With the recent launch of the Veggie collection, we were drawn to Carmen’s beautiful posters under her label Vontrueba. We love how she places with textures and layers and on top of the already beautiful posters, her styling for the product shots are home runs. Everything on her website is all so visually exciting! Read on for a few more of our favorites from her collection.
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The beauty of this table lamp lies in the exposure of its essential components. The stripped-down design is composed of a soldering board serving as a base, woven copper wiring that gives it malleability to stay upright, and E-10 light holders in a beautiful formation of eight. Artistically industrial, it almost looks accidental but is much too cool to be anything but intentional!
Designer: Shahar Katsav
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The expansive roof of this seaside house in Cádiz, Spain, by Alberto Campo Baeza stretches out towards the shoreline like a flattened extension of the rugged terrain (+ slideshow).
VT House, also known as “house of the infinite”, was conceived by Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza first and foremost as a piece of landscape architecture, with its architectural elements sunken underneath.
“We have erected a house as if it were a jetty facing out to sea,” said the architect. “On this resoundingly horizontal plane, bare and denuded, we face out to the distant horizon.”
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The building comprises a bulky rectangular box, 20 metres wide and 36 metres deep, although the extensive upper terrace gives the impression that the structure is much larger.
Two storeys are housed beneath the rooftop plane. The front half of these floors emerges from the terrain to meet the beach, while the rear half was created by excavating 12 metres into the rock.
The entire structure was built from travertine stone, which Campo Baeza describes as a reference to Cádiz’s Roman heritage.
“The Romans were there a handful of centuries ago,” he explained. “Bolonia, the ruins of the Roman fishing factories where they produced garum and built temples to their gods, is just a stone’s throw away.”
“In their honour we have built our house, like an acropolis in stone, in Roman travertine,” he added.
A monumental wall marks the boundary line between the landscape and the terrace. Beyond this, a swimming pool is sunken into the surface, while a grand staircase leads down inside the house.
The upper level of the building contains rooms dedicated to socialising, including a living room with a circular skylight overhead and a covered balcony in front. This leads through to a simple kitchen with a large dining area.
The lowest level accommodates a series of en-suite bedrooms, positioned on either side of a communal central space that leads straight out to the beach.
Campo Baeza, whose past projects include a walled house for a poet and a hilltop home with a bulky concrete structure, describes the building as ” the most radical house we have ever made”.
“On a marvellous place like a piece of earthly paradise, at Cádiz, we have built an infinite plane facing the infinite sea,” he said.
Photography is by Javier Callejas.
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Hong Kong designers Tomas Rosén and Nicol Boyd have created a flexible condiment set to put an end to mismatched bottles, jars and containers on the dining table (+ slideshow).
Rosén and Boyd, of Office for Product Design, noticed that most condiment sets hold predetermined combinations – salt and pepper, oil and vinegar – yet the condiments people want on their tables vary by country, culture and personal preference, resulting in a mismatched collection of containers.
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The Taste Condiment Set for homeware brand Jia Inc consists of a moulded plywood stand that holds a coherent series of test-tube-like glass containers that can be used for different combinations of condiments.
Containers have been designed for salt, pepper, oil, vinegar, soy sauce, chilli, spices, dried herbs and toothpicks.
When they are stored in the stand, only the white injection moulded plastic tops are visible.
“The contents of the test tubes are concealed to create a uniform appearance when the inserts are docked,” Rosén told Dezeen.
“By doing this we were able to bring a visual clarity to the set by concealing the wide variety of colours and textures of the condiments themselves, which would otherwise strongly affect its appearance on the tabletop.”
Instead of displaying the contents, subtle visual references are included on the tops to reveal which container is which.
“We have relied on communicating the content through historically accepted typological cues, such as one small central hole for salt, multiple small holes for pepper, spouts for liquids etc,” said Rosén.
The round-bottomed design of the glass containers prevents them from standing on their own, encouraging users to put the vials back into the stand after use so the table remains tidy.
“We noticed that waiting staff often have to rearrange condiment jars and cruets when clearing the table after a meal,” explained Rosén. “That observation sparked the idea to design the containers in such a way that they cannot stand on their own, but have to be returned to the stand after use.”
The condiment set is available as a four-piece arrangement of salt, pepper, oil and vinegar for Western users.
It also comes in a less-prescriptive Asian version that could hold soy sauce, vinegar, chilli and toothpicks for example, while a smaller set contains only a pair of containers.
The Taste Condiment Set launched earlier this year at the Ambiente trade fair in Frankfurt. It has since won the German iF Product Design Award, and a Japanese ‘G Mark’ Good Design Award.
Office for Product Design is a Hong Kong-based studio formed in 2007 by Nicol Boyd and Tomas Rosén, who originally began their collaboration while studying at the Royal College of Art in London.
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Located between two major bridges at the Rhine Carée, a significant public urban space of Cologne, the RheinRing represents the new center & links the two halves of the city. The circular construction serves as a pedestrian walkway directly accessible from the historical city center on the west, the Rhine Boulevard on the opposite side, as well as the flanking Rhine bridges. Situated over this landmark river, the ring allows for an innovative experience as an urban space in the inner city, frequented by pedestrians and cyclists. The gained urban space has great potential for cultural events, sports & leisure activities.
The free-floating ring above the river Rhine is a light arch construction that picks up formal references to the flanking Rhine bridges as well as to the special buildings nearby such as the LanxessArena event center, the main station building, the Museum Ludwig and more. The geometry of the RheinRing is based on the mathematical model of a super ellipse, a flattened ellipse that mediates between the square and the round forms. The bridge above blends smoothly into the square of the Rhine Carée and, following the same formal principle, forms wider and narrower areas, which arise from the planned utilization.
The geometrical model introduced in 1959 by Danish writer and inventor Piet Hein describes a form that is pleasing to the eye and which he himself describes as follows: “The superelljpse has the same convincing unity as the circle and ellipse, but it is less obvious and less banal, it is a relief from the straightjacket of the simpler curves of first and second powers, the straight line and the conic sections.” The cantilever arch bridge forms a barrier-free and inviting access with its generously rounded passages to the water’s edge and to the existing Rhine bridges. Here the new pedestrian promenade joins the existing route forming a multi-layered road network. Since the support-free suspension requires no additional bridge piers in the Rhine Carée, river traffic moving along the north-south axis remains unaffected.
Designers: Marco Hemmerling & Stefan Polónyi
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L’architecte japonais Kengo Kuma dont nous avons parlé à plusieurs reprises, a réalisé un centre d’accueil de soins infirmiers. Intitulé «hayama no mori», le projet est réalisé principalement en bois, et offre une structure à la fois moderne, mais chaleureuse. Plus d’images dans l’article.
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