Archive for May, 2013
Design
White color in architecture
Have you ever wondered why is white the dominant color for interior design? Most common answers are: Because it is easy to touch up It comes from lime. It costs less. It does not disturb Because it “widens” the room...
Architettura
The dark side of superfetation
Superfetation , as we have seen here , means to add new constructions to the old ones. Its effects, in architecture, can be significant and even surprising, but if you do not have the right design sensibility, you can create mo...
Architettura
Superfetation
Word of the Day:. superfetation. The term is generally negative and means adding new architectural elements over the old existing ones. It produces an extremely fascinating, labyrinthine, complex, baroque, redundant and wastefu...
Design
The myth of wood pallets
Happy New Year to everyone! Lei’s begin 2012 with a veil of controversy, by dispelling the myth of shipping pallets used to create a variety of structures and furnishings. A pallet is a wooden structure used to stack good...
