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• Modern Residence Showcasing a Seemingly Unstable Architecture : SN House in Brazil
• How to Set a Personalized Thanksgiving Dinner Table
• Snaidero’s Ola Kitchen Gets an Updated New Look
• Wonderful Slightly Slanted Residence in Poland
• Sculpture Under Glass: Original Coffee Tables by Larry and Nancy Buechley
• Arches and Timber Planks Creating Original Architecture: Vault Room in Belgium
• Bathtub Collection Gathering Ocean-Inspired Models from Bagno Sasso

Modern Residence Showcasing a Seemingly Unstable Architecture : SN House in Brazil Posted: 11 Nov 2011 05:49 AM PST SN House was designed by Studio Guilherme Torres and displays an intriguing architecture, due to its original volumetry and large spans without any pillar support. The residence is located in Londrina, Brazil and was especially developed for a large family who love to have many guests in the week-ends. According to the architects, “the construction brings straight, pure and simple forms. Contrasting with the white masonry, stone and wood coatings have the power to warm the look without breaking the contemporary twist of the proposal. The independent functioning between the two storeys was another right solution. On a daily basis, the life of the family is concentrated on the upper floor, which hosts the bedrooms, the kitchen, a living and dining room, all accessed by the side ramp and garage on the upper hall. But on weekends, they enjoy receiving the large family in meetings on the spacious and comfortable leisure area with pool, garden, barbecue gourmet and two generous lounges“. Sustainability features of this home include solar heating systems and rainwater capture for various purposes.

How to Set a Personalized Thanksgiving Dinner Table Posted: 11 Nov 2011 02:35 AM PST Thanksgiving has always been a holiday that we associate with bringing out the "good china" or the heirloom decorative seating card holders to convey tradition and personalization. While family traditions can be handed down from generation to generation, there is also the need to start your family's new traditions. Personalizing your Thanksgiving table can be done with the smallest of handmade seating cards to the full planning out of the decor. Here are tips for setting a personalized table that remembers tradition and embraces making new memories for generations to come. Making guests feel special: Whether you are 5 or 95 don't we all love personalized touches and feeling special? Place cards or seating cards are the perfect welcoming to your Thanksgiving meal. Simple seating cards placed with a piece of fruit adorning each plate, or creatively cut paper shapes on your favorite china or earthen dinnerware can be perfect. Invite guests well in advance to your Thanksgiving dinner to be able to prepare cards well in advance. Are you considering hosting a get-together where you don't know everyone's names? Leave blank cards with a beautiful metallic pen close by, to write guests names as they arrive for the evening. Making the kids feel like family: Let's face it, Thanksgiving is about family, and younger children can make the occasion memorable for the good… and the bad! This year, consider personalizing the kid's dinner plates with creative place settings crafts that will entertain and delight the youngest at heart. If you are planning to house many kids, consider a dedicated dinner table just for them. Use brown craft paper over a fabric tablecloth and place crayons beside each plate for kids to doodle on before dinner or while the adults are talking. Make this a memorable holiday for the kids, and keep the adults happy at the same time! Natural decor personalizes the table: While many enjoy buying elaborate Thanksgiving decor accents for the dinner table, simple natural decor made from fruit, twigs, pinecones, gourds, and natural items found in your backyard can make unique table essentials. Do it yourself crafts such as twig pieces glued around votive candles or felt cut into autumn leaves, turkeys, etc… can make for whimsical additions to the dinner table. For a personalized touch, add name cards to each napkin ring, or tie natural raffia, straw, or seagrass around each guest's chair with a colorful place setting card to each seat. Guests will appreciate the thoughtful gesture, and they can take it home as a favor at the end of the evening. Simplicity can speak wonders: If you prefer a more sophisticated and subdued Thanksgiving get together, consider using simple place cards with high contrast dinnerware to make the cards eye catching.  Personalization can be emphasized through your choice of table linens, dinnerware, flatware, and decor that graces the table. A simple pillar candle surrounded with a gorgeous hurricane glass vase around it and adorned with natural berries and leaves can be the perfect setting for a personalized yet refined Thanksgiving table. Let your personality speak through your choice of decorative additions. Personalizing your Thanksgiving dinner table has never been so easy with the help of these decorative ideas. Whether you are considering a large get together with family and kids, or a small intimate gathering is more your style, personalized touches will be admired and appreciated by all. If you have a school-aged child, let them make a craft for the table, or if you are handy with a glue gun, put together your own crafted masterpiece. Whether bought or handmade, personalization is all about your personal touches on a special table and your guests. Make this the best Thanksgiving ever! What personal touches do you plan on adding to your Thanksgiving table this year?

