Interior Designer: Brad Ford @ Brad Ford ID Inc
Hey! Who is this?
Who put these bugs in the house? I am furious!
Oh my God – wings, leaves, jungle, cicadas who brought all these inside?
Tell me quickly I am sure going to catch him!
And lo I have caught him!
Brad Ford – He did this!!
The culprit – a very talented young designer- Brad Ford has designed this amazingly playful mudroom (show house)!
I was told this is Brahmakamal (Saussurea obvallata) – a rare flowering plant, found in the Himalayas.
Night Blooming Cereus
Photographer: My camera phone
So yesterday night we had gathered around the white magnificent flower and enjoyed its full bloom and its heady fragrance for few hours.
We are supposed to get rich!!
We are supposed to have a shower of blessings!!
To find out all the myths and lores I went to surf the net and found that it is not Brahmakamal but Queen of the Night – cactus – Night Blooming Cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum). In Maharashtra at least there is misconception about this plant being Brahmakamal.
But it is not that rare plant and flowers once a year(?) unlike Brahmakamal which is said to flower once in 14 years!
These two tables have architectural design elements.
This one comes with a fairy tale domain!
Table manners
Designers: Lisa Widén and Anna Irinarchos @ WIS Design
Tablemanners – the desk or workstation is your castle, your own territory in a public space!
Stockholm based WIS Design has a poetic and playful approach in whatever they design!
Here a part of city sits on the table!? ?
Walk around the block
Designers: @ Gregor Jenkin Studio
Johannesberg based Gregor Jenkin Studio try to design things free from preconception!
Warning: Copycats have nothing to do with cats or duplicity, copying someone!
It is about similarity, like twins, like Siamese twins, matching objects, about object and furniture that complement each other.
Things that inspire each other. And how designers sitting continents apart work on similar ideas with amazing results.
It is a long series like a column.
Let’s Waltz Vase
Designer-architect: Fumiaki Goto @ cotogoto Design
It seems these spiral shaped vases will just start moving!
Japanese designer-architect Fumiaki Goto has designed these flower vases.
Style these vases as you want!
Some of his designs are very musical and try to capture the movement and time!
Check his other designs here.
Voodoo – jewelery holder/stand
Designer: Jakob Gudiksen & Karsten Gudiksen @ Gudiksen Design for Vinza.com
Mirror, mirror make me fairest of them all and where are all my jewels gone!
Let me spell some magic!
And for that I have to say Voodoo!!
Stone Garden
Architect: Kazuhide Doi @ Doi Architects
Hiroshima based Japanese architect Kazuhide Doi has created this very beautiful Stone Garden (a residential building) adapting the architecture according to the slope of the area.
Using the mantra of ‘no interference to the nature’ the very talented architect has written the poetry in green grass, stone, steel and concrete so well that I feel like singing!
I think such clever and beautiful adaptive use is akin to sustainability!