What Famous Rooms In Paintings Look Like In Real Life, And More Of The Week's Coolest Design
Every week, we curate the best designs in art, architecture and graphic and product design so you can sit back and enjoy some beautiful works of creativity. Here are this week's picks:
When Paintings Come To Life
From Van Gogh's humble interior from The Bedroom from 1888 to Roy Lichtenstein's colorful Pop Art depiction of Interior with restful paintings from 1991, each iconic artwork gives viewers an idea of the decorating trends of the time. For their client Home Advisor, UK-based creative agency NeoMam reimagines these painterly interiors as if they're real-life rooms.
[Read more at My Modern Met]
Let's Hope This Doesn't Leak
as well as an interior that opens up panoramically to the surrounding landscape, anti reality also imagines an inverted roof structure that can be transformed into a swimming pool.
[Read more at Designboom]
Apple's New Credit Card
Apple has made its first foray into financial services with a numberless credit card that CEO Tim Cook calls the most significant change to card payments in 50 years.
[Read more at Dezeen]
Nothing To See Here. Just A Massive Inflatable Mouse Floating On Hong Kong Harbor
Hong Kong is famous for many striking sights—like the city skyline and the famous Victoria Peak—but a 115-foot-long inflatable, mouse-like sculpture floating on the harbor? That's a new one.
[Read more at TIME]
A House Of Card(board)
In the new Mumbai-based cafe Cardboard Bombay, corrugated cardboard composes each chair, table, and light fixture, in addition to the sinuous walls which sweep across the space.
[Read more at Colossal]
