Vasken Demirjian Salon

MSK Design Group projected a highly conceptual boutique salon in Westchester, New York, where the design and ambiance are exclusively fine-tuned in order to amplify the salon experience while creating an ultimate workspace for the artistry of hair to come through.
The crisp white environment is a clear background, a clean palette, which accurately showcases the color and the hair design.
Sharp, clean and glossy surfaces, along with beautiful ambient soft lighting give the space a very flattering glow.
The layout in the salon is very cohesive and harmonious between the color and styling departments. All the furniture was custom designed and built from white and red corian.
The unique ceiling design was conceived to preserve the height of the space as well as serve as a soundproofing buffer, minimizing the usual “salon” noise and creating a much more pleasant softer ambiance.
The accent of the red lampshades adds a punch of color, creating a spot light on each client giving them distinction and importance.






Special thanks to Leah Loftin from LL Kent for sharing.

ENTRANCE Shop

SquareONE projected the interior for a shop in Bucharest named ENTRANCE.
Here is the project description:
The concept began by trying to transform a space of 200 sqm in an allegory. Imaginary animals that abide in a sureal forest, a refuge, a route. Thus it might sound pretenciuos, technical and formal achievement must remain simple, unsophisticated, a honest aproach to the conceptual design, not suported by pretentiose materials or sophisticated systems.
I tryed to use as little graphics or decorative elements as possible to illustrate the concept, functional objects must do that. The shape of those object should tell the story.
A peculiarity of this arrangement is the fact that none of the objects used were purchased. All items being manufactured under the project.
The shapes and positions of the objects in central space was designed so as to create several routes for equal exposure of the emblematic products.
These objects have resulted from a formal synthesis by illustrating a number of three animals in motion. Zoomorphic design and geometric shaping almost extreme minimal tried to minimize the decorative approach. the use of very sharp angles (most angles on vertical objects under 45 degrees), gave more dynamism in the composition of objects, seen from different angles, they can change appearance
I also preferred not close volumes for spatial geometry without spatiality, a kind of origami like 2D shell, which is in constant metamorphosis
I used the ceiling to illustrate the trees made of black electrical wires which is also the lighting system, ceiling grid was invaded by black wires tensioned using weights that disguises lamp socket. The Drawing of the electrical cables network creates the virtual habitat of the objects. A dynamic relation is created between the hanging branches of the light trees and the uprising vectors of each of the three objects
Dressing booths are like a refuge in the middle of a forest. Suggesting a sort of “glazing” to the rest of space, a media interface, composed of LCD screens, is placed on the exterior wall of the cabins.
To display accessories and jewelry we created rectangular prismatic objects at different heights which seam to emerge from the floor surface in various areas with apparently random positioning.
Materials used were simple and inexpensive as can be. Furniture items are made from MDF polyurethane painted supported by light metal structures made of very thin sections (4mm diameter), whose stiffness comes from the way the structure geometry is closed.
Two of the objects have a recessed translucent membrane in one of the vertical planes, in order to spread light on the exposing surface
The light trees are made from black electrical cable, energy saving light bulbs, cable clamps. The Weights which masks the light bulb sockets and tensions the cables, are made of painted metal pipe segments in black electrostatic paint. Objects displaying accessories are made of black and transparent Plexiglas.







Special thanks to Ionel Pascu from SquareONE for sharing.

• Tags: Black, Bucharest, Romania, Shop, SquareONE, White

Căn hộ tầng áp mái ở Đức

In Berlin-Charlottenburg, situated near the river Spree, Iris Steinbeck Architekten realized a new interior for the rooftop apartment as private residence, for a businesswoman internationally active in the field of lifestyle and sustainable development.
Modern design together with collectors’ pieces and design classics provide the space with an individual touch. The long, white, backlit sideboards create a light and comfortable atmosphere. Self-designed furniture and objects in different shades of white complimented by just a few colorful spots stand in contrast to the warm brown tone of the wooden floor.
The spacious living area is used for cooking and dining, entertaining and relaxing in front of the fire place. In summer it expands onto the large roof terrace with olive trees, an herb garden, outdoor shower and an integrated bench with a view over neighboring rooftops and onto the river below.







Special thanks to Simone Sexauer from Iris Steinbeck Architekten for sharing.

• Tags: Apartment, Berlin, Germany, Iris Steinbeck Architekten

Căn hộ cao cấp ở Barcelona

YLAB Arquitectos renovated an old office space into this unique apartment located in the centric Plaza de Cataluña of Barcelona, recently acquired by a couple as occasional residence in Spain.
The objective was to create a functional, highly comfortable and sophisticated apartment with all services and contort of an upscale hotel, with all the advances in safety, automation, audio, video or climate technology.
Since it is a small long apartment, partitions are replaced by moving parts to create a visual journey as long as possible through the main living space without limiting the functionally. To emphasize these limits, the exterior wall, floor and ceiling is treated with a specific ivory color.
In contrast, a single continuous piece of furniture in dark grey elm wood reinforces the longitudinal whole. This element separates the private rooms from the living space and extends into smaller adjacent spaces, such as the lobby and bathrooms.









Photos by Eugeni Pons

• Tags: Apartment, Barcelona, Spain, YLAB   (theo http://coolboom.net)

SantPere47 Apartment

Miel Arquitectos renovated an old flat inside a 19th century building located in Barcelona’s Ensanche district.
Here is the project description:
The alteration of the flat SANTPERE47 is a rereading of the spatial structure of the typical Barcelona’s Ensanche flat of the end of the 19th century, succession of isolated rooms and disconnected courts. SANTPERE47 dissolves the structure of walls throw new physical and visual connections.
It was reading the flat when we discovered a geometric coincidence in the Cartesian plot, a diagonal axis that followed the hollows of the entrance’s door, of an intermediate pass throw and of one of the large windows faced to the street. This way was born the diagonal that organizes the project.
The restructuring of the former spaces of the flat gives place to visual unexpected whose origin always is the principal room that does the times of “room of control”. From it, across the court you see another room, across the distributor a bath appears and across the bath ensuite is the living; it is this “diluted” bath the one that allows you to brush your teeth with the light and the reflection of the trees of the street.
Two golden guides re-follow the bodies that slip on both sides of the diagonal, two technical guides that support the wired up, lighting, guides of doors and a sliding stairs. These golden lines establish a horizontal division in the flat: up to 2,20 m it flows the living space and above the given space floats, with another scale organizes mezzanines of storage, bottle racks, the entry of zenithal light in the bath or a polyvalent room.
SANTPERE47 is a fresh dialog with his origins that one discovers between the golden art craft ceiling of the dining room and the dance of drops of illuminated water, in the tactile experience of the girders of wood that support the floor within reach of your hands in the mezzanine or in the stairs – furniture that riches it formed by the mosaic re-consisted of the old living, which reflection multiplies like a magic carpet.

• Tags: Apartment, Barcelona, Miel Arquitectos, Spain        Theo http://coolboom.net