I N T E R I O R // Residence Freundorf

This lazy sunday morning was a lovely one- lounging around in bed (coffee in one hand), whilst clicking my way through different architecture projects. This stunning house in particular stood out to me, a family house designed by the Project A01  guys and situated near Vienna, Austria. 
One of my ultimate dreams is to play a hand in designing my own home, and in my mind it always ends up something a little like this. An open modern structure with copious light amounts of light, surrounded by greenery. Oh, and a lot of negative space. The only  hard part is imagining what part of the world to build it in...
I'll happily work myself to the ground in order to have myself somewhere as harmonious as this place- hopefully one day I'll be blogging about my own house instead of someone else's :)
Hannah 

Tidy room, tidy mind

I've been finding it a real struggle the last few months to really find time to post. Being a student and doing coursework/ making a final collection may have felt like the most time consuming and stressful time ever, but honestly, nothing compares to working life.

Even experiencing a rare glimpse of daylight feels like a God send during this 12-13 hour long days. 

Anyway, all you students out there, appreciate the daylight and that extra half hour of free time, because it won't be there for long...

On the plus side though, during my weekends I've been re-decorating my bedroom. My mind is so pre-occupied (planning every day down to the last second), that re-painting everything pure white and throwing three quarters of my belongings away feels amazing.

Tidy room tidy mind right?

I'll be sure to post more regularly when my life is in order. For now though, bear with me!

Hannah

Sou Fujimoto!

As most of you who read anything I post about, you'll already be well aware of my love affair with modern architecture, so I could have kissed Emmie when she suggested we go to the Serpentine a couple of weeks ago. 

Sou Fujimoto is someone whose work I've always loved and can recognise anywhere, but don't actually know that much about. His pavilion installation is something I've been meaning to admire first hand for flippin' ages, but hadn't got round to until now...

I'll probably make a separate post about him another time, as I could rattle on and on about his use of negative space, and the way he manages to combine both nature and artificiality to create these incredible organic structures that make me want to cry!

But for now, here's us looking really pretty...

Emmie looking like the little babe she is

We originally set out to spend the day being as cultural and arty as possible, and ended up spending most of our day fangirling over ice cream in wholefoods, pulling disgusting faces and obsessing over all the foods we couldn't afford to eat.
Somehow we did manage to include a few exhibition in there too- in fact there's a lot at the Saachi Gallery at the moment that was just incredible, so if you're in the area go GO GOOoo! 
And of course I couldn't help but drag her into Muji on the way home so I could cry at all the pointless but really cure things I can buy when I EVENTUALLY get paid..

I leave you with a song. It's been stuck in my head all week, so now it can be stuck in yours
x

If an opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

My tutor emailed the above Milton Berle quote to us this morning, and I thought just how relevant it is now that the majority of us are considering what to do with our lives once this year is finished. However I'm now just imagining myself smashing holes in walls with a sledgehammer... Perhaps not the best way to go about getting a job. Good one Milton.

Anyway, I thought I'd share a few things I've been weeping with joy over this week. I felt like I was struggling a little with one of my modules lately, and just wasn't feeling very enthusiastic about it, but I always find browsing other designers work never fails to inspire me. I'm pleased to say I'll be going into next week feeling a lot more positive!

1. Ministry of highways & transportation, Tbillsi, Georgia
2. Music player for spotify by design student at Umea Institute of design
3. Museum of contemporary art, Cleveland by Farshid Moussavi
4. Shelves by Ron Gilan for Molteni & C 

Caffeine free!

There's been quite a few things I've wanted to blog about over the past few days, but due to my decision to wean myself off caffeine, things haven't gone quite to plan. Instead, I've been dragging my zombie self to uni in a attempt to do work, before wallowing in self-pity and falling asleep.. 
However, while I have the chance (and the energy), I thought I'd take this opportunity to share with you the photos I took at the design museum on Tuesday. I originally went just with the intention of seeing the "digital crystal" exhibition, but I ended up falling in love with Lawrence Lek's work while I was snooping around the rest of the museum...

Perving on Michaela...

Lawrence Lek is an architect and sculptor who "investigates the processes of natural growth and industrial fabrication through sculptured objects and environments".
His "unlimited edition" consisted of huge plywood modules, which he bent into really beautiful organic forms. 
I was really drawn to the simplicity of his work, and at first I actually thought his structures had been created with leather, so I was amazed to discover that the fluid shapes had been created with rigid plywood. I even loved the way he'd stitched the modules together... It was also interesting to see his early inkblot tests which has clearly been a strong influence on his often even more exciting than the final outcome..

You can see his Designer in residence video HERE!


A complete change of subject here, but despite the lack of caffeine and temporarily dying situation, I am actually a very happy bunny indeed as I managed to get tickets this morning to see bigbang in December! I think the thought of potentially being in the same room as G-dragon is keeping me alive and awake! :)
For now!..