On a small island not far from George Town in the Bahamas, Victor Barrett is planning a 100-percent sustainable development. Only 18 percent of its land will be developed, the rest left natural. Flora and fauna will be allowed to thrive, and roads will be narrow, for electric carts. Structures will be built...
SUSDESIGN Design Studio & Consultancy was founded by Ana Mestre in 2005, and focuses on sustainability-related activities: Sustainable interior and product design, research, education, and consultancy. SUSDESIGN maintains the rights to the CORQUE brand – a brand dedicated to the design and commercialization...
Author, editor, and strategic communications consultant Bill Richards has a new book out that tackles one of our favorite building materials: Bamboo. He began with 200 projects that utilize that renewable material in a variety of ways, then curated them down to 14, spread out over 223 pages. “I wanted...
Lucas & Lucas is all about the site planning. With it, the Sonoma-based architecture and landscape architecture studio strives to unify buildings and landscape. “What’s the difference?” asks Mike Lucas, who founded the firm with his wife, an architect, in 2005. “The land should inform the space...
Bella Notte is mixing it up. Its collections of cotton, linen, and silk, that is. Its signature linen is adorned with delicate cotton lace for Frida, and a double row of linen gauze ruffles for Linen Whisper. The slightly heavier, eight-ounce midweight linen is embellished with...
For those unable to attend Coverings, the preeminent ceramic tile & natural stone exhibition in North America, A+A is pleased today to share images from Italian manufacturers who participated. We were also able to conduct an email interview with representatives from Ceramics of Italy about...
For more than 700 years, Murano-based Barovier&Toso has focused its artistic efforts on safeguarding the art of glass. The company recently collaborated with Luca Nichetto of Nichetto Studio on two new collections of lamps and pendants with a contemporary accent. A+A interviewed Daniela Sarracco,...
Richard Francis-Jones is a leading Australian architect who, during the pandemic, penned a book titled “Truth + Lies in Architecture”, just out from ORO Editions. The publisher calls it “a collection of provocative essays that journey into the vexed circumstance of contemporary architectural...
Last year, Cean Irminger found women to be her inspiration for a new mosaic collection. A year earlier, it was Art Deco. This year, the creative director at New Ravenna Mosaics on Virginia’s Eastern Shore is looking to nature. “I wanted something something plant- and animal-based,” she says. “I...
So why shouldn’t co-living spaces have recording studios and green rooms? This is Hollywood, after all. And Leeor Maciborski, founder of the Eddy brand of housing, knows what his target market wants. “We have recording studios for podcast-terms,” he says. “And there are green rooms where...
