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    Halleroed creates moody New York office with wood panelled walls

    Stockholm studio Halleroed has paired carpet floors, dropped ceilings and wood panelling for a New York office evocative of a David Lynch movie. Located in Manhattan’s Garment District, the office is for a company in the creative industry that has almost all of the floors in the 17th-storey building. Halleroed, led by Swedish designer Christian Halleröd, […] More

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    Studio Natalie researching local materials for interiors projects after being stranded on coral island

    [embedded content] In the most exotic VDF video message we received, interior designer Natalie Papageorgiadis explains how she found herself stranded in the Maldives as the world went into lockdown due to coronavirus. Papageorgiadis is the founder of London-based interior design studio Studio Natalie and appears in the video with its managing director Stuart Trevor […] More

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    Live conversation with Dezeen Awards judges and winners including Nelly Ben Hayoun and Sevil Peach as part of VDF

    [embedded content] Dezeen Awards winners and judges including Studio Drift, Arthur Mamou-Mani, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Sevil Peach will take part in a live drop-in conversation from 1:00pm UK time as part of today’s VDF x Dezeen Awards collaboration. The special edition of our Screentime interview series also features Nelly Ben Hayoun, Sarah Izod and Talenia […] More

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    Jagged MDF creates entire walls of storage for El Guateque apartments in Barcelona

    Kitchens, bathrooms and storage spaces are slotted behind an MDF “scenography” in these apartments designed by architects Adrià Escolano and David Steegmann. Escolano and Steegmann created the two El Guateque apartments by converting a 160-square-metre self-build house from the 1950s. A refurbishment had previously been attempted in 2007, but was abandoned due to the financial […] More

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    Six bakeries and sweets shops with delectable interiors

    We’ve rounded up six bakeries and shops for sweet treats that have been designed with cream interiors just as delicious as the goods for sale. BreadBlok by Commune, Santa Monica, California Commune created BreadBlok bakery with warm materials like plaster walls, limestone slabs and terracotta tiles. The project fuses sandy tones that relate to its […] More

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    Quito apartment A Forest House has a mini indoor pool

    Concrete columns draped in greenery, steel beams filled with books and a small pool feature in this apartment in Quito, Ecuador that local architect Aquiles Jarrín has overhauled for a family of three and their dog. Jarrín designed the project, called A Forest House, for an apartment located in a 1970s building in the city’s […] More

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    10 movies with striking interior design to watch under lockdown

    The coronavirus crisis means we’re spending more time indoors than ever before, so Dezeen’s Natasha Levy has selected 10 films with stand-out interiors that can offer some escape from your own four walls. [embedded content] The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014 The snowy mountaintops of a fictitious country in Eastern European is the backdrop for The […] More

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    Ménard Dworkind recreates 1970s New York pizza restaurant in Montreal

    Thin ribbons of wood line the green ceilings and white pine wall panels in this Montreal pizza restaurant designed by local studio Ménard Dworkind. Vesta, located in Montreal’s Villeray neighbourhood, takes cues from the decor of New York pizzerias of the 1970s. Its funky colours, bold use of textures and use of vintage objects are […] More