Snaidero’s Ola Kitchen Gets an Updated New Look Posted: 11 Nov 2011 01:36 AM PST The Ola kitchen by Snaidero has been around for over 20 years now and during this time it has become a contemporary cult classic for the company. In production since 1990, the award-winning kitchen marked the beginning of the collaboration between Snaidero and the Pininfarina Group. In 2000, the Pininfarina Studio restyled the Ola kitchen giving it new handles, new colours, a new worktop in steel and new wall units, while maintaining the technical content of the kitchen and the iconic curved look that it became known for. After 20 years, Snaidero decided it was once again time to invest in Ola and bring it up to date with a contemporary new look. The ambitious project combined Snaidero's design history with a renewed combination of tradition and invention. The result of the project is the Ola20 kitchen. With a new softer look, the kitchen retains many of its original features but incorporates refined aesthetic choices. The domed extractor is retained and the doors have been given a more minimalist look with the addition of integrated handles. A new worktop support has also been introduced for island units and peninsula bar units and it is this highly sculpted design that gives the kitchen that unmistakable touch of Pininfarina. Designing an iconic product is often no longer enough to guarantee success. Those forward-thinking companies that want to stay on top of their game have to ensure that their designs remain relevant in this fast-paced world. By reinventing the Ola kitchen, Snaidero has brought it into the present day ensuring that this cult classic is just as appealing now as it was when it was first introduced to the market. We'd love to know what you think of the new look Ola20 kitchen in comparison to the original Ola, which you can see below. And which version of Ola20 do you prefer? The clean lines and minimalist appeal of the white kitchen get our vote!

Wonderful Slightly Slanted Residence in Poland Posted: 11 Nov 2011 12:05 AM PST Architects Przemek Kaczkowski and Ola Targonska‘s clients for this project were a middle-aged couple who commissioned the architects to build them a home that would care for them even in the old age. The residence was constructed in a suburban are of Wroclaw, Poland’s main southwestern city, on a flat piece of land that allowed the floor plan to be T-shaped and all interior spaces to be placed on one single level, just like the owners wanted. This ensured that there were no stairs to make the journey from one space to another more difficult than it had to be. The single family contemporary residence displays a homogeneous and private facade adorned with wood cladding. The backside however, is totally different: glazed walls ensure views of the elegant and unpretentious garden while a slight elevation removes the need for stairs. Living spaces are connected with a sunny terrace on the outside and with a large, open series of spaces on the inside. A slanted ceiling over the living wing gives the spaces a feeling of openness, while the private wing  offers all the comfort in a bright and cheery atmosphere. Lovely home for a smart couple.

Sculpture Under Glass: Original Coffee Tables by Larry and Nancy Buechley Posted: 10 Nov 2011 10:53 AM PST From their home-based studio tucked in the remote mountain village of El Valle, New Mexico, the husband/wife furniture design duo Larry and Nancy Buechley crafted a charming furniture collection that includes dinning tables, consoles, rockers and chairs. They recently sent us some information and photos about these inspiring twisted coffee table bases, which we are happy to share further: Both art majors in college — Larry focusing on sculpture, Nancy on painting — the two found themselves increasingly drawn to furniture design and construction. The results of the artists turned self-taught furniture makers are dramatic twisting, turning furniture masterpieces with impossible flowing lines. “Because we approach our work from an art background, rather than a technical school side, we are more interested in form, balance, positive and negative space,” says Larrry. The coffee tables are available for purchase online here, with prices ranging from $1800 for the Wovenwood Coffee Table Base (first photo of the post), to $2000 for the Trefoil Coffee Table Base (second picture).

Arches and Timber Planks Creating Original Architecture: Vault Room in Belgium Posted: 10 Nov 2011 09:32 AM PST When dealing with small spaces, creativity can turn things around for the better. This is the case with the “Vault Room”, a rehabilitation project developed by Brussels based international practice 51N4E. According to the architects, “the renovation of this small terraced house, in the historical heart of Bruges,Belgium,  consists of reinterpreting the typical cramped back buildings as a spacious and generous lit winter garden. The double-height space, entirely covered in timber planks, starts off as an arch which gradually lifts asymmetrically towards the back, framing the tall tree of a neighboring garden. The old house is entirely renovated with partly new flooring and new color schemes for facade, walls and ceilings. The custom made kitchen furniture with integrated fire place doubles as working area, becoming the new center of the house“. I was personally very pleased to see that the exterior architecture was left intact, while the interior was designed in a creative modern style. What are your thoughts on this strange looking “vault home”? [Photography by Lindman Åke E:son]

Bathtub Collection Gathering Ocean-Inspired Models from Bagno Sasso Posted: 10 Nov 2011 08:29 AM PST This trendy and original looking bathtub collection comes from Bagno Sasso AG, a Swiss company headquartered in Landquart. For today we would like to present the models in their ocean-inspired collection, entitled as follows: Shell, Sailor, Circle, Wave and Wing. Each of the products is genuine and has a contemporary, appealing look. Moreover, the bathtubs are customizable, allowing each potential owner to choose from several materials and finishes when ordering a product. Ocean Shell Ocean Sailor Ocean Circle According to Manuel Dreesmann, the designer of both Ocean Wing and Ocean Wave displayed below, these two bathtubs  fit perfectly into the modern bath lounge. The main structure of both bathtubs is made out of corian which makes the organic and dramatic forms possible. Ocean Wing plays with the natural element of wood outside and the warm and hygienic corian in the inside. The contrast of this materials and the form, which combines this two harmonically, are the key design elements of this bathtub. Ocean Wing Ocean Wave is a celebration of a relaxing bath. The spacious and elegant impression invites the resident to take time and escape from the everday life. Because of its extraordinary form it is meant to be placed in the centre of the room. Ocean Wave

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