Styleture

You might not know that Disney has their own upscale, non-character, adult lifestyle brand that includes indoor and outdoor home furnishings, jewelry, clothing, stationery, and candles. The brand is called “Walt Disney Signature” and they recently collaborated with the world renowned design firm Cappellini to create a dining room for the Dining By Design DIFFA event to benefit the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS organization. DIFFA’s Dining by Design is renowned for bringing together some of the most talented and celebrated individuals in the worlds of fashion, interior design, art, and architecture to create spectacular, over-the-top dining environments. (Feel free to click on any image for a larger version.)

Disney Table Setting with Cappellini Chairs

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This amazing luxury yacht originally sold for 87.4 million U.S. dollars (65 million Euros) in 2006 and is back up for sale in Grand Cayman, but this time there’s no reserve! The Apoise is one of the world’s largest and most distinctive megayachts. Built by the renowned shipyard Lürssen Yachts, Apoise features a luxurious 1,399 sq ft owner’s suite, spacious suites for 12 guests, six decks, indoor and outdoor dining areas and lounges throughout. The mega yacht also has indoor and outdoor dining areas, a Jacuzzi on the upper deck and more. This yacht has the amenities and design of a five-star hotel with elegant baroque furnishings throughout the luxury yacht. The 1,399 sq ft master cabin includes a luxurious master bath and private Jacuzzi. The VIP guest suite is located on the bridge deck and there are four other suites on the lower deck, all that offer king size beds and their own bathrooms. Click any image for a larger version.

Visit the auction site here for more information about how to bid on this megayacht: rbauction.com/theapoise

Apoise Megayacht

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Spring has officially sprung (unless you live in Colorado where they got over a foot of snow yesterday!), which has many of us looking to improve our outdoor spaces for the coming summer months. Those of you with a green thumb may have already dug your hands into the semi-frozen earth, trying to get an early start on getting your bulbs in the ground, but for others outdoor living might take a new, innovative and imaginative approach after seeing these amazing outdoor designs. Click any image for a larger version:
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Chaise Lounge by Stone Forest

Stone Forest – Chaise Lounge by Stone Forest
Carved from one piece of rare silver gray Italian marble, the Chaise Lounge by Stone Forest  is more sculpture than lawn furniture. Web-like inclusions run contrary to the horizontal veining inherent in the stone, giving the Chaise Lounge a spirit that those who appreciate stone and marble have come to expect. When used indoors, it absorbs the ambient room temperature, and when used outdoors it will absorb only enough sun to warm you and cradle you in its sensuous, flowing form.

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The best designs in architecture and product design seem to be born of ideas that are seemingly familiar, yet at the same time bring you somewhere new and exciting. When designing contemporary faucets or fixtures, the temptation is to look at what has come before and simply improve upon that design. That’s not the way the designers from GRAFF® think about design. With the Fontaine and Stealth Collections, it’s as if the designers took ‘walk-abouts’ through the concrete and steel jungles of various cities and eras and filtered out the noise to come up with a line of sculptural gems. Reminiscent of skylines and deco skyscrapers, these odes to brick and steel are architectural wonders. Used in high-end bath settings, they produce a singular skyline silhouette of their own. Swooping, sweeping, glamorous, contemporary, elegant – need we go on?

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GRAFF Fontaine Contemporary Faucet

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The Smile Stool is a melting point between contemporary design and Indonesian craftsmanship. Studio Hindia is breaking from the reality that wood bent technology is not widely available in Indonesia, and are using a new approach to overcome this barrier. This design uses reclaimed wood and other waste wood materials from the Indonesian wood furniture industry, with embedded rod metal construction. This results in an eco friendly stool with a wood bent shape and unconventional wood grain direction. We really like this stool, and feel it easily could have made our list of top Designer Stools from last year. We just love stools!

Studio Hindia was  established by designer Fitorio Leksono and architect Adisty Kanastari in Bali, Indonesia. After they finished their studies at the Bandung Institute of Technology, they both worked for various companies in Indonesia and Singapore before they decided to form their own studio. Their work is a combination of playfulness and the unique diversity of Indonesian culture.

