A nice, modern and well designed house

Oddly enough, this modern mountain house was designed by Brazil’s Morato Arquitetura.

This contemporary mountain home employs time-honored methods and local materials with traditional, manual construction, and uses strong Portuguese colonial architecture influences.
Built on three levels, the unique layout allows for a graceful yet functional use of the steeply sloping site. But you can’t complain about this particular site – ideally situated on a hilltop in Minas Gerais, Brazil, embraced by a vast valley and majestic mountain range, the house is too influenced by its surroundings.

“The place chosen for the house was determined by the generous native landscape in the surroundings,” says architect Ulisses Morato – the man behind this amazing house design.
“In this context, space definition privileged the possibilities of relationship of house users with the exuberant natural landscape. As for the relation of house-nature, we decided for the contrast, i.e. the radicalization of a geometric and rational design in opposition to natural organic shapes.

Not so far from the five main points designed by Le Corbusier to make Modern Architecture and nice colors for more fun.
1) the pilotis elevating the mass off the ground, (2) the free plan, achieved through the separation of the load-bearing columns from the walls subdividing the space, (3) the free facade, the corollary of the free plan in the vertical plane, (4) the long horizontal sliding window and finally (5) the roof garden, restoring, supposedly, the area of ground covered by the house.

Therefore, the ‘natural order’ and ‘cultural order’ are mutually distinguished and valued.” This modern mountain home was awarded the 10th Architecture Award promoted by IAB-MG (Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil – Minas Gerais) 2008, in the single houses category. Morato Arquitetura.
From: trendir.com

Design in museum - le design dans un musée

This "4" armchair is made in oak with a black lasure for finition.

dim: 80x80x80 cm

It's created by Frédéric Rhodes a french architect and can be found in the "Réattu" museum in Arles (near Marseille).

It's a created with the gold number: 1.618

The “4” armchair will be launched in a few weeks.
Only a 33 units will be available.

Please contact us if you want to know more.

Coffee design table

Today, I’d like to submit the pictures attached. I hope you will find this table… nice…!!!

It is one of Frederic RHODES's creations. He is an architect, working in Toulouse (France).

This “all around the world” table is made of glass, steel and wood.

It sizes 1.00x1.00x0.50m.

It is a coffee table that represents the meeting of people and objects. Seated around, people and friends meet and exchange ideas.
The right feet, which drawings are reminders of the World Trade Center represent the Occident, while the other feet are symbols of a Japanese temple front-doors. They are the East.
These two worlds meet by commercial and industrial exchanges which are represented by the steel metallic structure.
The glass links them up spiritually in all directions.

The “all around the world” table will be launched in a few weeks, sold by a new furniture design company: ARCHEDIS.

Only a hundred units will be available.

"8" Chair. A geometric chair

I's a new set of pictures about this chair I soon introduce to you in this blog.

I really like it

It's a architect game with the number "8", because you can find many "8" in the design of this chair.

A big table made to be with this chair will be here too in a few weeks.

Created by Frederic Rhodes Architect

It's made with french oak by the Milhau Brothers Ebenistery and shoot by Anthony Heintz with the kind approval of The Abattoirs Museum in Toulouse (France) Toulouse Modern Art Museum.

Design Chair "1.618"

This is the firt final model of this new chair called "1.618". It's the divine proportion
Its make with French Oaks with géometric forms and a soft cushion for your back.
Its like a sculpture.
It will be edition restricted to 100 copies by a new publishing firm of contemporary furniture: Archedis.

The designer is a French architect: Frederic Rhodes.

ARCHITECTURE IN TOKYO JAPAN

I really like those urban feelings. Not great Architecture but simple small and nice buildings.

I fall in love with Japan and japonese cities.

Hope to come back soon!!!

ARCHITECTURES IN JAPAN (KYOTO)

Ce ne sont pas les bâtiments de Tadao Ando, de Fumihiko Maki, de Kenzo Tange ou Shigeru Ban mais eux vous suivez leurs travaux à travers les revues spécialisées ou les sites d'actualité et de tendances.

Ici quelques photos de Kyoto de l'Architecture courante et modeste et déjà ...

It's not famous japonese Architects but simple modest and common Architectures and soon interesting buildings