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FEATURES

Color stories

Colors, both present and future

Interview

WONDER

PEOPLE Ole Scheeren

Form Follows Fiction

PEOPLE Alex Michaelis & Tim Boyd

The best version of themselves

PEOPLE Andrew Zobler

146 Mix master

12 New York | The Vessel | Heatherwick Studio

14 Harbin, China | Harbin Opera House MAD Architects

16 New York | Kips Bay Decorator Show

Projects review The Retreat GrindavĂk, Iceland

House 2018 | Sasha Bikoff

The call of nature

88 Hangzhou | JOOOS Fitting Room | X+Living

3Beirut

40 Urban regeneration

9 0 Dalen, Norway | Soria Moria Sauna Feste Landscape / Architecture

92 Guilin, China | The Other Place | Studio 10 140 Plasencia, Spain | Congress Center and Auditorium | Selgascano

142 Odaiba, Tokyo | MORI Building Digital Art Museum | Mori Building and teamLab

144 Tianjin, china | Tianjin Binhai Library MVRDV, Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute (TUPDI)

176 Paris | Simone | Joana Vasconcelos 178 Kanpur, India | The Pink Zebra aka The Feast

India Co | Renesa Architecture Design Interiors

180 Rome | Hotel Palazzo Dama | Antonio Girardi

Bally Milan

From space comes space

Amanyangyun Shanghai Nature and history provide nourishment for the soul

XYZ Lounge Ghent, Belgium

Spacial meetings in the XYZ Lounge

The Ramble Denver

River North District

Davines Parma, Italy Family-working environment

Paramount House Hotel Sydney

The Pantheon Iconic Rome Hotel

60 Creativity in Denverâ€™s Historic

70 Action! 74

The spirit of Rome

Sinan Books Shanghai

Colours at full volume

Morpheus Macao The God of dreams

The Jaffa Hotel Tel Aviv

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YEAR IV

Spring | Summer Editor-in-chief Paolo Bleve bleve@ifdm.it

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Amorepacific Seoul

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WeWork London

Hotel Lutetia Paris

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Room Mate Bruno Rotterdam

The Rooms of Rome – palazzo rhinoceros

Bulgari Hotel Beijing

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Healing Stay KOSMOS South Korea

Delvaux Brussels

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108 A place to be 112 Out of the ordinary 118 Iconic office spaces 120 Mission of memory 128 Exclusive skyline

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132 New world 136 A stay like none other 152 A multi-faceted gem 158 New Renaissance 162 Between Yin and Yang 168 Luxury done to perfection 172 A completely French allure

Monitor

183 A wide view on major international projects

Design inspirations

215 A selection of the most innovative products

for the contract sector by international brands

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229 A preview of the upcoming global projects

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LUCIEN SOFA design Stefano Gaggero RIVIERA SIDE TABLES DRAGONFLY ARMCHAIRS EATON OTTOMAN MARMADUKE COFFEE TABLE design Roberto Lazzeroni

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EDITORIAL

Europe at the centre of changing design PAOLO BLEVE | Editor-in-chief

year ago, on occasion of the March book, we wrote about Africa’s progress as a continent of emerging culture and about the inexhaustible energy in Asia Pacific (especially China). Today we are (metaphorically) coming to terms with the recovery of Europe, which has made an important contribution to the world of design, creating hybrid concepts and configurations: from the workplace, to the hospitality sector, to the home, and back. The world of work – which takes up much more time than that usually dedicated to our private lives – is simplified: walls disappear, partitions are moved, décor becomes more colourful, and spaces are shared. All of these changes are conditioning the way we work, as well as the way we live and design. An excess of technology, connectivity, and input meets new generations (paradoxically those considered digital natives) who know how to filter and select information and who have a less individualistic approach. This new way of being evidently needed the right kind of space: less formal, more social, and at times contemplative and spiritual.

Great luxury will become even greater (see Bulgari in Beijing), but also and above all more unique (admire the Blue Lagoon Retreat or the Amanyangyun). We must also pay attention to the WeWork phenomenon and to the advancement of the Room Mate model which was the first to indicate this new direction. As always, the ColorWorks® experts already predicted almost everything in the first two Color Stories, so we know what to expect in 2020. Happy reading, and let yourselves be seduced.

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WONDER. NEW YORK | THE VESSEL | HEATHERWICK STUDIO In the new Hudson Yards development, The Vessel is a social landmark that can be climbed and explored by everyone. With its 2,500 steps, 154 flights, 80 landings and 16 storeys, it has a mesmerizing visual

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effect and reveals views across the Hudson River and Manhattan.

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WONDER. HARBIN, CHINA | HARBIN OPERA HOUSE | MAD ARCHITECTS

Appearing as if sculpted by wind and water, the building is designed in response to the spirit of the city’s untamed wilderness and cold climate as a transfusion of local identity, art, and culture.

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WONDER. NEW YORK | KIPS BAY DECORATOR SHOW HOUSE 2018 | SASHA BIKOFF

To transform the staircase, “I was inspired by the shapes and motifs (such as zig-zags, polka dots, squiggles and pyramidal triangles) in the work of Memphis Milano designers Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini”.

