Great Interior Design

We recently received a striking apartment design from Christian Di Nicuolo and Simone Dalmasso. This beautiful and eccentric apartment is located somewhere in Cuneo, Italy. It was a complex project that involved the restoration of an attic situated in the historic center of the city of Cuneo, in Italy. The designers decided to make the most of the space they had available and they ended up by rethinking the whole structure of this place. The transformation was spectacular. Not only that the attic is now more modern but it’s also completely different from what it used to be before the restoration. The whole project is very light and bright. (more…)

Ron Arad Architects have perfectly completed the 2 years redesign project (2004-2006) for a luxury hotel named The Duomo Hotel, situated in the Emilia-Romagna area in the historic centre of Rimini, Italy. A city famous for its cultural, gastronomical and amazing night life, that’s why the clients Pierpaolo Bernardi want to address the changing demand in the area and attract a younger clientele. Designer’s Ron Arad Associates have integrated the original façade into the interior by wrapping it all in new “skin” which successful means its way into the building and forms the back wall of the bar. The bar itself is a large island construction with fjord-like recesses for dining; the material used is polished stainless steel, creating distorted reflections which highlight the activity in the bar. The entrance to the hotel is through giant pin-ball-flipper-like doors framing the view to the reception desk which becomes the focal point of the hotel. Shelves are imbedded into the ring expressing the horizontal topography of the desk. The 43 bedrooms and suites of this Hotel are uniquely designed with individually formed bathroom “pods” forming the backdrop to the sleeping area. Each pod is a wet room with a teak slatted timber floor and has a large circular glazed window which lets natural light into the space, the exterior of which forms the bed head. Through a careful choice of materials and attention to detail, from the door handles to custom designed furniture, the hotel accomodation was combines an unconventional and exciting design.

Cool Rounded Lobby Reception desk

Hotel Suite Sleeping area with Corian Bathroom pods backdrop

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The Babuino 181 is the art icon of hospitality, as the part of Rome Luxury Suites groups which also presents two next excellent properties that is ideally located in the heart of the Eternal City, i.e Mario de’ Fiori 37 and Margutta 54. Alberto Moncada di Paterno have opened the Babuino 181 boutique hotel, set in a beautiful-renovated palace, 14 suites in a three-story nineteenth-century renovated palazzo on Via Babuino, its really reflects the perfect marriage of Art and Fashion. Each suits are beautifully decorated in a contemporary yet elegant italian style and accented with original photographs of Rome scenes. Moreover, in Babuino Suites choice which is the largest, most luxurious suite, you’ll feel like you have your own apartment in Rome. The Babuino Suite is composed of an elegant bedroom and a separate living room which includes a dining area. From the living room, step out onto a spacious balcony to enjoy the inviting Rome atmosphere and street scene.

Old Roman style interior design of Babuino 181 Hotels

Old Roman style Furniture design

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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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