DvF, the studio

'I always wanted to live a man's live in a woman's body...' -One of my favourite designer, Diane Von furstenberg...

I love her sense of design. She celebrates women and her principle is to always be confident and her design philosophy is to create elegant ease for all women.

My post for today is about her amazing fashion headquaters, designed by Work Architecture company and is located in New York's meat packing district area. The building houses the company’s New York store, a 5,000 SF showroom, design and administrative offices and an executive suite. Made in 2007 with budget of 28 million, and the main iconic connection in this building is the staircase. The stairway is incredible. All that light made it possible to call it “the staidelier” (stair plus chandelier). It connects the diamond from the rooftop with the rest of the building allowing the building to have natural lights all over and it connects to all area in the building. amazing!.

The diamond penthouse was built in Spain and then shipped in containers. The stairdelier was made from precast concrete and was dropped by crane into the building. The roof terrace was planted with native grasses and wildflowers.

The theme of the project is flexibility — the publicly accessible floors are all designed to transform for special events, parties, and performances. The guardrail is created from vertical cables, between which has strung glass crystals provided by Swarovski. A heliostat mirror will track the sun throughout the day and focus light on the crystals, spreading natural light across the ceiling of each floor.

p/s: here's a video of DvF fall/winter collection 2010/2011 full fashion show...have a nice monday, bank holiday..speak soon x :)