Back-to-school might be just around the corner, but today I fancy a little trip to Morocco – why not? While scouring the web for pictures of Moroccan kitchens, I discovered that this beautiful lime plaster is called Tadelakt – and the secrets of its traditional use have been handed down from father to son for around ...
Doing some catch-up browsing in the blogosphere these last few days, I came across this rather beautiful kitchen by designer Amy Finley: I’m always a sucker for the juxtaposition of unexpected materials – so industrial stainless steel next to thick chunks of luxurious, high maintenance onyx really caught my attention. I nearly jumped out of ...
A clean-lined collection for Monday morning. These are streamlined and simple, but they have enough organic detail or friendly clutter to save them from sterile minimalism. I love to see an Aga in a stripped down setting – its sturdy good looks work as well here as in a more traditional space. I’m not quite convinced ...
This bathroom is really quite boring – I’m only posting it for the view of Paris outside the window, because it’s Sunday and I’m still pretending I’m in Paris (via): Yeah, yeah, it’s all nice and clean and rectangular and monochromatic…yawn. But that’s OK, I’ll just look at the view outside. This flat does have one feature ...
Do you follow The Unhappy Hipsters? You should – a great way to get a smile out of modern design and architecture. This poor pooch made me think of the hipsters, and their innocent victims, dreaming of grass and open spaces. There are so many of these glass boxes used as kitchen extensions behind typical ...
One interpretation of the post-culinary kitchen is a kitchen that completely vanishes when you don’t need it. Not a single appliance or even a utensil to disturb your perfect living space: There are definitely days when a big up-and-over door would be useful to hide the debris left by my culinary endeavors – this one appears ...
Here’s and interesting concept for a kitchen – not only portable and compact, but completely collapsible too – the work of Burkhard Schäller, the Magdelena Gravity kitchen exhibited at the Talents section at Ambiente 2010 Consumer Goods Fair in Frankfurt (via) I guess you are in serious trouble here if your utensils happen to be a different ...