Solid Walnut

The San Francisco-based Three-Star Michelin restaurant Saison has a holistic ash and amber approach to great American cuisine. The aroma of natural almond wood as it burns in a brick oven gives off an organic mystique and creates a cozy, almost mystical, atmosphere, adding a glow to an already incredible dining ambiance.   Avoiding restaurant conventions such as a "signature dish" so to speak, Saison’s menu constantly evolves into a new experience for its patrons. At first In 2009, Saison started as a pop-up, in 2009 open only one day a week. It received One Michelin Star in its first year, and then Two Stars the following year. This is very much a testament to the high standard of quality held as necessary from the very beginn... More

A new contemporary art space for Stuart Shave Modern Art in Bury Street, St James’s, Mayfair. The gallery opened August 2020 with an exhibition of work by Austrian painter Martha Jungwirth. Future exhibitions are planned with Richard Tuttle and Sanya Kantarovsky. Ståle Eriksen The main timber facade has been restored and painted black. The ground floor gallery is a single room, naturally lit from the front, with a new stair at the rear. This descends to a second smaller gallery defined by square dimensions. A glazed door leads to a staff office, also used for private viewing. Ståle Eriksen Here a new timber facade looks onto a light-well below the street. The process of restoration uncovered glazed brick slip... More

Details, the protagonists in the last housing designed by mecanismo in San Sebastian The majority of the house’s new furniture has been designed by the studio based in Madrid, directed by Pedro Rica and Marta Urtasun   The reformed house, which is located in the surroundings of the Ondarreta beach, in San Sebastián, had a very compartmentalized distribution that mecanismo has transformed to give it a greater luminosity and amplitude, giving rise to two differentiated zones in the house that harbor the different rooms of the dwelling. The main space of the house is composed of the living-dining room and the kitchen that, framed by a glass enclosure and in which the action in the area of the island is oriented to the outs... More

The Ordre des architectes du Québec is reorganizing its offices to better reflect the new structure of the organization.   As a result of an architectural competition launched in 2013, the organization of the offices of the Ordre des architectes du Québec no longer met its growing and constantly evolving needs. To address this situation, the Board of Directors called upon the expertise of L. McComber with three objectives: revisiting the reception area, optimizing and reorganizing the work areas and improving the acoustics of the building. The custom-designed furniture, made by local craftsmen, cleverly combines steel, felt and wood. Its modular design allows it to be arranged according to the specific needs of each te... More

The apartment overlooks the river Arno, with the Pontevecchio immediately to the left, and the Uffizi Gallery straight ahead. From the sequence of glass doors, opening onto the terrace, and from all the other framed windows, the views of the most important monuments of Florence are captivating. With a single glance, one can travel the entire course of the river Arno. These views are like a series of "paintings", becoming the real stars, and the layout and finishes of this home have been thought around each of these, enhancing the panorama.The corridor at the entrance is parallel to the river Arno and is finished in Italian walnut on the walls and ceiling, interrupted first by a niche, covered in orange linoleum, which contains a suspended... More

The unique view of the old post office building, the green city park and the many docked boats on the quay of the Durme motivated the clients to take the courageous step to exchange their large villa in the green outskirts for a new home in the heart of the bustling city. The floor plan of the existing apartment (88m2) was formed by a series of blindly connected rooms. A large entrance hall wasted precious space and the enclosed kitchen split the beautiful view into two.   The discovery of a hidden concrete skeleton provided an endless amount of design options and made it possible to project a new contemporary and highly functional plan on top of the existing beams and columns structure. The absence of structural walls allowed us to... More

Lintex is a client that we have worked with for 15 years now where we usually design products and stands for Furniture Fairs. This time, they wanted a multifunctional space were they could have a small office and also meetings with clients. They wanted the space to reflect the spirit of Lintex but also to be personal and inspirational. The space is on the corner of the ground floor of a beautiful multi-family house from the 30’s and is divided into three rooms, similar in size, with large original wooden windows.   The room height is almost 4 meter with lots of daylight and sun coming in. We wanted to emphasise the volume and light of the space. We made the division of the space as clean and distinct as possible with no disturb... More

