Serie Architects!

Found this jaw dropping ceiling on Design Boom, "the physical construction of the installation required over 2 months of work by 20 individuals - 5 staff
members from serie architects and 15 students. 120 plywood panels serve as the underlying structural system,featuring a pixilated grid of 150 mm diameter perforations that hold the more than million threads".  

One person may dream up this crazy idea, but it takes a team to see it come to life!  To see more images find it here!

Serie Architects: The Monsoon Club

Serie Architects: Tote India

Serie Architects: Tote India

Custom Designed Table by NYID

Just designed a new table for one of our clients here at NYID.  This as well as several other custom pieces have been designed for the marketing firm MUSE Communications located in Culver City.  It's exciting to see an idea take shape and materialize with the help of several skilled craftsmen.  I can tell you that the poor little model has seen better days!  The day that I cease to shock our contractors, I might have to retire.  But I can tell you that I definitely had them perplexed once again on just how these diagrams and mini models would actually come to life!  Here's a preview of one of the tables.

 Inspiration takes shape-Spiral staircase by Manuel Maia Gomes who

is a popular Portuguese architect this is from

“House Antero de Quental".

Pendant Lights!

The life of a designer can be interesting and challenging in so many ways.  I know that people think we sit around all day er'day picking out paint colors and pretty things.  But that is a small percentage of what we actually do.  I always joke that I'm not an Interior Designer but a problem solver because that is really what we spend most of our time doing.  Case in point-you think once you've found those amazing pendants that are crazy perfect in just a click of a button, you wait a week and they arrive...that is rarely the case.  I had to take a picture of the packaging that the pendant lights from France arrived in.  Ordered over 40 days ago, just to be sure to have them installed by deadline, stranded in customs for over 3 weeks, 100 emails and they finally showed up!  Just in time, totally worth the wait and what an impact they will have in the room!  No need to look for replacements, problem solved.

Goccia Pendant Light by Stephano Papi

DWELL EVENT LA Convention Center

I was invited by Kohler to attend the Dwell Event this past week, and although I came with them it didn't stop me from taking a spin around the other vendor booths.  While there were a lot of things that I had already discovered there were some that caught my eye!  If you know me, I looove lighting...and I do not discriminate-- lamps, pendants, chandeliers, sconces...you name it, (to some, they may even say that I cross the line-- buying before there is a place for them, while I do admit that I have lamps and chandeliers stored in the office just waiting for a new amazing home to belong to, for every one I bring back to the office, I had to let two go!

Featured on Pure Bliss by Kay

Natalie Younger Interior Design was recently featured on Pure Complex.  What compliments Kay and her readers had for the love of wallpaper...(in case you don't know, or can't tell--I'm crazy for it!)  Thanks for the Feature Kay!  Oh and check out her fabulous blog here!

Daydreaming

Wandering the design blogs I came across Four Walls and a Roof.  Lucy has some great inspiration photos, which equals a great eye.  Browsing through I found these three photos, all of them evoked an immediate need out of me to be transported, they each have such a feeling of intrigue and it leads me to wonder--what's just beyond the doors....curious?

Via 3rd Uncle Designs

EDGEHILL HOUSE. 

Photographs by Andrej Kopac

Via Simply Home Designs

Via Coco + Kelley

Floors to Live For!

OOooh boy have we been busy here at NYID!  But I just had to share some of these floors that I found while looking...our heads are bursting with ideas for one of our newest projects and it is going to be a show stopper!

Designer: Unknown Photo: Phoebe Howard

Veranda Magazine

Designer: Unknown

Designer: Unknown via Cheekychic