Crayola have launched a new pack of specially formulated Colors of the World crayons designed to mirror and represent over 40 skin tones from across the globe. The crayons company believes that children should be able to “creatively and accurately colour themselves into the world they see around them”, hence creating the new Colors of […]
Colors of the World: Crayola launch skin tone-coloured crayons in a bid “to help advance inclusion within creativity” — Life & Soul Magazine
Crystal Dawn is introducing a new line of sterling silver jewelry this month. Crystal Earth Studio has created custom made sterling silver jewelry …
Crystal Dawn and Crystal Earth Studio Sterling Silver Jewelry — Crystal Dawn
The National Garden Scheme has launched Gardens and Health Week championing and demonstrating the benefits of gardens to everyone’s health and wellbeing. A series of Virtual Garden Visits relating specifically to Gardens and Health are now available to view on the National Garden Scheme’s website as part of Gardens and Health Week. Some have been […]
National Garden Scheme launches Gardens and Health Week with new virtual garden visits — Life & Soul Magazine
Bohemian style decor has taken the interior design world by storm, and let us just say, and we are here for it. From leather furniture to ravishing neutrals, from welcoming patterns to urban boho twists, we can say without a doubt this is one of our favorite decor trends to date. 7 more words
Boho Home Decor Trends You Need To Try — Society19 — Wyndesong Collectibles
Olomouc Steak Restaurant
Steak restaurant housed in a former car repair shop.
Spontaneity, raw materials, pristine nature and above all – meat. The best steaks in the city of Olomouc.
Ten years back, you would have come here to have your vehicle inspection certificate stamped. Entering the place, you would have covered your ears to escape the noise of the roaring car engines and watched the mechanics checking clutches and brakes. As the shift ended and the chaps clocked out to leave for home all hungry, they might have been dreaming about one kind of meal.
The juicy steak they would eat seated at a solid wood table supported by raw steel legs. Greenery and nature come face to face with animal force. That’s the core of Steak Restaurant’s (STK) interior, housed in a former car repair shop which gave the steakhouse its name.
STK in Olomouc emphasises simplicity and quality, both in its food and its interior. Instead of trying to deny and erase its greasy automobile heritage, the place embraces it. The 320 square metres of the restaurant authentically engage individual elements of its past.
This is evident from the materials, which include raw metal sheets, black steel and rebars. We even turned a seemingly problematic layout into an advantage, transforming bearing walls in narrow spaces into a vertical garden and a platform for a barbecue.
Dominating the space are two huge steel bulls – the owner’s wish and a clear message to guests about the type of cuisine they should expect. In STK, heavy elements merge with nature. Willow branches wrap themselves around the tables and climb the walls, rising up to the ceiling and over the bulls’ heads.
Formed from solid oak boards, the tables have a rough hewn appearance and irregularly shaped steel legs. Here and there, plants spring from the ceiling and walls, changing the interior’s look with each new leaf that sprouts. Cowhide covering one of the walls and woven rope complete the signature style of the steakhouse.
Studio: Komplits
Author: Pavel Kříž | principal architect
Contact e-mail: hello@komplits.com
Project location: Lipenská 11/7, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Project year: 2018
Completion yea: 2019
Usable floor area: 320 m2
Client: steak restaurant | http://www.steak-restaurant.cz | info@steak-restaurant.cz
Photo credits: BoysPlayNice | http://www.boysplaynice.com | info@boysplaynice.com
About Komplits
Why do all houses, flats, offices, schools, hotels or tables out there look similar, when we have unlimited fantasy and possibilities? That was Komplits’ starting point, a belief uniting its members. They like exploring the roads not taken. A new day brings a new idea, shape or use of material. “But this is a material for fences! Well – we’ll make a chandelier from it”. Based in Olomouc, a city that encourages creativity, a team of architects, design and civil engineers take Pavel Kříž’s fantastic universes from paper and transform them into reality.
We create our own worlds. Houses, restaurants, schools, hotels and offices. But also desks, lighting, a bar or a hanger. One clear signature style and plenty of room for imagination. The more we hear something is impossible, the more excited we get about it.
Photography: BoysPlayNice | info@boysplaynice.com | www.boysplaynice.com
Source: https://www.e-architect.co.uk/czechrepublic/stk-restaurant-in-olomouc
Celebrate the Environment each day everyday! Nature is a powerful healer and provider treat it with respect and gratitude. Harming the environment it’s flora, fauna, animals, plant kingdom and its indigenous beings is no longer to be appropriate, choice nor an option. If it wants it can take away from you everything in a split second and you won’t be able to do nothing. Make choices and choose leaders that serve the greater good of our planet.
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame – and only one – themselves. – Robert Collier
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed. – Mahatma Gandhi
Welcome to The Topiary Cat, a creation by Richard Saunders, a surrealist artist from Hertfordshire, England. His breathtaking images have been created after he took a photograph of a beautiful garden scene, and he realized that a bush resembled his beloved Russian Blue cat, Tolly while asleep.
