5 Italian Furniture Favorites from Gallotti&Radice

Irwin Weiner ASID - I'm having fun with the new Home catalog from contemporary Italian designers Gallotti&Radice. Their so-chic offerings are client pleasers, and I've been having fun proposing items for projects requiring high style, great design, and timeless modernity. Here are five current favorites from their catalog - but, believe me, there are more favorites to be had. Click on each photo for more product information.

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Residential Architecture vs. Interior Design - Tug of War?

Irwin Weiner ASID - I can tell when a home has been decorated by an architect. There's usually a precise, masculine rigidity to the interior space that isn't present in a home utilizing a professional interior designer. Decorators know how to relate a space to the individual needs of a client, and most of all, how to facilitate comfortable, everyday living needs. I've often said that a well designed interior should look lived-in, like it's always been there. Architects who "do interior design" oftentimes create a CAD model of how the interior should look without referencing the human factor and the need for harmony, mood, proportion, scale, and other variables. I chose today's video on a contemporary Estonian architect's home design in the woods to illustrate the point. The talented architect, Indrek Allmann, is frank with us when he details all the work and research and effort he put into the exterior design of the home - but how the interior falls short. I did, however, like the elevation of the home's foundation so that views of nature from the interiors show two-thirds forest and trees and one-third sky; a great touch.

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5 Furniture Favorites from Portuguese Luxury Designers Boca do Lobo

Irwin Weiner ASID - The Boco do Lobo catalog has caught our eye here at Design2Share in the past, and we've been keeping steady watch as they've been exhibiting their high-end custom luxury furnishings in NYC, Milan, and around the world. 

 

 

Their business is a combination of high-end Old World woodworking and craftsmanship, a mash-up of contemporary styles, and custom finishes (colors, textures, lacquers, etc.).

Click on the photos of our favorite pieces for more product information, and enjoy the Boca do Lobo video, which does a great job of telling their story and marrying interior design with the world of fashion and luxury lifestyle.

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And speaking of high-end luxury, click here to read 7 of the Most Expensive Furnishings and Decor Pieces in the World - see what's sold for record prices lately at auctions around the world.

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3 Most Outrageous Range Hood Designs from Best

Irwin Weiner ASID - It's a beautiful thing when art and appliances shake hands and fuse. They've done this in the various "chimney hood" and range hood exhaust systems in the Style and Lifestyle collections from Italy's Best S.p.A.

I've selected a few of my favorites - totally outrageous - and you can see that they don't really look like range hoods or cooking exhaust systems; when at rest and not in use, they're

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