chalky pink + desert sand

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white

a few white architectural details from our colour: whites board on pinterest.
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estate in extremadura | by Ábaton

we could live here.

beautifully & thoughtfully considered stable conversion in Cáceres by architect studio Ábaton.

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lately .... on our pinterest

a few recent images from our pinterest.
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1. liga cuff by quarry {accessories}
2. house of seven gardens by ikimono architects {spaces: outside}
3. lunar plate by faye toogood {objects}
4. vases by milia seyppel {colour: greys + blacks}
5. hotel villa extramuros by vora arquitectura {spaces: outside}
6. gold rock {minerals}

pachadesign pinterest {here}

studio mumbai

we've been enjoying looking at the work of studio mumbai based in india (found via one of our favourite blogs - the best time of the day). beautiful use of wood, glass, stone, water, fabric, with beautiful shapes that play with light & dark. we love the wooden slated screens that occur in many of their projects and the use of agricultural shade net that wraps the structure of the reading room project to let in light & air.




"The essence of our work lies in the relationship between land and architecture, it requires coming to terms with the presence of the environment through the succession of seasons. Projects are developed through careful consideration of place and a practice that draws from traditional skills, local building techniques, materials, and an ingenuity arising from limited resources"

studio mumbai

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studio mumbai {website}
all images from studio mumbai website

andrea cochran landscape architecture

we recently discovered the beautiful landscape architecture of Andrea Cochran and fell in love with her use of grasses, old olive trees and rusty metal. We love rusty metal and use it in our own work in our furniture designs and sometimes for mirrors too and have always thought it looks stunning in nature. We are also a little obsessed with grasses and Andrea Cochran uses them beautifully. Her work combines perfectly colour, texture, shape & light.

The firm, based in San Francisco, have some great projects on their website but one of our favourites is Stone Edge Farm in Sonoma, California. The site includes a drought tolerant meadow planted with 4 types of grasses in layers (pink muhly, atlas fescue, slender veldt & little bluestem), California bay trees, oak & buckeyes, beautiful old olive trees and some stunning structures.

There are more images of this project & others on the firms website and they also have a book out - Andrea Cochran: Landscapes published by Princeton Architectural Press - we will definitely be buying this book.

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Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture {website}
Book available at Princeton Architectural Press {website}

images: 1 & 4. Vicky Sambunaris. 2. Marion Brenner. 3. Emily Rylander.

another house within a house

tuesdays post reminded us of another house within a house that we saw a while ago that we thought was just so lovely - we're sure some of you have seen this before.

the old pigsty, originally built in 1780, had a wood framed inner house built & put into it creating a house within a house. we love this kind of architecture - so often old buildings are renovated and then lose everything that was lovely about their weathered history and decay. we are not against mixing brand new materials with old (you only have to look at our own work to see that) but it's when the old is completely lost that we find it a little sad. building a new structure and placing it inside the old one, like this pigsty, is a lovely solution.




we're sure there must be other places like this - where the skeleton of the building has been kept intact and a new structure has been built inside. please leave us a comment if you know of any, thanks.


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fnp - architektur {website}

parisian iron works

it's safe to say that we are a little obsessed with industrial buildings, factories, lofts, old barns (we live in an old converted barn). So when we saw the beautiful home of artist Claire Basler, in the march issus of elle decoration, we had to share it with you.




Claire lives and works in the former iron works on the outskirts of Paris, surrounded by beautiful plants & flowers, both inside her home and out. It's this nature and greenery that inspire her large scale paintings.




we love the way she has created her home & studio in this vast space, with different living areas made with screens, false walls, and branches & flowers in amongst the iron beams.





{credits}

march '10 issue {elle decoration}
artist Claire Basler {website}
photography Mads Mogensen {website}