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Made up of 90% eco compatible materials on its interiors, this Eco-Luxury House was built by Italian architect Simone Micheli for himself and his family in Florence, Italy. It is an authentic hyperrealist portrait of the “Ethical Luxury” which is one of the main focuses of Micheli daily architectural searching. Micheli thought that luxury is doesn’t mean opulence and redundancy but rather the essentials, ethical gestures contents oriented, free spaces with scattered basic elements. It means creating a building without destroying, creating processes having a strong ethical sense and capable of becoming generators of healthy beauty. Micheli Residence is a dynamic, extremely fresh and vivid intervention taking place in an ancient 1800 setting which has converted these spaces laden with memories into a new environment capable of hosting meaninful fragments connected with a fast and unstoppable metropolitan life.

Micheli Residence luxury Living room design

Below is some resume based on the architects description:
The volumetric development of the living room is triggered from the longitudinal axis to meets a counterpoint, a minor transept in correspondance with the kitchen, a snow white sculpture marked exclusively by the partition of the doors which forms a niche in the added body resulting in dilating space in the dimension perpendicular to the windows. The bookcase with an acid green highlight, the mirror furniture and couches, which look as soft as pink clouds, as well as the back wall lend liveliness to the overall architecture. All along this transveral dilatation glass tables for lunch and work are located together with a screen coming down the ceiling which can visually separate the kitchen from the rest of the environment. This informal crystalline, naive, immaculate, antibourgeois, suspended between minimalism and radical chic is torn by ringing and vivid patches of colours. The plaster of the original 1800 walls was stripped off and they were pickled thus forming a philological contrast with the the new smooth walls. The big size enamelled grès porcelain tiles floor are absolute white, they are as bright as the walls, the surreal ecoleather spherical poufs and the kitchen lacquering, the mirror furniture side surfaces and the bases of the stuffed furniture. The lighting featuring built in adjustable spotlights located in the false ceiling and the lamps with very narrow optics underline and enhance the lyric volumetric and cromatic episodes of this composition.

Micheli Residence luxury Bedroom design

The bedrooms are characterized by extreme whiteness and by essential architectural gestures with the furniture which is composed by few single totemic elements. The double bedroom is suspended between dream and reality where a big blue backlit round mirror flies over the bed like a flying saucer. The bed mattress is supported by a flying carpet which forms the leather upholstered structured headboard with its fold. The white lacquered closet covering the (more…)

According to the UN, by 2050 around 74% of the world’s population is expected to live in an urban environment, this will mean we need to be more space efficient. The fusion of the traditional craftsmanship of RIVA with the innovation and creativity of top designers like Terry Dwan colaborated with SHINE concept appliances from the Electrolux Design Team in Porcia, Italy, resulted this space-saving furniture concept with built-in Electrolux appliances, As a perfect solution. They proves that a streamlined space is easy to achieve with the right tools, with this collection of stylish and space-efficient shelving, cabinets and surfaces for ironing and folding laundry with built-in appliances and sink. The natural, neutral wood finish is simple to suit any style, turning chaos into chic order. This modern essential laundry room furniture is true to the Electrolux design values of simplicity and purity, the concepts are able to be seemlesly integrated within the bathroom.

Laundry room furniture with built-in Electrolux Appliances

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Eurocucina is the International Kitchen Furniture Exhibition event which is organized by Cosmit company Italiano that usually organizes Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile events too. Altogether these exhibitions are called i Saloni; open to trade visitors only, they cover a net display area of over 230,000 square meters at the Milan Fairgrounds in Rho. They have recently hold an Eurocucina 2010 show in Milan and offers very much kitchen design trends 2010 for every visitors inspirations. Eurocucina has an infinite range of ideas and solutions on offer for a space that is becoming more and more of a place for socializing: from classic kitchens to increasingly modern and bespoke kitchens, characterized by variety of lines and materials, from plastic laminates to wood, metal, brick and lacquer. Please take a look for some impressive kitchen design trends 2010 from some inspirative pictures below.

Eurocucina 2010 Glossy Pink Lacquered Kitchen Trends

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This World Yachts Trophies Award winner, a Mikymar Yacth has an interior design made in collaboration with the Salvagni Architects of Rome. This Canados motor Yacth interior has been designed to be flexible, provide transparent walls and sliding electrical doors dividing up the areas without creating closed and completely separate environments. The smart use of light is a significant design choice based on creating no direct light source aboard, with modern furnishing elements to produce a very cool lighting design. The combination of natural and artificial light contributes in creating the desired atmosphere onboard in every occasion by using domotics home automation. The dark wengé flooring runs between the exterior and interior without interruption, while the natural ebony furniture in the saloon consists of a continuous surface as well as the floor, the ceiling and any other furniture pieces.

Luxury Yacth interior living room design

The flybridge, a very large and comfortable living area completely in teak with a transparent rectangular surface looking towards the main deck, is dedicated to life in the open air. Living room features two long C-shaped sofas, positioned facing one other, with dark contrasting bases and snow-white cushions. This elegant combination of colours is further enhanced by square-shaped items of furniture made of teak panels positioned respectively at the beginning of the sofa along the starboard bulwark and at the end of the sofa on the opposite bulwark.

Mikymar Yacth Bedroom Design

The dining room and large galley realised by the Italian Boffi are to the fore of the ladder connecting the lower deck with the main deck and the control bridge. The bathroom consists of (more…)

The Lazy Beds from B&B Italia collection which is designed by Designer Patricia Urquiola has the elements that give the lazy collection its unique character are revisited in the headboard. The Lazy Bed was designed both double and single version. In Double Version, the headboard consists of two independent elements and is softened by cushion that are supported by an elastic strap in a choice of three colours in the same shade as the fabric or leather upholstery, or in a contrasting colour. Adjustable in height, the cushion can be placed in a comfortable position for reading or fo watching TV. Two Tubular metal supports hold up the frame, a Version is available with casters at the rear that make it easy to move. The base frame contains a metal mesh with pre-curved beech wood slats. Please take a look!

Patricia Urquiola Lazy Beds from B&B Italia

Patricia Urquiola Single Lazy Beds

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