Restyled bakery in Milan

The Callegaro bread shop in Milan features different zones to satisfy different requirements.

The bread zone where one can buy not only bread but also focaccia, pastries and dishes. This long-stretched counter shows simple lines with a wide window that gives a clear view on all the oven products.

For breakfast, aperitifs, coffee and cocktails, one can take a seat at the glossy white bar counter.

And last but not least, to relax and meet with others there is the relax room.

The restyling, done by Costa Group, includes the red tiles on the floor, the wooden walls with pipes, mirrors, sofas and the lighting. On request of the bakery owners, they gave the shop a lively appearance for every occasion and daytime.

HACKENBROICH ARCHITECTS SHOP

Berlin-based Hackenbroich Architects just finished a hairdressing shop in Cologne.

The light installation has become a main spatial feature in the hairdressing shop in Cologne called Haarwerk. Seventy-five lamps emerge from a central point of the space and reach out into the room. The lights can be controlled and dimmed in five circles to allow a smooth transition of various illuminated conditions.

Here’s some information from the architects themselves:
“The overall organization of the store was challenged by the spatial limitation of the old factory building. To maintain a coherent spatial experience while accommodating all functional areas, we decided to extrude the enclosed functional areas from the back-wall.

The materials fluctuate between a refined and rough appearance. While the wallpaper has a subtle elegance the lamps have an industrial quality. The colours articulate the volumetric logic by continuing the dark grey of the floor or the ginger marking the sidewalls of the store. The lights, when partially dimmed, combine the white of the wallpaper, the ginger of the wall and the dark grey of the floor.”

Pizzeria in Sicily

Francesco Moncada designed the interior of the Perez pizzeria in Sicily.

The Italian-based designer used graphics, made in collaboration with Point Supreme, to express the variety and richness of taste in the food served there. All ingredients are mapped and symbolized by colours and codes, mingled in a matrix placed on one of the walls. The combinations result in different pizzas.

On the wall next to the entrance appears a real size zebra. The zebra is the opposite of the matrix; colourless and simple in its appearance.

All the furniture, except the Kartell chairs, is designed by Francesco Moncada himself, exclusively for the restaurant.

Photos Alberto Moncada

Bangalore Express

Bangalore Express serves fast, Indian street food and the client wanted a modern and fresh environment to match.

After stripping the space back to its shell, they added a pattern of linear cuts to the interior wall cladding. This was done on site using a circular saw to cut shallow grooves.

The cladding was then painted one solid colour, after which some of the shapes created by the grooves were painted in a strict palette of three contrasting colours. The resulting composition of shapes and colours guides the customer’s eyes around the space in a controlled way.

The inspiration for this cladding treatment came from the waste boards on which builders cut sheet materials to size. After a while, an arbitrary patter of random shallow grooves adorn the surface of a waste board on which many sheets have been cut.

Much of the furniture is constructed from FastClamp, galvanised steel tubes and fixings normally used to build scaffolding. Diners climb step ladders made of these scaffolding tubes to access the upper-level booths that line one side of the restaurant. This gives the restaurant a hard edge and introduces the desired urban aspect to the interior, a fitting ambiance for street food.

Words Billy Nolan
Photos Philip Vile

Samova Tea?

Обичам да пия чай откакто се помня. Имам особено отношение към тази напитка, може би защото, така и не пропих кафе. Имам цял шкаф с чай от цял свят. Повечето все още не съм опитала. Най-любим си остава за мен чая от мента във всичките му разновидности. Както и да е, отворих тази тема по друг повод, пак свързан с чая.
 

Преди година и половина в Хамбург попаднах на това уникално място, което препоръчвам на всеки да посети. Това е Samova Lounge в магазина на Stilwerk Hamburg, 6th Floor. Това местенце е компилация от впечатляващ интериор, прекрасна музика, разнообразие от чай на Samova и уникална атмосфера. Това не е бар, не е чайна, това е просто магазин с дегустационна. Можеш да опиташ от всички чайове, които се продават и да подсладиш всеки един от тях с 4 или 5 различни подсладители.

