The Cool Hunter Newsletter - June 2017

JOURNAL SHOP NEW IN FACE SUBMERGED - Daria Kraft GLASS SCULPTURE Ted Pim - Oil Paintings The first canvases of street artist Ted Pim were the walls of abandoned buildings. The Belfast, Northern Ireland-born artist roamed the U.S. and Europe and sought out dark, neglected structures where he then spent days creating massive other-worldly murals. But Pim's murals were not typical street art – no spray-painted graffiti with bold graphics and angry political messages. Pim was channeling old masters like Caravaggio and Rembrandt. His art was in massive scale and up-dated in imagery, but it oozed Baroque-inspired dark drama and disturbing realism. Visual tension, rich tones, exaggerated light, arresting subject matter. READ MORE InKids With Linefriends Playground, Beijing, China inKids with Linefriends is a 880 square-metre (approx. 9,500 sq.ft) children's indoor playground in the Beijing Yintai Centre in 01 luxury shopping mall. It is a fresh and startlingly white playground created by the developers and operators of the mall, Beijing Yusheng Yintai Business Management Co.Ltd, and Line Friends Images of Korea. READ MORE A Private Buddhist Spiritual Retreat in Tangshan, China This recently completed private spiritual Buddhist retreat and tea house in the rural Tangshan area in China's northeastern Herbei province, produces perfectly the tranquil environment and reverent atmosphere that the design brief requested. READ MORE Atlas Bar, Parkview Square, Singapore On North Bridge Road in Singapore's Bugis neighbourhood, the Parkview Square building has enjoyed a towering, iconic presence since its completion in 2002. The grand Art Deco inspired lobby bar was then called Divine Wine Extraordinaire and it boasted a massive wine tower and wine fairy that flew between the tiers. READ MORE Jncquoi Lifestyle Concept, Lisbon, Portugal The concept is ambitious and challenging – as the so-called lifestyle concepts tend to be – with luxury as the over-arching theme. Opened recently in the historic Tivoli movie theatre on Avenida da Liberdade in Lisbon, Portugal, the three-level Jncquoi includes a restaurant, a deli and bar, and a men's fashion store. READ MORE B30 Government Offices, The Hague, The Netherlands KAAN Architecten, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, has recently completed a large-scale re-imagining of a historic governmental building in The Hague. READ MORE Office of 1978 Cultural Creative Park, Guangzhou, China Even in the best of circumstances, transforming a large former factory into a functional and appealing office space is a tough prospect. We have all seen the ones that try too hard to be cool and edgy, use every trick in the book and eventually end up at an incoherent and confusing dead end. READ MORE XU London We are perhaps getting close to a saturation point with restaurant interiors that feature dark wood, rounded corners and pink upholstery in a slightly-prissy-yet-masculine 1930s movie vibe, but we are not quite there yet. So, here is Xu in London, designed by Shayne Brady and Emily Williams of the BradyWilliams Studio, the designers behind such other London eateries as Fischer's and Wright Brothers. READ MORE Great design knows no boundaries, we deliver globally. FLAT-RATE SHIPPING TO ALL COUNTRIES.

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