“Recycled Island”: a design project made from plastic waste in Rotterdam
(Images and contents by: http://recycledpark.com/floatingpark.html) Recycled Island is a project that makes us reflect about the abuse in the use of plastics. This is a problem that will only end by changing consumer habits. But what can be done with the tons of plastic waste that we have generated along the last decades and which are […]
Design Trends 2019 by Pinterest
Everything started as a social network to share pics with other photo-lovers. But little by little, it has attracted audience from other places on the web: people who share their daily lives have come from Facebook. Other users share selfies looking for relationships, (or just for the sake of narcisism). And there are those who […]
Pantone 2019 colour is finally revealed: “Living Coral”.
2019 is just around the corner. Smart Room Barcelona didn’t want to wait to speak about this: PANTONE 16-1546 is the code for the featured colour for next year. Pantone 2019 colour will be Living Coral. Pantone Color Institute detects a series of trends every year, and decides on which color reflects them better. Pantone has […]
5 Classic Design Oversized Lamps Illuminate a Manchester Square
The award-winning studio Acrylicize has produced a group of 5 classic design “supersized” lamps for Manchester Picadilly Square. These iconic lamps are inspired in different stages of the city’s history: an Art Nouveau Tiffany lamp, an Art Deco lamp, a Mid-Century Table lamp, a 1900’s Victorian Banker’s Desk lamp, and a Contemporary Iconic Anglepoise lamp. Each lamp […]
Urban Art to Cheer Up Cities: collective Boa Mistura
Urban art goes further beyond graffitti. Boa Mistura is a design collective conformed of 5 urban artists from Madrid. Their main objective is to generate positive and inspirational messages by the graphic intervention of public spaces. They have worked on their own, but also with ONGs and universities along different countries. They perform their graphic work on buildings […]
Peter Pichler’s Futuristic Wooden Installation
Pics by Oskar Dariz; design by Peter Pichler Many of our works consist of a wooden installation. So the The “Salone del Mobile” in Italy is the perfect spot for unusual things to happen. Last April, the “Università degli studi” in Milano hosted an installation by Peter Pichler. It was an atypical wooden structure. This […]
Fun Interiors for Kids: a Restaurant in China with a fun environment
All pics by © wutopia Chinese architectural studio Wutopia Lab have conceived an “experiential space for kids” in the city of Qinhuangdao. It used to be a club house, but it´s now a 1000 sqm restaurant for young people. By using diferent materials and textures (semitransparent polycarbonate, transparent plastic bubbles, or a bright coloured staircase), […]
Atelier des Lumières: Exhibiting with New Technologies
All images © culturespaces / E. spiller “Atelier des Lumières” is a digital art center which explores the possibilities of new technologies. This entertainment center opened earlier this year in Paris. Its goal is offering monumental exhibits by means of video projections and surrounding sound. This happens by taking advantage of new technologies available to […]
An Environmentally Conscious “Treehouse Art Gallery” in Tulum, Yucatan
(All pics by https://www.iklab.art/ and https://www.designboom.com/architecture/ik-lab-tulum-peggy-guggenheim-grandson-creates-tulum-gallery-04-27-2018/gallery/-04-27-2018 ) You linger for the perfect Summer destination, and you like Nature but you also like art. What about Mexico? We discovered this resort called Azulik, located in the heart of the Mayan Riviera, at Tulum, in Yucatan Peninsula. And we found out that Peggy Guggenheim’s grandson leads an incredible art gallery. This […]
Surprising installations by Benedetto Buffalino
(Images by https://www.benedettobufalino.com/) Last week we discovered Benedetto Bufalino, a French artist who plays with everyday objects, altering the way we perceive them. Do you remember his camper-pool? A cement truck turned into a flashy rotating element with thousands of mirrors; a limousine with no roof and meters of open space for visitors to chat, or […]