Underground and amazing

I have always had a fascination with homes that have been built underground or along side a hillside, and this home in Vals, a small Swiss village, sure does provide amazing views as well as architecture and decor that makes me giddy.  Subterranean houses have always had my attention, they stay cold durning the summer, [...]

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A few macaroons

I just discovered the loveliness of Laduree and wow, yet another reason I must go to Europe!  Each salon takes on a very whimsical yet sophisticated look thanks to owner Francis Holder.  The goal was to create a space that was reminiscent of the historic Persian parlors of the late 1800s.  The deep woods and [...]

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An amazing office

For most of the world, a corporate office is where you spend most of your waking hours yet the design is almost always the same; white/beige walls, dark carpet and a few “art” pieces on the wall.  Art being used loosely.  And its everywhere, even the art college I went to, grey carpet, beige walls [...]

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Wow Facebook, nice place

Have you seen the new Facebook Headquarters?  All I can say is wow.  I just love seeing when commercial design is done creatively, add in the fact that it is a refurbished old laboratory and the first commercial project completed under the Palo Alto’s 2008 Green Building Ordinance and this is one heck of a [...]

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Furniture for tight spaces

When I think back to school projects, a blur of color boards, fabrics and drawings all come to mind. Our final projects were left up to us to determine what we would like to design, although it never went past the whole, this would be so cool in real life point. Malin Kallman, a product [...]

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