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26 Mar ’12

Château Baccarat Short Movie Celebrating Its Wine Glass Collection By James Bort

Filed under: Compliments & Accessories — Sahar @ 2:14 pm

Château Baccarat from James Bort Factory on Vimeo.

 

To celebrate the new Château Baccarat oenology wine glass collection, the famed Crystalworks has given photographer and film maker James Bort carte blanche to make a short movie. Filmed at the House of Baccarat in Paris, the video, in the style of a fairy tale, presents the explosion of colours and flavours magnified by the specially-created Château Baccarat stemware.

See the full Château Baccarat collection at baccarat.com
Credits : jamesbort.com

Award Winning DBGB Kitchen And Bar In New York | Restaurant Design

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DBGB is Chef Daniel Boulud’s downtown place where the French brasserie meets the American tavern. The interior, by Thomas Schlesser of the firm Design Bureaux, Inc. ( Winner of Hospitality Design Best Casual Restaurant Design 2010) is inspired by the Bowery neighborhood of lower Manhattan, well-known for its industrial restaurant supply stores. Floor to ceiling shelving stocked with the restaurant’s own tools, tableware and dry goods overlook a partially open kitchen. Metal restaurant-supply-store shelving creates a hide-and-seek effect between banquettes and the dining room, the dining room and the open kitchen.

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24 Mar ’12

Interiors By Kia Designs

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Kia Designs is an award winning, independent Interior Design studio based in London. Many of their projects have gained recognition from various national and international publications as they continue to provide  clients with unique designs which reflect their style and needs.

I found this particular project pretty interesting, very calming with subtle use of design elements and beautiful materials such as signature furniture and fine materials.

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21 Mar ’12

A Church Turned Into A Bookstore | Architecture

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Architecturally, this is a wonder, incorporating a bookstore within a 13th century Dominican cathedral in Maastricth, Holland is just magnificent. Since libraries are supposed to be quiet and serene, this sacred environment provides exactly that. According to MyModernMet, the architects at Merkx + Girod jumped at the opportunity to fuse the old with the new and created a design for Selexyz Dominicanen Maastricht that integrating a thoroughly modern bookstore within the preserved historic structure. The problem lies, however,  in the fact that libraries may soon be a place not many people will want to visit!

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20 Mar ’12

The Assad Furniture Shopping List In Pictures

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Regardless of any political opinions on the  current Syrian conflict, I could not help but be intrigued by the details obtained by The Guardian concerning the believed-to-be private e-mails of Syria’s president Bashar Al Assad and his wife Asma. In a few of these e-mails, their purchases were revealed most of which were home items and high end furniture, I have to complement Mrs. Assad on her taste, her home furnishings were mainly from Baker and Baxter. One question though, was she ordering them for her Syria house or where exactly?!

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19 Mar ’12

Zara Opens Its New Concept In New York | Retail Design

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At one of the world’s prime fashion destinations, Zara launched its new revamped global concept in New York City.
The new Fifth Avenue Zara is the retailer’s largest outlet in the United States, taking over  3,000 square meters spread over three floors. The store will employ around 450 people.

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18 Mar ’12

Tiffany 1837 Collection Made With Signature Metal | Fashion

 

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What a beautiful, seamless, and classy collection. In celebration of their 175th anniversary, Tiffany introduces RUBEDO™ metal, a new Tiffany metal that captures the rose luminescence of a sunrise. Necklace in RUBEDO™ metal and sterling silver inscribed with the signature of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Co. 25" long. Limited edition necklace with signature is available only in 2012.

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16 Mar ’12

Tom Dixon Introduces New Lighting Fixtures

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Milan 2012 will witness the launch of  ‘Luminosity’, a showcase of new lamps, lights and shades presented in a series of illuminated environments, at MOST, a festival of design, innovation and culture to be held at the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.

Luminosity is an exploration of light. On a mission to illuminate and furnish the future, we aim to de-mystify preconceptions of artificial light and to educate people on the future of lighting. New Products introduced by Tom Dixon include:

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Etch Web is a vast 65cm wide shade with an unusual open structure, designed to cast atmospheric angular shadows when lit. An irregular pentagon shape is repeated 60 times across the body to create a total sphere. The enormous globe is astonishingly lightweight, weighing only 980 grams, with a correspondingly ethereal visual attitude. Formed from copper anodized aluminum through a process of digital photo-acid etching, an oversized LED bulb is suspended within the center of Etch Web to make it the ultimate shadow play pendant.

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