A crystal heart for the Hanoi Penthouse

by Alice | Mar 7, 2012

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A crystal heart for the Hanoi Penthouse

Italian customed furnishings blend with Vietnamese taste and tradition in this luxury Penthouse in Hanoi. A luminous crystal heart fits between the three panoramic levels of a prestigious skyscraper on West Lake.

Project: CLS Architects
Year: 2012
Site: Hanoi

A crystal heart with polished steel profiles fits into the rooms on three levels of this Vietnamese Penthouse. A luminous heart capable of trapping light and external nature to bring it inside this luxurious home. This is the fulcrum of the CLS Architects project, around which the various rooms of the house are placed. A combination of customed furnishings scrupulously made by our wood craftsmen and traditional Vietnamese construction techniques. An eclectic environment in which the western and eastern worlds find their harmony between highly distinctive design pieces and essential furnishings.

So here is an outdoor table in a terrace with bamboo cane in black lacquered wood that shows in its center a glossy red lacquered star. The same material is also used in the full-height library with rigorous geometric lines. The leather upholstery of the doors in the bedroom with treated brass inserts has a warmer impact. A constant experimentation on the finishes and related treatments that required attention and preciousness in detailing each piece of furniture.

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A crystal heart for the Hanoi Penthouse

Italian customed furnishings blend with Vietnamese taste and tradition in this luxury Penthouse in Hanoi. A luminous crystal heart fits between the three panoramic levels of a prestigious skyscraper on West Lake.

Project: CLS Architects
Year: 2012
Site: Hanoi

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Modular units with a panoramic view

by Alice | Aug 7, 2011

Modular units with a panoramic view

The offices of the Karla Otto Public Relations Agency are placed between large windows with panoramic views over the city of New York, spread over two floors. An open space environment made optimal by the arrangement of modular workstations in a material continuity with the architectural structure.

Project: CLS Architects
Year: 2011
Site: New York

A panoramic view of New York opens from the large windows of these offices located on two floors of a glass and concrete skyscraper. An industrial context with internal finishes in raw concrete and exposed systems, in which the large glass walls perform a double function. On one hand, they lighten the room, dematerializing the separation between inside and outside, on the other hand they provide natural lighting. It is with these premises that the design of the Karla Otto offices takes place according to the project of the architectural studio CLS Architects.

Taking advantage of the large visual opening, the design layout is structured around the arrangement of modular units. Workstations composed of four tables with bookcases and drawers. These are specularly arranged among themselves, according to a cross conformation. The choice of materials is in continuity with the plays of transparencies and luminous reflections created by the large windows. At the same way, the surfaces of shelves and drawers are in polished steel while the dividing elements in darkened mirror glass.

A small self-managed kitchen is available to workers, with light tones that provides additional brightness. The essential lines and the choice of Corian express its contemporaneity. The contrast between the essentiality of the white kitchen with the raw concrete of the walls and floors represents the stylistic signature of this project.

Modular units with a panoramic view

The offices of the Karla Otto Public Relations Agency are placed between large windows with panoramic views over the city of New York, spread over two floors. An open space environment made optimal by the arrangement of modular workstations in a material continuity with the architectural structure.

Project: CLS Architects
Year: 2011
Site: New York

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Brightness for a classic villa

by Alice | May 7, 2011

Brightness for a classic villa

A classic style villa in which contemporary furnishings fits harmoniously giving further brightness. Bright profiles in warm tones are hidden in the furniture with essential lines.

Project: Modulor
Year: 2011
Site: Colognola

An elegant and refined house, whose architectural lines highlight a classic taste. From the rounded profiles of the false ceiling to the choice of dark wood furniture and traditional graphics, everything refers to the classic style. Working by inserting contemporary furnishings does not mean changing its taste, but rather underlining it by creating refined stylistic contrasts. From the entrance you immediately notice the dining table, a real style jewel. A plan with geometric motifs supported by important shaped legs in stone. A braided chandelier with a retro taste accompanies it.

