Hasta La Ideas

A pegboard wall with customised pockets provides flexible storage at this tiny Soho office by London designers Studio Swine.

Designed for production company Emu Films, the 10 square-metre office provides a workplace for up to four people.

Lamps and stationery hang from the pegboard wall alongside Studio Swine’s boxes and pouches, which were custom-made from colourful linoleum tiles.

Parquet mahogany flooring reclaimed from a local high school was used to create the floating desk underneath the pegboard wall.

Lichen-covered oak offcuts provide wall-mounted shelves, while a desk folds up from the wall alongside.

Studio Swine are Royal College of Art graduates Alexander Groves and Azusa Murakami. Other projects by the duo include a pair of spectacles made from human hair and a project to recycle plastic particles dumped in the ocean.

Photographs are by Studio Swine.

Here’s some more information from Studio Swine:

Studio Swine have completed an office interior for EMU films, a production company located in Soho, London. The space, which measures approximately 10 sq. m., is a work place for 2 – 4 people.

The office is tiled in marble and decorated in a palette of light grey and white punctuated with bright, highly patterned marmoleum tiles to create a utilitarian work space with pop elements.

The floating desk maximises the sense of openness whilst the pegboard and folding desks keep the space flexible to changing requirements.

The mahogany desk uses reclaimed parquet flooring from a local high school, and the shelves have been made from the radial offcuts of sustainably sourced Kentish Oak.

Marmoleum, which is made up of 97% natural materials, has been used throughout the office for cladding cabinets, box files and stitched to form hanging pouches for stationery.

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Dutch designers Oatmeal Studio have hacked IKEA furniture to create a pop-up restaurant where diners pick their own tableware and cut their own tablecloths (+ slideshow.)

Located at the Filmhuis Den Haag theatre in The Hague, the IkHa restaurant is based on an IKEA showroom and is filled with wooden shelving units that integrate both storage areas and dining tables.

Diners tear their tablecloths and placements from wallpaper rolls that hang from the walls, before making their order using a pad and pencil.

The project is part of the wider “IKEA hacking” movement where designers modify or repurpose the Swedish brand’s products and publish them on the website IkeaHackers.net.

This week IKEA has installed a temporary airport lounge in Paris, which you can see here.

Photography is by Nadine Stijns.

Here’s a project description from Oatmeal Studio:

Oatmeal Studio hacks Ikea

IkHa is a dining experience by Oatmeal Studio, where the concept of IKEA has been dismantled and translated into a restaurant interior. It’s not a self service restaurant in the usual sense of the word. Instead, visitors are invited to participate and customize their surroundings while dining.

While ‘IKEA hacking’ – or creating spaces using the budget-savvy Swedish brand’s products in new ways – is a popular trend,the designers say they wanted to extend this concept.

IkHa is based on the showroom of IKEA itself.

A maze of shelves and rooms to navigate, often multiple times as one reconsiders their choices, and then arrives home with their flat-packed goods to begin the assembly process. Fortunately, they also sell Swedish Meatballs.

Guests fill in their ordering forms with pencils and dinner is served on trays, delivered to the furniture construction at which they’ve chosen to sit.

Visitors can create their table setting from a selection of materials and cut their own tablecloth or placemat from a selection of wallpapers, ready to measure and cut.

“Even the Swedish meatballs are hacked”…and very nice, according to one patron of the restaurant.

One of IKEA slogans is “Big ideas for small spaces”, an important aspect of the IkHa restaurant. Everything is collapsible and fold-able and when not in use can be quickly broken down to fit within a two square meter space.

This makes it ideal for temporary solutions, events, and festivals, according to the designers.

The restaurant is located in the Filmhuis/Den Haag Theatre in The Hague, the Netherlands, and can be visited until 30 July.

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Recycled wooden boards and pallets are stacked up as furniture at this office in Kraków by Polish designers Morpho Studio (+ slideshow).

Located in a former factory, the office for advertising agency Pride&Glory Interactive also features glazed meeting rooms with wooden frames and plank and batten doors.

Light bulbs hang from a bunch of cables in one of the meeting rooms, while grass lines the edge of the one opposite.

Spotlights illuminate the reception area, where the company’s awards are displayed on shelves supported by ladders.

Other office interiors we’ve featured recently include a laboratory-like architecture studio and an office with rooms dedicated to silence.

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Photography is by Hanna Długosz.

Here’s some text from Morpho Studio:

The new head office of Pride And Glory Interactive

The industrial character of the Zabłocie district goes much further back than the mid-19th century. It was here that many factories and industrial plants were situated, including a construction and building materials factory, Oskar Schindler’s enamelware factory and the building of the Telpod factory from the times of the Polish People’s Republic, seeming to stretch into infinity. Currently, Zabłocie is going through a revival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art located here attracts Kraków’s creative community.

