• about
    contact
    twitter
    pinterest
    facebook
    subscribe
    • categories
      • advertisement
      • architecture
      • art
      • artists & designers
      • brands & shops
      • canadian
      • charts & graphs
      • chow & cheer
      • fashion & textiles
      • flowers & greens
      • graphic design
      • i heart books
      • illustration
      • in the details
      • interior design
      • look by colour
        • black
        • blue
        • brown
        • green
        • grey
        • many colours
        • metallic
        • orange
        • pink
        • purple
        • red
        • white
        • yellow
      • looks delicious
      • music, film & tv
      • on the street
      • package & parcel
      • paper, print & ink
      • pattern & texture
      • personal
      • photography
      • special features
        • assorted colours
        • celebration of colour
        • colour commentary
        • colour hero
        • colour me happy
        • colourful places & spaces
        • in black & white
        • objects of desire
        • palette of the week
      • styling & presentation
      • swatches & palettes
      • tech & gadgets
      • the great outdoors
      • travel & wanderlust
      • typography
      • uncategorized
      • vintage
  • SPECIAL FEATURES

    palette of the week
    colourful places & spaces
    colour commentary
    objects of desire
    celebration of colour
    colour me happy
    in black & white
    colour hero
  • LOOK BY COLOUR

    red, crimson, scarlet...
    pink, fuchsia, magenta...
    orange, coral, tangerine...
    yellow, saffron, lemon...
    green, emerald, army...
    blue, turquoise, cobalt...
    purple, violet, lavender...
    brown, chocolate, fawn...
    grey, dove, charcoal...
    white, ivory, cream...
    black, carbon, onyx...
    metallic, all that sparkles...
    many colours, rainbow...
  • archives

the hues of humlegården {colourful places & spaces}









These images are from a couple of years ago but they had such jaw-dropping effects on me yesterday when I saw them for the first time, I knew I had to share! Tham & Videgård Arkitekter re-imagined this traditional Art Nouveau apartment in Stockholm in the most striking of ways. The entire space features dramatic oversized and multicoloured parquet flooring inspired by the seasonally changing colours of adjacent Humlegården Park “from winter grey and black to summertime bright and deep green, to orange, red and yellow in autumn”. I don’t think it would be humanly possible to have a bad day in this apartment. Colour therapy meets architecture? It is definitely a feat of colour mixing and pattern. My personal favourite are the rooms with a neon orange, hot pink and black hues. Do you think you could live in a space this uniquely dazzling? At the very least, this apartment has inspired me to paint some doorways in vibrant colours!

(photographs by Åke E:son Lindman; spotted on yatzer and fine little home)

POSTED ON August 3, 2011

LABELS: architecture, artists & designers, colourful places & spaces, flowers & greens, interior design, many colours, pattern & texture   6 Comments   Tweet This

2 trackbacks
pingback: a colorful apartment. | Design For Mankind on September 28, 2011
pingback: Vibrant Colours in Humlegården Park | Share Design InspirationShare Design Inspiration | Home, Interior & Design Inspiration on November 18, 2012

4 comments

room6
August 3, 2011 at 1:25 pm


UGH! Sigh…somehow I fear my “after” photos aren’t gonna look like this. STUNNING!

plentyofcolour
August 3, 2011 at 2:52 pm


I have the same fears! How does one make homemade oversized parquet flooring? I say we give it a go!

Dominique Brammah
August 3, 2011 at 4:25 pm


Oh my god this is absolutely incredible. I am just gob-smacked. WOW.

plentyofcolour
August 3, 2011 at 7:41 pm


I think gob-smacked in the perfect description. That is exactly how I felt upon seeing this incredible apartment!

have a comment?

* = required