Eclectic Gervasoni.

Gervasoni is an Italian furniture brand which design stands out very gracefully. Mainly outdoor furniture, their design is quite eclectic with a retro twist. I find it just perfect for small holiday houses, cafés by the beach (specially if they're hidden away from the general public eye) and cosmopolitan terraces (surrounded by high bushes).

Sweet 16 sofa, Sweet 41 coffee table, Sweet 27 chair.

Sweet 102 – Sofa in handwoven giant calamus.

InOut 44 pouf – I can see these all over the place in café terraces by the beach. Can you?

Sweet 27 chair is probably my favorite chair by Gervasoni. They style pretty well the space around a swimming pool.

Beautiful armchair – InOut 109
It reminds me SPAs from the 60’s / 70’s. Well, it really reminds my home town. Click here to see some photographs. Next time I go home, I promise I’ll photograph exactly what I’m trying to say here.


I’ve posted about Gervasoni back in February. Click here for more.

Richard Serra Wins Asturias Prize

As Richard Serra was yesterday announced the Winner of the 2010 Prince of Asturias Prize for the Arts, I feel the urge to publish some of the photographs I’ve taken a few years ago in one of my visits to Serralves Museum of Contemporary Arts in Porto (Portugal) where you can find “Walking Is Measuring”.
Installed in 2000, it was the very first by the artist in the Iberia Peninsula.

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It is an honor to have such art work in one of the best contemporary art museums in Europe, not to mention of course it is in my beautiful country.

Richard Serra in London
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Arts

One of many articles online

Richard Wilson's "Square The Block" @ LSE, London.

When you think you’re looking at “another building”, look again. You might find a contemporary intervention right around the corner.

For months I’ve been planning to go to Kingsway in Holborn (London) to photograph Richard Wilson’s latest intervention, which I passed by many times but never had my camera with me.

It is a permanent installation with an expected life span of about 40 years, located on the corner of the London School of Economic’s (LSE) New Academic Building.

Many things are said about his work, but what really makes me to love it, is the way he challenges how I perceive space, both functionally as well as aesthetically.

Interesting thoughts crossed my mind when I was taking this photograph.

I love the deconstructive aesthetics on just an elegant façade.

Sardinia Street's view.



It would quite amazing if the wall where the street plaques are was in clear glass, as if the Sculptor pushed up the stone blocks.



“Wilson likes to think of buildings, concrete and stone as being temporary, evolving in skilled hands – he is fascinated by the possibility that permanent structures could be adapted and changed, a ‘slow event’” – Blueprint Magazine.

Kingsway overview (making sure I would include two famous british icones - the red telephone box and the black cab).
{little side note: the way the telephone boxes are placed as if they're guarding the entrance is about perfect}

Another amazing spatial installation @ Saatchi Gallery in London worth to spend time at.

Business Cards.

We could be all in the blogosphere, twitter, facebook, linkedin and other virtual networks I can’t remember (or probably didn’t come across yet) but there’s nothing like to hand in the old fashion business card.

On Sunday I sat for a couple of hours to redesign my blog banner and my new business card, though I can’t decide which one I should pick. I’ve designed over 80 different layouts and came to this last 4 designs.

It would be lovely if you tell me which one you think more interesting and eye catching.

As always, simplicity is the best way to be distinguished.

Size: 55x55mm.

I want to keep the square format, which I have since 2001, and the colour blue, as to me it represents the infinite, fluidity, imagination and creativity.


People will remember easier your business card then your name. And if your business card outstands from the conventional format, easier they will get your name. Do you think I’m achieving it here?

Looking forward to hearing from you. Thank You.

Cosy Seats. Cosy Spaces.

Chairs, armchairs and sofas are the core of social spaces whether it’s your living room, doctor’s waiting room, café or hotel lounge…
Here are a few I would like to share with you. Hope you like them too.

Ligne Roset
Quite gorgeous armchair: very welcoming indeed. Good for a tea house, isn’t it?
{love the metal feet contrast}

This collection was presented in Germany last January. Quite nice for contemporary offices’ waiting room. Ligne Roset has always very interesting colour fabrics.

Mood Flexform
This is my very favorite chair by Mood. It’s elegant and very welcoming. First time I saw it, was years ago in purple velvet. Just about right for an hotel suit {or your dressing room}

This is the very long version. Doesn’t lose its elegance and comfy look.

Comfy and just perfect for a doctors waiting room, isn’t it?

One of my favorite articles about style and comfort - A Sofa Is Like A Pair Of Shoes.

Interiors and Furniture Resumé for 2010.

To wrap up every single post I’ve been writing for the last 2 weeks about the most wanted furniture fair in the world, I thought I should come up with a trends resumé of what I’ve absorbed from Milan. There’s so much to talk about, but I tend to edit very quickly and save only what for me makes good spaces.

I don’t see interiors as trendy, but I see trends as an inspiration to design for who’s going to use and / or live in the space. Sometimes they are good arguments for clients to understand how a space will reflect their personality / brief, and all this because, like personalities, each space is different from another.

Please click on each image to enlarge.

Moroso @ Milan Fair 2010.

Moroso is a brand I sit back in admiration. There’s always so much narrative in their furniture.

Their press release ends like this – “Authentic quality and obsessive attention to detail, varied ideas and solutions designed for different ways of inhabiting the spaces of daily life.” How much more accurate can this line be? See it for yourself.



Sushi Collection | Designer Edward Van Vliet

Great line to style a SPA, isn’t it? I can see it facing big windows looking at the sea horizon.

Paper Planes | Designers Nipa Doshi & Jonathan Levien

Very comfy, extremely light, quite architectural. Perfect for Google headquarters, no?

Silver Lake | Patricia Urquiola
Continuous geometries of solids and spaces, with volumes creating multi-faceted shapes. Spaces like waiting rooms or an empty corner in your living room is just about right to have this very comfortable armchair.

Tropicalia | Patricia Urquiola
2008 Collection.

Shadowy | Tord Boontje

Extremely sculptural this outdoor line, it evokes beach furniture in the twenties. It’s just perfect for a discreet restaurant on top of the cliff facing whether sea or a lake.

The Most Beautiful Design @ Milan Fair 2010.

If I have to chose The One, Klara wins. Designed by Patricia Urquiola, this chair is a must have. Extremely feminine, harmonious in its curves and very stylish.

Very graceful, isn´t it? The perfect space? My living room.



The One! - The right colour and right materials option.