It is precisely in this setting, in a building of a former cable factory, that the head office of the Pride and Glory Interactive agency is situated. The surface area of 800 m2 comprises mainly open spaces, but several conference rooms have also been included. The design was aimed at retaining the industrial atmosphere of the factory, but at the same time, at making it more cozy by adding some homely elements.

The interior has been fitted with elements such as award display shelves made of ladders; woodwork in the conference rooms inspired by details found in barns; shelves, the reception desk and some of the tables made of wooden boards obtained after the demolition of a 100-year-old house of one of the agency’s owners. An important element bringing the employees together is an open kitchen with a dining room. The post-industrial space turned out to be the perfect background for original furniture and accessories softening the austerity of the building and enhancing the qualities of the interior.

Location: Kraków
Area: 810 m2
Investor: Pride And Glory Interactive
Photo: Hanna Długosz

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A panoramic view of the harbour is mirrored onto a PVC ceiling at this apartment in Tel Aviv by Paritzki & Liani Architects (+ slideshow).

The family apartment is located on the twenty-first floor of a tower block in the south of the city.

Glazed walls surround the open-plan living room and spotlights stretch out like spiders’ legs from its shiny white ceiling.

Each room in the apartment features wooden floors and walls in the bathroom are clad with roughly cut layers of stone.

Another interesting project by Paritzki & Liani Architects is a house beside a cliff in Jerusalem.

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Photography is by Amit Geron.

Here’s a description from Paola Liani and Itai Paritzki:

R1T Apartment | Paritzki & Liani Architects

An angle. An “L” shaped volume positioned slightly higher than ground level about 80 meters above in a tower facing south-west of Tel Aviv, visually reaching like a proof of joint the sinuous coastline of the Jaffa port, only a few km away.

The design idea was to create a natural appendix to this visual correspondence in a territorial scale, and to obtain an ornamental integration of the city in the interior.

There are three routes traced on the inner perimeter of the “L” shaped volume: first is an entrance route that is internally duplicated by a second parallel passage covered with wood, leading to the night area, terminating and replicating itself along with the sea through the presence of a mirror / glass wall.

A third route, hidden and shorter, leads from the kitchen and dining area to the dark service zone shifting towards obscurity.

In this scheme for the sky, the main attraction is a place that “flies away from the world” in order to belong to the illusory of the blue that surrounds it.

Through the ceiling, a thin reflecting membrane, the city enters again the habitat, it appears, it gets lost; the streets, the buildings, find new boundaries between the atmospheric layers and miniatures signs of the carpets.

In this constant projection, the objects, everyday furniture pieces assume different layouts according to the mood, atmosphere and events of the house.

The night area transfers the projective references of the reflective ceiling but this time in a vertical way, along with partitions of mirror and transparent glass that allow a glimpse to the rough wall of stone of the bathroom.

A plan for the sky.

The nocturnal passage, the urban sky filled with artificial lights, stars, and paths form on the reflective ceiling and glass walls, weaved polygons, arches of circle, speedy rays of light, a dense arabesque that leaves the rest for the imagination.

The inhabitants observe.

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Japanese designer Reiichi Ikeda has built a wire mesh box in the middle of a fashion boutique in Osaka.

Chain-link fencing has been used for the walls of the box, which is separated into three parts and connected by rounded doorways.

Clothes rails have been positioned against the bare brick walls of the Martagon boutique and wood has been used for the counter and shelving.

Outside, a balcony made of chain-link fencing surrounds the shop window and the wooden entrance door.

Earlier today we featured another Osaka shop designed by Ikeda with a wooden house inside it.

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Photographs are by Yoshiro Masuda.

Here’s some more information from the designer:

Design concept:
This is an interior design for a specialty boutique in Osaka, Japan. The owner has their own world view and wants to share it with others that people should enjoy various fashion regardless of rules and genres, just like going off on adventures.

I constructed a design concept out of the keywords, going off on adventures, and designed a boutique where you can freely walk around as in going around the globe. I considered partitions as what can connect areas to each other, and I controlled the number of areas by using them in this space with too much good visibility.

The use of the undecorated chain-link fence is very clear, and can be a special element to differentiate the areas. The unique space gives you curiosity and a sense of anticipation as an adventure does.

Project Name: Martagon
Use: Clothing store
Location: 1F SOLEIL Minami-Horie, 1-15-10, Minami-Horie, Nishi-ku, Osaka-city, Osaka, Japan 550-0015
Store floor area: 66 sq m
Completion of construction: Mar 16, 2012
Interior Designer: Reiichi Ikeda
Photographer: Yoshiro Masuda

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