A short time ago, in the district 1 of Saigon (Ho Chi Min) in Vietnam, it opened a restaurant with a Spanish air. The Tomatito, designed by MTMDESIGN, is located right next to the iconic Ben Than Market, in an old 1930s building that used to be a warehouse. Today it is a small piece of Spain where you can find the design, colors, food, and climate of this country. 

The restaurant, which can accommodate about 100 people, is divided into three spaces: lounge, dining room and bar with a semi-open kitchen.

The style is the same you can find in a classic tapas bar walking through the streets of Barcelona, with strong use of red, metal inserts and neon lights, such as the inscription Tomatito above the bar counter overlooking the room. The decoration consists of wallpapers with original patterns, objects from Spanish markets, sculptures that pay homage to Picasso’s bullheads and bullfighting clothes. In addition to being an encounter between two different cultures, the Tomatito is also a mix of styles and eras.

Famous Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide asked Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo to create a studio a few steps from her home in Barrio del Niño Jesús, Mexico City. The project is all in the family, in fact, Mauricio Rocha is Iturbide and architect Manuel Rocha Diaz’s son, who together with Gabriela Carrillo founded Taller de Arquitectura. The team’s philosophy is:

“To translate the traditions and materials of the places in which we operate in a contemporary way, not through fashionable forms or fireworks, but with silence, space, the experience of emptiness”.

The architecture, according to the duo, must give an answer in relation to the “place in which we live and our economic and social situations“: this approach is particularly evident in the studio created for Iturbide. The building is spread over three floors, characterized by the material of red bricks, able to give warmth and familiarity to the surrounding space, without ever making those inside it feel oppressed thanks to the holes on the bricks. The mosaic floors and the interlocking walls give a great harmony to the structure, which is not heavy in form, while the final touch is given by the plants, the large windows, and the two semi-enclosed courtyards.

Greta Pasha‘s female protagonists are “cool space travelers” who are super popular on Instagram, where the artist is known as greta_visuart. Her works always start from a vintage base, with common women and past divas struggling with starry skies, psychedelic backgrounds, televisions, astronaut helmets and all that more unusual can be compared to these characters.

It’s magical how much destabilizing to find ourselves within this universe that mixes past and present, recreating an unusual atmosphere that captures the viewer. A bit like Indig0, even Greta is obsessed with space and the possibility of overcoming the limits that society, reality and time impose on us: this is why she needs to escape into another dimension through her art.

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Sometimes the workplace can become alienating, spending most of the day in small, closed offices, with those classic metal furniture and cabinets is neither beautiful nor stimulating. That’s why Berza Projekt studio for The Nest, a modern coworking space in Warsaw, has thought of something different.

Based on the idea that, by now, time spent at work is less and less separated from free time, and that spaces also overlap, the Berza Projekt team opted for the creation of large spaces, with many common areas, in bright colors. In particular, the most used color within The Nest is turquoise, which we find in furniture, objects and in the very special wallpaper with a marbled effect. Great importance has been given to comfort, so, in all six floors of the building, there are sofas, comfortable armchairs, and spaces dedicated to moments of rest and relaxation. In addition, to create a strong contrast with the exterior of The Nest, i.e. a rough and angular structure, the interior has priority soft forms, curved lines and use in the corners of plants, which in addition to filling the space give movement.

Working at The Nest has a completely different flavor.