Bills Shichirigahama
Chef Bill Granger brings his famously laidback Sydney brunch scene to Japan.
This is post by David Report contributor Kristina Dryza.
Andra bloggar om: australien, café, restaurang, design, inredning, japan
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The Olde Bell Inn
The essence of what Ilse Crawford and her Studioilse does is identity. They create the the big idea behind a brand its emotional values, and then make them visible and tangible through design.
The Olde Bell Inn encompasses a 16th century Tudor barn for big parties, a Malt House for medium gathering and dining rooms for a dozen or more, with parts of the building dating back to 1135.
Now The Olde Bell Inn has been gently transformed and is the first in a family of modern coaching Inns. Using locally sourced food cooked simply; eating drinking and lodgings. Ilse’s line is ‘Local chairs, local cheese’. 25 minutes drive from Heathrow and within hour of central London. You can say that Ilse is re-inventing the traditional English Inn.
Andra bloggar om: hotell, ilse crawford, design, inredning, möbler, england
White Beach Hotel in Shimoda
There are more ways of escaping from hassle and bustle of Tokyo than ski weekends and an occasional trip to hot springs. 2.5 hours on the train from Tokyo and you are in Southern Izu, a place famous for its nature, onsens and, of course, beautiful white beaches with clear blue water and waves perfect for surfing. The White Beach is located 30 seconds away from Ohama beach, Shimoda, one of the most beautiful and picturesque beaches in Japan. Being the closest place to the beach the Clubhouse at White Beach takes care of all your needs from after-beach shower or cocktail to a fresh expresso or great meal any time of the day.
The renovated White Beach was re-opened on 14th June 2008 and the owners hope to bring back to Shimoda the optimism of the 1970’s when this hotel was built and share this Clubhouse and Hotel with everyone.
At White Beach each room has a different and unique feel. During the recent renovation of the hotel they decided to keep the period 1970’s wallpaper as each room has a different pattern - sometimes with contrasting prints on the wall and ceiling! The papers range from traditional bamboo thru stone, brick, leather, travertine, regency flock to a majestic rose print on wall and ceiling. Why don’t you try to match the room and it’s individual wallpaper to the mood of your visit!
You can also join White beach on Facebook here.
Andra bloggar om: hotell, semester, japan, resa, strand
Categories: Architecture, Design
Interview with Hussein Chalayan
Here’s an interesting interview with fashion designer and artist Hussein Chalayan about the Level Vodka tunnel that he has designed.
Andra bloggar om: reklam, marknadsföring, vodka, hussein chalayan, varumärke
Shaw + Smith wine tasting experience
Contemporary design drives the Shaw + Smith wine tasting experience.
This is post by David Report contributor Kristina Dryza.
Andra bloggar om: vin, vingård, arkitektur, design, provsmakning
The Level vodka tunnel
Level Vodka invited star fashion designer and artist Hussein Chalayan to create a pioneering work of art with a focus on taste. He was given completely free rein. The result is The Level Tunnel – a 15 meters long and 5 meters high travelling installation that captures the essence of Level Vodka. But the road leading there was anything but straight. Follow The Level Tunnel Team’s blog on the daily twists and turns of this spectacular project (the blog will only be updated during the tunnel events).
After the premiere in Mexico, The Level Tunnel will continue to Athens and Paris. It will visit each city for 1-2 weeks and is partly open to the general public. The visitors will experience the taste of Level Vodka with all their senses but one - sight. They wander blindfolded through the tunnel as they hear music from flutes made out of Level bottles, inhale scents of the super premium vodka, and are enclosed by the soft leather of the railing. And when they climb out, it all ends with a tasting event.
Andra bloggar om: level vodka, hussein chalayan, reklam, marknadsföring, kreativitet
Aesop by Studioilse
Studioilse’s design of the Aesop shop translates the company values through a loving restoration of the historic fabric, paired with modern and clean interventions. As in all her work Ilse Crawford with her Studioilse has added a lot of emotions to the interior. Simple and modern design.
A central ceramic sink to emphasise the ritual of cleansing.
Brass - the material of Mount st.
Fit for Mount st: a gentleman’s armchair tailored in tweed.
Original pitch pine floor - “poor man’s parquet”.
Andra bloggar om: design, arkitektur, ilse crawford, inredning, skönhet
The Ace Hotel Portland
The Ace hotel Portland: what a boutique hotel should look and feel like.
This is post by David Report contributor Kristina Dryza.
Andra bloggar om: hotell, resa, foto, design, inredning, portland
Inspiration, people, products
OPENnetwork is a tool for the creative industry by Danish Lynfbrikken. It’s all about inspiration, people and products. It’s a Panel-based rendering engine allowing mixing and comparison of multi-section content side-by-side as the basic information architecture - keeping the “let me quickly see what’s here” functionality from the old site, but greatly enhancing it’s potential. You can easily create collections of your favourites
The “Inspiration” section is populated by content gathered through numerous RSS feeds. Various workflows based on Yahoo Pipes (among others) are used to pull hard to get content, like Flickr Sets. Keeping the content sources for the “Inspiration” section strictly remote, allowed the developers to tap into the multitude of (mostly) freely available tools developed to manage the publication of online content - providing the users of OPENnetwork with a flexible and ever increasing platform of tools, like mobile-blogging, and the availability of highly personalized workflows for content publication. Making OPENnetwork exist as a node in a network rather than yet another self centered hub.
Of the numerous innovative features of the site, the ability to save a given selection of panels into a Collection (available as a RSS feed, permalink-able and print-able) makes it possible for users to create design Issues of their own. Products can be compared and saved as share-able inspiration or shopping lists, News articles can be referenced side by side and Persons can be located and recommended.
Andra bloggar om: internet, inspiration, design, arkitektur
Swedish prefab house
Plus House is a pre-fab two-storey house by Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune. It has generic proportions of a traditional Swedish barn house. Instead of windows positioned like regular “holes” along the walls, entire sides are glazed. On the entrance floor both long walls are glazed. On the upper floor the gable ends are glazed. Seen in plan, these two lines of vision straight through the building are perpendicular like a plus sign.
This is the first house Claesson Koivisto Rune has designed for pre-fab manufacturer Arkitekthus. This particular one is placed in Tyresö, outside Stockholm in Sweden.
Andra bloggar om: arkitektur, hus, boende, claesson koivisto rune, arkitekthus
