Japanese designer Hiroyuki Miyake has a penchant for pumpkin ice cream. That’s one of the roughly 40 flavours available at the Rono ice-cream parlour in Tokyo.
The length of the display case limits the number of flavours on offer at any one time to seven (current assortment: almond-caramel, strawberry, honey, rum-raisin, black sesame, pumpkin and cookie-crunch), and the selection is in part determined by seasonal influences (strawberries happen to be available at the moment).
Ice cream is no minor detail here but key to the whole interior. The floor and walls are covered in tiles the designer describes as deliberately characterless – devoid of colour, texture, reflections. Miyake wanted nothing to come between customers and the happy colours in the tubs, which have the potential to induce a dreamlike state in observers and whisk them off to Italy, the land of gelati. That destination is also evoked by the plain, graphic arch etched onto the glazing to mark the doorway, inspired by buildings the designer once saw on an Italian street.
A sense of dreaminess is also prompted, Miyake explains, by the end wall, whose mirrored surface separates the space from its fictional double, which can be entered only in fairy tales. The apples that line the framed recess in the mirrored wall are another allusion to childhood favourites like ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’.
We love this beautifully sculpted cardboard mille-feuille that lines the walls of Yiorgos Eleftheriades‘ Yeshop in Athens. Dubbed “Papercut”, the project was a collaboration between the fashion designer and dARCH Studio. It takes a multidisciplinary approach to interior design, synthesizing elements of fashion and architecture into a streamlined, self-illuminated, biomorphic installation that was handmade using all eco-friendly materials.
dARCH Studio founder and architect Elina Drossou said “The need to synthesize the two different approaches to design was the focal point of this project. Concepts and practices used in fashion design were incorporated as organizational principles during the design and the construction phases of the project.”
The installation is composed entirely of re-purposed packing cartons, and was constructed around the space’s existing furniture to create a seamless, streamlined effect. dARCH Studio” built the fluid framework from 1,500 sheets of 5mm thick corrugated cardboard, which were cut into strips and then carefully pasted along an entire wall of the 90 square meter shop. Integrated illumination transforms the built-in boxes to display cases that dynamically frame Eleftheriades’ wares. The innovative installation cost 2,500 Euros, and is a stunning example of thinking outside of the down-cycling loop.
Dandilight by designer Benjamin Hubert is a range of resin cast interior lamps inspired by sprawling cityscapes and the shift towards urbanisation and the loss of green belt areas. Dandilights are floor and pendant lamps embodying geometric urban environments counterbalanced with a softer organic macro form, reflecting the aesthetic of a dandelion.
Lamps are comprised of a resin cast head and a sandblasted aluminium stand (floor lamp).
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