Chanel-lo PFW

The latest in Chanel's fashion week shows took place in Paris today and what better location than the famous Grand Palais. The exhibition hall featured a giant feature globe that the models, including Cara Delevigne walked around.

 

 

 

Surface Design Show 13

Once again I visited the Surface Design Show and was inundated with great new products that are just hitting the market. I sat in on a presentation by Mix who are colour trend forcasters, and learnt what they are expecting for the end of 2013 heading into the beginning of next year. The main trends to keep an eye out for are:

 

3D Wall Treatments

 

 

 

Metallics

Patterned Tiles

 

 

THE colour of 2013 by Pantone is Emerald 17-5641

 

#5 pics from Pinterest this week - Colour

#5 Teals - via Juma Abbas on Pinterest

#4 The interior of the Verner Panton designed Speigel Canteen in Hanburg - via Debra McQuin on Pinterest

 

#3 NoMad Hotel, New York - via My Eye on Pinterest

#2 Watercolour pattern, this would look great as a wallcovering - via Mrs LauraQ on Pinterest

#1 The big trend for summer this year is Tangerine - via Sara Colson on Pinterest

 

The Happiness Machine

Cornwall based artist Mark Lascelles Thornton has created a series of architectural drawings depicting cities including New York, London and Chicago. Using a rotring pen on white paper, there is so much detail in his drawings. 

 

 

Check out his tumblr for more images

 

Super Brands and Tent London

A great day out back in september with my fellow Clement Joscelyne collegue. Lots of great new brands were showcased and I got lots of inspiration for items to include in future projects. These are a selection of my favourite.

 

 

Ginger and Jagger

 

Tord Boontje

 

Venus of Cupertino - Most random Ipad docking station ever

 

Claire-Anne O'Brien

 

Curiousa & Curiousa

 

Something to add to the CV!

Something that took me all of half an hour turned out to be one of the best things I had done over the summer! I entered a competition run by the website housetohome (a great online site for magazines like Ideal Home, Living etc and Homes & Gardens) and won!!!

All I had to do was use there new design software and make my own moddboard of any space I liked, the only catch was to use images from their own website. Sounds easy...well the work paid off!

 

 

My completed moodboard entitled, New York Living

Build Qatar Live 2012

I was lucky enough to be a part of team Niven Architects who took part in this international 48-hour design competition. It was myself and three fellow coursemates aswell as one of my tutors who were asked to be a part of a team which was made up of a wide range of professionals from all over the world. We had 48-hours to produce a series of renders for a space designed by Niven which fitted with the brief and site for a fictional 'Museum of Architecture' for Doha, Qatar.

 

Our designs overall were highly commended and we won the award for 'Best multi-disciplinary BIM and Interoperability'

 

My finished renders for a retail interior

 

 

Our part of the team

Top 3 most expensive apartments in the Big Apple - 2012

A countdown of the top 3 apartments that were for sale last year in NYC. They were all listed between an eyewatering $95million and $100million!!!

So what can you get for the bucks exactly...well a 7,000sq ft apartment with 7-bed and 7-baths....a 8,000sq ft penthouse apartment on West 56th Street with 6-beds and 9-baths...or a 5-bed, 5.5-bath at One57 on Central Park West!

 

 

Take your pick, to be honest im not fussy.

A new year, a new post

Things may have been quiet on here over the past few months, but things in my life have been anything but! So a new year calls for more regular posts. To start with I will be posting about things that have occurred since the summer and mix in with new things that I find along the way :)

Here is to 2013 being the year!