Charles & Marie

Hanna Werning has teamed up with Boråstapeter to create a new collection of wallpaper. She says ” My new wallpaper collection London was a challenge, like writing asecond book,” But she isn’t just satisfied with creating something new. Hanna wants to change our way of looking at things. To surprise. The inspiration comes from London. Cascades of water and light spectra have been filled with the colour of the streetlife and an ethnic mix of fragrances, symbols and impressions. The pattern is built up with different graphic techniques – screen print, collage, abstracts.

Wallpaper*—the go-to publication for all things pertaining to design, fashion and lifestyle—is now peddling selected images (signed by the artists!) from its resplendent archives. Wallpaper* Selects is the magazine’s first foray into contemporary photograph sales. Expect limited edition prints, produced in batches of 10, 20 or 30, by such acclaimed photographers as Jonathan de Villiers, Mauricio Alejo, Jonathan Frantini, Christopher Griffith, Stefan Ruiz, Daniel Stier, Benedict Redgrove and Joël Tettamanti.

FIVEten studio in Oakland has an amazing installation by Annalise Vobis at their studio space this month. The show is titled Second Nature, and it’s a romantic collection that mimics a natural treasure, coral reef. The interplay between personal and organic influences creates a jaw-dropping display of texture and colors. Vobis has many influences for this collection. Everything from “powerful and intense” childhood memories of the wild and rugged Odin’s Forest in Germany to mathematical fractal patterns. The show runs through July 29th. To view more photos, click here.

New Orleans isn’t the first place you’d think of for chic accommodations within the US, but the city’s boutique hotel Loft 523 is one sexy, sophisticated sanctuary. Located in the cavernous old carriage and dry-goods warehouse at 523 Gravier Street, the soaring spaces are designed with an unabashed edge, and dressed up with modern electronics and other decadent touches. Triple-sheeted Frette linens are sure inspire a good night’s rest.

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Screen printed wood art panels will add panache to your place. Silkscreening guru Joe Futschik offers a series of limited edition marine images (oh so modern, oh so graphic) that have been hand printed on wood. The warm and thoroughly unique color combinations make them a must for lovers of unusual art pieces.

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Dolls, just a quick update about what Charlie Lazor, co-founder of Blu Dot and creator of the famed FlatPak house is up to. Since introducing his prototype FlatPak house in Minneapolis in 2004, he’s been developing homes all over the US in Lincoln, MA; the Catskills, NY; Woody Creek, CO; and Pt. Reyes, CA. More are under way in Sausalito, CA; Fort Davis, TX; Teaneck, NJ; Woodstock, NY; Culpepper, VA; Tucson, AZ; and Minneapolis, MN. Check out his stunning system of prefabricated parts and see if you agree with Cathleen McGuigan of Newsweek, who claims it “represents the first revolution in American housing in decades.”

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