Here are some pictures of the stool and the process of creation. Click on any image to view a larger version.

Reclaimed Wood Smile Stool

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Luxury lighting designs are an essential addition to any environment, affecting the way we see things. Setting the style and tone to the room, Studio Italia Design’s Plafoniere Luxury Lighting applications takes lighting to the top, literally, with imaginative ceiling mounted fixtures. Beautiful in any setting, the collection offers an array of design options, from the extraordinarily unusual, to the remarkably elaborate; each detail ingeniously imagined and created. Involving a thorough process to create the final form, each Studio Italia Design masterpiece is meticulously handcrafted under the talented eye of skilled craftsmen and artisans. For more information visit sid-usa.com

Kapp

Kapp – Artful, inventive and playful, the exquisite details of the Kapp fixture will capture any imagination. With stunning hand-blown glass horns creatively assembled, the inventive fixture is skillfully designed to accommodate a ceiling mount application in addition to several other configurations. Each horn is assembled individually according to the eye of its creator until the final masterpiece is complete.

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This new design of vertical wall clock was created by the Brooklyn-based designer Klaus Rosburg for the modern and contemporary home. The hour numbers are laser-cut into an anodized Aluminum frame floating above the clock fingers. The clock face is made of back painted acrylic creating color depth and a premium look. The clocks are made in small batches and hand assembled in Brooklyn.

These clocks are reasonably priced at $98 and measure 16″ x 4″ x 1.5″. While they are a far cry from Klaus’ Cuckoo Clock Design, they are still perfect for the right design and the right setting. For more information about these clocks, please visit SonicNYC.com.

Front of Orange Vertical Clock

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Did you know that Art Deco was originally called Style Moderne? The Art Deco movement began in Paris in 1925, during the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs. Characterized by creative uses of materials such as steel, bronze, and glass, the highly stylized details are what help us identify Art Deco. Art Deco’s design structure is based on geometric shapes; circles, semi-circles, and geometric designs converged with glass and metal to form this singular design movement.

Art Deco Chrysler Building

The Chrysler building in NYC tells you exactly what you need to know about the heights Art Deco reached. Glamorous and ‘moderne’ now, designers today pay tribute to this important era with products that themselves are destined to become classics – no matter the scale of the object, the Art Deco spirit lives within these exquisite products.

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Porsche has just unveiled their newest concept car, and this one is electric! This is the first plug-in hybrid car ever, and was released at the Geneva Auto Show. It is being called the 918 Spyder, and this amazing Porsche is not just green, but also has a sleek and stylish design worth of this blog!

The 918 Spyder gets 78 miles per gallon, has low emissions of 70g CO2/km, can go 16 miles on electric charge alone, and hits 0-60 in 3.2 seconds giving the Tesla Roadster a run for its money (the Tesla Roadster goes 0-60 in 3.7 seconds). The car gets its power from both a 500-horsepower V8 motor, in addition to two electric motors that give the sportscar an additional 218-horsepower.

We know this is just a concept car as of now, but we really hope to see these on the streets in Hollywood in the near future!

For more information visit Porsche.com

Porsche 918 Hybrid

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Roger Thomas

Since the public generally does not get to see where Oscar hosts and honorees rehearse and celebrate backstage on Awards night, we’ve got a preview for you!  For the eighth year in a row, Architectural Digest assigns an interior designer to build a dazzling, comfortable Greenroom at the Kodak Theater.

Architectural Digest has awarded the honor of designing this room to designer Roger Thomas who will be in charge of creating the design of the Architectural Digest Greenroom.

This is the eighth consecutive year that Architectural Digest will produce the exclusive backstage lounge for the Oscar® presenters and honorees, and this year the design will will come alive backstage with the sparkle and romance of legendary Hollywood. The guests will be able to relax, rehearse and revel, Golden Era-style.

Thomas celebrates a time when developments in sound, color, genre and dialogue heightened the cinema experience. He amplifies a black and white room with varying shades in between—platinum, blonde and silver—and creates light and movement with reflective materials such as glass objects, metal occasional tables and mirrored walls that were popular interior design elements of the period.

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