This apartment was designed as minimalist as possible without losing in comfort. The furniture and wall structure around the apartment is as minimal as possible but without losing in functionality. Internal partitions were demolished to maximize light penetration and provide open-plan living arrangement. Closets and other storage space is hided behind sliding doors. The integrated plant box positioned above cooking area strikes a line of green vegetation across the space. A small changing room serves the bath-shower wet room and contains a bespoke compact vanity unit. (more…)
There are many great advantages that come from utilizing our incredible specialty sliding glass doors. Perhaps the biggest benefit is the quality of our selection of specialty interior glass sliding doors and the technology they use in order to encourage high efficiency and sound reduction. Though creating a window space in a wall is certainly possible, another more affordable option is to replace you entryways and exits with sliding glass doors. These doors not only provide windows, they also make for easy entrances onto decks, porches, or patios. Sliding glass doors have been re-invented to fit any need in your home. Imagine yourself in your kitchen or living room on a winter morning, feeling the sun’s rays on your face yet avoiding frostbite from the outdoor air. These innovations allow you to have the best of both worlds while still remaining efficiently within your budget. (more…)
When the School for Visual Theater was established in Israel and festivals for “Visual Theater” began to multiply, I used to ask for the sake of argument, “Is there such a thing as non-visual theater?”
I admit I dissembled a bit, because the name “Visual Theater” is supposed to emphasize the visual dimension of stage creation, thereby stating that the verbal and linear (plot development, if such a thing exists) elements are secondary. From the outset, the visual element in theater was always the most important. (more…)
It may have been an overexposure to early Frank Lloyd Wright, or perhaps too much time spent in boats, but when I was young, and until very recently, I was horrified by furniture. I always thought that a perfect domestic architecture would be heavy on the built-ins. Shelves, benches, various seats and berths—these were the things necessary to finish a space, to tune it for living, to show at least that the designer was not entirely ignorant of how and by whom a house would be used. Also to anchor it. An uncle of mine lived for many years in a very cool Anglo-built adobe in Taos, New Mexico. At the center of the main space was a large circular pit, dug out of the ground and contoured for sitting: a brutal sunken living room, it seemed so much more profound than the loose, impermanent wooden furniture orbiting all around it, sliding this way and that, imported things ready to take up any position, or be replaced. (more…)
BOB BEITCHER says he and his wife, Carol, want their newly built home in Santa Monica to be a showcase of sustainable practices “without being granola-y, if you know what I mean.”
Their house off San Vicente Boulevard has been carefully designed by architect Warren Wagner to optimize solar energy and the use of recycled and renewable materials. Yet the modernist dwelling seems more about the panache of architectural possibilities than the virtuousness of green design.
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