Then the view opens to the living room, where the back wall certainly occupies a privileged role. With its shaped stone fireplace, it recalls the traditional houses where the hearth occupied a central position. Two niches with custom shelves are placed side by side and symmetrically arranged. Its medium gray background color recalls the shades of the furnishings. Even the TV cabinet that supports them on the adjacent wall is in the same shade, but with a glossy finish. This, reflecting the light from the opposite window, increases the general brightness of the room. Between bright shelves with recessed warm lighting and antique furniture a corner of light is recognizable. It is a full-height bookcase with a central niche and depth equipped with shelves. The essential and contemporary lines delicately conform to the environment, making the desk in dark waxed wood with classic rounded lines prevailing.

Brightness for a classic villa

A classic style villa in which contemporary furnishings fits harmoniously giving further brightness. Bright profiles in warm tones are hidden in the furniture with essential lines.

Project: Modulor
Year: 2011
Site: Colognola

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A boutique with textile finishes

by Alice | Feb 7, 2011

A boutique with textile finishes

A layout that allows freedom of movement and visual continuity for a boutique in Selvino where fabrics also invade the display elements. Refined and contemporary finishes in a retail interior with elegant contrasts.

Project: Modulor
Year: 2011
Site: Selvino

Boutique Franci is the project of a contemporary retail store, which takes the most from the wide spaces in order to prove a better circulation of the customers’ flow. Along the back walls, the main display elements are arranged alternating full-height shelves and horizontal display profiles with drawers and shelves. The circulation of customers takes freely place starting from the external perimeter, passing through the display tables of different sizes, up to the definition of central macro areas. These act as a pivot and hold the dressing rooms within important rigorous volumes. The choice of materials and their finishes defines the stylistic taste of this boutique.

For the wall display units, shelves alternate in an elegant chromatic contrast a textured laminate whose finish seems extrapolated directly from the textile world. A reference to the materiality of the clothes themselves, which see the finishing of their fabrics invade even the display elements. The central tables are in black waxed iron providing an industrial touch to the environment. The design lines are straight and precise, offering a double vision of the furniture. It is important in the side elevation and essential in its effective thickness. The boutique’s banner was also made in the same material, whose logo designed in the graphics to restore this sense of contemporary elegance, was laser cut and backlit.

A boutique with textile finishes

A layout that allows freedom of movement and visual continuity for a boutique in Selvino where fabrics also invade the display elements. Refined and contemporary finishes in a retail interior with elegant contrasts.

Project: Modulor
Year: 2011
Site: Selvino

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Ice atmosphere for Runway Store

by Alice | Oct 6, 2010

Ice atmosphere for Runway Store

Set in an ice interior, the installation for the Runway Store in Ho Chi Minh designed by CLS Architects takes note. The side walls are transformed into a sinuous stratification while the central void holds a beating heart fragmented by luminous reflections.

Project: CLS Architects
Year: 2010
Site: Ho Chi Minh

Runway Store is the project of a fairytale environment, where the retail space is created inside an ice cave. The signs of these stratifications are visible on the walls, with shaped slats with a sinuous profile in four different shades of white. The distance between each of them allows an internal rhythm and dynamism, capable of producing different visual effects according to the point of view. A suspended environment in which the overall effect, although recalling a sort of contemporary igloo, does not become hostile and excessively cold for the customer. A contemporary reinterpretation that instead seems frozen in time, but at the same way elegant and dynamic.

The central void hosts a beating heart, a sphere set inserted in the room which houses a private room. Its surface is sprinkled with mirror scales that reflect light and dematerialize the reflected image.
The furnishings are essential in the shapes, alternating white glossy lacquered surfaces with the opacity of the black waxed iron volumes. Glass inserts give the idea of purity and lightness. In this perspective, play of reflections have a fundamental role, underlined by the choice of materials that tend to make the interiors even more scenographic.

Ice atmosphere for Runway Store

Set in an ice interior, the installation for the Runway Store in Ho Chi Minh designed by CLS Architects takes note. The side walls are transformed into a sinuous stratification while the central void holds a beating heart fragmented by luminous reflections.

Project: CLS Architects
Year: 2010
Site: Ho Chi Minh

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