Richard Wilson’s 20:50 Installation @ The Saatchi Gallery.

For long time I’ve been looking forward to seeing this installation. I read about it years ago, but because the Saatchi Gallery was being relocated, the installation was not available to the public eye. Finally we can enjoy every drop of it.

Richard Wilson was born in Islington, London in 1953.

20:50 was first created in 1987.

"The gallery is filled to waist height with recycled engine oil, from which the piece takes its name. A walkway leads from a single entrance, leading the viewer into the space until they are surrounded by oil on all sides."

“The work is very well travelled and has been re-created in Japan, America and Australia, among other places.”

"The central idea finally came to me after weeks beside a swimming pool, during a holiday in the Algarve. I was due to make a new piece for Matt's Gallery in the east end of London when I returned, and over the weeks I became increasingly fascinated with the horizontal surface of the pool. One day it hit me, and I thought: "I know - I'll flood the place."”

If you're in London, or planning to be, save a date and go there. It's worth every moment of it.

Some of these photos captions are part of Richard Wilson’s story. Click here to read everything.

Please click on each picture to enlarge.

Other Art Installations.
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Wallpaper* Chair Arch 2.
Inspired By Light Installations.

Portraits Of A Museum.

Many things can be told about this museum. I choose to talk or rather display photographs on its architecture.
What I find interesting about this building is the paradox of a space with a strong narrative in its context and subject, but if photographs of it are displayed somewhere else a different story can be told. I thing that’s why I find amazing to photograph architecture.

Man made scale.



As if the line is infinite...

Every spatial surface is totally asymmetric.

Reversed perspective .


I wish I could have all the technical drawings of this project. They must be amazingly detailed and complex. I’m sure it’s a journey to go through every single one.

Difficult to find a space more geometrically elaborated than this one.

Quite ordinary photograph, but the different shades of white and the transversal dark lines caught my eye.


Jewish Museum , Berlin by Daniel Libeskind.

Laban by Herzog & de Meuron.

Herzog & de Meuron are known in the architectural world for many great projects they’ve accomplished (+ a Pritzker Prize in 2001). Simple aesthetics together with precise architectural details are indeed they’re signature.
Laban Contemporary Dance is one of my favorite projects: it transmits lightness through materials and design details, the building asymmetry is almost like an illusion and the façade panels give that touch of colour sometimes difficult to achieve in architecture.

The following photographs were shot a few years ago when I was working on an academic project. I was designing a performing space and I went there to do my spatial research, exactly when I came up with the concept of “a space within a space”, part of this blog’s name.


Asymmetric ends.

The curve on the edge of a rectangular façade (if it makes any sense to you).



The symmetric perspective.

Surroundings and their reflections.

As if it's floating (or maybe landing).

Details that really make the difference.

Nothing touches nothing and everything is part of the whole.

Next time I’ve the opportunity to go there it has to be at night. The building aesthetics are breathtaking.

More Herzog & de Meuron Projects.

Pink Is The New Black.

I started the year inspired by pink & black. I love to see these two colours together. I find them perfect to style a hall and living room, especially if they’re small spaces.
Both together balance the minimalism of black and the girlish attitude.




A living room with these two colours is like a man in a black Armani suit with pink tie (or even more daring, pink socks). Both look to me very charming.
And to go with this background, why not glass vases and bowels, black candles, black crystal chandelier, pink ceramics, mother-of-pearl deco and smoked black glass candles stands.

Imagine a space all in black & white and a big black & white Picasso on a bright pink wall. Would look great!

Doily + Tulle - both perfect to detail the interior space.

To style in style.



More inspiration to get in a pink mood, the colour of friendship.In Portugal it´s quite popular to find houses painted in pink, especially if traditional architecture.

A pink door in Notting Hill, London.

Two lost clouds and the blue sky loosing intensity toward the earth is so beautiful and inspiring, isn’t it?

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Restyling To a New Home Office.

This project was completed over four years ago, but every time I look at this space I feel it was just styled. The orange together with stainless steel balances the space.
Everything in here was part of another one in my clients’ previous house. There are a few things missing, like a classic button sofa in black, but I haven’t found the perfect one yet. Or maybe I did, but it’s a bit out of my client’s budget.



These black table lamps give the home office a nice touch: perfect form and colour, I think.





I’ve designed this desk right when I opened my first studio. I was pretty much inspired by stainless steel, exploring how “industrial materials and aesthetics” could be used in the domestic environment.
It was my working desk for a while, but my client had convinced me to sell it to her. I’m very happy she has it since.


The original desk top was in clear glass, but my client decided to change to smoked glass, as the previous deco was around brown and beige. That’s the beauty of stainless steel – it goes with everything without losing its personality!

The desk structure is designed in tubular steel contrasting the square and round tubes with one being half thickness to the other one. The material is quite powerful to speak for itself.
Desk designed in 2002.

Check my previous posts to see where some of these objects were living before.
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