BISAZZA GOES POP WITH NEW CEMENT TILE BY INDIA MAHDAVI

Following the debut of its inaugural cement tile collections at Cersaie last September, Bisazza is expanding its offerings in the trendy material this week with the launch of a new collection from French architect and designer India Mahdavi at Salone del Mobile. Mahdavi follows in the footsteps of Jaime Hayon, Carlo Dal Bianco and Paola Navone, who created the very first cement tile collections just seven months ago, heralding a new direction for the firm that is renowned for its awe-inspiring glass tile mosaics.

“I spoke with India in Paris last year. I’ve always admired her work and have always wanted to collaboraye with her,” says Rossella Bisazza, the brand’s director of communications and daughter of its late founder, Renato Bisazza, of the collection's origins. “[India] told me she wanted to do a cement tile collection and in just three months the collection was ready—she’s vey professional and precise, she knew exactly what she wanted.”

Running the company alongside her brother, Piero Bisazza, Rossella believes that the brand has been strengthened through this product diversification and has already attracted a new, different type of customer. “The cement tiles are probably more rustic but at the same time very contemporary as we work with internationally renowned designers,” she explains. “I am always the one to select the women designers and my brother selects the men, I don’t know why,” she laughs, “but it works.” It would certainly seem so given that the studio’s previous collaborators include prestigious female power players such as Andrée Putman, Patricia Urquiola, Paola Navone and now India Mahdavi, whose bold geometric designs recall ‘70s pop patterns.

Handmade in Tunisia, where cement tiles have been made for generations, Bisazza runs its own production. “The colours are more refined and we worked on the texture of the tiles to make them softer than the traditional version,” Rossella tells us. “They are handmade so every tile is different from the next, which I think is a plus. It’s not like ceramics where all the tiles are exactly the same, this one has more life and the texture is fascinating because it’s not shiny it’s more silky to the touch.”

With a new showroom opening in New York during ICFF, the launch of a mosaic collection by British designer Tricia Guild of Designers Guild during London’s Chelsea Flower show and a new cement tile collection by a yet-to-be-announced British designer in the works for September, Bisazza is set for another busy year.

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Earth Day: India's first green home saves 40% electricity!

OMG! This house made of fly-bricks and wooden doors saves whooping electricity!

Know about India’s first Green Home that saves 40% electricity

Amid the growing effect of air pollution, dirty yamuna and reducing forest cover, here is something to cherish on Earth Day today.  

When we talk about saving natural energy, you would be shocked to know that a house situated in South Delhi’s Chitranjan Park saves whopping 40% electricity.  It is India’s first residential building to conserve the natural resource at such a large scale.

Teri Griha, which is a rating system in India for environmental home certification, has granted five star rating to this building. Named ‘Green One’, the house is fully constructed with recycled and eco-friendly material. The overall fenestration design reduces the heat gain.

The building structure is designed to facilitate sunlight to every floor and room. Owing to which use of lights in building during the day time has been considerably reduced.

The efficient use of solar energy and minimal use of air conditioner inside this building helps in conserving the environment.

"It is the ITC Green Building in Gurgaon that influenced me. So I pulled down my house in C.R. Park and re-built it using environment-friendly and recycled material," Prasanto K Roy, the owner of the house, said.

It costed Mr. Prasanto, who is a tech-journalist, a little less than Rs 4 crore to construct the house.  

Home’s interiors have been built with recycled building materials like fly-ash bricks, while old wooden doors have been polished again for installation. Moreover, all the electronic equipments used inside the building are of 5 star rating.

Interestingly, actress turned politician Gul Panag owns the second green home in the country. Situated in Pune, her home is one of the first in India to be built to eco standards.

Wow! This building is a ‘model house’ when world is standing at the edge of global warming. By making some simple changes in our lifestyle and home design, we can also contribute a lot towards preserving environment.

Source: http://www.indiatvnews.com/buzz/life/india-first-green-home-delhi-earth-day-146.html

Artist David Salle on Interior Design and $50 Watches

IN THE EARLY 1980S, artist David Salle made an imposingly big name for himself with paintings that elevated the use of pastiche—the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated imagery delivered in contradictory styles that nevertheless hold together as a whole.

Although he still works in a similarly collage-inspired vein, the 62-year-old painter has embraced an ever-expanding roster of media over his 40-year career. He’s created glazed stoneware sculptures that look like smashed vessels, directed a feature-length film (1995’s “Search and Destroy”) and dabbled in other arts, including a long-running collaboration with choreographer Karol Armitage, for whom he has created set and costume designs. “When people ask about my contribution to her ballets, I usually say, ‘I do the décor,’ ” he said, half-jokingly. 

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Humor aside, Mr. Salle is something of a design buff. In his work, he’s borrowed freely from the world of interiors—adhering a set of legless Eames chairs to his seminal 1983 painting “Brother Animal,” for example—and has turned images of household goods into highly charged signifiers on his canvasses. He has also worked with architect Christian Hubert on two residences: a Tribeca loft in Manhattan, complete with a flagstone accent wall, and a zinc-clad house in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, where he currently lives. Meanwhile, his airy, light-filled country home in East Hampton comes equipped with giant hanging paper lanterns and Hermann Czech chairs by Thonet. “Everything in my houses is pretty deliberate,” said Mr. Salle. “Except for all the stuff that’s not.”

UT Interior Design Student Wins Prestigious Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship, Internship

KNOXVILLE—A University of Tennessee, Knoxville, student has been awarded a prestigious national scholarship and internship from Gensler, one of the world's leading architecture, design and planning firms.

Erin Collins, a third-year interior design student, is the recipient of the 2015 Brinkmann Scholarship, one of two top academic scholarships awarded by Gensler annually. The scholarship also will provide a paid summer internship for Collins at any at Gensler regional office in the nation. Collins has elected to intern in San Francisco.

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This is the first time the Brinkmann Scholarship has been given to a UT student.

"My mind is simply in awe because even having the opportunity to submit my work serves as validation for my passion in life," said Collins, of Knoxville. "Not only does this honor authenticate my hard work, but it also shows the dedication of my parents, professors and role models without whom I could not have made it this far in my journey."

Collins said the scholarship and internship will give her career a big push.

"I have goals to live in a large city and to live a life continually designing and thinking in new ways," she said. "Interning with Gensler will hopefully give me more knowledge and confidence to achieve bigger goals in my future."

Source: http://archinect.com/schools/release/71077/ut-interior-design-student-wins-prestigious-gensler-brinkmann-scholarship-internship/124904624