I spend a substantial amount of my day on my desk, typing away to glory. Most of the time I also end up eating my meals on it! And binge-watching on Netflix as well. And I’m sure that’s the case with most of us, since working from home became the new norm, and our home offices became our new hang-out spots. But having a great desk is really important! Simply a ‘good’ desk won’t do either. A great desk helps us work comfortably and effectively. It puts us in the right mindset, helping us achieve our daily productivity goals and checkmark all the tasks on our to-do list! Not only should our desks be clean, but they should also sport an ergonomic and functional design! And good looks are an added bonus. And finding a desk that does all of the above can be a Herculean task. But worry not, I’ve found the perfect desk for you – the Croft Sit-Stand Desk!
Designer: Jamie Hoyle and Katherine Mathew of Koda Studios
Designed by Yorkshire-based furniture studio Koda, the Croft Sit-Stand Desk is a height-adjustable desk for home offices. The elegant and chic-looking desk was designed by the studio’s managing director Jamie Hoyle and creative director Katherine Mathew. The duo was inspired by traditional writing desks while designing the Croft Sit-Stand Desk, and they integrated a touch-screen console that enables users to change the desk’s height from seated to standing positions.
Built using American Black walnut, the desk was designed to be a sophisticated and sleek addition to home offices, functioning as a modern furniture piece that is the “perfect fusion of form and function”, equipped with angled drawers that offer sufficient storage and provide a unique geometric quality to the desk. Besides being exceptionally good-looking, the desk also offers ergonomic comfort and value.
“This walnut design is defined by statement bold lines and sleek angles. Boasting plenty of storage, the desk has a geometric profile with angled storage compartments that are perfect for keeping loose stationery and filing in place,” said Koda. “We draw inspiration for our custom furniture designs from the artistry of interior design and architecture,” added Hoyle.
As a child, I loved sitting and spending hours excruciatingly and lovingly building little LEGO block structures. But, watching my sister bump into them, causing them to fall apart completely was truly heartbreaking. We all have heartwarming memories associated with LEGO blocks from our childhood, as well as the not-so-heartwarming ones of stepping on them with our feet and feeling an insane amount of pain shoot up our legs. Despite these wonderful childhood memories, LEGO is no more considered child’s play! Master builders, artists, and LEGO enthusiasts all over the world are creating impressive LEGO builds that’ll blow your minds away. They are a result of their hours of dedication, attention to detail, hard work, and creativity. And we’ve put together some mindblowing LEGO builds that recently took our breath away! From a gravity-powered LEGO rollercoaster to a Mars rover replica by LEGO and NASA – these LEGO builds are gonna get LEGO lovers drooling over them.
1. LEGO “The Moon: Earth’s Companion”
The LEGO Art space poster “The Moon: Earth’s Companion” is a fan-made creation built using 2360 bricks, and pays tribute to the beauty and brilliance of the moon. It features a brick-built Moon built with immense attention to detail, accentuated by realistic craters and terrains. The Moon was built completely from LEGO ART bricks and is a celebration of the moon’s mystery and tranquility.
2. The LEGO Icons Chevrolet Camaro Z28
The LEGO Icons Chevrolet Camaro Z28 lets you rebuild an iconic piece of American history! Building this classic vehicle is truly fun, and the finished piece even lets you lift up the hood and have a peek inside. You can pick from the hardtop coupe or convertible options, curating the look that perfectly matches your automotive tastes. The detailed V8 engine and working steering team up with the opening side doors, hood, and trunk beautifully, creating a realistic LEGO build that works!
3. LEGO The Fairground Collection set 10303 Loop Coaster
The Fairground Collection set 10303 Loop Coaster is a part of the Creator Expert series, and is the first official gravity-powered LEGO rollercoaster that has been released. It consists of 3756 LEGO pieces, and takes surreal minifigs on a two-full loop ride before coming to a halt. Using kinetic energy to complete the ride in one motion is an incredible feat in itself since the size of the 36-inch-tall LEGO set is still compact by any standards.
