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The Yas Hotel located in Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, consists of 252 deluxe and 247 executive bedrooms and combines spectacular architectural design with innovative technology in an unparalleled position overlooking the Yas Marina, Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit. The design consists of an undulating cloak of transparent panels which stretch between two elliptical towers of the hotel. The aerodynamic building form evokes marine imagery of the Arabian Gulf and the curvilinear appearance of the Formula 1 cars and the race track. Working in collaboration with Asymptote of New York, Jestico + Whiles was appointed as interior designers and has created a calming and sophisticated interior to complement the frenetic speed of the Grand Prix.

The Grand Prix circuit divides the hotel into two wings. The first phase, Land Side Wing includes a range of guest suites and a set of specialist restaurants. The second phase, Water Side Wing is situated in the Marina itself and includes the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Suites, a restaurant, ballroom and café. You will find a lot of the facilities here that you will come across in hotels Alton Towers in the UK or in a high tech hotel in Japan. It has everything you would expect and more from a modern hotel. Contemporary and well considered natural materials have been used throughout the interior of the hotel, which enhances the lively and comforting environment. Pure white quartz, Carrara marble tiles and bronze mirrors have been selected in bedrooms and bathrooms and fine oak joinery is shaped in reference to the form of wind filled sails of local boats.

From: Jestico + Whiles

 

www.theyashotel.com

 

The new showroom Davide Groppi in Barcelona is now open in the heart of Born. This is an exhibition space designed by the creative and multidisciplinary hop! design studio. The area is signed by the Italian interior designer Paolo Tosi, who shared, from a long time, friendship and feeling with Davide Groppi and its projects.

This is the first exhibition and single brand sale space of Davide Groppi in Spain, is an innovative concept in many aspects: not only is a place for exhibition and sales, but above all a space for projecting where designers and creatives can offer and share their experiences, united by the taste and the search for minimal and essential light.

Within this space, are located, in fact, other activities related to the design world, from fashion to photography through architecture. 200 square meters where white and black alternate in a game of full and empty; frameless windows and white divisions at different heights, in contrast to the walls with the texture of marble and iron, mark the working areas of the other activities developed into the area.

The showroom is aimed at both designers, architects, professionals and the general public. A space oriented to understand light, performed in its many applications and nuances of purity and functionality.

 

www.davidegroppi.com

 

The “360° LAMP” by Pavel Sidorenko, is a unique lamp made from white plastic with a mirror surface, in which each part has its own functional meaning. Easy to assemble, the lamp will fit every type of environment and will fill your home with soft calming light. The “360° LAMP” is available with or without 1 of 4 laser engraved patterns.

 

www.adensen.com

 

Designers Jörg Boner and Christian Deuber have created the Nan18 floor lamp for the Switzerland based manufacturer Nanoo.

The lamp comprise individual tin slats, arranged circularly to create a conic lampshade. The emergent light is soft and atmospheric. It falls as direct light through an opaque sheet of acrylic glass. Indirect light rises towards the ceiling. The lampshade stands on a stainless steel tube, which is also white. A concrete socle, either in white or naturally coloured concrete, creates the base for the standard lamp.

 

www.nanoo.ch/de

 

Seed is a household centrifugal pump concept by designer Aleksander Mukomelov that can effectively water the orchards, gardens and lawns by taking water from lakes, rivers, ponds as well as from water storage reservoirs, wells and chinks in order to reduce the constant human attendance and controlling the watering procedure.

The main objective of Seed is to solve the everyday problems associated with watering and providing ultimate freedom to the owner by featuring a full function remote control on the panel that can adjust different parameters of the pump such as turning on and off, shutdown countdown, setting up the amount of flowed water, schedule how many times and when it should start working automatically, and many more. The recycled plastic made case has not only given it an organic look, but also includes electronic control function to minimize the use of electricity, and in other terms water too.

 

www.mukomelov-st.com.ua

 

The Grass Lamp by designer Marko Vuckovic is an innovative concept that has been designed to enhance the décor of a home interior with natural elements, aiming to bring warmth and uniqueness in the user’s homes. The concept incorporates a part of nature right inside the house designed to be placed on the wall to represent a modern and eco-friendly aesthetic of the home interior. Aside from helping the grass to be grown on the lamp, it discretely lightens the room which lets the user to directly connect with nature. Thin and light PVC plastic has been used to make the lamp with reserved inside space for the soil, and also features water container and areas to be lightened with great functionality.

 

www.behance.net/vuckovicdesign

 

Looking for “space in the context of its sensual perception,” designer Sarah Lovgren has conceived a modular lounge named “La Bande” that can be modified to be used as both a seat and a recliner. Developed in comparison with Franzi Kohlhoff, the furniture splits up into two independent sections at one end of the bande, while the longitudinal split and the flexibility of the material allows the two sections to bend separately to form space. Both the sections of the bande are hooked into a slot in the base, which gives stability of the furniture to rest the users in utmost comfort.

 

www.coroflot.com