Month: August 2020

Design

How Should Apartment Design Change Post-Pandemic?

By Alethea Nale 4 weeks ago

Apartment design is done differently in Europe than it is in North America. Architectural firm Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter recently completed a lovely project in Oslo that highlights those differences.

In North America, most apartment buildings have a corridor running between two dreary enclosed fire stairs, with a bunch of elevators in the middle. This was done so that in the event of fire, each floor is separated from the other, and there are two means of exit in case one is blocked. The corridor is pressurized so that smells don’t travel from one apartment to the next, and so that if there is a fire, the smoke is kept in the apartment. As Robert Bean’s tweet shows, it doesn’t always work. It’s a design approach that is required for almost every building, no matter what height. Even in lovely little buildings like this five-story project in Boston.

The problem with

Decoration

Decoration ministry donates wedding materials to families in need

By Alethea Nale 4 weeks ago

Weddings are a day that people dream about. For many, it’s a dream they simply can’t afford. Thanks to one local woman’s idea, people can now design and decorate the day they have all dreamed of.

“God just said to me, listen. Love my children and steward what I give to you.” It’s this, that prompted Christina Jay to start the Decorations ministry, which is donated decorations to people who need them.

“Everything they borrow, everything they use, is of no cost to them at all and that’s the whole point. To help people have the event of their dream that they can’t afford to have.”

She has decorations for weddings, birthdays, bridal and baby showers. “Anything you can think of, I am telling you, I have [it] down here.” What started as a project in the corner of her basement has now taken up 700 square feet and two

Interior

Theory Design creating interior for Burrata model at Miromar Lakes

By Alethea Nale 4 weeks ago

Caffrey & Associates, Special to Naples Daily News
Published 6:02 a.m. ET Aug. 15, 2020

Theory Design’s Vice President of Design Ruta Menaghlazi and interior designer Adriene Ged are creating the interior design for Seagate Development Group’s furnished Burrata model in the Ancona neighborhood at Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club. The Burrata includes 4,068 square feet under air and a massive outdoor living area measuring 1,058 square feet. The open-concept plan features a living area that includes a spacious grand room, an island kitchen, and a dining area. The plan’s study can be tasked as a formal dining room. The grand room and the dining area have pocketing sliders that

Exterior

2021 Kia Stinger gets updated design and better interior

By Alethea Nale 4 weeks ago

Kia is giving the rear-wheel-drive Stinger a mid-cycle update that brings an updated design, a nicer interior, newer in-car technology, and a handful of powertrain tweaks. The sedan will reach showrooms by the end of 2020.

Stylists played it safe when tweaking the front end, which receives redesigned lights that look darker than the current model’s. Out back, the new-look lights are connected by a light bar, and the turn signals are made up of 10 individual LEDs arranged to resemble a checkered flag. Some variants are offered with bigger exhaust tips and a wider air diffuser, while new wheel designs and paint colors round out the exterior overhaul.

Buyers will have two additional exterior packages to choose from. The first one, called Dark Package, adds a gloss black diffuser, black exhaust tips and black emblems. The second one, Black Package, bundles 19-inch matte black wheels, blacked-out trim, black mirror

Family Room

Volunteerism freshens room and spirits: Olmsted Dates and Data

By Alethea Nale 4 weeks ago

OLMSTED FALLS, Ohio – The Bulldog spirit does not hibernate in times of stress and, yes, even fear.

Several community members came together – well, keeping socially distant – to help rejuvenate part of the Olmsted Community Center.

Donna Winter, the center’s executive director, noticed the floor in Hawkins Hall, the former Olmsted Falls Middle School cafeteria, needed some freshening up. It was scraped in June and time for repainting.

“I didn’t want to ask for a lot of people to volunteer because of socially distancing while painting,” she said. “I thought it would take at least two days, but we will have it completed today.”