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OUTDOOR LIVING

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Colors, both present and future Expert ColorWorks® designer Judith van Vliet reveals the 2020 trends in color, in a journey of exploration that begins with society and its innovations

he society of today, as it gets ready to enter the second decade of the second millennium, is one of stark contrasts. The technological dimension (from hyper-connectedness to the constant presence of digital services in our daily activities) is in opposition to man’s search for a more introspective dimension, one related to the growing need to safeguard both personal and planetary wellness. This is a first and general definition of the future trends identified by ColorWorks®. The technology and design centre of Clariant’s Masterbatches business unit (whose objective is the creation of a ‘color forecasting guide’ entitled ColorForward®, which groups together the next colors for the following year) begins its research right here within this multifaceted company: changes, innovations, developments in the widest range of fields, movements that are grasped, perceived, and explored at their inception by the international experts of ColorWorks® and by its four centres (San Paolo, WestChicago, Merate, and Singapore). Identified and divided into four macro-themes or ‘stories’, these are perfectly represented in terms of hues. Each story is assigned a palette of five colors, for a total of twenty, which define ColorForward® for the following year. It was from this year-long study and a global field of research that the Color Stories, which narrate the Color Trends of 2020, were born. The 2020 palette, abandoning neutral nuances in favour of strong, lively, and fresh tones, and representing society’s conflictual nature and subsequent search for balance, grafts itself to a 20 | IFDM

COLOR STORIES

trail of color that has much in common with ColorForward® 2019, in which a greater sense of positivity and determination emerged through cleaner and more vivid hues. In fact, at the centre of the care-LESS theme is mankind, whose empathy towards current events and worldwide catastrophes is called into question: a personal dimension that is turned upside down in Genevolution, a theme that brings up the topic of biochemistry and of the genetic mutations made possible by new developments in technology. There is also a significant focus on digital technology, so predominant in daily life that it has become invasive and even conditions behavioural rating systems. While society seems ‘stuck’ in this technological progress, futuristic companies are preparing to tear down the boundaries of space and time, attempting to conquer the universe. This is explored in Eye Am Watched and Be Right There, respectively. Guiding us through this journey, with exclusive rights granted to IFDM and subdivided into a seasonal double episode in the two publications, is Judith van Vliet, ColorWorks® Designer and leader of the ColorForward® team. Here are the first two stories.

Trend

Author: Veronica Orsi

STRONG AND PANIC ROOM THE SAFE HEART OF YOUR HOME

MILAN LONDON MOSCOW SHANGHAI

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PEOPLE

Ole Scheeren

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Ole Scheeren

FORM FOLLOWS FICTION “Architecture is imagined as a matrix of hybrid narratives from which to construct future realities.” Ole Scheeren

erman architect Ole Scheeren has impressed the Chinese with the project CCTV Headquarters Tower, popularly nicknamed Big Trousers due to its unique shape. From MahaNakhon tower in Bangkok, the Interlace in Singapore to Empire City in Vietnam, his works have always challenged the concept of skyscrapers, and put emphasis on the interaction between skyscrapers and people. “In my work, form always follows fiction”, the German architect said. Back in Karlsruhe, Ole Scheeren had shown his talent in architecture since he was a teenager. Inspired by the work of Rem Koolhaas, he frequented Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) at Rotterdam. When he helped the studio to win the design competition, Ole was given the opportunity to stay. During this period, he attended the London Architectural Association and won the prestigious RIBA Silver Medal for excellence in education. When he returned to Koolhaas, he joined the project of Prada’s flagship stores in New York and Los Angeles. Seven years later, he became a partner of OMA. He launched his own studio, Buro Ole Scheeren, in 2010.

author: Naki portrait photo: Iwan Baan projects photo: Iwan Baan, Alexander Roan

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The call of nature At the margins of the famous Blue Lagoon in Iceland, the five-star The Retreat is nestled between the lava formations to give its guests a unique experience in which to relax, explore and regenerate themselves

unar landscapes, black lava as far as the eye can see, glaciers tossed into the sea and pools of warm water from which puffs of vapour rise and then fade out in the Arctic light. Iceland is a solitary, isolated land, the ideal destination for those who love to travel for real. And communion with a primordial nature that manifests itself in all its strength is inevitable. Among the most beautiful gifts of the tormented Icelandic subsoil is a geothermal lagoon with Caribbean reflections where you can close your eyes and forget yourself. Located in the peninsula of Reykjanes, the Blue Lagoon is a basin of turquoise water rich in silica, algae and minerals that is found in a lava expanse created after the eruption of a volcano over 800 years ago. An extremely popular place for its incredible revitalising and curative effects that starting this year has reserved, for an exclusive public, a luxurious retreat of 62 suites with an underground spa, direct access to the lagoon far 32 | IFDM

HOTEL

GrindavĂk, Iceland

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Grindavík, Iceland

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