After touring through the Guggenheim Bilbao, we stopped by a hotel restaurant across the street for some lunch. As we sat down, I noticed the wallpaper behind the bar area, which was gorgeous looking, yet also very familiar. After some quick googling, I realized it was a wallpaper called Forest, which is made by Cole & Son, a British wallpaper company founded in 1875. I’ve always coveted this wallpaper as there’s something so deeply magical and mysterious about it. I love the mix of greens and blues with hints of pinks, the darkness and low contrast of it all. Simply fantastic.
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There are days when I feel like a totally luddite, and days when I’m incredibly wow’ed by what’s possible with new developments in technology. Studio RAP is one of those special groups who are utilizing new tech to find develop new and innovative of creating architectural delights. They have built a pair of archways at the PoortMeesters housing in the Netherlands inspired by Delft Blue porcelain.
What’s intriguing about their project though is that archways were made using 3,000 unique tiles that were 3D printed and then arranged in a pattern that was determined by an algorithm. So the algorithm “generated a leaf pattern that grows from one side to the other side that guides people over the staircase between two different public spaces.” It’s a rather remarkable way of marrying the past with the future.