4. The LEGO Hogwarts Express Collector’s Edition Building Set
The LEGO Hogwarts Express Collector’s Edition building set includes a detailed replica of Platform 9 3/4 and the Hogwarts Express. It provides adult collectors with a buildable 1:34 scale replica of their favorite scenes from the books and movies! In fact, the train comes equipped with a lever on the top, which enables you to move the train around like a steam train. The build measures over 10.5 inches in height, 46.5 inches in length, and 8 inches in width.
5. The LEGO® Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Model
LEGO collaborated with NASA to create the LEGO® Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance model that measures a little over 12 inches long and features a 360° steering, a movable arm, and a fully articulated suspension system that allows the rover to travel across various uneven surfaces on all 6 wheels. The build was designed to be a STEM boy to help children grow interested in and get excited about space engineering and travel. The rover features an AR experience that allows the kids to explore the rover and its red-planet home.
6. LEGO DOTS
The LEGO DOTS range of craft gifts and toys is designed for kids from the ages of 6 to 9, and the entire collection consists of 40 different sets. The varied sets include full kits to home decor items, bracelets, accessories, and much more. It helps children to create different colors, sparkles, styles, and faces, allowing them to develop their artistic side. The little LEGO builds can be added to the kids’ personal belongings, or they can share them with family and friends.
7. LEGO Pac-Man Arcade
LEGO has recreated the charm and beauty of the vintage arcade game Pac-Man with its latest release. The newly released LEGO set perfectly captures the essence of the iconic arcade game. Although the set is non-functional, it showcases meticulous and careful attention to detail, complemented by Pac-Man’s maze, functional joystick, and a coin slot. This unique set promises to transport gaming enthusiasts back to the golden era of gaming!
8. LEGO “Batman Returns” Batcave Shadow Box
This limited edition “Batman Returns” Batcave Shadow Box is a 3981-piece set that measure 20 inches wide, and 11 inches tall once it is completely assembled. It comes equipped with working lights, moving parts, a Batarang cabinet, and a Batmobile with a flame element that is attached to the exhaust and rotates when the car moves.
9. The LEGO X-Wing Starfighter Kit
The LEGO X-Wing Starfighter kit includes 1949 pieces and measures up to 10.5 inches in height, and 21.5 inches in length once assembled. The good-looking Starfighter includes an R2-D2 minifig inside and a spot to place the Luke Skywalker minifig all dressed up in a Rebel flight suit. The build can be proudly displayed on an old-school stand, with the option of having the wings retracted or fully opened in the X configuration.
10 Sariel Bricks and Pets’ LEGO Flip Clock
Meet the Sariel Bricks and Pets’ LEGO Flip Clock! The build looks and operates exactly like an old mechanical flip clock, and in fact, even utilizes the same gear and mechanism to tell time. The innovative clock is built completely from LEGO bricks, except for the number stickers on the flip panels. It measures 44 cm wide and 15 cm tall (17.4″ by 5.9″) and is equipped with a 10:1 gear ratio for counting down the minutes, and a 12:1 gear ratio for the hours (allowing it to reset every 12 hours).
LEGO lovers, particularly you parents whose kids will shortly be out of school: This week the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. launches Brick City, an exhibition of international streetscape creations by LEGO maestro Warren Elsmore.
“The National Building Museum’s mission is to inspire curiosity about the world we design and build.Brick City celebrates iconic architecture from cities around the world through carefully recreated constructions made from LEGO® bricks by U.K.-based artist Warren Elsmore.”
“Visitors will take a world tour discovering new destinations across all seven continents that include: lively streetscapes from Cartagena, Colombia; Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans; intricate temples from India to Mexico; and imaginative castles from medieval Japan to modern Las Vegas.”
