clients themselves!

Chiyogami Wall Plate

See more of this project at SusanDianaHarris.com. Find the San Francisco Bay Area artist’s work at ChelseArt as under “BirdNerd” on Etsy.com.

Modern Mobiles

NTERIORdesigner — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:53:24 +0000

For those of you with tall ceilings, please fill the space with art! Here are three modern mobiles:

Photo by oneblackbird - Glowbowls

San Francisco’s own Diana Fayt offers light with her “glowbowls” (above). Gorgeous unglazed bowls add form to your home by day. The bowls’ glazed interiors house votives to add movement and light by night. Strands of 5, 7 and 9 are common. Custom lengths are available to fill your loft! Find them at Etsy.com.

Photo by Puka Puka - Sea String Mobile

Puka Puka of Sydney, Australia brings us colorful, graphic mobiles made of polypropylene. The Sea String Mobile (above) exemplifies Nina Still’s playful, organic shapes and color combinations. Find her work at Etsy.com.

Photo by Julie Frith - Cirqus Mobile

Finally, Julie Frith of Eureka, California offers an understated focal point for minimalist homes: Cirqus. This is one of her “Foamobiles” made of EVA Foam. Don’t want black? Choose from thirtyone colors!

My, Roo and Flower

NTERIORdesigner — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:39:06 +0000

A bean bag designed in Finland? That’s a recipe for well-designed comfort! Woodnotes’ low, frameless seating is wrapped in a slip cover made of sand paper yarn fabric. The company says that My, the chair, and Roo, the chaise are “dustless and antistatic.” These features, along with stunning design, just may bring low, soft, casual seating back to allergy-sufferers.

Woodnotes also brings us Flower, one of two beautiful, curtain-like design solutions made of nearly indestructable Tyvek®!

Via materialicious.com

Wind Portal at SFO Bart Station

NTERIORdesigner — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:59:56 +0000

SFO Wind Portal (Photo: Derek Gurney)

I would love to thank Paul Woolford and Ned Kahn for the hundreds of thousands of sequin-like discs that welcome everyone to San Francisco. The 12-feet deep, 2-feet thick kinetic sculpture called the “Wind Portal” stops my heart everytime I find myself lucky enough to experience it. Located at San Francisco Airport and SFO BART Station, the discs lap over one another 24 hours a day with help from the station’s train- and plane-induced wind.

This is only one of many life-size installations by Mr. Kahn. His art “incorporate[s] flowing water, fog, sand and light to create complex and continually changing systems.”

View a video from Ned Kahn’s website here.

Photo by Derek Gurney.
Via Construction Online.

Constellation: LED Chandelier

NTERIORdesigner — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:24:36 +0000

Constellation

Like sparklers frozen in time, S tudio 1Thousand’s Constellation LED chandelier is a glowing representation of its inspiration: Queen Anne’s lace. This simple, yet elegant and heart-warming chandelier uses the electricity of a 20-watt light bulb to power 364 LEDs.

In an interview with The Modern Materialist, the designer laments that current designs often “engage people on a brain level” rather than “at the heart level.” This lighting, however, would certainly stop the hearts of many a dinner guest!

Via The Modern Materialist & Inhabitat

International Communication through Art

NTERIORdesigner — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:52:18 +0000

Passage for Peace

Reach out and touch someone with gestural interconnectivity! San Francisco’s Knoend and Pocobor make this happen through a wireless sculpture called ‘Passage for Peace’ – yet another outstanding exhibit at Milan’s Salone Satellite 2009.

Placed in two cities, the glass and metal columns allow people to “physically see, hear, and feel someone else across the world,” says Ivy Chuang of Knoend.

Each column is set to play a specific octave and when harmonious chords play, light moves through all 12 columns – in both cities!

View the concept drawings and details at www.passageforpeace.org.