-Via Oncewed

“A series of photographs I took while on a journey through Italy’s most beautiful region. I manipulated them in Photoshop to get a vintage, painterly feel.”

-Via Photography Served

It’s the sort of house that adults would disappear for a week long party at….it’s the sort of house you wake up in and call your boss to say you’re, “having a sick day” simply because this house is that amazing, that you’d want to ditch all other plans just so you could sink into the cozy, “couch pit” (for lack of a better term) all day long, with a group of friends, or yourself, a bottle of Pinot Grigio and a good book. Designed by John Robert Nilsson Architects, this home sits perched above it’s woodsy, natural elements like a beacon of modern/contemporary design hope.

It’s the sort of house that adults would disappear for a week long party at….it’s the sort of house you wake up in and call your boss to say you’re, “having a sick day” simply because this house is that amazing, that you’d want to ditch all other plans just so you could sink into the cozy, “couch pit” (for lack of a better term) all day long, with a group of friends, or yourself, a bottle of Pinot Grigio and a good book. Designed by John Robert Nilsson Architects, this home sits perched above it’s woodsy, natural elements like a beacon of modern/contemporary design hope.

-Via Notcot

Our happiest places, through the camera’s lens and the mind’s eye.

-Via Pictorymag

Our humble abode during our recent bmi press trip was the rather lavishly opulent Rocco Forte property, the Hotel de Rome. Which, having featured so much of the famously young, vibrant and achingly hip side of Berlin – take our review of The Michelberger Hotel for example – was a welcome surprise, after all, so much is written about the vivacious rebelliousness of modern East Berlin it’s easy to forget that the city has so much more to offer. Located on Bebelplatz, off Unter den Linden, and having housed the head office of Dresdner Bank until 1945, the elegant property – which dates back to 1889 – is one of the city’s only ‘original’ buildings to be home to a luxury hotel, and that traditional splendour is there to be seen throughout – as classical features are so gracefully fused with an opulent contemporary twist, courtesy of designer Tommaso Ziffer.

-Via Weheart

Pennsylvania is set to unveil North America’s largest green wall installation tomorrow! The extraordinary vegetated wall is installed at the Longwood Garden’s new East Conservatory Plaza. The hallway’s radius creates an endless façade of ferns, and the expansive skylights flood the space with light to create an indoor green utopia. The system acts like a green lung for the new facility, and it was designed by GSky to be fully automated so that maintenance is reduced.

The building, designed by Kim Wilkie, is a public restroom facility. The bermed, arching pod-like complex is open to one side and supports a natural outdoor amphitheater on the other. The interior green wall is a total of 4,072 square feet, which is almost twice the size of the second largest green wall in North America.

The majority of the astonishing 47,000 plants are ferns, which are embedded in a non-soil growth medium. Remote operated drip line irrigation and an array of sensors maintain the plants to help ensure quality control and longevity of the plants. The wall essentially acts like a filter and lung for the complex. An estimated 15,500 lbs of dust and toxins will be removed from the air each year, and the more visitors, the more CO2 for the plants to metabolize and exchange for O2.

-Via Notcot

So usually, I just post each of my Flickr pictures as they come along but I thought this time since I’d uploaded three different portraits at the same time that I’d taken, that I’d consolidate it down to one post.

The Charybdis — named after the better half of the infamous sea monster tag team — is a “reverse fountain” designed by William Pye for Sunderland’s Seaham Hall hotel “using a massive acrylic cylinder to give the appearance of a containerless volume of water.”

-Via The Daily What

-Via The Daily What

Gotta love the Breakable dish concept, by London-based designer Alexander Hulme. Drop it and yes, it shatters, but at least your accident yields two smaller dishes you can still use.

-Via Core77