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A Newport Beach Home That Merges Modern and Traditional

Built for a family of eight living in Newport Beach, California, this modern home resides in a traditional neighborhood, requiring Brandon Architects to merge the two styles. The six bedroom, six bathroom residence was designed for indoor/outdoor family living and entertaining. The open layout connects the kitchen, dining room, and living room with the outdoor space making the interior feel even larger.

The architects worked with interior design firm, Bonesteel Trout Hall, to help bring the owners’ modern taste to life with high-end finishes and unique details throughout.

The primary living space’s ceiling was outfitted with tongue-and-groove wood panels framed with dropped steel I-beams in white.

The atrium displays a cantilevered wood and glass staircase that spans three floors with a mesmerizing woven art piece that connects them all. The open treads allow natural light to flow down from above to keep it well-lit.

Shades of blue throughout are paired with neutral tones and white surfaces for a clean, fresh look.

Photos by Ryan Garvin.

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Giopato & Coombes Designs Mobile-Like Chandelier Called Dewdrops

Italian studio Giopato & Coombes recently presented their 5th lighting design at this year’s Maison & Objet in Paris. Dewdrops is a sculptural chandelier that resembles a mobile with glass spheres suspended from brass arms. The handblown glass “blossoms” emit light through their transparent globes resulting in an ethereal sculpture. The fixture mimics dewdrops resting on blades of grass glowing under the light of the moon, inspired by a summer walk the designers had taken.

Dewdrops is available in two versions – one with 5 glass drops and one with 7 glass drops – each made from transparent borosilicate glass and turned brass.

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BMW Designworks and The North Face Futurelight Teardrop Trailer Concept

The creative offspring of a collaboration between Designworks – a BMW Group subsidiary – and outdoors gear brand The North Face is an unexpected partnership responsible for a design evoking thoughts of Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome designs, a futuristic off-road ready camping trailer, and maybe even a tad of a magical carriage that reverts back to a pumpkin at the stroke of midnight. Unveiled at CES 2019, the teardrop trailer is an example of The North Face’s exploratory research into structurally durable and air-permeable material technology, partnered with BMW Designwork’s vehicular expertise, hinting of the wide application of a waterproof-breathable material engineered to endure the elements without the traditional discomforts of outdoor wear and gear.

As anyone who has camped can attest, staying inside a tent can be an uncomfortable affair, especially when cold and wet, due to the built up humidity and heat produced by occupants and trapped by the non-permeable material used to keep the elements at bay. The North Face developed Futurelight, an ultra-breathable and waterproof fabric dotted with nano-spun perforations to produce a lightweight material engineered to keep condensation at a minimum.

The Futurelight Teardrop Trailer Concept in itself is not likely to ever see the light of day as a production product, but its airless tire and dual level conceptual design (revealed in a VR experience at CES with a prototype in the works) affords the two brands the opportunity to tout the material’s potential as an innovative material game-changer within the competitive outdoor gear category. The North Face’s Futurelight site more than hints a line of products covered with this material is on its way, hopefully before the arrival of the next polar vortex.

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Tom Dixon Launches SWIRL Geometric Home Accessories

Just last month at Maison & Objet, Tom Dixon launched a collection of geometric home accessories that include candleholders, bookends, and vases. The SWIRL collection is made with a new material that gives the objects a three-dimensional marbled paper appearance while being heavy, like stone.

The material is made from recycled powdered residue from marble manufacturing, along with resin and pigment to give it the swirl pattern. That combination results in blocks that can be cut, sliced, and/or turned on a lathe to create functional sculptures. Each piece has its own personality with a unique silhouette and color pattern all its own.