Comic room by Monica Bussoli

This King West condo is vibrant and daring thanks to help from interior designer Monica Bussoli. A cream-coloured custom sofa gets a hit of hue with green accent pillows; an upholstered armchair can be sat on or read -- it's covered in a fun 1960s retro fabric with a comic-book motif.

EJ DELPHI

At the Copenhagen International Furniture Fair 2007 Erik Jørgensen reveals an international novelty. Together with the Swiss architect Hannes Wettstein and his team Erik Jørgensen have developed a new modular sofa concept, Delphi, with 11 different modules which give many possibilities for an individual and unique sofa solution. It is possible to use the chaiselounge length in to ways – as a chaiselounge or by turning the module and use it as a long seating cushion in a traditional sofa format.

The sofa supports the development of the modern family’s lifestyle. An active and outgoing lifestyle for the whole family requires a comfortable and relaxed base at home which Delphi provides with its many seats and resting positions - all in the same sofa.
Delphi is spacious and has interesting construction dynamics emphasized by the sophisticated details. The sofa primarily appeals to the home market because of the two depths in the seat and loose cushions. The asymmetry between the different seating depths is repeated in the back- and arm rests. This stimulates not only the body that rests in the sofa but also the eye that looks at it.
The series consists of several accessories e.g. a tray that fits the arm rests, a blanket, footstools in different sizes and a petplace for the four-legged members of the family.

Fredericia Furniture

Fredericia Furniture бяха удостоени с награда“Interior Innovation Award Cologne 2008” за този люлеещ се стол, дело на младия датския дизайнер Thomas Pedersen. Дървеният му корпус се предлага в цвят дъб и във вариант с африканско екзотично дърво - макасар.

Koziol

Koziol, made bu Germany


 

