Miriam Barrio creates “organic and natural” interiors for Barcelona curly hair salon
Barcelona-based Miriam Barrio Studios has transformed the interiors of a modernist building into Curly Lab, a curly hair salon incorporating curved shapes and copper-toned surfaces. Located at the base of a gothic and modernist building designed by Catalan architect Enric Sagnier in 1895, Curly Lab is situated at Diputación in the Eixample district of Barcelona. Miriam Barro has designed curly hair-informed interiors for Curly Labs salon Miriam Barrio Studios designed Curly Lab’s 65-square-metre-interior to convey an “organic and natural language”. The space, previously occupied by a real estate agency, now features rich textures that contrast the surrounding architecture. Continuous microcement surfacing was used across the salon’s light-toned floors and its…
Alessandro Mendini was an “atomic bomb of fantasy” says Philippe Starck
In this video produced by Dezeen for Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier, Philippe Starck describes the “genius” of Alessandro Mendini following the opening of Io Sono Un Drago: The True Story of Alessandro Mendini, an exhibition celebrating the designer. French designer Starck, who has contributed an immersive installation to coincide with the exhibition, emphasised the impact that Mendini has had on his own work, citing his sprawling approach to creativity. “Mendini is something special for me,” he said in an exclusive video interview with Dezeen. “His brain was an atomic bomb of fantasy, with no limits.” Starck’s installation accompanies a retrospective exhibition celebrating Mendini at Milan design week, presented by…
Highstay designs Paris apartments for Olympics visitors and holiday makers
Hospitality brand Highstay has brought a contemporary spin to these 19th-century Parisian apartments, which its team has renovated to offer accommodation during the Olympic Games and beyond. The holiday apartments are intended for short- and long-term stays of up to one month, offering an alternative to hotels “for those coming to the city this summer for the Olympics”, Highstay said. Highstay’s has created holiday apartments within historic buildings The apartments are spread over four central Paris locations: Champs-Elysées, Saint-Honoré, Louvre and Marais. The majority are located within historic Haussmann-era buildings typical of the French capital and were designed by Highstay’s in-house team to retain their character while offering a contemporary…
Red staircase anchors Diesel store in Miami Design District
Fashion brand Diesel has debuted a retail design concept at its store in the Miami Design District, featuring raw metal surfaces and a red lacquered spiral staircase. Designed under the creative direction of Glenn Martens, who joined the brand in 2020, the industrial-style store is intended to reflect “the brand’s signature bold attitude”. Diesel’s new store in Miami Design District debuts an industrial-style retail concept “Envisioned as a fresh, powerful expression of Diesel‘s design edge and identity, the store is anchored by a glass facade framed in signature Diesel red with the brand’s red-and-white Biscotto logo,” said the design team. Red was also applied selectively to interior elements, including a…
Eight minimalist kitchens where materials provide the decoration
For our latest lookbook, we’ve compiled eight functional kitchens that prove that conventional construction materials have their place in domestic interiors. The kitchens featured in this roundup utilise common construction materials, including wood, metal and concrete, to create an atmosphere of durability and serenity. Combining these materials creates a balanced interior scheme, with wood providing a sense of warmth, while metals such as stainless steel and concrete add an air of functionality. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring interiors punctuated by red accents, homes with internal windows and spaces energised by colourful window frames. Photo…
Olivier Delannoy creates mirrored “English garden” for Daroco Soho restaurant
Paris-based restaurant group Daroco has opened a London outpost with mirrored, curving interiors designed by French architect Olivier Delannoy. Delannoy, who has worked on Daroco’s previous projects, reproduced the mirrored ceiling from its two Paris restaurants for Daroco‘s latest location in Soho. “Though the layout maintains an orderly appearance, the reflection of the mirror creates an anarchic, enchanted dimension to the space,” he told Dezeen. The restaurant ceiling is covered with a large mirror A wide range of designer lighting was placed throughout the restaurant, with arm wall-mounted lights by Penta, flower-shaped wall-mounted lights by Leucos and suspended glowing discs by DCW Édition. Together they were placed to create a…
Eight interiors with pyramidal ceilings that create dramatic depth
For our latest lookbook, we’ve brought together eight houses from Mexico to Norway featuring pyramidal ceilings that reveal their structure and create a sense of depth. Similar to domed and vaulted ceilings, pyramidal ceilings have four panes that angle upwards towards a central point. Because of their depth, they often conform to architectural elements visible on the exterior of a structure. The ceilings can have skylights on their apexes to bring in light and provide a sense of height to structures that are often single-storey. While it can be rendered in a variety of materials, the feature often conforms to the wall material used throughout the house. Sometimes a building…
H3O creates “unpredictable” zigzagging interiors for lightning-struck home
Three jagged walls delineate the colourful spaces inside this converted barn in Sant Just Desvern, Spain, transformed by Barcelona studio H3O to reference a lightning bolt that struck the building generations ago. The one-storey Relámpago House is a former barn with a white-painted barrel-vaulted ceiling in the Spanish town of Sant Just Desvern on the outskirts of Barcelona. Relámpago House features a colour-block interior For the interior scheme, H3O took cues from an old family legend told by the homeowner, whose ancestors are said to have survived a lightning bolt that struck the barn and entered the building through the chimney, narrowly avoiding the family members sheltering under the dining…
Elisa Ossino focuses on “the tactility of the material” for limestone V-Zug showroom
Promotion: Italian architect Elisa Ossino has designed a “tactile” showroom in Milan for Swiss home appliance brand V-Zug. Overlooking Piazza San Marco in the Italian city’s Brera district, the space is organised into two areas – one that displays V-Zug‘s home appliances and one that functions as an “interactive kitchen”. This was designed for visitors to “feel at home and experience appliances while enjoying good conversations”, the company said. V-Zug Milan overlooks Piazza San Marco in Brera Ossino designed the space, which will act as V-Zug’s Italian flagship, using cocciopesto flooring and limestone walls rendered in soft colours inspired by the silver finishing of the brand’s appliances. “The narrative of…
The Daily Heller: A Lighter Shade of Palette
How could Taschen have the temerity to use the British spelling of “color” on the cover of The Book of Colour Concepts? Well, given Taschen’s amazing capacity to publish huge multilingual tomes on art, design, typography, photography, popular culture, etc., they can do any linguistic thing they want. So, if they want to call color COLOUR, it is their right. This two-volume set by Alexandra Loske and Sarah Lowengard is not just elegant … and massive … and intelligent, it is the final word on color as an essential life force. “We can trace an active intellectual engagement with colour throughout human history,” writes Loske, “from simple concepts used in…