“The exhibition offers a chance to discover new buildings as well as some more recognizable icons—spotting surprising common ground between buildings thousands of years and miles apart, such as the Roman Colosseum and the 2012 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. The magnificent centerpiece of the exhibition is London’s St. Pancras Station, measuring 12-feet-long and built from over 180,000 standard LEGO® bricks.”
The exhibit will also feature an interactive area where you and your brood can build your own LEGO creations; for once you’ll be able to rest easy knowing you’re not going to step on one of these bricks later.
For those of you not familiar with Elsmore’s work, or should I say the Elsmores’ work, Warren and spouse Teresa are world-traveling exhibition pros who have the packaging of their exhibitions—you never really think about how they have to crate all this stuff up—down to a science. On their blog they’ve got some shop shots revealing their packing practices, right down to how they lay out shipping containers in SketchUp.
If you can’t make Brick City this week, or even this month, breathe easy: The exhibition will be open for two years. Visiting info is here.
The collection consists of six different pieces of seating, including an armchair, a dining chair and two stools.
The Lounge Chair introduces fabrics to the Africa collection
Spanish brand Vondom recently added the Africa Lounge Chair to the collection, introducing fabrics for the first time.
The compact lounge chair has a polypropylene base topped with upholstered padding available in different finishes and colours.
A sun lounger was previously added to the collection
Its curving shape is intended to be as ergonomic as possible to ensure a pleasant resting experience.
Vondom previously introduced the Africa sun lounger, designed by Quitllet to be used in a variety of settings but especially by the sea.Like the Africa Lounge Chair, it is defined by smooth, simple shapes.
The Africa collection also features a dining chair, an armchair and two stools
“These design creations complement each other to offer a universe of unique and extraordinary environments,” said Vondom.
Pieces in the collection are also available in recycled plastic as part of Vondom’s Revolution series.
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Glass is premium, plastic isn’t. Yet it appears that in future upscale beverages like sparkling wine and perhaps champagne will come in plastic bottles.
Having won Milan Design Week’s 2023 Best Packaging contest, SIPA Packaging‘s design for a PET sparkling wine bottle will reportedly be coming to market. The recyclable bottle “maximizes logistics efficiencies, minimizes handling risks, runs on existing glass-filling lines, and has a lower carbon footprint,” says SIPA.
“The patented bottle is an improved alternative to traditional glass bottles,” the company insists, “helping the European wine industry address a glass shortage due to supply chain, energy and raw material challenges. The average cost of a glass wine bottle increased 23 percent from April 2020 to April 2023, and doubled in some European markets.”
“At just 90g, the new PET sparkling wine bottle is about 80 percent lighter than a traditional glass bottle and is almost unbreakable. The optimal weight allows up to 33 percent more bottles per truck, and its shatter-proof properties help improve mobility logistics.”
While plastic recycling rates are abysmal in America, glass recycling is, like a poorly-handled glass bottle, “broken,” according to the American Chemical Society. Where I live in the South, glass recycling is not offered and thus it goes into the landfill. So I do see some wisdom in moving towards plastic bottles over glass. However, the transition does make me think of hotel rooms stopping daily housekeeping: A classic case of This doesn’t improve anything for the end user, but does increase the company’s profits and can be cloaked in environmental concerns.
Wondrous sculptural and horticultural installations that offer societal insight
It’s not only the sight of hundreds of glittering vultures perched alone or huddled in groups in front of the Enid A Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) that startles passersby; it’s also the way these stark, shimmering sculptures contrast the vibrance of surrounding blood-red, burgundy, purple and orange-colored blooms and the various green hues of springtime undergrowth. Together, this astonishing spectacle forms one component of …things come to thrive…in the shedding…in the molting…, an enveloping series of installations by visual artist Ebony G Patterson. For anyone who has dreamed of visiting this verdant wonderland in The Bronx, Patterson gives reason to do so now.
