Our January 2012 blog; things we like from here, there and everywhere

Colourful car park

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Illustration duo Craig Redman and Karl Mair have breathed new life into this concrete underground car park in Sydney. The bold graphic design consists of overlaping geometric shapes which mirror and respond to the angles of the architecture. The mural acts as a device which leads in from the driveway, through the space and out to the garden.

Carl Kleiner & IKEA

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Carl Kleiner has teamed up with Ikea again after the hugely successful 'Homemade is best' campaign for Ikea's cookbook. The brief was to capture ways to spend your budget when shopping for an Ikea kitchen, the result being these beautiful compositions.

Yayoi Kasama, Tate Modern

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Yayoi Kasama is renowned for putting her dotty patterns on everything from paintings, sculptures and installations to dogs, flowers and live people. A focus of this exhibition is her career in New York during the 1960's, and a new large-scale mirrored infinity room filled with reflections of kaleiloscopic light and colour.

Tate Modern 9 Feb - 5 Jun

Martin Margiela, Beijing

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This multi-floor boutique is the new Martin Margiela flagship store in Beijing, their largest retail location yet. It has a slight concrete laboratory feel about it combined with wood, white tiles, large lightbulbs and the fun addition of an aluminim slide feature that brings you from the second to first floor.

Test Tube Chandelier

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This chandelier, designed by Pani Jurek, is composed of test tubes allowing people to use the vessels in whichever way they like. Suggestions for this fun and interactive light include using them as vases or inserting different coloured dyes - a great way of displaying all kinds of small things.

Rock sculptures

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These vibranty coloured, stainless steel covered bolders are the work of sculptor Jim Hodges. The majestic installation has poetic references to many religious traditions from Japanese Kami beliefs to Stonehenge worship.

Farrow & Ball's Interior Colour Trend Forecast

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This interior colours forecast by Farrow & Ball is the perfect palette for spring, it is fresh but the tones are also quite retro with colour blocking of the walls, ceilings and furniture.

Mirrored building

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Bâtiment is a mirrored installation currently on display at Le 104 in Paris as part of the In_Perceptions exhibition. Created by artist Leandro Erlich, the concept is quite simple - the building facade is constructed on the floor near a towering mirror which gives the illusion of weightless participants.

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