Decorations

Biljana Jovanovic, Croatian architect based in Budapest (Hungary), has completed the apartment with unique decorative staircase.  The Emmental Stairs was designed for young and creative family with two small children to combine several functions. Firstly, of course, it provides the connection between first and second floors of the house. Secondly, it visually divides the space of the first floor into dining room and living room. Thirdly, it is great fun for children - "cheese holes" create the infinite field for games. Due to holes, like in Emmental cheese and white color the living space looks very light. Steps are fixed in a playful zigzag manner. According to the author, the triangular shape of the steps also solves the problem of the steepness of the stairs.

Redecoration of the old garden is a good idea especially with the unique lighting system from the illumination company Serralunga. It is built right into the lawn of the garden. Designer Roberto Paoli was inspired by the lighted floor in the video of Michael Jackson’s song “Billy Jean”. In this way Jacko Steps appeared. These lights are the perfect way to create a new gardening style. How great it looks especially at night! It brings the atmosphere of joy. You can choose either this Jacko Steps will be a single illuminated border surrounding your plantings or it will an illuminated pathway. Very creative! This lighting system will be presented at Milan Design Week 2011, April 12 to 17.

Spring is the time of joy and the revival of nature. It is high time to make you house more alive. It’s clear that not only successful choice of furniture makes the interior perfect and attractive. Decorative elements are also very important. Many people use for this aim paintings, different accessories or simply flowers in the beautiful vases. But not everyone can use fresh flowers buying them every week. In this case just use dried ones. They will look as pretty as the fresh flowers. You can buy it at the special shops or make it at home removing the water from the vase. If some flowers start bending their heads when drying, hang bouquet somewhere upside down until all the flowers dry completely. Combine such flowers and get a wonderful decoration for your house.

What can be better and more pleasant than to make some special present, a gift which will concern exactly your sweetheart? CanvasPop and DNA 11 have come to your rescue with their really cool personalized art. They combine the achievement of the science with the modern art producing the unique personalized art portraits. You may like their innovative new products such as Fingerprint Portraits, KISS Portraits and the latest creation – DNA portrait. The art is based on a certified method of collecting saliva from each client, which is then used to imprint the client’s DNA profile onto a canvas. Such portrait can become a stunning testament to your individuality. Available in an almost limitless range of styles, colours, sizes and frames, your unique Fingerprint Portrait makes a bold, art statement at home, or in your office.

If you like gardening but do not have enough space at your place, vertical gardens by Michael Hellgren, a landscape architect who specializes in creating vertical gardens, will be a perfect solution for you. You don’t need to create a special space for the plants and it will be very relaxing to have such a beauty at your home or office. You have to think of growing plants and flowers vertically if you have a balcony garden, wall or a small patio or rooftop garden. It will be easy to plan a lush wall of vegetables, flowers or foliage plants.

It is not a secret that the details create the whole design. To make your place bright you need something that will draw everybody’s attention. So make your house not only comfortable and cozy but also stylish and nice to look at. In this case Lotus fruit bowl designed by Stefano Giovannoni from the Italian company Alessi will be a good solution for you. This is the perfect finger bowl for serving ginger or other condiments with its beautiful Lotus flower design. The designer was inspired by the old tradition in china of the Asians and also by the cult for the lotus flower. The bowl is the part of the OrienTales collection which is reminiscent of 18th century ceramic trinkets. But still it looks very contemporary. It could be used both for fruit keeping and for decorative aims. The colour palette is very gentle and delicate. The price is about $33.

Thinking about unusual and pretty wallpapers? The site called EazyWalls offers a wide range of large scale photographic art and illustrations that can be adhered to walls. The prices are reasonable: starting from around $230 and up depending on the size. Eazy Wallz combines the peel-and-stick decal trend with the wall mural trend, offering large-scale digital prints that start around 6x4 feet and grow as wide as 24 feet or as tall as 12 feet. You can find all kinds of photographs according to your taste: historical ruins, breathtaking ocean views, funny animals, space theme, city landscapes, flowers and even the American flag. Moreover, you can custom design of your own with your own photos or illustrations. May be it will be larger than life portrait of your kids or a favorite personal photo. All your wishes by EazyWallz!

The tradition of giving flowers as gift gets its new modern incarnation with the collection of Fresh flowers by Itunube studio. It is a collection of 32 flowers printed on newsprint, one per page and per day of the month. The Spanish designer Sandra Bautista suggested the way of having the flowers on your table every day. She decided to catalogue them and provided an alternative means of sending them by post. All the flowers for this book were selected and photographed carefully. You can choose any you like: wild, cultivated, hothouse or exotic ones. You simply need to choose a flower, to place it as the cover, to make a roll with all pages together and to put it in a vase. Everyday a different one, everyday a beautiful one!