This one indelible vision acts as an introduction to the surprises that follow inside the conservatory: ghostly limbs, a sanguine pool, cast-glass representations of extinct plant species and an exquisite array of living flowers that commune with the interventions. As an aesthetic experience, the immersive installation is unlike any other; as a large-scale work of art, it says so much more—addressing postcolonial spaces and the very nature of growth and decay.
“I said to Joanna [L. Groarke, vice president of exhibitions and programming at the NYBG], who’s the curator I’ve been working with here over the last number of years…I’m going to give you a show that you’ve not had before,” Patterson said in front of the conservatory during the press preview. “The NYBG has engaged with other artists before, but they haven’t worked with artists who’ve necessarily considered plants as [an artistic] material.”
Following a residency at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in advance of this exhibition, Patterson began to think of gardens as not only a place for organic survival, but also social survival. “People often think that when I’m talking about gardens, that I’m actually talking about the site of a garden. But I’m also speaking about using the garden as a metaphor to talk about social spaces, thinking quite largely about working class spaces. A lot of working class spaces in Jamaica have the name ‘gardens’ next to it. It references the land in the same way that a lot of wealthy neighborhoods do.”
Patterson asked herself, “what does it then mean to think about a garden as it relates to communities that are given particular kinds of care—in terms of what is thought of as a space of investment, of possibility. What does it also then mean to think about those gardens that are not given consideration for the possibility of care—but thrive regardless because that is what happens in nature, right? Things live on, irrespective of what one puts in nature’s way.”
It was through an unexpected encounter with an all-white leucistic peacock at a garden in Jamaica (that she’d been going to since she was a child), that furthered the idea. “In seeing this peacock, the peacock was in molting and it was in an enclosure and it was a dark enclosure and the peacock just kind of hovered in the space, ebbing and flowing,” she said. “Thinking about what the peacock is, this incredibly beautiful bird with all of its pageantry, to see it at its ugliest moment, remained with me for a year. And so in thinking about that I couldn’t help but think about the question ‘what does it mean to witness your own ugliness?’ For me, unpacking the garden in a moment of molting, in a moment of transformation, is about witnessing our collective ugliness and noting that even in the ugliness beauty is possible.”
Beyond the conservatory and its lawn, Patterson perched awe-inspiring works in the Mertz Library—one of which must be circumnavigated for a complete vision. All of Patterson’s works throughout the NYBG are the result of a multi-year engagement that has included substantial access and in-depth research. Altogether, complex societal insights blossom from stunning landscapes and monumental installations.
Developer Uribe Schwarzkopf has unveiled the design for the residential YOO GYE skyscraper in Guayaquil, Ecuador, which will be designed in collaboration with YOO Inspired by Starck.
Set to be built in Guayaquil, the 176-metre-high skyscraper will be located alongside the Rio Guayas river, which runs through Ecuador’s largest city.
French designer Philippe Starck, who leads YOO Inspired by Starck, described the building as a “paradise designed for the happiness of the people who will live in it”.
The building will be designed in collaboration with YOO Inspired by Starck
“YOO projects, and YOO GYE in particular, are about ‘you’,” said YOO Inspired by Starck creative director Philippe Starck.
“I wanted to create a place that draws people together, that makes them laugh, makes them more in love, more sparkling, more intelligent,” he continued.
“I wanted to create fertile surprises to awake people, to create conversations, to create interactions and to trigger creativity. A place where us, humans, are at its heart. YOO GYE will be this place, this island, this sort of paradise designed for the happiness of the people who will live in it.”
It will feature a number of set backs topped with outdoor spaces
The 46-storey residential tower will contain a total of 633 apartments arranged in blocks that are set back as the skyscraper rises.
Each of the setbacks, which will be fronted with a series of arches, creates an outdoor space that according to the developer will contain communal spaces and “native vegetation”.
Alongside the apartments, the skyscraper will contain numerous facilities including a spa, outdoor pools, cinema and “party room” as well as retail spaces on the lower floors.
