Barcelona-based illustrator Cinta Vidal Agulló turns architectural drawing on its head with these surreal urban landscapes that reflect the idea that we all live in one world, but the inner dimensions we experience may not match the realities that others perceive. These clever plays on perspective are reminiscent of M.C. Escher’s impossible geometries, but this . . .
Tag: art
This Gallery-Like Home Reflects A Different Art Style In Every Room
Haven’t most art enthusiasts dreamed of having a gallery of their own? This home makes those desires a reality. Every room represents a specific artistic movement by emulating the colors and forms, each one unique. Many of the styles adopted here are relatively modern, ranging from the Romanticism of the early 1800s to the Pop . . .
Dramatic Interior Architecture Meets Elegant Decor in Krakow
This beautiful Krakow home sparks the imagination with innovative interior architecture and a strong modernistic attitude, tempered in places by classic natural materials. Each perspective offers a unique visual experience with surprising details hiding around every corner. Designed by PLASTERLINA, this interior demonstrates the beauty of high contrast design – interior themes range from dark . . .
3 Luxury Homes Taking Different Approaches To Artwork
An art collection is expressive and personal all at once. Art reflects the background of the owner, gives a voice to their dreams and desires, and it serves as a strong anchor around which all other design elements can rally. There’s no right or wrong way to display interior artwork and each of the luxurious . . .
Large Wall Art For Living Rooms: Ideas & Inspiration
What happens when artwork takes center stage in a home? Rather than adding art as an afterthought, even a single favored piece can easily serve as a perfect anchor for the rest of the room. The following images explore a variety of ways to make home artwork serve as more than just a focal point, . . .
Amazing Metal Sculptures Made From Reclaimed Bronze Ornaments
Considering the high degree of precision and detail, most people wouldn’t believe that these intricate sculptures are made from salvaged materials. French artist Alain Bellino studied the family trade of gold and silver plating throughout the 1980s before moving on to creating completely original sculptures. By 2010, he had developed a style that repurposes the . . .
10 Unusual Wall Art Ideas
Add wow factor to your plain walls with these set of tips on creating unusual wall art ideas and altogether unconventional ways to fill up your blank spaces. Recommended Reading: 50 Wooden Wall Decor Finds To Help You Add Rustic Beauty To Your Room Faux Deer Heads For Wall Decoration
100 Beautiful Bird Sculptures Made Out Of Paper
Take a flight of fancy with this flock of feathered friends! In fact, these colorful bird specimens are not so much on the feathery side as they are papery, because these winged beauties are intricate paper sculptures, painstakingly pieced together by talented artist and illustrator Diana Beltran Herrera, from Bogota, Columbia. Recommended Reading: Owl Home . . .
Stunning Sculptures Made from Discarded CD Fragments
Australian writer, illustrator, and artist Sean E. Avery has created a collection of interesting mixed media sculptures of animals and insects, using shattered CD fragments arranged to form the illusion of fur and feathers. The reflective media gives an iridescent sheen to the modern art, resulting in silvery-blue rodent coats, and bird forms showing the . . .
Beautiful Illustrative Wallpapers
If only walls could talk! Well, they almost do with these beautiful illustrative wallpapers from Colombian born, Barcelona based, Catalina Estrada; they say a picture is worth a thousand words, and these designs certainly speak volumes!
Vinyl Wall Decals
Vinyl wall decals are still flooding the interiors market in bright new forms, like these examples from Etsy shop Empire City Studios, so liven up plain walls with a decal or two, or three! You can keep your selection abstract by choosing something like the circular spirograph patterns for a quicker and cheaper personality injection . . .
Retro Poster Prints
Recent sojourns took us to this neat Etsy shop, ReStyle, which has a fantastic range of fresh poster art prints for us to adorn our walls with. Creator of the posters, Jan Skácelik, of Olomouc, Czech Republic, uses clean lines and layouts, showing a clear background in Graphic Design and Illustration. Along with an unexplained . . .
Stunning Quilling Designs By Yulia Brodskaya
We here are kind of blown away seeing what this artist can do with paper. Russian born, UK settled illustration wizard Yulia Brodskaya’s portfolio should leave no doubt as to the power of paper as a medium for expression. Her expertise in quilling(the art form that uses paper to create decorative designs) is probably only . . .
Stunning Wall Art created from Electronic Components
Companhia Athletica Gyms in Brazil chose wisely when they designated Art Director Murilo Melo to dream up new ads for their gyms. Melo decided to go the ironic route and use computer parts to create wall art of men and women in various exercise poses. The message that comes across? Stop spending your days and . . .
Pixel Inspiration in Decor
The pointillism painters were fascinated by them in the late 1800’s. Modern society measures picture quality with them. And these days, they have become a source of inspiration in decor. Pixels are now common in the design world featured as graphic prints on everything from pillows to bed-sheets to meticulously-constructed lamps and clocks. This fascination . . .
Creative Recreations of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water
Frank Lloyd Wright, an early pioneer of organic architecture and the Prairie School architecture movement, is probably best known for his Falling Water house, a mountainside retreat built over a waterfall for the Kaufmann family in 1936. The house impressed architects and the general public alike, because it didn’t seem to stand on solid ground, . . .
Cute Clay Figurines by Afsaneh Tajvidi
Ready for some cuteness overload? These clay figurines by Canada-based artist Afsaneh Tajvidi are adorable! We think these figurines would be a whimsical and colorful decoration on a child’s bedroom dresser or by a baby’s changing station. They are not only cute to ogle over, but might just fuel your child’s creativity or help them . . .
Amazing Paper Sculptures
Maybe it’s not the first time we at Home-designing have been enamored of amazingly intricate paper designs. We have featured similar projects here and here. But Canadian artist Calvin Nicholls‘ paper sculpture designs have a touch of wild to them. As in wildlife. Nicholls celebrates his love of animals by carving out intricate, and simply . . .
The Art of Recycling
Recyclart is nice little site that showcases the wonderful ways in which people choose to repurpose common household items. Some people just don’t like to throw away items, but with creativity like this, who’s complaining… Who out there doesn’t have corks waiting to be recycled? Save about 175 and you too can make a new . . .
Eerily Fascinating Grass Sculptures
We are truly intrigued by these set of grass sculptures by mixed media artist Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy. Made of wheat grass grown on soil molded on recycled metal, there is something oddly engrossing about these forms. Maybe it is the sense of motion they bring to a static scene, maybe it is the surprising looks they . . .
Fresco Designs
The use of frescoes as a form of mural painting continues to pay homage to the history of art. It began 30,000 years ago in Europe in the interiors of caves but gradually found its place in cathedrals and castles across the world. Fresco meaning “fresh” in French, referred to for the wet plaster that . . .