Category: Photography

Completed in 2014, the Elliptical House by Mário Martins Atelier is based on a geometric shape and volume carved by the landscape.

Located in the small village Luz in southern Portugal, the building sought to offer balance between fullness and emptiness, weight and airiness, light and shade. With its elliptical base, the house is built intentional sculptural and organic. The shape simulates the movements of the wind and the sea that want to embrace the wide floating oval which subtly delimits the central patio of the house.

Just like the plain white exterior, the interior design is also very minimalist. It creates a casual connection with the house, maintaining the same bright white color that can be found on most houses in this sunny hillside. Without being aware of where the house begins and ends, a special ambiance can be experienced. Casa Elíptica has a fluid, creative design with natural geometric contours, defining the house architecturally in its natural setting.

Located in the juncture where the San Jacinto mountains open into the Coachella valley in California, artist Doug Aitken has realized a typical california ranch style house completely clad in reflective mirrored surfaces.

Titled Mirage, the house distills the repetitious suburban home into the essence of its lines, reflecting the surrounding mountainous desert. The structure was created as part of Desert X, an outdoor art exhibition comprised of over 16 artworks that have been installed across the arid landscape of the Coachella Valley. Combined with the traditional ranches in the American west, the style was developed in the region by a group of architects in the 1920s and 1930s. With every available surface clad in mirror, the exterior disappears just as the interior draws the viewer into a never-ending kaleidoscope of light and reflection. The doors, windows and openings have been removed to create a fluid relationship with the surrounding environment. Desert X opened 25 February 2017 and runs until 30 April 2017, although Aitken’s Mirage will remain in place until 31 October 2017.

Titled ‘Cosmic Costumes’, the series began as an experiment and developed into a wonderful set of masks and ponchos that simulate the paintings and make them feel alive.

The artist Bunnie Reiss utilizes her art to map out unusual lives, find hidden and forgotten places and to build a unique visual history. This series of costumes were designed to reflect her cosmic/folkloric 2D work. Bunnie Reiss combines materials, cultures, experiences, the past and the present, which are all part of her visual catalog.

HOH /a (HOUSEOFHRVST/agency) created a variation of the classic Thonet S 32 V for the opening of the second Harvest menswear store in Munich.

The colors used, mainly white, navy blue and the classic, thonet light brown of their “wicker work“ The challenge was to create something new to itcombines the C.I. colors of Harvest, and let the chair stand out more as an object rather than a piece of furniture.

„The interesting part of that cooperation, is the mix of the most iconic look of the chair, everybody knows from childhood, the dentist waiting room, galleries etc. and the chair as an object. Its been around since such a long time everybody, with an interest in design, got used to that elegant tubular steel, bent wood and wicker work. So the challenge was to create something new to it – without loosing the classic, iconic look and still keep it fresh and new in the Harvest context.“

You can purchase the Thonet S 32 V chair here on the Harvest website. Check the behind-the-scenes shots of the Thonet production:

Architect Palinda Kannangara designed a linear, light-filled home with integrated plant and water features for a young family in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Spaciousness, indoor-outdoor flow and nature take precedence in the house’s design, which manifests in a series of courtyards on the ground floor – the first planted with a sapodilla tree and situated adjacent to a dining area. The top floor comprises of a master bedroom and balcony, two further bedrooms and a lounge space, and a rooftop terrace provides a further dining and entertaining area. All throughout the home, timber screens filter natural light and keep the space cool. Outside, tropical plants and water features complement the raw textures and neutral color palette of this serene home, which, according to the architect, “aims at creating a continuous indoor and outdoor connection and provide a feeling of unending sense of space and greenery.”

Combining monumental landscapes with conceptual images of the nature, Paula Prats has turned her lens to Iceland in 2012, which resulted in a series of poetic and striking photographs from the North.

“These images try to transmit the mystery of the unstable presence of the sun and the impact of its absence.”
Called ‘Still Light‘, the series explores the light in Iceland through both personal and foreign perspective. In 2012, Prats received a grant to work at the … in Reykjavik, which introduced her to new ways of perceiving the nature and the way it affects the people. The amount of daylight in the northern latitudes changes everyday, growing gradually until it reaches its peak in the summertime with the Polar Day and goes down til the Polar Night in the winter. Naturally, the changing condition of the lighting affects the landscape and the people, and it affected the Spanish photographer. “All the disconcerting feelings that the experience of this new perception of light produces on you are expressed through these images that try to transmit the mystery of the unknown, the unstable presence of the sun and the impact of its absence,” says Prats.

Founded by Christian Lo and David Ryan, ANONY is a Toronto-based lighting and product design studio offering refined aesthetic and minimalist quality.

In their work, Lo and Ryan combine the interest in utilizing the latest technology with an honest and timeless approach to a product’s life cycle. Through their philosophy that features judicious use of materials, minimal manufacturing, and ease of use, the designers hope to create products that produce an emotional response. A collection of utilitarian and elegant lamps, ‘Dawn‘ is composed of Plexiglas panels that gracefully drape over a refined aluminum tube, producing dynamic shapes and subtle shades of colors.

All images © Wendy Pham & Leo Calderon