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Following on from my previous post about the home of Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen, one of the founders of NORM Architects, I thought I’d follow it up with a peak into the home of another of my favourite architects, Joseph Dirand.

Check out the interview with Parisian architect Joseph Dirand by Freunde von Freunden in the video below, where we get a tour of the Architect’s incredibly stylish Parisian apartment.

Here’s a flavour of the work from Joseph Dirand’s Portfolio:

I’m completely in love with everything NORM Architects creates. Whether architecture or product design, the look is always clean, cool & minimal. Their signature architectural style seems to be bright white spaces, created with natural materials and then left sparsely decorated.

I was really interested to see work-in-progress photos from the home of Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen, one of the founders of NORM Architects on their Bo Bedre blog (Note: the blog is in Danish). As with their commercial work, the direction is very minimal; all white space and polished concrete floors. What was really interesting to see was that the space featured a few items that we sell here at Zoma Design Store. In the first photo you can see two Spinning Light BH1 hung as a pair, which looks great (an idea I’m going to steal myself.) Also, in the third image, above the fireplace is the Milk NA1 Lamp, which shouldn’t come as a surprise because it was designed by NORM Architects. It’s lovely to see these products in a real home environment, especially when it’s the home of it’s creator.

Love these typographic prints created by London based artist Von. Whilst having worked primarily as an award winning illustrator Von has begun to make a name for himself on the gallery circuit in recent years having been collected by both high profile figures within, and outside of, the art world.

The prints are available to buy from ShopVon.

I’m a huge fan of the graffiti artist commonly called Monsieur André, Monsieur A or simply, André (real name André Saraiva.) If you’ve ever idly strolled the back streets of Paris, you’re sure to have stumbled upon his stick figure character smiling down at you from the city’s walls. I’m also a fan of early modern furniture design pioneer, Jean Prouvé. So I was intrigued to learn that André Saraiva is also a big fan of Jean Prouvé.

As well as being a graffiti legend (if you’ve watched Banksy’s documentary ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’, you’ll have seen Monsier André at work), Saraiva is also the entrepreneur behind the very hip hotels Hotel Amour and Hotel Ermitage (by the way, he’s also creative director for the quarterly French men’s fashion magazine L’Officiel Hommes, and nightclub impresario behind the popular Le Baron night clubs. He’s a remarkably busy man!)

For his hotels, André commissioned some of the leading lights of design — Marc Newson, Jean Pigozzi, Christian Louboutin, Olivier Zahm — to individually create each room. He’s also stocked them with pieces by Jean Prouvé, Mathieu Matégot and Ettore Sottsass, among others. But, it seems André is so enamoured with the designs of Prouvé that he lists the Jean Prouvé bench as one of his ’10 Essentials’ for GQ. Saraiva says, “I’ve always liked Prouvé’s stuff, and the benches are a masterpiece, so every time I see one I buy it. I have three or four of them. Two are here, one in Paris in my apartment, and one in my hotel in Saint-Tropez. And they’re kind of rare because they’re not the classic thing that people want to have, but I think it’s classical, structurally, and the color—they’re really kind of perfect.”

One day I’d love to own an original artwork by Monsier A; I’d also love an original Jean Prouvé bench. But, I think a limited edition Jean Prouvé bench created in collaboration with Monsier André would be perfect. So, if you’re listening Vitra, make it happen!

Photo via Canvice

Photo via Roadtrip in Finland

Photo via Design Sponge

We’ve been keeping an eye out for images of inspiring interiors that make use of the Stendig Calender on our ‘Stendig Calendar’ Pinterest board. The images above are some of our favourites.

There are still a few months to go until 2013, but with limited numbers of Massimo Vignelli’s iconic Stendig Calender being produced every year, if you want one, you’ve got to get in there early! So, here it is, the 2013 edition of the Stendig Calendar available now!

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