History
The company’s unique history is closely linked to the Koziol family. In 1912, the father of founder Bernhard Koziol established the Erbach craft pottery; in 1927 Bernhard opened his own ivory carving workshop. Our chronicle traces the evolution of the three-man enterprise into the successful firm it is today.
1927 / 28
On November 27th 1927, 19-year-old Bernhard Koziol has his ivory carving business registered. At the workbench beside the iron stove he creates classical floral and animal motifs in ivory.
1930 / 31
A former barn in Michelstadt is rebuilt with the company's own resources to become the first "genuine" workshop. Here the craftsmen carve rose, daffodil and edelweiss ornaments as well as small elephants and other exotic animals – modern accessories of their day and age.
1935
A milestone in Koziol's history: Employing the first hand-operated injection moulding system, items of up to 10 grams of weight can be produced. The increased production figures of the popular motifs can serve a growing target group.
1935
A milestone in Koziol's history: Employing the first hand-operated injection moulding system, items of up to 10 grams of weight can be produced. The increased production figures of the popular motifs can serve a growing target group.
1945
The Koziol Company survives the end of World War II with an undamaged production plant thanks to billeting US troops.
For the history of plastics, the World War II marks an important turning point. Intensive research is done in the field of synthetic materials, leading to numerous innovations in a short period of time.
1946 - 48
Hunger and expulsion mark the first post-war years. Koziol gives employment to numerous refugees. Basic commodities are produced, combs and buttons are popular barter goods frequently exchanged against anything from wheelbarrows to smoked pork sausages. To the employees, company trips are among the annual highlights.
1950
As Bernhard Koziol gets stuck in a snowdrift in his Beetle, he looks through his rear windscreen. In the unreal snow flurry he sees three deer, inspiring the Koziol Dream Globe®. The idyllic snow-balls conquer the world and remain one of the most fairytale-like memories to many of us.
1951
Free market economy lays the foundation for the booming economy to commence in western Germany, and growth proceeds step by step. For Koziol, too, things trend upwards, as he recognizes a revival of German tourism at an early stage and calls souvenir culture into life with his first merry keepsakes.
1953
A new company symbol is born. The translation of the originally Polish name Koziol points the way: From now on, the ibex is to be the trademark.
1955 / 56
The Heraeus vacuum metalizing system takes up operations, and products can be now be refined by applying a layer of 24 carat sheet gold. The new technology is applied in a variety of processes, enhancing the creative scope of the product range. None of the animal figures is ever to reach the legendary popularity of the "Golden Stag". This icon of souvenir culture is also exported to Canada and the United States, there to conquer expatriates hearts' as a reminder of home.
1959
Apart from toy construction kit Sticky, Koziol presents diverse table roulette games and a chess range at the Nuremberg Toy Fair. The Fair appearance becomes a full success and yields new export customers in America.
1965 - 67
Plastic, the material the new consumer society is made of, is celebrating a boom. Koziol features pop musicians, deer antlers and nativity figures in synthetic materials. All these objects are the work of master ivory carver Jakob Mueller, the design he creates for Koziol are recognizable as such. From Italy and Scandinavia new plastic furniture hits the market: the stackable "Panton Chair" by Verner Panton, the "Ball Chair" by Eero Aarnio and shell seat "Elda" by Joe Colombo.
Plastic expresses progress and dynamic, and shapes images of utopian habitats.
1970 - 72
The newly erected plant in Erbach featuring one of the most modern injection moulding workshops is occupied. The souvenir market and plastics euphoria are booming.
1976
Koziol's trademark, the ibex, is adapted to the demands of current fashion and receives a modern, stylized appearance.
1980
At the age of 71 and after more than 52 years of successful enterprising activity, Bernhard Koziol retires and hands over his life's work to his sons Bernhard and Stephan. Under the leadership of his sons, the product range is gradually altered.
1986
In-house designer Thomas Etzel creates the RIO range in translucent plastic, the trend material of the nineties. This series, successful to this day, establishes a new trend in applying plastic and is far ahead of its time in its formal design.
1991
To achieve new dual-colour effects, experts develop special machines, gaining Koziol a substantial technological lead.
Can a clothes peg be sexy? Of course it can! So proven by Rainer Lehn and his design, SHARKY. Produced in dual-colour technology, the cheeky little fish sinks its sharp teeth into people's minds, eventually to be recognized as a Koziol Archetype.
1992
The CD-Rack MANHATTAN TOWER is this years top-seller, turnover is rocketing. The Koziol product is a genuine innovation, and, on its path to new heights, points the way to the future for all CD storage systems to come.
1996
TIM and TWEETY hold out their cheerful brushheads to customers, changing unloved kitchen chores into foamy fun.
The idea of creating a fashionable accessory from a no-interest-item is thereafter often copied.
1997
To mark the company’s 70th anniversary, koziol presented a 20-foot tower assembled from 4,400 wine rack components at the Frankfurt trade fair. The piece was entitled “Show – out of the ordinary.”
1997
The introduction of the new blue Koziol logo, the labelling of all products and the communication of the motto >>ideas for friends create the preconditions for enhanced consumer recognition of the brand. The flashy graphics, developed by Gardeners of Frankfurt, support market positioning.
1998
Succeeding Bernhard Koziol's death, his younger brother, Stephan takes over the general management of all operations. Under the motto "make better mistakes" he spreads unrest within as outside. Worldwide contacts to famous designers such as Alessandro Mendini, Mariscal, Peter Naumann or Platt'n Young give the range important impulses.
2000 / 2001
To mark the millennium shift, the complete range is completely revised. From now on, the items are produced in high-quality acryl, forms are emphasized and "koziolised" even stronger. Koziols Office@Home range forms an entire new field of fashion.
Today
Koziol’s FUSION and AMOEBE partitioners represent a brand new product - and a fresh source of inspiration in interior design.

Хамак

Pinar Yar and Tugrul Govsa designed this Leaf Hammock, it can be use in the outdoor or home. Leaf inspired by the nature and earthly systems, creates a balance in one's life. It responds to human needs as an individual, creating a wellbeing luxury.