My Top 10 Favorite Things - January

1. Funky Interiors

I love the combo of bluestone and the orange/gray swirly wallpaper, that extends to the ceiling, and the well planned furnishings; the Marcia Zia & Paul Priven chandelier above the vintage fiberglass table and the orange bicycle.

2 Toybox by modmomfurniture/ Etsy

3. Round Stool from Vivavi

Price: 360.00
Hand-woven water hyacinth is wrapped tightly around a durable rattan frame to create this unique home furnishing. Water hyacinth is a highly renewable natural fiber that grows so quickly in parts of Asia that it is often considered an environmental nuisance. Here it is used to magnificent effect.

4. recycled custom wood pallet table and beautiful wall painting

5. Feather Dome Pendant by Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz and Steven Wine

6. Bamboo Ottoman with updated hemp upholstery by Bettencourt

Price: 1,200.00
Products in the Bettencourt collection are made with non-toxic adhesives and finished with non-VOC Danish Oil.

7. Yuen Table Lamp made from recycled bamboo chopsticks.
www.2ols.com
Price: 48.00

Even chopsticks deserve second chance!

8. Recycled airplane wing desk

9. Scaffold Bookcase

10. Designer Radiators by Irsap

Starting The New Year For Creative CoLab with a Bang! by Snow

My design partner's (Snow) take on Collaboration. She really captures the idea behind collaboration. The idea that I had little over year ago, idea that is finally coming into reality :-) you can read it here

Snow & Heidi at Douglas County Diva's 1-year Anniversary party

New Year, New Look, New Direction for Creative CoLab

Creative CoLab+ starts the New Year with a new direction and new look. Snow Galvin and Heidi Mendoza have decided to move forward as a focused duo, collaborating to produce work with a smart, inclusive approach. Our goal is to embrace like-minded creative professionals and expand our network of artists, designers, makers, and doers so that we may be an ever better conduit for original work.

There is the new website:



New Mission Statement:




and new Business Card & Postcard




and instead of being a separate site, our Blog is now incorporated on our website.
you can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter

Geometrical Apartment Interiors

This apartment, in the heart of Paris, belongs to an advertising executive. His passion is collecting comic books, so it's only appropriate that they get highlighted in his home.
Before H2O Architects came on board this was a 60sq meter apartment consisting of 6 rooms and tons of doors.

I love the continuous open space with built-in shelving and storage in various angles









Design: H2O Architects
Photos by : Julien Attard

Paper Fashion Show Returns to Denver, Seeks Designers - UnBeige

Watch the fabulous video
Paper Fashion Show Returns to Denver, Seeks Designers - UnBeige

Here is a link to my post from last years show

Siloetten

Siloetten - Loegten, Denmark
A project by: C. F. Møller Architects




Many towns in Denmark have centrally located industrial silos; most are no longer in use, but continue to visually dominate the local skyline. This is also the case in the town of Loegten north of Aarhus, where the former silo complex has been transformed into 21 high-quality residences. The actual silo contains staircases and lifts, and provides the base of a common roof terrace. Around the tower, the apartments are built up upon a steel structure in eye-catching forms which protrude out into the light and the landscape ? a bit like Lego bricks. This unusual structure with its protrusions and displacements provides all of the apartments with a view of Aarhus Bay








Source: Architizer