Although renders of the building show it located in a rural location, it is set to be built in the downtown Puerto Santa Ana neighbourhood alongside several other high-rise buildings.
Its facade contains multiple arches
The facade makes use of multiple arches, described as “a common motif found in the area” and will be clad in a combination of glass and stone.
“With a conscious emphasis on using local materials, such as limestone, YOO GYE combines earthy textures of soft woods and stones with solid, high-sheen glass and metal finishes to create a contemporary minimal scheme for functional living,” said the developer.
“We’re excited once again to be working with YOO Inspired by Starck and announce plans for our third project with them; YOO GYE, our latest contribution to the growing transformation of Guayaquil,” said Uribe Schwarzkopf general manager Joseph Schwarzkopf.
“The mixed-use scheme reflects the local architecture and natural surroundings. We are looking forward to seeing the building come to life and to continue to be a part of the fabric of Guayaquil.”
This carry-on duffle bag from Delsey Paris differentiates itself thanks to a hard bottom shell made from recycled plastic bottles, multiple interior compartments and pockets (including one RFID pocket) and exterior pockets. It’s an ideal fit for the gym, a weekend getaway or as an airline-compatible carry-on. Flexible straps let you carry it, sling it over your shoulder or wear it as a backpack.
The Spanish pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale spotlights the country’s agro-architectural infrastructure, with imagery by photographer Pedro Pegenaute.
Pegenaute visited over 50 sites across the country to create a photography series that reveals the buildings and landscapes involved in producing everyday food products.
These locations include factory buildings, farms, distribution centres, workshops and a mix of agricultural and natural landscapes.
One project spotlights the infrastructure for fishing and preparing octopus
The photos form part of a research project called Total Recipes, which looks at 10 classic Spanish dishes and reveals the entire infrastructural chain involved in sourcing or producing each ingredient.
The series was commissioned by architects Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa and Manuel Ocaña, curators of this year’s Spanish pavilion exhibition, Foodscapes.
With the tagline, “By eating, we digest territories”, the exhibition shines a light on Spain’s extensive food production systems and the architecture that facilitates them.
Another recipe explores the global processes involved in producing tinned squid
Each of the Total Recipes was selected and investigated by a different architectural studio, but Pegenaute was tasked with producing photographs for all 10. This involved visiting more than 50 different sites in Spain and beyond.
Among them were a sweet-flavouring laboratory in Barcelona, a shipyard in Viga, a pig farm in Salamanca and a cork production facility in Portugal.
In a Dezeen exclusive, Pegenaute has selected a favourite shot for each recipe. Read on to see all 10:
Recipe: Drinking Forests: a Metabolic Recipe of Wine Project author: Urbanitree (Daniel Ibañez, Vicente Guallart) and Manuel Bouzas Location: Finsa, Santiago de Compostela
For a recipe highlighting the role of forests in the production of wine, Pegenaute visited manufacturers of timber and cork products.
“This photo captures the pine log collection area at the Finsa factory and the start of the production line for the wooden crates used for wine bottles,” said Pegenaute.
“The tongs of a lorry lift these like chopsticks and deposit them on a conveyor belt of another machine that skins them until they are bare. From there, they will go through different processes until, in this case, they are turned into wooden wine crates.”
Recipe: Traces of Almojábanas Project author: Lucía Jalón Oyarzun Location: Lucta, Barcelona
This project saw Pegenaute explore the factories involved in the production of Almojábanas, a type of fritter made from flour and cheese, coated with cinnamon and honey.
“This image is of shelves in a Lucta sweet-flavouring laboratory,” said Pegenaute.
“This is where the raw materials used as ingredients for the production of liquid flavourings for human consumption are stored and sorted. For several days after my visit, every time I opened the camera bag, the aroma that was trapped in it that day came out again.”
