Art Deco Decouverte

Starckilicious 
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.

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

The Bubbles

A while back in 2005 I went on my 3rd cruise to the Caribbean. This time it was different because I had friends with me, as opposed to just being with my parents, and having to join the "On Board Teen Club" where parents would leave there children in hopes of them finding a 7-day friend...

Mango, Amber, Voldemort, Rabbit (undercover names) and I, we had an exquisite time in the room that we discovered. The room included circular in wall windows that we could sit or lay in. We decided to call this room... The Bubbles. I wish I still had pictures from that cruise, but I don't. What I do have is great memories, and a Studio project created based on these memorable moments spent in those Bubbles.

For this studio project, we had to create a classroom, and part of the exterior of that classroom. Now this was an individual project which would soon be an entire school in part two of this studio project.

Flake Music

Just made this playlist today... Hope you kids like my "Flakey" music ;) And for those of you who haven't read my previous posts, the reason I call it "flakey" is because these songs may be good now, until you get sick of them in a month :) aka they "flake" on you eventually.
Now go on, click on it, and read the rest of my blog 
http://8tracks.com/designitika/oh-so-not-mainstream-it-s-flakey
Please do feel free to comment on this post and tell me what your favourite song is:) it's okay if it's all of them, mine is too :D

Kitchener Kitchen

Now as many of you are quite aware of, and as many of you are not quite aware of... I live in Kitchener, Ontario, moved here in August 2011 from Montreal, in order to fulfill my dreams of becoming an Interior Designer.

That should explain the title, this Kitchen is nowhere near Kitchener, it is actually a Kitchen showroom located in London, England. So don't feel too bad that your kitchen does not look like this.

So hopefully by now you kids kinda "get" my industrial design phase.  Something about mixing metals and wood just pops my design cherries.

As you can see the copper palettes have been oxidized in order to tame down the bright orange of the original copper panels. (Check out the copper bowl next to the stove)

Now this design may sadly be a little far fetched for us normal occupants. However, if I were to design something like this with such a great square footage, I'd imagine it'd have to be for some kind of movie set, quelque chose comme ca.

Cybertecture (Design Eye Candy)

Now I know cybertecture is a name for a developing project called "The Cybertecture Egg" in Mumbai, India at the moment. However, I plan on using "cybertecture" to describe incredibly advanced designs. Designs that may even not be possible to build with today's technology. What's great about computer design programs, is that there is no limit to design, you don't have to limit your mind to what you are capable of drawing with a pen anymore.

Feast your eyes kiddos!

Accessible Green Roof #whatwhat ah love it. 

If you were wondering... this building is under construction this year, and will be completed in 2015 according to the Korea Planning team.

Interior Metal Transportation Device

JUMP IN

The last title I wanted to give this post was "the slide". Amateur, which I am no longer.




Why not have a slide in the middle of your New York penthouse suite. Did I already give away the location before you could guess?


Now in this case, this slide is not only meant for transportation, it is also used as a major focal point for the entire suite. Given its metal exterior, and glass casing, it certainly ties this otherwise cold suite together.


I can't really think of anyone who wouldn't want a slide in their apartment, loft, suite, house, and especially commercial buildings.

If I were to propose a change to the space, and how the Turrett Collaborative Architects have designed this place to be. I would definitely not add that hideous staircase, and replace it with a somewhat spiral staircase going alongside the metal slide. Perhaps something like this... Now imagine the stairs being in a all dark wood, with a glass covering and metal railings right along side the stairs.


Not only would this potential solution create a more open space for the living and dining area, it would also compliment the focal point (slide).

Interior Flake 1

So throughout this blog I will be flaking you kids... (over the course of this blog I will be referring to you (my readers) as kids, or kiddos.. =)


Flakes can be defined as many things nowadays. They can be a variety of things, including kellogs cornflakes, your friends who “flake” on you sometimes. But in this case, it is simply an interesting piece of furniture that can dignify your interior, in any kind of room. 

Flake Numbah One - Quite recently, the famous square shelves seem to be of interest to many contemporary spaces.