Architecture as Design Inspiration Roundup

Architecture as Design Inspiration
Roundup

Yes, the architecture of a home inspires the interior design of the home, but in our age of modern and postmodern cleverness, architecture as a motif also inspires product designers...

• 1 Pillow from Red Barn Mercantile

• 2 Floorplan dishes, $10.95-$32.95 at Fishs Eddy, (courtesy of the L.A. Times), $10.95-$32.95 at Fishs Eddy

• 3 House Wallpaper by Erica Waverly at Hermitage

• 4 City mug (with architectural blueprints), $39.80 for a set of four at Starbucks

• 5 Architect's Blueprint Paperweight by Tibor Kalman, $28 at UnicaHome

• 6 Mediterranea, Fornasetti collection at Cole & Son

• 7 The Blueprint Card Case by Boym Partners for Acme Studio, $34 at Velocity Art & Design

• 8 Mid-century Gothic wall decals, designed by the Spring 2007 intern class of Working Class Studio, Savannah College of Art and Design, $60 by Blik

• 9 Ford's Theater Miniature, $110, Buildings of Disaster Series by Boym Partners at Velocity Art & Design

• 10 Urban Mandala bed linens, $17.95-$89.95 at CB2

Have you found more? Let us know!

Comments (6)

Love the bed backdrop architectural design on the wall.

posted by Kirantarun on November 3rd 2009 at 5:06pm
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Anyone notice the wallpaper for the Schoolteacher that Don Draper had been having affair with on this season's "Mad Men"?

Looks alot like abstracted MCM house/lot plans...

posted by bepsf on November 3rd 2009 at 6:11pm
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Oh, man, I've devoted way too much space on my blog to this exact topic! Here are a few cool items to add:

2010 calendar made of little cardboard houses:
http://visualingual.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/smallest-village-2010-calendar/

Pillows with pieced and embroidered buildings and fences on them:
http://visualingual.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/pillows-by-bridget-davies/

FLOR carpet tiles with satellite images of a city and a suburb:
http://visualingual.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/cities-and-suburbs-by-flor/

That's just a start. If you're charmed by this kind of work, check out my blog for tons of examples of creative endeavors inspired by architecture, cartography, and specific places:

http://visualingual.wordpress.com/

posted by visualingual on November 3rd 2009 at 7:22pm
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Being from lovely Vancouver I appreciate the inclusion of the Van City mug! Thanks!!
Be prepeared to see ALOT of my wonderful hometown come Feb during the winter olympics, and for anyone who hasn't been here it is as beautiful as it looks!!
I think Apartment therapy needs a blog from Vancouver...(I'll elect myself OK!!)

posted by bgball on November 3rd 2009 at 8:28pm
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Love the sheets best! Urban chic with a bit of whimsy!

posted by fairmountdogstories on November 3rd 2009 at 8:56pm
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Love these - I can't quite figure out how much I love the wallpaper though - is it overwhelmingly busy or just perfect? Hmmm....

http://blog.17thandRiggs.com

posted by rma on November 9th 2009 at 6:13pm
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