The volunteers, Chris Gaete, Bob Garrity, Tori Donahue, Carley Abbott, Becca Abbott, Larry Abbott and Jen Abbott, showed up Saturday afternoon and grabbed the paint brushes and rollers.

The Abbott family came together as a family in this effort. Becca Abbott, an Olmsted Falls

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By Debora Carley 4 weeks ago

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Design

The Girl Scouts are getting ‘modern, fashionable’ upgrade with new uniforms

By Alethea Nale 4 weeks ago

The Girl Scouts released new uniforms for grades 6-12 for the first time in 20 years. (Photo: Girl Scouts)

Girl Scouts are getting a new look for the first time in nearly 20 years after the organization teamed up with design students of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology to create some updated designs for “the next generation of leaders.”

The leadership organization announced the news on Tuesday, noting its past apparel collaborations with designers like Diane von Furstenberg. However, this latest collaboration is different because it invited young designers to reimagine the traditional uniform of Girl Scouts grades 6 to 12, which has been unchanged for some time.

“The current Cadette/Senior/Ambassador vest and sash were last updated in the 90s, and we have heard from girls that they wanted updates. We felt the need to update the uniform components in a way that allows the modern Girl Scout to

Decoration

West Elm and EILEEN FISHER Design Upcycled Home Collection

By Alethea Nale 4 weeks ago

BROOKLYN, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, global design company West Elm and EILEEN FISHER debut a sustainably made collection of home decor and furniture designed with upcycled EILEEN FISHER materials, giving garments a second life beyond the closet. Both retailers shared a vision to develop responsible designs using conscientious manufacturing centered around a zero-waste system to create home products with less environmental impact. The limited-edition collection interprets EILEEN FISHER’s Renew program to a selection of pillows and casual seating available today at WestElm.com/EileenFisher and EileenFisher.com. The collaboration marks the first time EILEEN FISHER brings its industry-changing denim felting method to an exclusive collection with a major home retailer.

“Our team was delighted to partner with West Elm because of our shared passion for creating responsibly-designed products. With these beautiful designs, we are extending each garment’s life cycle and drastically reducing the waste that we put out into the world. As

Interior

Rolls-Royce Ghost shows off fancy star cluster interior in final teaser

By Alethea Nale 4 weeks ago

Rolls-Royce Ghost teaser — This looks like a proper Rolls.

Rolls-Royce

Next week, we’ll finally see the new Rolls-Royce Ghost, but in the meantime, the British luxury marque has one final teaser to dish out, and it’s about the super-fancy interior this time.

Called the “illuminated fascia,” the interior panel features the Ghost name in block letters with gorgeous star lights around it. In total, Rolls-Royce said, it worked in 850 stars inside over two years of development on this feature alone. When the Ghost is not running, the stars disappear, but come to life as soon as the driver fires the car up.

Under the pretty design sits 152 LED lights and a 2-millimeter-thick light guide with over 90,000 laser-etched dots to provide light to the stars in a uniform fashion. It also gives the

Exterior

Skoda reveals Enyaq iV exterior in new teaser

By Alethea Nale 4 weeks ago

Skoda says the headlight design of the new Enyaq iV is inspired from the years of developing front headlights of the Scala, Kamiq model series and the new generation of the Octavia.

The upcoming Enyaq iV is experimented with the three-dimensional rear lights that are illuminated with fine light strips.

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The Enyaq iV will be the production version of Skoda’s Vision iV concept, which was revealed last year.
The new daytime running lights with subtle lashes and the new hexagonal shape of the main LED modules further enhance the character of the new Enyaq iV.
First deliveries of the Enyaq model are due in 2021.

The Czech car manufacturer’s first all-electric SUV takes a fresh approach to its design, as the company revealed more details of the exterior ahead of global debut on September 1. The people over at Skoda say that the new Skoda Enyaq iV, the headlight

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Skoda says the headlight design of the new Enyaq iV is inspired from the years of developing front headlights of the Scala, Kamiq model series and the new generation of the Octavia.

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