Storytelling in architecture: The communication of wellbeing
So you’re the architect and some clients come to you because they want you to design a house for them. But it’s not a house they are after: it’s happiness. They might not even know it themselves, but that’s what they will be looking a for: a place...
20.07.2016Arhitektura kao uslužna djelatnost
Ove i prošle godine sam u više navrata, u javnim i stručnim diskusijama, čuo moje kolege, hrvatske arhitekte*, kako se snebivaju, žale i užasavaju zbog toga što arhitektura postaje uslužna djelatnost. Jako zanimljivo. Kao da već nije uslužna...
10.06.2016Carnival, carnival, carnival
In our line of work one often hears the one about “location, location, location” – the three golden rules of investment. But I say “synergy, synergy, synergy” – the three golden rules of anything, including fun. The Nordics dig that, and more often...
17.02.2016Style or character?
Considering the value of any investment in construction, it might sound scary when an architect says that practice makes perfect, but that’s the way it is. This time, however, I’m not talking about learning from mistakes, but about how a finished...
02.02.2016Coffee table in the corner
I'm taking photos of a coffee table we designed. I'm doing it because I like the table and I want to share it wih others. We actually use it in the studio and we put on it the things we need in that corner. We need them because they bring joy to us...
25.01.2016Our LED Tree concept was exhibited at the Gwangju Design Biennale
Having been shortlisted at an international competition, the LED willow-tree concept, whose branches are lit as intensely as the wind sways them, was exhibited at the Gwangju Design Biennale in South Korea.
07.12.2015Table Yourself at the Ljubljana Month of Design
This year the Table Yourself coffee tables spent a month in Ljubljana.
07.12.2015Ab Ovo at D Day
This year at D Day we exhibited the Ab Ovo coffee table and three spheres that settled into it.
21.07.2015Puzzle Coffee Table at the Zagreb Design Week
The Puzzle Coffee Table, transparent and almost invisible, was exhibited at the Zagreb Design Week 2015.
21.07.2015Waking up at Dawn
Even during my first family-house design project (2 nd year at the Faculty of Architecture), when I stood face to face with quite a steep plot of land at the foothills of Medvednica, it was clear to me that the plot had something to “say” and that I...
21.07.2015Table Yourself in Skopje
Table Yourself coffee tables have been exhibited in the beautiful space of Kurshumli An at the Skopje Design Week. Here is the opening atmosphere:
25.09.2014Tent
We were camping, the two of us, in a tent fixed to the ground and to four young olive trees, just big enough to have their branches touch above the centre of the tent. In front of us a garden, and then bushes. Apart from the toilet+shower building...
12.08.2014Armano Linta at D Day
At D Day 2014 we exhibited promotional prototypes of coffee tables that are: made of one board each, almost waste free; without any metal joints; easy to assemble and disassemble; easily individualised by shape, colour and material; fit for do-it-...
31.05.2014On the Kitchen
It’s amazing how the kitchen is engrained in our minds as an image, and how limited the image is. As soon as you hear “kitchen”, what do you imagine? Regardless of a specific style, which can be totally diverse, the image in your mind is that of a...
17.03.2014