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Ideal for those starting out with looming or who don’t want to commit to a massive project, WE GATHER sells this Lil Loom Kit. Along with a pre-threaded frame (measuring three by three inches), the set includes six different colored yarns, a weaving needle and illustrated instructions. The craft-centered brand also offers the slightly larger Simple Loom Kit, and the even bigger Frame Loom Kit.

The advent of recreational vehicles has brought a new dimension to the old-school camping setup. Such camper trailers literally bring the comfort, convenience, and luxury of your cozy home to the wheels – and every new design amazes me. The Bailey Discovery D4-2 Camper Trailer is one such creation, tailored for adventure enthusiasts who can’t help but satiate their wanderlust – exploring the untrodden trails. The USP of this camper trailer is its inflatable awning which creates almost double the private space you need for your escapades under the star-studded nights.

On the inside, D4-2 is equipped with all the amenities and a fully furnished interior. Enough to suffice the needs of a couple on their long road trip – with the odd guest coming along the way for a couple of days. The big windows on all sides and the skylight fills the interiors with enough sunlight for a calming feel. The lounge area includes two couches and a fold-down table. In the kitchen, you’ll get an oven/grill combo appliance, a drop-down worktop extension, and a sink. On the opposite side, there is a mini-fridge with space underneath to store food and beverages. You also get the convenience of a shoes and clothes closet along with a separate area for cabinet storage. Of course, there is a good-sized bathroom too!

Coming on to the USP of the camper trailer – the inflatable awning dubbed Discovery Air Awning is made from weather-resistant fabric has a curved wraparound shape that encapsulates one side of the caravan. So that it feels like a separate space, there are removable front and side doors. Also, you get the large overdoor skylights with zip-up curtains to lounge in the outdoors while being protected from the elements or bugs and mosquitoes. What’s more, we can attach an optional inner sleeping tent that accommodates two adults. The awning is very easy to pitch, and when not needed, it can be wrapped up and securely attached to the side of the camper.

The Discovery D4-2 Camper Trailer is designed intuitively on the inside, and the inflatable awning further increases its value three-folds. The extra private space virtually makes you feel at home, and the airy feeling will make you spend a couple of nights more under the starry sky than you actually planned!

Designer: Lady Bailey Carvans

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Matthew Giles Architects used white oak joinery and different floor levels to break up the open-plan ground floor of this redesigned and upgraded six-bedroom house in Wandsworth, London.

The Victorian terraced house belongs to a young family that wanted to create a home that was more suited to entertaining and having relatives stay over.

Originally a four-bedroom house, London practice Matthew Giles Architects was asked by the owners to add two bedrooms and a basement for services and storage.

The family wanted to enhance the connection between inside and outside, as well as improve the light flow and visual connections throughout the house.

To create extra space, the architects added a side-return and a small rear extension with a Corten steel roof, a loft extension and a basement floor. These additions increased the internal floor area from 155 square metres to 216 square metres.

“With a small courtyard garden at the rear, the size of the ground floor extension was designed to strike a balance between internal space gained and loss of garden,” Giles told Dezeen.

“Although modest, the ground floor extension acts as a tool for enhanced light flow throughout the ground and basement levels. The vaulted side extension provides much-needed height to create a sense of light and space.”

The interior is finished with a neutral palette of raw materials such as timber, stone, concrete, timber and brick.

On the ground floor, at the front of the house, a new parquet flooring draws the eye through the lobby towards the light from the garden at the rear. Varying floor levels have been used to divide the narrow space into three distinct zones.

The first is an entrance area that faces onto the street, the second serves as a reading nook with white oak joinery and railings, and the third is a sunken kitchen and dining space that looks out over the garden through full-height glass doors.

The kitchen features Douglas Fir timber cranked beams, timber cabinetry, white Carrara marble surfaces and exposed London stock brickwork that covers the sidewall.

“The kitchen acts as a point around which other activities flow,” said the studio. “The exposed beams create an enhanced light quality and sense of order when looking along the length of the house towards the garden and framing views as you move through the house.”

Polished concrete floors were installed in the kitchen and dining area and on the adjoining external terrace to help blur the boundaries between inside and outside.

“The design has been executed so that in all areas there is an intimate connection with nature,” explained the architects. “Seated within the lofty, vaulted dining space the view out is framed by two in-situ cast concrete columns that are filleted to broaden the view.”

The basement houses a playroom area, a new ensuite bedroom and a utility room that is brightly lit by openings in the floor above and a capping skylight. The skylight also creates a visual connection between the playroom and the kitchen.

“This sectional approach adds a sense of drama,” said the practice. “The shadows drift down the brickwork wall and clouds are framed in the skylight two storeys overhead.”

The restrained colour and material palette is continued in the upstairs bedrooms and bathrooms with the addition of Tadelakt polished plaster in the bathroom.

Matthew Giles founded his practice in 2020 after 12 successful years in collaboration with architect Tom Pike.

As half of Giles & Pike, he completed a number of residential projects across the capital, including a stepped glass extension to a house in Putney, the conversion of a Victorian workshop into a home and a timber-clad residence designed for a tiny plot.

Photography is by Lorenzo Zandri.

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Dezeen promotion: the Mixu collection by architecture and design consultants Gensler for furniture brand Arper offers multiple colour and material options.

Made up of stools and chairs, the Mixu range is designed to be versatile and fit any context.

“Quiet in form and near-endless in possibilities, Mixu is a sustainable and versatile collection of chairs and stools that can be completely customised to suit the needs of any context, environment, or desire,” said Arper.

