NEUTRA DESIGN BLOG

CHESS SET – HERMES

NEUTRADESIGN — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:01:54 +0000

This beauty is the new Hermes chess set for Spring/Summer 2012. Handcrafted pieces made of Rosewood and Mahogany are set on a stunning board created using clemence taurillon leather.

GIVENCHY S/S 2012

NEUTRADESIGN — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:30:47 +0000

These gorgeous photos are for Givenchy’s spring/summer 2012 campaign. Featuring supermodel Gisele Bündchen in a Gothic inspired shoot. Creative director for Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci described the atmosphere as “the expression of a love story between a surfer and a mermaid.”

STEAL A BANKSY

NEUTRADESIGN — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:14:45 +0000

If you are from Melbourne or visiting Melbourne book yourself into an Art Series Hotel, which is an Australian chain between the 15th of December and the 15th of Janurary. They have one of the best promotions we have heard of. So clever!!. Guests are challenged to steal a Banksy print worth A$15,000, with the promise that you can keep the print if your heist is successful, if unsuccessful the print will be returned to the wall. The print entitled “No Ball Games,”(below) has been authenticated and signed by Banksy and will be circulating through Art Series’ three Melbourne hotels — The Olsen, The Cullen and The Blackman — during the month. How amazing!. Oh and good luck to those that give it a go!

BOTTEGA VENETA ft. ROBERT LONGO

NEUTRADESIGN — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:43:49 +0000

We adore Italian fashion house Bottega Veneta. We love them even more now that they have collaborated with artist Robert Longo for the their Fall/Winter 2011/12 campaign. Fantastic video after the jump. Stunning!

XMAS GIFTS

NEUTRADESIGN — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:43:28 +0000

Paris slidecase necklaces are back in stock @ Endemicworld. Check them out. Also checkout our wee shop here

SEAN MICHAEL DESIGN

NEUTRADESIGN — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:33:14 +0000

We like to share some cool design inspiration with our readers. We stumbled upon designer Sean Michael’s fantastic blog. Sean shows his readers how to turn a bland white condo into a beautiful designer home. Lots of fantastic ideas and he even gives away advice on placement of furniture, scale and putting colours and fabrics together. Brilliant work Sean! Check his blog out here

BURGERS & BEERS – NEUTRA DESIGN

NEUTRADESIGN — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:57:08 +0000

In some previous posts we showed you all progress on one of our latest projects, Burgers & Beers Inc. Well… here it is finished.

HEATH CERAMICS – GEOFF McFETRIDGE

NEUTRADESIGN — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:17:01 +0000

We adore these beautiful hand illustrated ceramics by Graphic designer and illustrator Geoff McFetridge, for Californian homeware brand Heath Ceramics. My Head Disappears When My Hands Are Thinking is at Heath’s LA showroom. McFetridge was invited to create the work by Heath‘s LA Studio director Adam Silverman.

WEBB KITCHEN – NEUTRA DESIGN

NEUTRADESIGN — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:58:12 +0000

This is our latest kitchen design we recently finished for clients of ours. The space is very large so we wanted to make all the components oversized. The cabinetry is ebony stained oak veneer with stainless steel appliances and a gorgeous acrylic benchtop. We wanted to keep the design sleek and simple so opted for recessed handles on the drawers and cupboards.

The splashback behind the oven is painted glass. The client choose Resene paints Wasabi to inject a dash of colour into the space. Floor is white Oak.

Cobogó House – MARCIO KOGAN

NEUTRADESIGN — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:17:23 +0000

Marcio Kogan is one of our favourite architects, so there is no suprise that we are posting another of his amazing projects. This stunner is the Cobogó House situated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

Cobogó House by Marcio Kogan:

“The light of the abundant tropical Sun falls on the white volume of the top floor of the house, penetrating the holes of the hollowed elements and covering the floor of the interior space. Thus, the design of spatialized lace is formed from the shadows and solar rays. The effect is multiplied throughout the ambient, making a construction from the light itself. Throughout the days, throughout the months, the hollowed-out elements take on different forms with the incidence of the sun; at night, this effect once again is transformed; in a continuous process of metamorphosis, its form changes from the light.

The soft volumetric geometry of the hollowed-out elements comprising the walls is a complex construction, made with infinite curved lines. The modular element, a work of art, was designed by the Austrian-American Erwin Hauer who, since 1950, has conceived and made sculptures for architectural space. His minimalist elements dialogue with the architecture and remind us of some traces of Brazilian modern architecture. The curved lines, designed with perfection nod to the architecture of Brasilia by Niemeyer; furthermore, the concrete modules descend from the Cobogós, which lends its name to the house, created in Recife and diffused by Lucio Costa in delicate references to colonial architecture.

The Cobogó House is a modern house in which the art of Erwin Hauer can be used naturally, as a part of the entire architecture. In the play of mounting pure volumes, made of white spackling paste, concrete and wood; lies, together with the terrace garden, the volume constructed from the hollowed elements by Erwin Hauer. Inside this space, there is a multiple-use living room and a small spa.

On the ground floor the living room connects entirely with the garden, where there is a small artificial lake. Fish and plants help maintain the biological balance of the pool without the use of chemical products that assail the environment. This environmental thought permeated the entire project which incorporated principles of sustainability established by rigid standards, similar to certifications. In the house, there is a great concern to use recycling apparatus and reduce water consumption; rationalize and organize the construction to minimize the impacts; use devices for energy efficiency and optimization; install solar heating plaques; besides using only certified, recycled or ecologically correct material. The use of this knowledge together with architecture that respects the local climate resulted in a house having excellent inner comfort.

In both the back living room, which on one side opens to a large front garden and on the other to a patio of trees, and the bedrooms, the inner ambients are shaded by wooden mashrabiyas that make possible good ventilation with internal shading. The panels can open entirely as can the floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors, diluting, in this way, the transition between internal and external space. On the last floor, the work of art thought of as architectural space is the symbol of the house which, just as the enormous Jabuticabeira of the garden, constructs a singular space and a reflexive atmosphere that invokes a brief contemplative silence.”