Category: Design
How the Bathroom of the Future May Look
| February 26, 2012 | Posted by admin under Home Improvement |
With our ever increasing busy life it’s little wonder we’re attempting to de-clutter our spaces at home, but how might the bathroom of the future look? Let’s consider we’re ten years down the track from now and see what we can envisage. Multi Purpose In recent times bathrooms have moved from being just a simple…
Purple Rugs in Many Styles and Materials
| November 1, 2010 | Posted by GuestPoster under Rugs |
Purple rugs come in many shades of purple with everything from a very pale lilac to an almost black eggplant color. As well as many different shades, they are constructed of many different materials. Here are just a few of the possibilities if you are looking for a purple rug. Safavieh Shag Collection SG151-7373 Purple…
Max Bill Swiss Architect, Industrial Designer and Graphic Designer
| October 24, 2010 | Posted by admin under Design |
Max Bill trained as a silversmith at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich from 1924 to 1927 and while there was influenced by trends in contemporary fine art such as Cubism and Dada. From 1927 to 1929 he studied art at the Dessau Bauhaus and fully embraced the school’s functionalist approach to design. Upon completion of his…
Wool Area Rugs
| October 18, 2010 | Posted by GuestPoster under Rugs |
If you take a look at the many floor rugs online as well as those sold in home décor stores, you will soon see that one of the most common material that the area rugs are found in is wool. Wool area rugs make great complementary pieces in the home. No matter what size, shape…
Arco Floor Lamp, 1962
| March 27, 2010 | Posted by admin under Design |
Designed in response to a particular lighting problem how to illuminate a dining table without relying on a permanently placed fixture suspended from the ceiling — Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni‘s Arco lamp has been frequently misunderstood as an exercise in pure form. The lamp has been shown as a sleek silvery arc thrust into…
Ancient Greece and Rome Furniture
| February 4, 2010 | Posted by admin under Furniture |
The city-states of ancient Greece fostered a golden age of culture that was far more sophisticated than that of Egypt. A more personal spirit of inquiry and curiosity prospered, and humankind began to seek scientific and philosophical solutions to the fundamental conundrums of life. The Minoans of ancient Crete were great record-keepers, although more substantial…
Ancient Egyptian Furniture
| February 4, 2010 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Furniture |
Ancient Egyptian furniture is well documented and it was clearly well regarded in its day. Indeed, excavations at sites in Mesopotamia and farther afield have shown that furniture of Egyptian origin was also exported and given in tribute to foreign dignitaries. Incoming search terms:Egypt furniture