Each chair is made from three parts: a base, seat and backrest. Users can pick the colour and finishes, tailoring Gensler’s design to suit them.

“This three-part system can be personalised with myriad colour and texture combinations to create a silhouette whose softly rounded geometric curves, and minimal gesture creates a perfect canvas for material expression,” said Arper.

The collection is available in a range of materials and finishes. The chair and stool seats come in fabric, leather, FSC certified wood and post-industrial recycled plastic.

The product’s base is made from 70 per cent recycled steel, finished with a powder-based coat free from volatile organic compounds.

“Seats can be combined with backrest options in a plastic, fabric, or leather and four-leg bases in either metal or FSC certified wood. A stool option with the same size seat as the chair offers generous comfort for hospitality or contract use,” said Arper.

“The Mixu system is available in a range of material components for almost limitless design expressions. Playful or sophisticated, demure or vibrant, polished or plush, it’s all in the selection.”

“The Mixu system was designed with sustainability in mind and can be shipped disassembled to reduce its volume and carbon footprint.”

The seat and backrest upholsteries – including the polyurethane foam padding – are attached to the chair without the need for staples or glue, allowing users to replace them if needed and extending the product’s lifespan.

“Mixu can be completely disassembled for correct disposal, making this dynamic collection a materially conscious system throughout its life cycle,” explained Arper.

Find out more about Mixu by visiting the brand’s website.

Photography by Salva Lopez.

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Designed to give you the best of two incredibly capable worlds, the Aria is a nifty hybrid purifier that uses NASA-inspired purification technology along with the world’s oldest and most effective purification system – nature. Styled as a vertical planter, the Aria functions almost like a chimney, pulling air from the bottom and passing it through multiple filters, a UV chamber, and finally through the soil of a plant that uses phytoremediation to destroy any toxins and contaminants. The result? Purified air, obviously, but also an appliance that’s advanced enough to keep you healthy yet aesthetic enough to fit beautifully into your home’s decor.

The hybrid purifier’s sleek cylindrical design, although minimal, is also an effect of its function. The air travels from the base upwards, passing finally through a plant that serves as decorative greenery as well as a natural purifier. The air first travels through 3 mechanical filters (nylon, HEPA, and activated carbon), before making it into Aria’s UV chamber that neutralizes any harmful microorganisms, and finally an ionizer, which destroys VOCs and odors to produce fresh smelling air. In its final journey, the air makes its way through Aria’s ‘air booster’ which pushes wind through the base of the planter, allowing it to be further purified by the roots of your plant. The roots use an age-old natural process known as bio-remediation that remove, transfer, stabilize, and/or destroy contaminants in the soil, turning them into nutrients for the plant. Fresh, forest-like air makes its way out the sides of the Aria, filling your room with air as clean as the outdoors!

The Aria’s design and user-experience are clearly separated into two parts – the purifier, and the plant. The mechanical purifier itself exists in the lower half of the cylindrical appliance, which also sports a circular touchscreen display that gives you all the information you need – like your air quality, room temperature, humidity, etc. thanks to data fed to the device via its intelligent sensors. Alternatively, you can use Aria’s own app to operate your device, or even control it via the voice assistant on your phone or smart speaker. The upper half houses the plant along with a water-reservoir that automatically hydrates the soil so you don’t have to. Aside from Aria’s own app, you even have the option of using Tuya, a companion app that helps you choose the best plant for your Aria and your home. The Tuya app offers up to 40 different plant options that go well with the Aria based on their different purifying properties (although you can use pretty much any house-plant with your Aria). The app showcases plant ratings, the differences between each plant, and which ones are best for combating specific germs, allergens, toxins, and pollution. Together, the plant and purifier can collectively clean 325 square feet of air, making a single Aria perfect for the average living room or bedroom. You can place the Aria anywhere you’d keep a floor-standing planter, and the hybrid device doesn’t just visually enhance your space, it enhances the air you breathe too!

Designers: Aleksander Matecki & Janusz Skierkowski

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Aria – NASA Inspired Hybrid Air Purifier

The Aria is a Hybrid Air Purifier system that uses plants & air booster to detect and eliminate 99% of all indoor air pollutants while blending in with any interior.

The team was inspired by NASA’s report about the natural power of a plant’s roots, so using their own knowledge, they developed exclusive patent-pending hybrid technology for air purification.

Aria’s design approach is simple and clean. Highlighting the plant’s beauty so it blends in with the design of your space.

How Aria Works

Aria features classical mechanical air purifier tech that works in tandem with the plant’s natural filtering abilities to fight pollution, disease, and toxins.

Polluted air passes through the all-in-one ionizer, HEPA and activated carbon filter. Then, it is hit by UV light which is pulled by Aria’s turbine system.

The air then travels upward into the patent-pending air booster, invented to increase the amount of air to the plant’s root for filtering.

Smart Monitoring via the App

Aria uses multiple intelligent sensors to continuously monitor your environment. Information such as temperature, air humidity, air pollution, and graphs with history reports will be sent to your smartphone app.

Aria displays your air quality right on the touchpad display. The planter is compatible with Alexa and Google Assitant.

How to Set Up and Care for Your Plants

The plant library gives you easy instructions on how to set up and care for your plants.

The app showcases plant ratings, the differences between each plant, and which one is best for combating specific viruses, bacteria, and pollution, just to name a few.

Specs

Cleans up to 325ft2

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