Recipe: Refried Potato Wafers with Leftover Sardine, Pagpag-Style Salad Residue and Pickled Aubergines in Garum Marinade Project author: S&AA (Federico Soriano, Dolores Palacios) Location: Planta Biometanización, Pinto
This recipe explores the practices of reusing leftover food, and of producing fermented or autolysed food. Ingredients are macerated using Garum sauce, a strong-flavoured condiment.
The project took Pegenaute to a biomethanation and composting plant on the outskirts of Madrid.
Recipe: Sea and Mountain Paella for Two Families and Friends Project author: Aldayjover (Iñaki Alday, Margarita Jover, Jesús Arcos, Francisco Mesonero) Location: Presa de Susqueda, Girona
A project tracing the impact of paella led to a river delta in Girona and the architecture involved in managing it.
“This is the interior of the Susqueda Dam, built on the Ter River by the engineer and architect, Arturo Rebollo in 1968,” said Pegenaute.
“The interior of this signature dam has the capacity to touch your emotions. Its silence is deafening; only the dripping of the rain filtering in from a corner could be heard.”
Recipe: Protein Clickbait for the 14 Percent Project author: Common Accounts (Igor Bragado + Miles Gertler) Location: Granja Valle de Odieta, Caparroso, Navarre
An exploration of the whey protein powder used to make protein shakes took Pegenaute to dairy industry structures used to grow herd feed, raise cows and extract milk.
“This is the interior of the largest rotary milking parlour in Spain, which belongs to the Valle de Odieta farm in Caparroso,” said the photographer.
Recipe: Polbo á Granxa (Galician-Style Octopus) Project author: Institute for Postnatural Studies (Gabriel Alonso, Pablo Ferreira Navone, Yuri Tuma, Matteo Guarnaccia, Karol Poliwka, Clara Benito) Location: Puerto de Corme, A Coruña
This project looks at the Galician gastronomic culture of fishing and cooking octopus, and how it has led to construction of the world’s first octopus farm in Spain.
Pegenaute visited the region to explore both the traditional and modern infrastructures of this practice.
“This is Rosa, who is making an octopus pot in the hangar where the women who form the Asociación de mujeres Tejedoras de Nasas work,” he said.
Recipe: Txipirones en su Tinta (Squid in its Ink) Project author: GFA2 (Guillermo Fernández-Abascal) and Fake Industries (Urtzi Grau) Location: Astillero Freire, Vigo
The global logistics involved in producing tinned squid include fishing in the South Atlantic Blue Hole, freezing in Indonesia and Yemen, packaging in the north of Spain, and shipping around the world.
Pegenaute photographed a shipyard involved in this product journey.
“This is the ship-access scaffolding,” he said. “Without a ship to climb, this ladder will take you wherever your imagination wants to go.”
Recipe: PrEP Bread Project author: Ivan L Munuera, Pablo Saiz del Río and Vivian Rotie Location: Delta del Ter, Basses d’en Coll, Giron
To trace the geographies involved in gluten-free bread, the recommended accompaniment to a type of medical treatment called Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Pegenaute visited locations where ingredients are sourced.
“This is a rice paddy flooded by water from the Ter River Delta,” said Pegenaute.
“I am a huge fan of this kind of photograph because of the semi-abstraction. You have to spend time looking at it to see what it shows.”
With “ghost kitchens” tapping into the demand for traditional Spanish dishes on delivery, Pegenaute looked at the infrastructure behind egg production.
“These are hens for egg production at the Legaria Farm in Navarra,” said the photographer.
“In this space, the clucking of the hens in unison is a soft sound with a contained volume, but it is precisely this, in addition to its constancy, that makes it strident.”
Recipe: Total Recipe for (Eating) Croquetas de Jamón (in the Future) Project author: C+ Arquitectas (Nerea Calvillo, María Buey González, Manuel Alba Montes) Location: Finca El Encinar de Montejo, Salamanca
For a project exploring the ingredients of the popular Spanish croquette, Pegenaute visited a breeding facility for the Iberian pigs that supply the pork.
