Casa Plenaire is an imaginary holiday home for lockdown escapism

As the coronavirus pandemic puts a halt on all travel plans, Child Studio has collaborated with Plenaire to envision an idyllic seaside villa for the "perfect holiday".

Designed as a "hideaway for the lockdown world", Casa Plenaire is seen through a series of dreamy renderings created using 3D modelling programmes.

The project takes its name from skincare brand Plenaire, which up until recently had been working with Child Studio to develop the interiors of its upcoming London store.

As the coronavirus crisis worsened and stay-at-home orders were put in place, the two parties decided to collaborate on a fictitious space that could be experienced via Instagram.

"Suddenly, the feasibility of the store, and the future of physical retail spaces in general, started to look very uncertain," studio founders Che Huang and Alexy Kos told Dezeen.

"During the lockdown period, we find ourselves confined to our homes, and imaginary spaces can provide some escapism and enjoyment," they continued.

"Casa Plenaire is designed to evoke the memories of a perfect holiday."

The imagined home has a sunny, whitewashed interior, similar to the pale villas that dot the coastline of the Greek island Santorini.

At its centre lies a circular bath, flanked by short flights of stairs. They lead up to a rear bedroom, where a mattress dressed in simple brown linens is placed atop a plinth that rises from the floor.

The room's walls have been punctuated with two openings – one of them grants access to a sun terrace clad with terracotta tiles, while the other is a picture window that offers unspoilt vistas of the surrounding ocean.

Its ledge is dressed with a sink basin and a handful of Plenaire products.

On the opposite side of the homes lies a stepped outdoor shower area with burnt-orange walls, complete with arched nooks.

Beachy paraphernalia such as straw hats, striped towels and hand-held fans have been dotted throughout the home, as well as an array of ceramic ornaments and decorative fragments of coral.

A couple of mid-century pieces have also been included in Casa Plenaire. The Anywhere Lamp by Swedish designer Greta von Nessen appears on the bedside table, complemented by a white edition of Finnish designer Eero Aarnio's bulbous Pastil chair.

The entire space is topped with an undulating ceiling, in a nod to the shapely form of buildings by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen.

Child Studio is a multidisciplinary design studio based in London. It has previously created a collection of lamps that are meant to look as if they're "frozen in time".

In 2019, the studio's Humble Pizza project was shortlisted in the restaurant and bar interior category of the Dezeen Awards. The eatery is almost exclusively clad in panels of baby-pink Formica and features cherry wood detailing.

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Shortlist unveiled for AHEAD Americas 2020 hospitality awards

Dezeen promotion: a conversion of New York's JFK terminal building and a brutalist boutique in the historical centre of Oaxaca, Mexico, are among the projects to be shortlisted in this year's AHEAD Americas awards.

The AHEAD Americas awards honour exceptional hospitality projects that have been launched, opened or reopened on the continents between November 2018 and December 2019.

Each of the submissions were sorted into 18 categories, which include an array of aspects such as a project's landscaping, guest rooms, and lobby spaces.

Other categories include cabins and tented camps, clubs and lounges, hotel renovations and spa and wellness projects.

A shortlist has then been compiled by a judging panel of industry experts. This year it includes figures such as vice president of design strategies at Marriott International, Aliya Khan, director of operations at Airbnb, Mari Balestrazzi, and partner at the Rockwell Group, Greg Keffer.

One of the projects to be shortlisted is the TWA Hotel, located inside the former TWA terminal at New York's John F Kennedy airport, which was shut for 16 years after undergoing a restoration of its modernist details.

The mid-century-modern building boasts a winged construction with curved concrete rooflines and glass curtain walls, while the interior features a red-coloured lounge with seating built into the floor.

Another project in the running is the Cathédrale restaurant in New York, located one level below ground in the Moxy East Village hotel.

Designed by Rockwell Group, Cathédrale boasts a 26-foot-high ceiling covered in a large wire mesh sculpture that compliments the restaurant's architecture, informed on the musical legacy of the 1960s.

Also on the shortlist is wellness spa and hotel Miraval, situated in Austin, Texas, and the West Hollywood Edition hotel in Los Angeles, which features bold colour choices with floor-to-ceiling emerald curtains and royal blue velvet seating.

This year's winners will be announced via webcast on Wednesday 10 June 2020. The virtual awards presentation will be broadcast online at from AHEAD's website. As digital partner, the presentation will also be broadcast on Dezeen.

An AHEAD after-party at Faena Forum Miami Beach is planned for 7 October 2020, comprising a daytime talks programme and evening celebration for nominees, winners, judges and sponsors.

The Americas is one of four regions covered by the AHEAD awards, which also considers projects from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa.

Prize-takers from each region will go on to compete in a global biennale, where worldwide titles can be won.

For more information on the AHEAD awards, visit the company's website.

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Towering red beams shade walkways of Rajasthan School in India

Deep red walls and walkways shade the primary-coloured interiors of this school in Rajasthan, India, by Sanjay Puri Architects.

Set over three stories, the Rajasthan School has been equipped to deal with the desert climate.

With temperatures hovering above 35 degrees Celsius for most of the year, shade and natural ventilation are a key part of Sanjay Puri Architects' design.

A large central courtyard crisscrossed by walkways is sheltered by the red frames of oversized pergolas, which cast areas of deep shade.

The walls of the east, west and south sides of the school complex are angled to deflect the sun, sloping so they are wider at the base than at the top.

Every classroom is north facing, to benefit from indirect sunlight. Angled fins project either side of recessed areas of glazing.

Primary school classrooms and a triple-height auditorium occupy the southern side of the complex, along with administration spaces.

