Making Your Own String Lamp

Being enamored with all things vintage, I have always been smitten on string lamps. Each time I saw one at an antique mall, like the ones pictured here at Uncommon Objects, I would think to myself one day I am going to figure out how to make these. Apparently this was the week.

Pom-Poms and Luminarias

Joyous bursts of color dance above a table, imparting a cheerful radiance to a rehearsal dinner or casual reception. The dahlialike pom-poms appear to float in the air; in reality they are hung from the ceiling with monofilament. Echoing the vibrant hanging puffs, pom-pom napkin rings in citrus shades adorn each place setting. Square glass vessels in various sizes line tables. Covered in sunset-hued tissue (cut to size and secured with double-sided tape), they cast a soft glow.

Hemp pendant lamps

Uber-talent Heika DeHart strikes again. These lamps she made are genius. Plus, don’t you just love how they look with her wallpaper? She writes: “I fell in love with West Elm’s abaca pendent lamp a few years ago but, as usual, my taste was more expensive than my wallet could support. However, I was sure that I could copy them at a fraction of the cost.” I love the natural look of the hemp, but you could also use white or bright-colored string.

Мастер света и тени Куми Ямашита

Kumi Yamashita, Building Blocks. Boise Art Museum.

Человечество избаловано многообразием форм проявления современного искусства. Чего только не насмотришься в арт-галереях и на просторах интернета. Но даже при таком изобилии японская художница Куми Ямашита (Kumi Yamashita) умудряется постоянно удивлять и поражать зрителя, создавая свои произведения из самых необычных материалов.

Куми Ямашита (Kumi Yamashita)

Lionfish Pendant Light

While we have seen many pendant light featuring flowery or swirl shape, this lionfish pendant light at least show us the different. Designed by Melbourne-based lighting company, Alex Earl, the lionfish pendant light is a unique shade emitting a luminescence from the intriguing form of a deep-sea creature.

COTOTOI Restauraunt, Tokyo Japan

Pronounsed 'kototowa', COTOTOI is a Japanese restaurant which stresses on,
'meal is not just about "food", but it is about whole things including its safeness of ingredient, atmosphere of having meals.' - Dilight.

With this idea of importance of surroundings, Dilight, who came out with the concept of the COTOTOI have made the space filled with plants. They gave the whole place the idea of everything coexist and effect each other. Good food in good environment makes the food taste better and vise versa.

Creative Coffee Tables & Coffee Table Designs

 I Sea What You Did There…

(images via: Nerd Approved and Everything Nautical)

 What’s up, dock? The Nautical Rowing Dory Coffee Table from Everything Nautical, of course. The 48-inch long table features detachable oars - for those REALLY rainy days, one assumes - and a fitted glass top that nestles just within the gunwales. A genuinely thoughtful design, the Nautical Dory includes a pair of removable shelves that allow you to set the table on end and use it as a bookshelf or, even better, a maritime curio case for your seashells & scrimshaw.

SCOOTER - Ti Sento

Снятый в стиле фильмов 40-х годов клип немецкой трансовой группы Scooter, участники которой неудачно охраняют оперную певицу Antonella Ruggiero.

How To Liven Up Your Walls

Miraentu Interior, a Spanish company have designed some great vinyl wall applications for your home or office…here are just a few examples of what you can do with them.

Interior Inspiration from Belsize Architects

Cannon Place is a completed project from the London based Belsize Architects.
Text from Belsize Architects:

The property, located on a narrow street close to Hampstead Village and the Heath, was comprised originally of three flats.
The client was, from the outset, interested in an uncompromising contemporary design. His brief was to make the house into a modern home, full of light and to ensure that there was a “ wow” factor.

AVA Bar by JBDesign

JBDesign Studio sent us these photos of their interior design work for the AVA Bar which is located somewhere in Bulgaria (they didn’t say where in Bulgaria).

The FEEK Oisterbar

Thanks to Frederik van Heereveld from FEEK, a Belgian design studio, for sending us these photos of the FEEK Oisterbar that recently opened in Antwerp, Belgium.

Vertical Gardens by Michael Hellgren

Michael Hellgren is a landscape architect who specializes in creating vertical gardens such as the one in the photos below, located in the lobby of a new office building for the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in Södertälje, Sweden.

Nobu Restaurant in Dubai by Rockwell Group

Nobu have opened their first restaurant in the Middle East. The restaurant is located in Dubai’s Atlantis Resort on Palm Jumeirah, and was designed by Rockwell Group.

CheBanca! Interior by CREA International

CREA International designed this interior for CheBanca! in Milan, Italy.
From CREA:

In 2007, CheBanca! gave Crea International the task to design a brand new concept of branches in banking sector.
Crea design concept for CheBanca! is “natural tech”.
The leading design idea is that the things that surround us have to get back to essential: the warmth and light of the sun, of a technological but friendly one. A special sun that wraps us around through technology and its light. The layout of CheBanca! is organized so to remember the logical organization of the solar system with the client ideally at the centre of it. The natural tech of CheBanca! means ethic and transparency of a world that does not deceive. A technological world that is able to give space to people and their power to choose.

Vyta Boulangerie by Colli+Galliano Architects

Colli+Galliano Architects have designed the Vyta Boulangerie in Rome, Italy.

Full description after the photos….

Rosso -Restaurant Interior Design

Design of Rosso Restaurant in the valley of el-Yezre in the Northern part of Israel lift geography local themes. Typically shown with a touch of architectural art in the restaurant ceiling. Wallpaper add a bright and chair arrangement that is not much but still can be a family restaurant or business relationship with a reception put the seat aft so that it does not look full.

Volkswagen Cafe Design Concept by Carlo Guina

Volkswagen Cafe of Beijing design by Carlo Guina. This interior concept created to integrate a social environment for internal and external clients of Volkswagen’s community. The cafe where located in the heart of Sanlitun Beijing China has affordable concept with volkswagen’s car mania. Creative with tendensius design.

H & K unique gifts and metal sculptures collection makes an excellent desk art. Some sculptures even serve form and function as pen, business card and memo holders. You can even find functional art for the bathroom! H & K sculptures are individually handcrafted and welded from recycled steel and copper. Categories include: Bathroom Accessories, Life and Love, Musicians, Professions, Wings & Wheels and Sports & Golf Gifts.

Ku'Damm 101 - Berlin

Kurfürstendamm 101, Berlin-Wilmersdorf. The exciting hotel address for business travellers with a demand for technology and short breakers with a sense for active aesthetic and lifestyle. 170 rooms with a pure design. High-speed internet with a wireless LAN network, breakfast above Berlin¹s rooftops, lounge bar, meeting rooms, conference suites, wellbeing, garden. 94 underground car parking spaces and the shopping advantages of the Ku' damm direct at the doorstep. Modern luxury due to flexible interior design, harmonic colours, high-quality materials and high-tech communication.
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