“Some will see a window, and others what it hides behind its dirt,” said the photographer.
The Venice Architecture Biennale takes place from 20 May to 26 November 2023. See Dezeen Events Guide for information about the event, plus a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.
Interiors studio Fettle drew on the neo-baroque architecture of this Edwardian building in London‘s Soho when converting it into a members’ club, as well as nodding to the area’s colourful history of the 1950s and 60s.
Owned by Maslow’s, the group behind Fitzrovia club Mortimer House, 1 Warwick features mid-century furniture and lighting along with bespoke designs that reimagine the furniture of the period.
Fettle has designed the 1 Warwick members’ club in London
The mix includes jaunty elements such as splayed-leg easy chairs and scallop-edged rattan lighting.
“During this period of history, Soho was much grittier than we find it today, so we wanted to underplay the more elevated finishes that you would typically find in a members’ club,” Fettle‘s director Andy Goodwin told Dezeen.
“We have referenced the less polished nature of Soho in this period with raw plaster wall finishes and exposed brick.”
The club has a rooftop restaurant called Yasmin
Fettle juxtaposes these references with some influences from the neo-baroque mansion itself, reworking its sense of assured comfort in a contemporary way with richly toned wood panelling and elaborate chandeliers.
“We wanted to ensure that we referenced this period within the final design,” Goodwin said. “We simplified a traditional Edwardian baroque skirting and architrave style within the bespoke joinery that was designed for the ground and first floors.”
“Typically, buildings of a similar age had common features, including bold geometric floor patterns within the entrances. And as such we reimagined a pattern from the period in the lobby of 1 Warwick.”
Its wraparound roof terrace offers views across Soho
While drawing on the history of the building and the area, Fettle worked hard to ensure that the club feels fresh, welcoming and contemporary.
“We have mixed furniture, lighting and accessories from a variety of different eras and curated a space that feels relaxed and residential in its aesthetic,” he continued.
“When designing furniture specifically for the project, we referenced more traditional designs, however. We looked at the details through a modern lens to make the space feel familiar yet contemporary.”
Set over six floors, the crowning glory of 1 Warwick is the rooftop bar and restaurant Yasmin with its wraparound roof terrace and views across Soho.
Here, pink mohair-upholstered bar stools nestle against a wood-clad marble-topped bar while the menu is Middle Eastern, inspired by executive chef Tom Cenci’s time in Istanbul.
Two lounge spaces – the Living Room and adjoining Den – are at the heart of the club, where Fettle used an earthy-toned palette, along with exposed brick walls and geometric patterned rugs to bring a sense of warmth to the interior.
The club has several co-working areas
“We wanted to let the existing architectural features be visible within the final design to create a more neutral backdrop, onto which we layered playful choices across the furniture and fittings,” said Goodwin.
“We used deep, saturated, colourful fabrics for the upholstered pieces and we have looked to mix mohairs and velvets with more vibrant leathers and patterned fabrics to give an eclectic feel to the space,” said Goodwin.
In the daytime, 1 Warwick offers spaces to suit different kinds of working styles, from private studies and rentable desks to the Pied-à-Terre – an open-plan workspace featuring long, library-style tables and comfortable lounge seating.
Members can also work in private meeting rooms
At ground level, there’s the neighbourhood bistro and bar Nessa, open to all and offering a playful take on British classics while the more intimate, horseshoe-shaped bar serves up its own menu of small plates.
With a colour palette of warm, autumnal tones and a material mix of exposed brick, wood panelling and marble-topped tables, the atmosphere here is welcoming and down-to-earth.
The Nessa restaurant is set on the ground floor and open to the public
Founded in 2013, Fettle has a long history in hospitality design with previous projects including the Schwan Locke Hotel in Munich, which was conceived as an homage to early German modernism.
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NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Model
