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Six purple interiors that nod to Pantone’s 2022 colour of the year

December 11, 2021 Alice Finney 0
Cafe Krujok

Colour company Pantone claims that its 2022 colour of the year is a shade of blue, but most people see purple. In this lookbook, we round up six interiors from around the world that are definitely purple. Described by Pantone as a “periwinkle blue,” the colour of the year – called Veri Peri – marries the “constancy” of

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Yinka Ilori unveils brightly coloured temporary skatepark in Miami Beach

December 3, 2021 Jane Englefield 0
Yinka Ilori skatepark

British designer Yinka Ilori has applied his trademark colourful style to a demountable skatepark at the Faena District in Miami Beach during Miami art week. Called the Skateable Object Park, Ilori’s temporary installation features salmon-pink ramps on a bright yellow floor and was commissioned by the female-founded “nomadic boutique” Unique Design X Group. It forms

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Adi Goodrich designs surrealist Los Angeles store Dreams with blue rock at its centre

December 2, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Atwater Village lifestyle store Dreams

Spatial designer and artist Adi Goodrich has filled the Dreams lifestyle store in Los Angeles’ Atwater Village with colourful surrealist details, including a lobster phone and a “glowing” blue rock. Goodrich created the store together with her creative partner and Dreams’ owner, Monica Navarro, with whom she’d previously worked on the Wine + Eggs grocery

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Bold colours fill São Paulo apartment by Julliana Camargo

November 23, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0
Julliana Camargo

Peach, green and purple are among the vivid hues found in an urban apartment designed by Studio Julliana Camargo for a fashion editor. The Karine Vilas Boas Apartment is located in a building in downtown São Paulo. The three-bedroom, 300-square-metre unit was designed for fashion editor Karine Vilas Boas and her family. Local firm Studio

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Bunch Design adds colourful granny flat to a home in Los Angeles

November 19, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
Bunch Design granny flat

American practice Bunch Design has completed a colourful granny flat modelled on an oversized suit at the back of a home in Los Angeles, with sliding doors that enable it to become a single open space. Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), commonly known as “granny flats”, were enabled by a 2016 change in state law to

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Naturehumaine revives 1920s apartment in Montreal with contemporary finishes

November 18, 2021 James Brillon 0
Quesnel Apartment

Traditional details were kept throughout this ground-floor apartment in Montreal that local studio Naturehumaine renovated to bring in more natural light and create an improved connection to the rear yard. Originally built in the 1920s, the apartment was filled with classical details such as ornamental columns and a stained-glass doorway at the entrance of the

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Saia Barbarese Topouzanov adds spiral staircases during Montreal housing renovation

October 27, 2021 James Brillon 0
Les Habitations Saint Michel Nord

Colourful spiral staircases now give direct access to units in the Saint-Michel Nord housing complex in Montreal, which was renovated by Saia Barbarese Topouzanov to update the ageing buildings and include a new pedestrian-friendly street. Located in the underprivileged Saint-Michel neighbourhood, the housing complex was built in the 1970s in the brutalist style. Its 185

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BAAO and 4|MATIV add bright colours to Mi Casita Preschool in Brooklyn

August 5, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0
Mi Casita preschool

House-shaped openings and cheerful hues are found in a New York daycare centre designed by American firms BAAO and 4|MATIV. The Mi Casita Preschool and Cultural Center is located within a new mixed-use development in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood. The 3,500-square-foot (325-square-metre) space was designed collaboratively by local firms BAAO and 4|MATIV. The goal was to

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ASKA draws on Wes Anderson films for pastel-coloured Cafe Banacado design

July 23, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
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Swedish architecture studio ASKA has created a pale-yellow interior informed by Wes Anderson movies and the aesthetics of Cuba for Stockholm restaurant Cafe Banacado. The all-day breakfast cafe has a colour palette of muted yellows, brown and cream hues, deliberately chosen to evoke the sun-drenched bars and cafes in more southern climates. The cafe’s painted

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