Category: Interier Design
A New Kind of Catalog: The 2013 IKEA Catalog App Preview
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Every year, the IKEA Catalog inspires people around the world to create homes they love. Now, IKEA is taking the inspiration one step further. This year, the IKEA Catalog is alive with smart ideas, fun stories and beautiful products. Download the IKEA Catalog App for your smartphone or tablet, and scan select pages to unlock films, interactive experiences, photo galleries and more home furnishing inspiration. With this year’s IKEA Catalog, there are endless possibilities to make your life at home better
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“Acqua Liana” An Oceanfront Masterpiece <3
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Frank McKinney’smasterpiece Acqua Lianarecently sold for a record price.
Unequivocally, Acqua Liana represents the most magnificent oceanfront estate home created by Frank McKinney during his stellar 25-year career as a real estate “artist.”
Acqua Liana, the Tahitian and Fijian word for “water flower,” was bestowed with its unique name resulting from the home’s calming and soothing inclusion of many forms of liquid serenity.
From its water floors and water walls, to its water gardens and waterfalls, to its pools, reflecting ponds and fire spa, to the ocean beside and the Intracoastal waterway behind, each is found intertwined in a magical and eternal blossom at Acqua Liana.
Acqua Liana was the latest oceanfront masterpiece created by Frank McKinney, renowned for his oceanfront artistry, www.frank-mckinney.com.
Acqua Liana features a first ever glass “water floor” with hand-painted tiles in a Monet-inspired Lotus garden motif brilliantly illuminated below the shimmering surface
2,000 gallon arched aquarium wet bar (walk below with over 100 exotic fish swimming above!)
24-foot oceanfront sheeting water walls
9-foot hand-blown multi-color glass chandelier (672 individual pieces) that “melts” into the reflecting pool below
10-foot kitchen and dining water wall
double helix glass staircase
magnificent oceanfront Hawaiian Koa-wood kitchen and catering kitchen
exotic tropical hardwood floors (coconut, bamboo, palmwood, reclaimed teak, etc.)
15,071+/- total square feet
7 bedrooms
11 baths
oceanfront master bedroom suite with sitting room and his/hers oceanview baths – hers with mahogany soaking tub and his with steam shower with door to the beach
oceanfront glass office
glass wine room
oceanfront grand salon that opens to the beach
dining room that opens to the pool
Hollywood-like movie theater
air-conditioned and oversize garage with sub-surface windows peering into pool
2 glass elevators
3 laundry rooms
ultra hi-tech home automation with biofeedback
outdoor cocktails bale’
oceanfront summer kitchen
meandering and swimable water gardens
classical lounge and lap pool
serene reflecting pools
waterfall 16-person spa w/ fire feature
floating sun terrace
special golf course grass driveway
mature specimen vegetation
2-bedroom 2-bath guesthouse adorned in bamboo with private lagoon plunge pool
and so much more…
São Paulo’s Secret Tea Shop
Nothing’s more exciting than hidden elements in the urban fabric. Brazilian architect Alan Chu must have thought the same when he designed this remarkable secret shop for a local tea brandin a shopping center in São Paulo.
When closed, the Gourmet Tea Storeis hidden behind a multi-colored wall. During opening times the wall transforms into a fully equipped shop as the counter slides forward from beneath a purple hatch, shelves are wheeled out from behind a grey panel, and a cupboard emerges from behind a large brown door. Even the sign of the Gourmet Tea Store is hidden.
Chu explains that the tea shop’s design was inspired by the brand’s bright packing for its range of 35 organic tea blends. “The colorful plywood box opens in many ways to the public creating a dynamic, joyful atmosphere around it self using design as a tool to provide the right brand experience”, Chu explains.



















