Kakurega Omakase wins Best Hideaway: Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
Kakurega Omakase wins Best Hideaway: Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
This Japanese restaurant in the Mexican jungle near Puerto Escondido, is designed by architect Alberto Kalach based on a concept by Bosco Sodi and Luis Urrutia
Hidden away in a patch of jungle between the Pacific Ocean and the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains, Kakurega Omakase serves a Japanese menu using local Mexican ingredients
A patch of jungle on Mexico’s Pacific coast is an unlikely site for an omakase restaurant, but artist Bosco Sodi (W 260) and his cousin, engineer Luis Urrutia, thought it the perfect plot.
RadSwan’s recyclable wigs named Best Grooming Product: Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
RadSwan’s recyclable wigs named Best Grooming Product: Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
Recyclable synthetic wigs, by RadSwan.
Photography: Sophie Gladstone
Recyclable synthetic wigs, by RadSwan
RadSwan is answering the call for more inclusive and more sustainable beauty products. It is the first brand to offer wigs for Black women made from recyclable fibres.
The three different wig styles range from large, bouncy ringlets to tight corkscrew curls, and come with a list of instructions explaining how to adjust, measure and cut each wig for unique styling. Says founder Freddie Harrel, ‘Hair is one of the ways we’ve always expressed ourselves, forever reintroducing our various angles to a constrained and biased world.’
Photography: Hiroyuki Oki
Vo Trong Nghia created this modern take on the traditional Vietnamese shophouse near Hanoi for an affluent artisanal family that produces high-quality ceramic products. Following the local vernacular, Bat Trang House combines commercial and residential spaces. The raised ground and lower ground floors serve as showrooms for the family to display and sell their products. Four additional private levels with a kitchen, living room, five bedrooms and several airy gardens sit above. The top floor includes a dedicated room for the family altar and an open-air swimming pool bordered by trees and plants. Vo wanted the personality and heritage of the craft village (Bat Trang, some 15km from Hanoi, is known for its ceramics production) to be evident in the architecture, so he wrapped the property in a wall made of perforated red clay ceramic tiles that he commissioned in the village. This ceramic cloak protects the house from the sun in the summer and from the wind i
Antibacterial tiles by Marazzi win Best Domestic Design: Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
Antibacterial tiles by Marazzi win Best Domestic Design: Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
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Carácter antibacterial tiles, by Marazzi
A particularly timely product, Marazzi’s new Puro antibacterial technology for ceramic surfaces eliminates up to 99.9 per cent of bacteria and other harmful microorganisms. ‘Carácter’ is the first of three collections by the Italian tile manufacturer created using the innovative technology, a permanent treatment that provides continuous antibacterial protection throughout the life of the product surface, without the need for external activation agents such as UV radiation. Ideal for use in residential as well as commercial and public spaces, the stone-effect ‘Carácter’ tiles are suitable for indoor and outdoor floors and walls. In appealing natural tones, with a minimal or more pebbled appearance, the tiles are made from 40 per cent recycled materia