Interior Design Ideas, Modern Furniture Design

The latest Herbst Architects project, in their series of baches (small holiday retreats) on Great Barrier Island continues to explore the relationship of the building to the natural environment. Their ability to perfectly nestle a house into its environment and leverage the site’s natural assets is amazing. As their bevy of Great Barrier Island houses grows, they have created a new vernacular, of lightweight raw wood and gabions from local stones.

Arup and Sky-Gardens have launched Pocket Habitat, the only modular planting system actively designed to promote biodiversity on new or existing roofs, or provide temporary greening at ground level. Each module is a stand-alone unit made from environmentally friendly material and containing recycled substrates and wildflower seeds. They link together to form a continuous vegetated surface, which may be moved when required.

A Dutch designer Geert Koster has designed a steel garden lamp for Italian company Metalarte, white satin that blurs the boundaries between interior design and exterior.

Set in the harsh and austere landscape, the house shining in his traditional white greek.  The volumes that we could almost be called the rationalist architecture already put in place, in fact, the pleasant suspicion of anything unusual. We are at Antiparos, a small Cycladic island of Paros in front. On top of a hill, the house designed by architects Deca, of Athens, overlooking a panorama of rock and sea and is … dominated.

In art as in cooking, furnishing as achieving their famous jewels, Gerda and Nikolai Monies put creativity first. So in the beach house that blends ancient, ethnic and contemporary, many pieces are in “xl” because everyone, including guests, will feel truly free.