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If you happen to be traveling to California any time soon and are in need of some design inspiration, check these places out!
Petersen Automotive Museum
This museum originally opened in 1962 as Seibu, a Japanese store. Today the only Japanese things you’ll find in here are some of the cars, including 2001 Honda S2000 driven in the movie 2 Fast 2 Furious. This museum recently underwent a huge renovation and is now bright red with 300-plus steel ribbon sections wrapping around the building. Inside you’ll find rotating displays organized by history, industry, and artistry. They have some beautiful cars in storage.
Ace Hotel
This boutique hotel brand really knows how to preserve old spaces when creating a lodging. The LA outpost is located in the Gothic-influenced, nearly century-old United Artists building. They’ve even restored a theater from the 1920s that looks like a Moroccan cave; its vaulted ceiling is covered in thousands of tiny mirrors that make it truly shine!
Walt Disney Concert Hall
While being almost acoustically perfect, the hall itself is an impressive sight to see. Architect Frank Gehr designed this Concert Hall. The warm fir-and-cedar auditorium contrasts with the concert hall’s gravity-defying metallic exterior. The 3.6-acre complex includes a community garden on the third level that you can visit for free.
2. We bring trained expertise to your project… Interior Design is a delicate balance between art and science. A well-trained eye can easily make selections. Your designer will have a strong understanding of the relationship between color and pattern, size and scale, quality and craftsmanship, price and value.
3. We have exclusive resources… We give you access to vendors who create pieces of higher quality than the average store. We receive state of the art furniture and accessories that are exclusive to the trade. We can help you find truly unique home items at a discounted rate.
4. We refine your ideas and bring innovative solutions and perspective to your project… Whether you would rather collaborate with us or let us handle the whole project from start to finish we will hear out your needs. We can translate your ideas into the big picture. Our out of the box concepts will help revamp your home.
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Spending your time online shopping for home accessories may not always turn out the way they looked on your computer in your home. Or maybe you’ve spent time and money searching for that perfect paint color! These mistakes can be costly and time consuming. We have tricks to the trade and the experience and knowledge to guide you to the correct choice. We will help create your atmosphere to reflect the uniqueness of your own personality.
This can be a challenge to fund Yin and Yang in a home but synergy can be created with a good design eye. Wood and metal happen to be a great match with classic elemental style.
The warmth of the wood combined with the coldness of the metal creates a balanced fusion.
The texture of wood come off as soft and has a natural amiable value that created a comfortable and embracing vibe. Wood symbolizes craftsmanship and has a human connection.
Metal comes off as tough and strong. Metal is powerful and seductive.
This great combo of natural material and industrial material appears astonishing and can be used to make wonderful home accessories. A great inspiration for a future home-makeover!
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Klima, South Beach
When visitors come to this restaurant they admire the art on the walls just as much as the exquisite food on their plates! Two of the more notable pieces are “Tel Aviv Man XVI” by Jaume Plensa, sculpted by carved metal letters to resemble the silhouette of a human-like figure. And a painting of a Spanish bullfighter, entitled “Matador” by Miguel Macaya. These works are a beauty to see in person.
Little Haiti Soccer Park, Little Haiti
This soccer park in Little Haiti has got murals even bigger than the Wynwood Walls. What makes this park so special is that Pinnacle Housing has teamed with residents and artists from Haiti and Miami to create a true cultural urban gallery. A portion of the walls is scheduled for local graffiti artists who will now have a legal place to display their art.
West Dade Solid Transfer Station, Westchester
This art spot is a bit strange but outside of this trash mountain lies a vibrant, 7ft sculpture from Karel Appel that’ll at least give you something nice to look at while you dispose of whatever is it your are throwing out.
It’s easy for storage solutions to be overlooked and basic. But today I am going to share with you amazing statement pieces to change the way you look at storage options. Here are my top picks from this Ocean Drive article.
This modern bar will store your liquor in true ornate fashion. This tasteful piece will really start a conversation in your home.
These rustic shelves are elegant and simple, also very trendy for 2016. You can try hanging them up on the bathroom to store your vanity items. They will look beautiful and easy to access. You can get these at Pottery Barn.
“Underground” spaces that are extremely well designed are very rare. How can one renovate such a dark space so magnificently? Today I am going to show you the top three best-designed underground spaces in the United States.
The Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
Talk about a 5-star bunker. The Greenbrier was a bomb shelter created by the government at the Greenbrier hotel in 1961. Located 720 foot below, the former “Project Greek Island” comprises a 25-ton blast door, decontamination chambers, a hospital clinic, power plant, and a 6-month supply of food and pharmaceuticals. If you wanted the best place to stay under a nuclear attack this would be a living luxury resort.
Mansueto Library
Chicago, Illinois
The glass-paneled domed top of this University of Chicago library sticks out above ground. Students do need some natural light to study! Just below the glass dome is a five-story book depository. An automated system delivers any of the 3.5 million books in an average of 5 minutes. It’s basically a library run by robot librarians! There’s even a freezer set at negative 40 degrees to clean wet, moldy, or insect-infested books. This place is the coolest place to read!
Spa Terra
Napa, California
The Meritage Resort’s 9,000 square-feet spa is located in its “Estate Cave. This spa is filled with steam grottos, soaking pools, waterfalls, treatment rooms, and whirlpools located 40 foot below the hillside. This Mediterranean atmosphere is filled with mosaics, wrought-iron fixtures and earth tones.
You can read about more of the best-designed spaces here. See some more pictures below!
For those of you who don’t know, Miami has some of the most luxurious hotels in the world. Why not take a day and escape to one of these fabulous hotel bars chosen from the Thrillest.
Check them out!
The Drawing Room: The Shelborne Wyndham Grand
When to go: “Prescription Hour,” weekdays from 5-7 pm, when drinks are $10 and appetizers are 50% off.
What you need to know: Choose a “house medicine” from their rolling cocktail cart, or head up to the lobby bar and get a Stress Reliever, Pain Killer, or Aphrodisiac — all are made with special elixirs and Japanese botanicals, and come with a handwritten prescription from the “pharmacist”… aka your bartender.
1930s House: Thompson Miami Beach
When to go: Anytime except Monday and Tuesday, but only because they’re closed.
What you need to know: This bar is an apartment that was built in the 1930s. Go on the weekends for live music and people-watching, and do as the pretty people do: drink Anejo old fashioneds around the pool and head inside for chorizo and chocolate tapas from Chef Michelle Bernstein’s Sra Martinez.
Rose Bar: Delano South Beach
When to go: Weekends.
What you need to know: This is one of Miami’s most iconic hotels. This intimate South Beach bar was designed by Ian Schrager and is exuberant.
Living Room: W South Beach
When to go: Friday and Saturday nights — it’s open ’til 2am.
What you need to know: This is one of Miami’s sexiest hangouts. Made to look like an apothecary, its $16 cocktails are divided into categories like “Infundo” (infused) and “Laboratorium” (molecular mixology).
You can read about even more great hotel bars here.