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How small exactly?- Take a guess. Featuring high ceilings, wooden floors and immaculate white walls, the overall feeling is that of cleanness, elegance and space. Even the floors are painted in white. With a minimalist but beautiful design and original furniture items, it will leave most of its guests speechless. via

It’s a fact that space has become a high priced commodity but when you say Tokyo, it’s even worse. A very good example is the latest project by Sou Fujimoto Architects, the House H. Meant as a way to perfectly balance volumes, spaces and light, the house follows on the Japanese minimalism with white walls and open spaces that give the idea of “large”. With a small pool at the ground floor, staircases that take you to the top terrace (which by the way, it’s not that safe for kids) and a transparent theme flowing everywhere, there is something about House H that gets the eye, even though it puts your privacy in jeopardy. Amazing!

The Mushroom wall hook is an exercise in minimalism. Simple in design, and easily mountable. The MUCHroom wall hook looks great even when it’s not holding your things. Meant to resemble a mushroom growing out of a tree or forest floor. Each box comes with 3 hooks that are pre-drilled and pre-screwed as well as 3 wall anchors. Made from reclaimed rosewood, with white/creme accent color. Since these are all made from reclaimed wood, each set of hooks will look slightly different than what you see here. Found on Workeman. – Via – Notcot

New York, NY – Duravit, a leading manufacturer of innovative bathroom furnishings, has launched PuraVida, a complete bathroom suite designed in collaboration with Phoenix Design and fittings manufacturer Hansgrohe. PuraVida brings poetic purity and clarity of form to the bathroom, fusing minimalism and elegance to create a sleek, yet gentle, flowing and graceful look. The collection is Duravits second collaboration with Phoenix Design. “Everything about this range is completely subtle, nothing is excessive, nothing is pretentious, said Tom Schnherr of Phoenix Design. In designing PuraVida, Schnherr and partner Andreas Haug sought to modify pure geometry in order to create a sense of gentle movement. To that they added emotion, based on Schnherr sense that, In the future, there will be a need for a new form, for new emotion. Everything will become more joyful and more lively.

By using the strength of emotion as the platform for their design, Schönherr and Haug created an entirely new, boundless and feminine look for the bathroom. Overall, the design process became a search for a natural form – one that was soft, pure and embodied sleek timelessness. The purity behind PuraVida is exemplified through a symbiotic relationship between the ceramics and fittings, which are meant to look “as if they had grown naturally like a tree from the earth,� according to Schönherr.

To highlight this notion of growth, the designers implemented color into the fittings, which are as pure and white as the ceramic itself. The soft exterior and gently formed interior of the PuraVida washbasin create a sense of spacious elegance. The interior of the basin is flat and gently bevelled, creating a delicate “wave,� while its overall shape is exceptionally soft, creating a sense of effortless motion. Each of the PuraVida designs seems to float, enhancing the collection’s ethereal qualities.

The wall-mounted furniture highlights this floating effect: consoles, vanity units and tall cabinets in three dimensions are gently rounded and feature a glossy white finish. The emotional movement occurs on the furniture’s surface, which is available in a choice of deep red or classy black paired with high-gloss white, ebony or aluminium. Curved handle “grooves� in place of physical handles enhance the weightless character of the range.

In terms of functionality, it is possible to open both the upper and the lower portions of the furniture pieces using the grooves. Inside the furniture, sophisticated details provide a helping hand with everyday life. As an option, the vanity unit features elegant glass dividers, while the tall cabinet includes a practical integrated drawer for storage. A matching mobile storage unit completes the range.

The mirror echoes the floating character of the furniture. Its back wall is not just rounded at the corners, but also tapers so that only a small portion of the edge is visible from any angle. Similarly, the mirrored cabinet is three-dimensional in form. Its double-sided mirrored doors and decorative back wall merge to create a sense of space. On the outside, a flush-mounted light, which is easy to clean, ensures optimum illumination.In the PuraVida collection, light serves as a crucial design element for the built-in bathub.

Also available in a freestanding version, the tub features a rim that opens to create a joint through which a white LED light gently shimmers. Alternatively, depending on the choice of furniture color,

The internationally renowned Zaha Hadid studio is at it again, this time in Italy in the small town of Jesolo where the creative designers came up with a futuristic project for a retail and business center. Dubbed the Jesolo Magica, the structure is meant both as a eye catcher for anyone visiting but also as a major gateway into town. It features a 5 star hotel, two story retail complex, offices, a congress hall, a gym, a nightclub and a restaurant that boasts amazing views of the nearby gardens. With fluid shapes that take your breath away, that’s certainly Zaha Hadid’s signature. We love it! – via