While in recent years tiling mainly produced icy surfaces hiding the material depth, Pico focuses on revealing the matter as a substance itself – the compressed sand and minerals that constitute ceramic tiles.
The Front Room of St Martins Lane’s hotel is a dynamic retail space. This time it will be converted by Elips Design into an idyllic Italian beach, complete with traditional decking, coloured beach cabins, sun umbrellas, chairs and tables. The customers will be transported to the Mediterranean in the heart of London’s bustling centre enjoying their gelato Dri Dri.
Amsterdam studio Sander Architecten designed cardboard meeting rooms inside a bank in the Netherlands. Giant cylinders of cardboard and paper enclose meeting rooms inside the headquarters for financial services advisor Rabobank.
SOFTlab designed a creative space for product design company Blue Marlin in 2009. The space featured a circle packed wall made of paper tubes, custom tables, custom lighting, and a flexible felt wall system.
A new limited edition collection from IKEA, with vintage Turkish carpets. For sale in October! This consists of pillows and rugs made partly of old Turkish wool carpets and new fabrics, and although this is no way something unique – this idea comes in many styles and from many providers – but the result is really successful!
