Well hello there, good lookin’, and welcome to the August 2018 edition of Yellowtrace Spotlight. As we eagerly anticipate the arrival of Spring this weekend (finally!), you can catch up on a few local and international hospitality & commercial projects; a former church turned into a workplace in Sydney; new dreamboat hotel in Santorini; the reveal of Haymes Paint’s latest colour forecast; new product launches from Smeg, Pedro Paulo-Venzon & GRT Architects; plus a sensational art exhibition at NGV you don’t want to miss. Let’s do it!
Inspired by a deep desire to create an organic, sensory experience for their guests, Warrior One is a yoga studio with transportive and tactile qualities.
A deserted private residence neighbouring a deep blue patch of the Aegean Sea was transformed into a boutique hotel for travellers with eclectic taste, inspired by luminous images of the Mediterranean locations.
An ancient village in Eastern Chinese has recently welcomed a new boutique hotel by DAS Lab, designed to drive the development of local tourism industry.
For Lina Stores pasta restaurant in London’s Soho, Red Deer have created a contemporary dining experience that connects the ground floor open-kitchen bar with the downstairs restaurant.
Squillace Architects have transformed an old church into a light and harmonious interior that allows their team to work in a motivating and inspiring space.
The latest colour release from Haymes Paint is a feel-good forecast built around the philosophy of how personal change can contribute to a greater good.
Traditional door and window frames seem like a fairly humdrum source of creativity, but with a dreamy gelato colour palette, clean lines, and iridescent panes layered with gradient colour, Femme Atelier’s Framemust series is anything but bland.
Designed by one of Italy’s most lauded architects for Smeg, Dolce Stil Novo luxury range crosses the great divide between kitchen appliances and furniture.
With their cast concrete tile collection for Kaza Concrete, GRT Architects have explored fluting and reeding as one architecture’s oldest surface embellishments.
Spanning ten years of design, in this first retrospective of Broached Commissions, the designers have responded to a research-based model to create limited-edition and one of a kind bespoke design objects.