The Interior Decor Thread! #1

[runner]

Haute

 

[runner]

Haute

 

[runner]

Haute

 

[runner]

his recent project as an interior designer

In the heart of Milan there is a new design Hotel: the Straf! An inspired fusion of Italian fashion, original, design and elegance, with the latest technology and impeccable service. You could not wish for a better location: the building is situated in the heart of Milan, only few steps away from the Duomo Cathedral, La Scala Opera House, the shopping district and the fashionable Via Montenapoleone. The old facade dated 1800, contributes to create an inusual contrast with the minimalist design. Its 66 Rooms and Suites fuse the best of design and functionality with the maximum confort in a relaxed atmosphere marked out by rare materials. The architect, Mr. Vincenzo De Cotiis, also fashion designer of ´Haute´ Collection, has followed this project choosing unusual materials, such as scratched mirrors, burnished brass, iron, black stone, cement and gauze placed between panes of glass to give a transparent effect.

STRAF
Via San Raffaele 3 20121 Milan

http://www.straf.it/

 

[runner]

STRAF

 

[étoiledunord]

The great modern works of Finnish designers, Alvar Aalto & Eero Saarinen :

Eero Saarinen :

One of Finland's & America's greatest architects. Among his works are the John F Kennedy Airport in New York, NYC, Dulles Aiport in Washington & the St. Louis Gateway Arch :

Tulip Chair and Pedestal Table 1956 (As seen in "Men In Black")

Interior of Saarinen's TWA Terminal at JFK Airport, NYC :

Alvar Aalto :

Known as Scandinavia's all-time greatest architect and a design-icon of the 60's.

Paimio Chair 1930
Chair 31 1933

 

[faust]

Originally posted by runner@Jun 18th, 2004 - 2:35 am
"The forms are somehow always there: I go for a lean silhouette with very narrow shoulders."

I can testify to that. I almost ripped one of his shirts apart when I tried it on, and I'm not a big guy, just not skinny.

 

[ahhGucci]

Yeah, the palmio chair is a design that has not gone, it was an excelent design, robust and aesthetic, I let all you experts carry on, my rug thing will have to wait.

 

[SophieKawaii]

There are two interior design magazines i love: one is Intérieur the other one is called Atrium. (Architecture, design, interior design.) I'll scan some beautiful pics soon if i'm under windows, not linux, sorry.

 

[SophieKawaii]

Forgot to write Atrium is english-hungarian magazine, so you can use it too.
Intérieur is in hungarian, but it's worth the money even for the pictures.

www.atrium.hu

www.interieurmagazin.hu

 

[ultramarine]

Btw, I'd like to declare that mosaics are officially IN!

 

[softgrey]

Originally posted by runner@Jun 18th, 2004 - 2:46 am
STRAF

oh just kill me!...i want to put on that first coat with the silver utility pockets and go and live in the STRAF... ...

finn...love what you posted....

 

[runner]

Originally posted by softgrey+Jun 18th, 2004 - 10:27 pm--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (softgrey @ Jun 18th, 2004 - 10:27 pm)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-runner@Jun 18th, 2004 - 2:46 am
STRAF

oh just kill me!...i want to put on that first coat with the silver utility pockets and go and live in the STRAF... ...

finn...love what you posted.... [/b][/quote]
isn't there a project of design-led hotel about Armani?

by the way what do you think about these Henry Cuir stuff?

 

[runner]

I need...

Henry Cuir

 

[softgrey]

i like the stuff...the aged leather thing always workds for me...those little ottomans/stools would look great in my loft...i have some straw stools from india or morocco...i can't remember...but they have the same vibe...

 

[As You Like It]

I'm scouring the flea-markets, garage sales, and thrift-shops for secondhand French Provinicial-style furniture. Specifically I'd like to get a small sofa and a couple of lounge chairs and an end-table. I think ones like those in the link above would look awesome in my living room, with green/brown/salmon/cream paisley upholstery. I'm doing my living room walls in a ragged olive-green over cream (actually about the same color of green as in the above link). A lot of this style of furniture has been sold in the US since the turn of the last century, I can probably find something that was made within the last 60 years pretty easily. I don't care if it is beat up pretty badly, because I want to have it re-upholstered, and make a matching slipcover for our existing sofa. The existing sofa is of no particular style nor distinction, but it is very comfortable, though it is aggressively ugly. I am holding off re-covering it until I find the other sofa and chairs, then I will do them all at once, to compliment each other.

Overall, my home-decor style is flea-market chic. None of our furniture really matches or comes from the same era, and the other objets de art around the house are just goofy stuff we have accumulated over the years. I don't like a "done" house...to me it feels very impersonal to have things too perfect. I like the organic feel of acquiring stuff piecemeal over the course of time, and just kind of letting your decor happen. Generally speaking, I usually prefer older furniture to new furniture--I like older styles, and I can't afford new stuff anyway. I don't like IKEA because they are too modernistic for my taste and often their stuff is kind of flimsy. One of my big considerations is that any furniture I own is a permanent piece. I do not buy "throwaway" pieces, I do not "re-do" my entire house whenever fashions and fancy sieze me. Any piece I get is going to be a fixture in my household from here on out, to be refurbished as time goes by and upholstery grows shabby. Therefore anything I buy must be sturdy and good quality and must be capable of being taken apart, refurbished, and put back together. Plasticky stuff is generally not a good bet for me.

As far as colors go, I like strong colors for paint. My kitchen is very bright yellow, and the dining room is going to be a rusty burnt-orange, and the living room will be the olive/cream combination, with most emphasis on the green. The living room and dining room have excellent dark-colored woodwork and the whole house has natural hardwood floors. The bedroom is probably going to be a kind of turmeric yellowy-orangey color with reddish-orange trim and my sewing room will probably be salmon, turquoise, and silvery-grey, for a very 1950s feel. I think I might paint the bathroom walls silver and stencil bright, multicolored tropical fish as a border around the room over the "chair rail" that exists in there, and as a frieze over the lowered soffit over the tub and the enclosure the tub is mounted in.

 

[SophieKawaii]

http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46103335/euro.html

 

[helena]

I am obsessing about interiors at the moment. Stayed in some really gorgeous places on holiday which have totally inspired me. I am obsessed with old stuff in bad condition juxtaposed with ultra modern. Been at an architetural salvage yard a couple of weeks ago - just loving all the old shutters & doors & door handles & fireplaces. and the old reclaimed sinks from places like hospitals & barbour shops. and then there were the iron radiators - i seem to have developed a thing about radiators too. desperatly searching for a new house at the moment but we lost out on another place last week. Looking for somewhere to fulifill my bath indulgence - wanting a big huge wooden or concrete bath in my bedroom.

 

[ahhGucci]

Originally posted by Midori@Jun 25 2004, 12:47 PM
http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46103335/euro.html

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[faust]

if anyone knows where to get this chair CHEAP, please share! I was a dumb*** and missed my chance at Kartell sample sale, and now I need one in black badly.