Deco Decouverte is a store in Montreal that sells home furniture. I hope you understand the joke now.
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Philippe Stark. This french man designed the Delano hotel in Miami, where I had the pleasure of visiting while there for my 21st birthday. The pictures below are all pictures that I or a stranger with my camera have taken.
The Delano is a resort located on Miami beach with 194 rooms, some of which face the shallow pool with tables inside of it. The Delano also has three different restaurants, two inside and one outside, along with a dance club downstairs. This is the very first time I got to see waiters and customers walk into a pool with their pants rolled up just to eat and drink. It was quite a sight, certainly blew my mind at the time.
All of the art deco-ness' shown below in these pictures with the eclectic oversized furniture, chess game, wall sconces, piano room, random sushi table, large columns, whimsical exterior chairs and see-thru curtains dividing each space.
I don't believe the orange bench on the right was made to be sat on, especially with those wall sconces. Our backs would burn a little.
As soon as you walk into the Delano you get to see a bed on the right, my sister in laws are sitting on the bed with me. They didn't understand why I wanted to sit on the bed so badly, they thought it wasn't meant to be sat on. I said "but let's see the view from 2 feet off the ground, let's see what the designer saw from this angle" Now at the time, I had no idea Philippe Starck had designed this chic boutique hotel. All I knew was that I had to meet him. One day I will. He's like the male Zaha Hadid.
My brother sitting in the leather tufted chair on the right. Notice the diamond shaped wood detail in the back and see-thru curtains dividing the exterior entrance and the entrance lobby.
Talk about an eclectic light fixture. Here on the left is a picture of me playing pool right next to a tapas bar restaurant. On the other side of the columns there was a live jazz band playing, it really set the mood for the night of my 21st birthday, August 19th, 1992. Yeah, I'm a leo if you couldn't already tell.
Sushi restaurant, the diagonal table was cleverly placed dividing the spaces in between the columns. I actually used this as inspiration for a recent corporate design competition, random angles work when thought out carefully. Walking space around the chairs was a little tight around the columns when the chairs were pulled out, but it was still functionable. (I know that's not really a word)
Infinite columns with a giant door at the end leading to the exterior part of the resort.
When I sat in this chair, I felt as if I couldn't even hear anything around me. I'm gonna need one of these in my future house.
The gold chair on the left, and the table with the vintage rotary phone and the bright green wall, this scene couldn't possibly scream art deco more.
https://www.morganshotelgroup.com/delano/delano-south-beach
http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/8/31/105726/330/hotels/We_Take_a_Design_Nerd_Stroll_Through_The_Delano
The Delano is a resort located on Miami beach with 194 rooms, some of which face the shallow pool with tables inside of it. The Delano also has three different restaurants, two inside and one outside, along with a dance club downstairs. This is the very first time I got to see waiters and customers walk into a pool with their pants rolled up just to eat and drink. It was quite a sight, certainly blew my mind at the time.
All of the art deco-ness' shown below in these pictures with the eclectic oversized furniture, chess game, wall sconces, piano room, random sushi table, large columns, whimsical exterior chairs and see-thru curtains dividing each space.
The gold chair on the left, and the table with the vintage rotary phone and the bright green wall, this scene couldn't possibly scream art deco more.
There are stories about the designer Phillipe being young and under his aunt's table, the tablecloth spilling down the edge and around him as he daydreamed. Luckily the developing team of the Delano told him to do his thing and put his own flare on the place. As you can see through my pictures, he certainly added a unique Alice in the wonderland flare to the entire boutique hotel.
It's nice to know I'm not the only designer that daydreams. So far all of my daydreams have come true, minus what happened at Stantec. I don't think anyone could have predicted that. Imagine yourself in the city of Edmonton, walking into a library, into Edmonton mall, looking up, analyzing, and thinking to yourself, I am about to work for the company that designed these places and a company that has been writing articles that your teachers send to you. My brain diffused in the moment. I'll go back one day, with a somewhat fused brain. That's all for now. Until the next blog.
https://www.morganshotelgroup.com/delano/delano-south-beach
http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/8/31/105726/330/hotels/We_Take_a_Design_Nerd_Stroll_Through_The_Delano
