Interiors

Interface sells carpet to the tune of $1,100,000,000 each year. That is just one reason why the business world listens up when Ray Anderson speaks. Ray describes his ecological awakening as “a spear in the chest,” a wound he has used to both his company’s advantage, and the planet’s. Giving rebirth to 133 million pounds of carpet is just the beginning. Anderson and his design teams are hard at work studying nature’s delicate technologies—like the sticky feet of geckos—to make products better, cleaner, and more beautiful. Here, the founder of Interface share his insights on biomimicry, right-brain thinking, cradle-to-cradle design, and our innate “biophilia.” :...

Here are some more images of The Public, a new arts centre in West Bromwich, England by architect Will Alsop. (more…)

Architect Stanley Saitowitz designed the interior of Mizu Spa, a day spa in San Francisco. (more…)

Italian architect Romolo Stanco designed the interior of Grill X, a restaurant concept in Casale Monferrato in Piedmont. (more…)

Belgian designer and artist Arne Quinze created a temporary installation at five-star Parisian hotel Le Royal Monceau last month, before the hotel’s closure for a year-long reburbishment. (more…)

Spanish/Mexican architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales designed an exhibition of works by artist Susana Solano at Fundación ICO in Madrid, made almost entirely of recycled materials. (more…)

Ray Anderson started his company, Interface, back in the 1970s to make carpet. Like any business man, he wanted to shake up the market and make a healthy profit, which he’s done, and Interface now has 17 manufacturing locations on four continents. But this is not business as usual. Not anymore. Since having a sustainability epiphany, as he calls it, Ray has starting steering Interface toward one hell of a goal: zero negative effects on the planetary ecosystem by the year 2020, a goal he admits no corporation has yet reached. TreeHugger has long found inspiration in Interface’s elegant design solutions—products li...

Paris-based architects Pierre Buecler and Jean-Christophe Poggioli designed the interior of the new Liberty of London concept store on Sloane Street, which opened last month. (more…)

Artists Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter designed the interior of trade fair Design Annual 2008 which begins tomorrow at Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany. (more…)

Dominic Harris of Cinimod Studio, in collaboration with Pablo Uribe of Studio Uribe and ICO Design, has designed the new SNOG frozen yogurt shop in South Kensington, London. (more…)

Architect William Russell of Pentagram has completed a new store for fashion designer Alexander McQueen on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. (more…)

New York-based architects Studio Dror have designed residential villas for Nurai, a resort on a natural island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. (more…)

Designer Daniela Bianka has completed a renovation of the reception area and exhibition space at the French National Space Agency (CNES) in Paris. (more…)

Hackenbroich Architecten have completed the interior of a hairdressers shop in Cologne, Germany. (more…)

Dutch designer Tjep. has completed a restaurant for grown-ups that is also fun for children (or maybe the other way round). (more…)

French-Brazilian architects Triptyque have sent through images of Bela Cintra 1235, a private apartment in São Paulo. (more…)

Students Sabrina Meyer and Max Wittkopp from the TFH architecture school in Berlin have designed an imaginary flagship shoe shop called Guerilla Boxing. (more…)

Reboot is a conceptual house designed by Victor Vetterlein to be completely self-sufficient. (more…)

Laia Guardiola and David Benito of FFWD architects have designed the ever-changing interior of the Plató reataurant in Barcelona. (more…)

Milan 08: material producers Dupont Corian and Italian fabric and homeware manufacturers Missoni Home teamed up to present Corian Loves Missoni at Corian Design’s Milan showroom. (more…)

Construction has begun on a 20-story residential tower on 5 Franklin Place in New York designed by Dutch architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio. (more…)

Kinderstad is a penthouse where children being treated at an Amsterdam hospital can relax and meet friends, designed by Sponge Architects and Rupali Gupta in cooperation with IOU Architecture. (more…)

AMO, the research arm of Office for Metropolitan Architecture, recently unveiled their design for new experimental and exhibition spaces for the Prada Art Foundation near Milan.
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Designer Philippe Starck, retailer Murray Moss, fashion designer Pascal Humbert and chef José Andrés are collaborating on the new SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, the first of a new design-led luxury hotel concept. (more…)

Hogarth Architects have remodelled the interior of a listed apartment on Queen’s Gate Terrace in South Kensington, London. (more…)