The 63.02° apartment

63.02°, built in a densely residential area in Nakano, Tokyo, is a small building of a SOHO and an apartment for rent. The front road is really narrow, but the next apartment has a big open space between the road and the building. In order to this situation, the facade of 63.02° is inclined 63.02 degrees toward the front road, so that a wide and deep view is acquired. From the large windows that are opened on the inclined facade, you can see neighbour’s cherry tree and the cityscape.

Ronel Jordaan’s approach to fool the eye

 Seen on the pages of Australian Vogue Living and in showrooms around the world, South African Designer, Ronel Jordaan’s rock and scatter cushions and pebble carpets are whimsical but made out of sustainable felt, also have a warmth to them. Ronel, a textile designer for 28 years is primarily inspired by nature and her preferred medium is felt. Ronel has also trained a group of South African women in the art of felting, who produce the designs with her and have now started creating their own designs with her help.

IDS08

The people at IDS08 have been very busy at the Direct Energy Centre, in Toronto. Ending up the event this week . We’re always amazed to see how an empty show floor is transformed in a mere three days into these amazing spaces.

This year, IDS has decided to share some of the action that goes behind the making of the show and isdesign got the exclusives in the next coming days .

Yael Mer’s volume

There were some interesting ideas and structures in terms of seating at IMM. Yael Mer’s Volume, which is a paper chair shell that is filled with expanding foam that reveals a unique shaped chair was one that grab our attention. Although there wasn’t a lot information about the chair, it was one of our favorites.

Yael Mer is an exciting and humanitarian designer, who is always keeping function on the forefront of all her designs. For more of her work

Florian Kräutli curtain design

young designer Florian Kräutli developed a curtain which you can shape to any form, magnets embedded in the curtain fabric allow the user to shape the curtain innumerable ways, both open and closed.

Paul Williams,first African American member of the American Institute of Architects

Here in Isdesign we enjoy sharing accomplishments of designers and their work because they inspirer and motivate us. this month we will be introducing profound black designers and their creative works.

Paul Williams became renown for designing major buildings such the Los Angeles International Airport and over 2000 homes in Southern California. Many of the most elegant houses in Hollywood were created by Paul Williams.

Williams was orphaned when he was four, and received little encouragement for his artistic talents. Nevertheless, he enrolled in engineering school at the University of Southern California and won an important architecture competition when he was only 25. When he was 28, he opened his own practice.

Williams’ famous ability to perfectly render drafts upside-down was a tactic for dealing with racism – this ability allowed his clients to sit opposite from him and see his rendering right-side-up on their side without having to sit next to the Black architect. Williams never complained on his own behalf, but the sting of racism was something he made sure his family could avoid to a small degree, by empowering his children with good educations and a solid upbringing that had compassion and respect at its core. He once stated that “White Americans, in spite of every prejudice, are essentially fair-minded people who cannot refuse to respect courage and honest effort. They will, therefore, give me an opportunity to prove my worth as an individual.”

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Light control

 

Spotwelders is a video-editing facility, primarily working on music videos and advertising. Video-editing is an arduous and intense process. designing room with good light control and acoustics achieving unity and good working space . We also discovered that video-editing is a process requiring a large amount of space for lounging. Clients come to the facility and remain for days on end, occasionally going in and out of the editing suites to check on progress and make decisions. There’s always some kind of seating arrangement at every door and the side walls contain about 42 window which are 12-foot wide. We really like the couches.