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Posts Tagged — architecture

Jamie Bestwick House Check

Jamie Bestwick House Check

March 1, 2011

Jamie Bestwick has a really dope house check up on ESPN. Keep reading to see a few images and click here to check out the whole feature!

Chase Hawk’s House

Chase Hawk’s House

January 12, 2011

Following Aaron Ross, Chase Hawk has a dope house check up on ESPN. Chase lives in a rad apartment in Austin equipped with a iPod doc in the wall, pool, video game room, and lots more awesome shit that you wish you had. Check it out!

Joseph Dirand Architecture

Joseph Dirand Architecture

October 27, 2010

Joseph Dirand Architecture is an architecture and interior design firm based out of Paris. I stumbled across their work wile doing an image hunt for Balmain stuff and was drawn into the flagship store that they design for the brand in Paris. The interiors combine a great mix of minimal and luxury and have been [...]

Inspiration Dump

Inspiration Dump

June 8, 2010

As much as you guys might think, I don’t spend that much time on image blogs or ffffound… But tonight was a different story. I got lost in the vortex and by the end of the night, I had a bunch of random stuff on my descktop. Rather than just throwing it into my inspiration [...]

Roman and Williams

Roman and Williams

March 8, 2010

Roman and Willams is an amazing New York based interior designer firm that’s behind such projects like the Ace Hotel and Standard hotel in New York, among other things. Last night I spent an hour or so getting lost in their portfolio and for some reason when I woke up this morning all I wanted to [...]

Transforming House

Transforming House

February 11, 2010

David Lang sent me a link to this video on the Planet Green website about this amazing 300 square foot apartment in Hong Kong. All the walls are built on tracks and what looks like a one room house can basically transform into any room; kitchen, bathroom, beadroom, etc. Check out the whole video on [...]

Delfin–Postigo House

Delfin–Postigo House

January 20, 2010

White floors, white walls, and amazing artwork is what drew me into the house of fashion designer David Delfin and photographer Gorka Postigo in Madrid, Spain. There’s a great feature on Yatzer showcasing the house that is definitely worth a few minutes of your day.

Wieden + Kenedy London Offices

Wieden + Kenedy London Offices

November 25, 2009

Architecture blog Dezeen posted some photos and info about the new London offices for one of Defgrip’s favorite design firms Wieden + Kennedy. Featherstone Yong, a London studio is responsible for the project in which they re-vamped an old brewery across the street from the old Wieden + Kennedy London offices. “utilizing the height of [...]

Inspiration: I Could Live Here

Inspiration: I Could Live Here

November 5, 2009

I compiled a collection of my favorite interior/architecture photos that I’ve saved over the past year or so. I’m always collecting image that inspire me and I thought it would be cool to do some big inspiration dumps like this once in a while. I did the black and white post a few months back, [...]

Inside Incase

Inside Incase

September 8, 2009

Notcot has just posted a great look inside the Incase offices in San Francisco. Black floor, white walls, great furniture, and some Krink… How can you go wrong?

More Julius

More Julius

August 4, 2009

I’m gonna keep on the Julius Shulman thing because a) he was a badass and b) KCRW in Los Angeles just did a spectacular radio tribute to him featuring interviews with his high profile friends as well as Julius himself. I learned a few new and surprising things about The Man. Listen here.

New York Interiors

New York Interiors

May 9, 2009

On my way home from New York City the other day, I picked up the May 11th issue of New York Mag to find a wonderful article on home design. The article featured seven different peoples apartments in the NY area and is extremely inspiring. There’s a great mix of minimal and widely eclectic styles [...]

John Lautner movie

John Lautner movie

April 24, 2009

I’m excited for this documentary on John Lautner! The trailer got me pumped because you can see glimpses of some of my favorite Lautner houses: James Goldstein’s house (which you will definitely recall from the Jackie Treehorn scene in The Big Lebowski, as well as a Charlie’s Angels movie), Chemosphere (also in a Charlie’s Angels [...]

Dwell Beta

Dwell Beta

April 17, 2009

It looks like the Dwell site got a facelift! The site is looking great and it’s definitely a good update from their previous version. I’m stoked on their “Collection” section. Check out the new Dwell.com

Andreas Larsson’s Loft Life

Andreas Larsson’s Loft Life

April 15, 2009

Loft Life posted a tour of Photographer Andreas Larsson’s minimal Chicago loft. I’m really drawn in by the basic color palette, the black floors, his simple furniture choices and that little bulb hanging next to his bed is dope. Check out the loft tour here and check out Larsson’s photos here.

Materialicious

Materialicious

April 13, 2009

One of the many (and one of my favorite) architecture/environmental design sites Materialicious recently switched up their site from a traditional blog, to more of a image blog. They seem to be posting way more and have some great links. Check out Materialicious here.

Apartamento Magazine

Apartamento Magazine

April 1, 2009

I’m excited for my subscription issues of Apartamento to start showing up. Rebelling against the usual formula for interiors magazines, Apartamento will skip the perfectly-styled joints and feature the real-life ones. Looks like something that even dirtbag BMXers could relate to. Check the Apartamento website here. Check an interview with the Apartamento staff here from [...]

La Reserva House

La Reserva House

April 1, 2009

I love this low-cost prefab house in Colina, Chile. I also love this quote from its feature on ArchDaily: “With regard to materials, the building recognizes the inherent uncertainty and inevitability of weathering as a continuation of the building process rather than as a force antagonistic to it” which basically means “it’s gonna get rusty, [...]

Reed Space

Reed Space

February 19, 2009

There is a cool post on Dezeen about Reed Space Tokyo and the architecture firm Upsetters, who designed the store. Does anyone feel like buying me a ticket to Tokyo? I nee to get there SOON. Check the article out here.

The Fader f. Wayne Coyne’s Crib

The Fader f. Wayne Coyne’s Crib

January 14, 2009

There’s an interesting look at an interesting dude‘s interesting house on The Fader’s website. View it here.

James Merrell

James Merrell

January 12, 2009

Check out some awesome photography from James Merrell. I’m loving all the interior shots. jamesmerrell.co.uk

Prototyphuset Boxhome

Prototyphuset Boxhome

January 9, 2009

Check out this mean little crib in between some mammoth old buildings in Poland. The space looks a lot bigger than the exterior would suggest, even with the dark interior. Story and photos here.

The Selby

The Selby

November 20, 2008

The Selby is a site by photographer Todd Selby documenting peoples homes. I have no idea how it took me so long to find out about the site, but I definitely spent a few hours going through it the other night. Rather than just focusing on the home and furniture, the photos also document what [...]

56 Leonard St. by Herzog & de Meuron

56 Leonard St. by Herzog & de Meuron

September 15, 2008

I came across this post on a new apartment building going up at 56 Leonard St. in the Meat Packing District in New York and I was blown away. It was designed by Herzog & de Meuron and features 145 unique floor plans, starting at an affordable (haha) $3 million and going up to a [...]