Secondary school classrooms, a library and a cafeteria sit on the other side, across the shady courtyard.

"Traversed by a series of linear trapezoidal frames and sun-breakers, this focal area has a constantly changing shadow pattern depending on the sun's direction throughout the day," said Sanjay Puri Architects.

"The layout is intentionally fragmented, allowing open landscaped spaces to be interspersed with the school's learning spaces."

Sanjay Puri Architects said they approached the school layout by looking at the urban design of an old Indian city, with narrow streets shaded by high walls.

Semi-open courtyards run the perimeter of the classrooms, and sports courts and a running track sit in the surrounding grounds.

Inside, the walls are coloured the same vibrant red, with contrasting walls in blue and yellow.

These blocks of primary colours are punctuated by internal organic oval cut-outs or perforated facades, creating interesting visual connections across corridors and stairs and allowing air to flow through.

To make it sustainable, the Rajasthan School is powered by residual energy produced by a nearby cement factory.

Sanjay Puri Architects was founded in Mumbai by Sanjay Puri in 1988. Bright, angular walls also featured in the practice's crescent-shaped design for an office building in Surat.

Photography is by Dinesh Mehta.

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Project credits:

Principal architect: Sanjay Puri
Project architects: Ishveen Bhasin, Ankush Malde, Pooja Prajapati
Client: Shree Cement

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Shadowy Geometric Shapes Rendered with Meticulous Crosshatching by Artist Albert Chamillard

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Tucson-based artist Albert Chamillard (previously) spends hours, if not days or weeks, crosshatching cylinders, sliced cubes, and three-dimensional arrows. Rendered on vintage ledgers and graph paper, each geometric shape relies on the density of the artist’s pen markings to create works that appear to stand straight up off the page.

Chamillard describes his process as absorbing, often occupying him for hours at a time as he meticulously draws line after line. “A much longer process is developing the drawing in pencil first so it looks ‘right,’ meaning it fits within the page and balances the shape and looks like it belongs there,” he says. “Composition is a huge part of my work, and if it doesn’t fit on a page correctly, I won’t bother finishing it.” Despite being non-representational, the works also hold information like a diary or journal. “When I’m drawing, I thinking about everything else in my life, and usually title them in a way that conveys that snapshot of time for me, so I can look at my older drawings and know roughly what was going on.” The artist hopes to convey the necessity of devotion and patience in creative work. 

Each monochromatic drawing has a meditative and hypnotic effect, and Chamillard’s fascination with light and shadow began in 2017 when he started rendering three-dimensional shapes. Since then, though, he’s shifted his intention. “I am currently focused on drawing fabric, specifically folded fabric, and translating it into drawings using the same crosshatching technique I’ve been using 6 or 7 years,” he says. “I’m also experimenting with larger drawings comprised of multiple sheets of ledger paper.”

Often sourcing his materials from thrift stores and yard sales, the artist tells Colossal it hasn’t been as easy to obtain old notebooks in recent years. “They have since become much more difficult to find, so I rely on Etsy if I want a specific one, and I’ve also had the benefit of strangers on Instagram sending me ones they find (If you have an old ledger you want to see go to a good home, please contact me!).”

To see more of Chamillard’s volumetric drawings, and perhaps to share some of those papers you’ve got piling up in the attic, head to Instagram.

 

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Halleroed creates moody New York office with wood panelled walls

Stockholm studio Halleroed has paired carpet floors, dropped ceilings and wood panelling for a New York office evocative of a David Lynch movie.

Located in Manhattan's Garment District, the office is for a company in the creative industry that has almost all of the floors in the 17th-storey building.

Halleroed, led by Swedish designer Christian Halleröd, was tasked with designing a level for the executives of the company on the 16th floor.

Measuring approximately 1600 square metres, the project includes a reception, private offices, a board room and a communal area.

Cladding much of the walls are panels with a veneer of Makore wood native to central and western Africa, while floors are either concrete or carpet in either blue or cream.

An executive office has been designed in a corner of the floor, with wooden panelling that frames six windows and cream curtains placed behind the panels.

The design is modelled on movies by American filmmaker David Lynch, Halleroed said, whose powerful compositions are almost surreal.

The office is complete with a private bathroom with a blue, enamelled sink and marble floors with brown and white tones.

Another office has a lighter and softer character with pale walls covered in linen and Oregon Pine framing.

The office's communal area is in the middle of the floor plan and formed by a freestanding wooden cube in a matching warm tone. The volume hosts a coffee area and cubicles.

Smaller offices and rooms are created around the perimeter with glass walls and metal seams lacquered in blue, high gloss paint.

"The concept is to keep the feeling of the raw open space and add just millwork the space, not actual walls," Halleroed said.

"The contrast between the raw, industrial space and the refined millwork pieces intensifies the character of the building and the new additions."

A large table is enamelled in red and has matching red chairs with cream cushions. The same red gloss adorns a nearby countertop.

Much of the furniture in the project is vintage, including a pale sofa by Vladimir Kagan in the reception area, leather Cab chairs by Mario Bellini, a table by Japanese-American woodworker Vladimir Kagan and wood chairs by Pierre Jeanneret.

A cobalt blue desk in high gloss anchors the reception area with a matching light fixture above. Panelled walls enclose the room, and the ceiling is suspended and offset from the walls for a floating feeling.

Halleroed was founded in 1998 in Stockholm by Christian and Ruxandra Halleröd and is known for minimalistic interiors for fashion brands, including stores for Axel Arigato in Copenhagen, Byredo and Acne Studios.

Photography is by Erik Undehn.

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