Functional and beautiful radiators design

Ladder-shaped scaletta radiator by Elisa Giovannoni


     What is your idea about how does a heater look like?

     For sure we may think is just something functional that makes our lives easier, more confortable and warmer when cold is way too much outside... so this is exactly what scaletta is... just with the diference that appearance is very important as well. we just don´t see a radiator but a great design piece, a good idea, soft to be seen and fitting in a natural way without visually disturbing but catching attention in a perfect way...
and is it not what good design means? 

     Functional, simple and beautiful all at the same time is able to let us set our towels, our blanquets or any cloth to get dry or just warmer, we can take it from one room to another and the electric cord winds on a pulley - giving the ladder a tidier and a bit of an industrial look and having the option of wall-mounted or free standing versions - and the free standing can be fitted with a shelf.

     Designed by the Italian company, Tubes Radiatori, This electric towel warmer comes in two versions: wall and freestanding on the floor, both with a pulley that rewinds the electric cable. Not requiring any special installation, Scaletta can easily be moved to a different part of the home and even taken with you when you move house.

     Would n´t you love to have one like this?

I would!!

A different bathroom design

Plasticity + design 

     When plasticity and design meet each other are able to create special pieces like this one. Context looks like carefully studied and creativity joined together. Breaking the rules and thinking again looks like a perfect combination for a, at least, really interesting design result.

RYOSUKE FUKUSADA 

     Born in 1979 in Osaka, Japan. He studied product design at the Kanazawa College of Art from 1998 to 2002. He then worked for Sharp Corporation in Japan as a designer for consumer electronic products until 2007. After transferring to Italy, he graduated from the Domus Academy, Master in Interior and Living Design course. From 2008 to 2012, he worked for the Studio Urquiola in Milan as an assistant designer of product design for Patricia Urquiola. He then started his own design studio from October 2012 in Kyoto, Japan. He currently works with some international clients.

     

TILE SASHI

     The contemporary tiles industry is erasing the boundaries between natural and industrial, raw andprocessed materials.Nowadays is virtually possible to simulate the appearance and texture of any material in ceramic.Like Cotto’s Marmo granito tile, which gives you the feeling of a natural stone. Tile sashi (slice inJapanese) is a collection of bathroom furniture inspired by the act of slicing a raw material in order to　build something new.By slicing the tiles in thin strips we are able to give a three-dimensional configuration to a fl atmaterial, making it become part of the surface of the furniture and,　in this way, mimetizing it with thebathroom architecture.　In order to give a softer appeal to the tiles, pastel colour is used in the junctions and other natural　materials such as red clay and cork are mixed. 

I hope you enjoy. If you like Fukusada you can check his website here:  http://ryosukefukusada.com

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What do you think? Do you like it?

Nord Theedoek by Nord Copenhagen

Where nature meets design 

    Hello friday!!!

    Today I am going to write a very short post.
So short that I just wanted to share these prints in fabrics for kitchen or either for cushions or nordic covers that I discovered already long time ago and I am still in love with it.

     By Nord Copenhaguen, you can get them easily online here or here.
(Or here for 17€.)

    In Spain you can find it on these shops in Barcelona


    Have a nice day and enjoy everyone!

A' Design Awards

Baan: Platinum winner A' Design Award.

    A' Design Awards is a premier annual juried design competition that honors the best designers, architects, engineers, design studios and design oriented companies worldwide to provide them publicity, fame and recognition. A' Design Award and Competitions are organized and awarded annually and internationally in a wide range of categories. Every year, projects that focus on innovation, technology, design and creativity are awarded with the A' Award.

    This is the case of this Baan Dinner set cupboard designed by Mr.Paitoon Keatkeereerut and Mr.chawin Hanjing (2000, BA Interior Design, Rangsit University, Bangkok/Thailand.2012, Graduate Diploma Interior Design, Chelsea College of Art and Design, UAL, London, England.) and Platinum Winner for Furniture, Decorative Items and Homeware Design Category.

    Baan was inspired by the atmosphere of dinner time in the warm family. When everyone feel free to relax and enjoy their dinner at home. "The dinner time conversation was interesting. We always spend so much time talking, discussing for lovely life and learning to live together." the designers said.
    Furthermore, someone said " A House is not a home, A Home is where the heart is. " Baan" means "a home" in Thai language. Behaviors, Culture, Feeling can be represented in a house shape. 

     "Baan" is a type of cupboard which is specifically designed for the purpose of dinner usage, combining lovely furniture design and emotional languages feelings. A very creative way for The different functions and features of cupboard that are separated by story, such as The Cutlery insert and Box of tissues are represented by fireplace and chimney. Furthermore, The wine glasses are represented by a chandelier and Dish rack is symbolized by the staircase. There are four main components of house whereby narrative ideas can be used to support daily life.

     A creative design that will remind us to our childhood and will let us set the whole tableware as tidy as funny like a kids game.

    Simply lovely!

I hope you enjoyed, if you like the platinum winner you can have a look to the rest of the winners in every category just clicking here

The most amazing tableware

Art or tableware? by Dietlind Wolf

    Today my intention was to talk about tablewares with some special touch and because of that I wanted to share with you a selection of all the designers that I really love...
   
    But just started with that and realized I will do it another day as one of the designers I wanted to talk about is Dietlind Wolf and she has so many nice things that I can actually write a whole post about her today.

    "Visual multi-disciplinary designer, propstylist and photographer, living in hamburg Germany, colourconcepts + styling for editorial food productions, on own devising creating shooting and styling still life deco + flower themes. ceramics at flow1ltd.com, inspired by never ending curiosity and ancient customs/ art/techniques and life itself." She says about herself.

    She started designing porcelain as she needed some plates for her photography food sesions. She mixed loads of talent and soul and she got a refined, fresh, crafty and artistic work inspired by the ceramist Christiane Perrochon.

    You can buy Dietlind´s ceramics at abc home and im pallais XIII.

Enjoy it!


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¿Menaje o arte? by Dietlind Wolf

     Mi intención con esta entrada era la de enseñaos vajillas, cuberterías, juegos de té, tazas... etc que tuvieran algo muy especial, un toque de ese algo que las hiciera únicas y, para ello, pretendía haceos una selección recopilatoria de lo que a mí me hace morirme de ganas por tener en mi poder entre todo lo que conozco que hay en el mercado...
   
    Pero, nada más empezar, he decidido que ya dejaré esta selección de las cosas más bonitas del mundo en menaje para otro momento, que Dietlind Wolf (una de las diseñadoras de las que quería hablaros) tiene ella sola para más de un post y ya os enseñaré los demás otro día.

    Dietlind Wolf es alemana y vive en Hamburgo, se define a sí misma como diseñadora visual multidisciplinar y la verdad es que razón no le falta. Fotógrafa, estilista, diseñadora e ilustradora confiera que comenzó a diseñar vajillas de porcelana porque necesitaba platos para sus sesiones fotográficas de comida. Para ponerse manos a la obra le puso mucho alma y talento y dio lugar a una refinada a la vez que fresca, artesanal y artística obra inspirada por la francesa Christiane Perrochon.

    Puedes adquirir las cerámicas de Dietlind en abc home y im Pallais XIII.

¡Disfrutad y que aproveche!

And she does not only create tableware...

Did you like it? I simply love it.

Have a nice day.