How To: Classical Living Room

Today I thought we could reproduce a classical living room, but with a smaller budget!

What do you think?

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Eating at Facebook

"With nothing but an unassuming name Epic Cafe, the new cafeteria at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, has a cool atmosphere with décor and furnishings that blend the industrial and the nostalgic. The office responsible for the decoration of the space is Roman & Williams, signing projects such as the hip Ace Hotel in New York. Fact is that the couple Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch could print an ancient atmosphere to the canteen without linking it to any particular style of the past. The New York Times dubbed the style "design school of Benjamin Button." It is an imagined past, perfect for the domains of Mark Zuckerberg, the virtual full of creativity and innovation.

The restaurant resembles both a cafeteria and a school building that has not been finished. That is, although the choice of furniture and objects have been careful, architects strove to apply to architecture speech disseminated by the creator of Facebook, "Our company is 1% complete - there is still plenty of room to develop and create."

If the set of buildings of Menlo Park was chosen and decorated to recreate an urban environment where every employee is free to change your living room or bay, the Epic Cafe was thought to function as the point of this social conversion "city". The idea was that the restaurant is a space not only for food but also a date. The atmosphere is very informal, with concrete floors, construction systems supporting exposed, various types of industrial lighting, wooden tables without treatment and signage painted on the floor, on a large scale. Being on Facebook, it might be accepted that an employee write your name on a chair. But in the case of a work of Roman & Williams, this action would be a sacrilege.

Different from the design of the Google cafeteria, full of statistical intelligence - that, for example, set the tables of eight places like friendships and ideas to stimulate conversation, minimizing the formation of closed groups - the project at Facebook has a culture more empirical. The different table sizes, for example, spaces are intended only to provide more or less reserved, enabling both a large cluster relaxed as serious a meeting between two people work during office hours. The larger tables also serve to promote the meeting of employees who are not yet known, according Alesch."
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How to: Home Office Space

Hey everyone,
 I am back today to use yesterday's post as an inspiration to create a simple, usefull and pretty office space.
I have chosen all the pieces from Ikea, besides beign very inexpensive you can buy everything at once instead of hopping from store to store....

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Grey and Scout Home tour

Hello Everyone,

I am in love with this house! It is simple and clean yet elegant and cozy… it has that “home” feeling to it. 
The owner of this house is the stylist Liz Bachman, she is also the creator o GREY AND SCOUT
Check out her blog and her apartment and let me know what you think. So you love it too?

*Don’t forget to pay attention to the details*

Bar area

Entryway

Where to eat? 

Bedroom

Kitchen

Living Room

Living Room

Living Room

Details

Office Area

Details

Living Room 2

Tomorrow I will give you tips to recreate all the spaces at home (with your special touch, of course)

P.S.: All images were taken from the GREY AND SCOUT blog

Would you sleep here?

Can you imagine spending the night at an old jail house?

In the Netherlands, a group of entrepreneurs had the idea of buying an abandoned jail house and transforming it in a glamorous hotel. 

The architects were able to adapt thirty six suites, one bar, and one restaurant at the old building that maintained its character and odd features. 

Take a look:

The building

                                     

The doors

The hallway

                                         

The bar

The patio

Room 

Room

Room

Room

If only they had it this easy back then....right?! 

P.S.: All images were taken from the hotel's website: http://www.hetarresthuis.nl

Around the world: Top hotels 2012- Part 2

Hello everyone,

I know that I left you all hanging when I gave you part 1 of the top hotels of 2012....where is part 2?! I apologize for the delay, nether less, here they are:

6. Oztel, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil- Felipe Morozini

7. Castello di Semivicoli, Abruzzo, Itália – Oriano Associati Architetti

8. Villa F, Veneza, Itália – Bortolotto Possati

9. We Hostel Design, São Paulo, Brasil – Felipe Hess

10. Mama Shelter Marseille, Marselha, França – Philippe Starck e Cyril Aouizerate

So where will be your next vacation?!?!

Around the world: Top hotels 2012- Part 1

I know 2013 has just started but I am sure we are all thinking about that next vacation...travelling is one of the best things in the world so why not do it in style?

Vogue has selected the top hotels of 2012, and although I am sure 2013 will unveil some unique new destinations it is still worth to take a look at what 2012 was all about.

1. Palazzo Margherita, Basilicata, Italy – Francis Ford Coppola e Jacques Grange 

2. Hotel Conservatorium, Amsterdã, Holand – Piero Lissoni

3. Resort Dedon Island, ilha Siargao, Philippines– Rare Architecture

     
















      4. The Town Hall, London, England

5. The Crown Amersham, Amersham, England– Ilse Crawford