Mandy Graham is pleased to announce her recently completed (Jan 2019) personal residence in Palos Verdes, California. The home is a 4bd/4ba, 2,400 sqft 1928 Spanish cottage nestled under a canopy of eucalyptus trees and surrounded by rustic landscape including lavender, olive trees, and agave. Decomposed granite, flagstone pavers, terra-cotta tile roof and smooth stucco exterior suggest a Spanish/Mediterranean esthetic.   This was an extensive renovation down to the original framing. The original layout was honored as to embrace the warmth and charm of an older home. While keeping the existing footprint, two additional bathrooms were created as to maximize space and function. Virtually every element in this home was modified entirely... More

The In Out Studio team, led by the architect and interior designer Nayra Iglesias, is pleased to present its new KAI la Caleta restoration project. A place with a lot of magic that has opened its doors in the Caleta de Adeje, south of theisland of Tenerife. Silvia Gil Roldán Led by a prestigious chef, the restaurant settles its pillars in contemporary cuisine, fusing the different flavors of Asian cuisine with European cuisine. In an incomparable setting of the Tenerife coast, this restaurant aspires to become a benchmark for food & design lovers. Silvia Gil Roldán "The idea, from the beginning," explains NayraIglesias, "was to create a surprising space that would immerse the diner in a parallel world. The blu... More

For a casual French bistro, an interior design with comfort and a proper sense of tension was pursued. Only materials such as brass, thick solid wood, and antique scaffold planks – those that would have enhanced characteristics as they age – were used for finishes. Brass was used as eye-catchers for lights, hanger pipes, furniture knobs and handles, window frames, decorative screws, etc., in order to provide gorgeousness to the interior. The antique scaffold planks add a casual atmosphere to the space, preventing it from being too sophisticated. A cave-like space with a table is not completely isolated, yet blocks views from other tables and creates a comfortably enclosed feeling. The solid walnut bar table is for both cookin... More

This 1,800 square foot duplex renovation, designed for a retired couple, is based on a set of ancient design aesthetics embraced by the owners during the years the family lived and worked in Japan. These include the ideals of wabi (transient stark beauty), sabi (patina, aging), and yūgen (profound subtlety). The design divides the space cleanly into public/private. The lower level is an open utilitarian space for dining and entertainment with floor-width views and sliding Shoji screens. The private bedrooms on the upper level feature a sequence of graceful forms that flow around a central core wall. This result exemplifies the Enso “circle”: the absolute in strength/elegance/void.   Material Used :LOWER LEVEL1. Flooring -... More

In Brooklyn‘s Park Slope neighborhood, this Tudor row house had the rarest of amenities: a private garage with a shared driveway.  But its interior layout was so bad that the basement stair severed the tiny kitchen from the rest of the house.  It also suffered from years of shoddy renovationsandno storage. We reoriented the stair, which gave the kitchen enough room for multiple cooks and an eat-in island.  And by reorganizing the entry, we added generous closets for coats, bikes, and storage.  A huge soapstone fireplace is the centerpiece of a mod living room wall made of solid walnut planks. Upstairs, we ripped out the dropped ceilings in the kids’ bedrooms to expose soaring cathedral ceilings under the steep... More

An exquisite Zakka & Canteen decorated with solid walnut woodFINEŸFAN, a new store of the FINE franchise, is located among old villas on Wulumuqi Road in Shanghai. It is a zakka as well as a canteen, decorated with walnut wood reminiscent of the 1930s Shanghai. By ingenious design of the space, the tiny two-storeyed store accommodates enough shelves for products display as well as dining area and a kitchen. Small but exquisite, every detail in this store deserves your attention. The first thing one perceives upon entering the store is the set of tall shelves from the ground to the ceiling of the second floor, like the inside of Ollivanders in Harry Potter films. The shelves of various sizes and shapes are designed, at the expense o... More