“It reminded me of an animal sleeping, and I thought to myself ‘you could change that into a cat quite easily’,” Mr Saunders recalled.
For this reason, Saunders came up with an idea for creating something special with the photo. He decided to take some photos of Tolly in a sleeping position and superimpose it over the original scene. Each photo combines Tolly with a stunning scenery which is then edited to make it look like giant cat-style topiary.
After completing the first image, he shared it on social media. It has been taking the internet by storm and has become a hit on the worldwide web.
Given the positive response, Saunders decided to continue creating giant topiary cat images. Now the images he creates replacing real-life bushes with his beloved cat have reached millions of people around the globe.
Sadly, Tolly crossed the rainbow but as each image of the Topiary Cat is inspired by him, he is sure to live on.
Mr Saunders said: “I will only do topiary variations of Tolly, as it is my tribute to his memory, despite many people asking me to do versions of their own pets.”
If you love the artworks of Richard Saunders, lets’s follow The Topiary Cat on Facebook for more!
Source: https://pawsplanet.me/these-topiary-cats-are-magical-artworks-the-world-wishes-were-real/
Welcoming Spring with a few of my favorite things. I love springtime in my back yard when the plants are just beginning to show. Here in northern MI things are just beginning to pop out of the ground it is likely to be a few weeks still until there is color and spring greenery but…
Spring Back Yard — Wyndesong Collectibles
French artist Saype, known for his biodegradable paintings, has taken to the Swiss Alps to create a painting to symbolise “the building of a world with more solidarity”. Guillaume Legros, better known as French artist Saype, latest work is entitled Beyond Crisis and shows a girl looking out towards the horizon with a chain of […]
French artist Saype unveils new grass graffiti in Swiss Alps to symbolise the “building of a world with more solidarity” — Life & Soul Magazine
As we were having our morning breakfast we chose to paint what we were eating this morning. Everything we see around us in nature has a purpose, symbolic meaning and has its own magick. It’s how we choose to perceive our world. If you just eating a banana for health that’s great but look beyond to know what all it has to offer you spiritually. When we get our spiritual world in balance is when our physical world comes to be in balance also. Use bananas for being open to change in order to become resilient, romance, money, and more!
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Our custom Art by Nisha Designs are always painted with intention and purpose. Having a banana painting in your home will offer you it’s energy and Magick to what you need in your life.
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Magickal Benefits.
. Resilience through change: Make yourself comfortable with change and able to pivot quickly by working with bananas!
. Wealth + Increased Money: Not only is the banana nice to your wallet, but its energy can be nice to your bank account, too!
. Increased luck: Plant a banana plant around your house in order to inspire good luck in your household.
. Increased your spirituality: Eat bananas before embarking on a new spiritual quest to connect your energy to the universe, or carry a banana charm on your person.
. Increased sexual stamina in men: Once upon a time, bananas were only allowed to be eaten by men, and these phallic fruits worked wonders on increasing lust. Simply eat a banana to increase the libido.
. Symbol for the God: The phallic shape of bananas supplies incredible masculine energy to the space.
Magickal Properties information via: https://www.google.com/amp/s/plentifulearth.com/magickal-correspondences-bananas-banana-materia-magicka/amp/
Under the Tuscan Sun: The first time I watched this film in 2003 I was literally at a crossroad in choosing whether I should accept this job offer and move from South Carolina to California or not. Yes no brainer but yes the trickster conscious mind of course had me twirling around like a bee in making my choice. I had to choose between ‘fear and living my dreams’ the fear was all about what I cannot have, do, and be all the physical things right, will it be stable, will i still have a job after a year, will I do good, what if they don’t apply for my green card I will have to go back to India(which was my greatest fear of going back, I didn’t want to go back) and it goes on and on…but it never once showed me the truth of the situation which was I hated my job, I was miserable, I didn’t like living in South Carolina and so now my choice was should i listen to fear and choose to be miserable? Or accept it and live my dreams. Which was the whole point for the trickster conscious mind to set me up for failure, and away from my heart…Phew! Stirred me up crazy coz it didn’t feel right inside me to choose fear.
At that time I had no idea about my inner being, soul. But she was right there of course inside me watching what I was doing and while I was busy in my head arguing with the trickster(which now I know not to give that voice my focus, attn or energy) coz my heart wanted to take a leap of faith but the trickster was stopping me. We kept the choice aside for a moment. And chose to take a break and watch this film. And as soon as this conversation showed up that was it. In a split second I made my choice. No battle, no fear only that I want this and this is it. I had chosen to live my dreams and kick my fear and conscious mind in their ass.
This is how our souls work through us. If we just stay calm we will be able to hear our inner voice. This conversation was like me having a heart to heart talk with my inner being. She had to get me to a movie to get me out of my head and connect to my heart. Our souls work in mysterious ways. Follow the silence. It’s that simple but yet we make it complex for ourselves.
Making the most of the available space with the influence of light and color. via How to Use Lighting and Colors to Make Small Rooms Feel Bigger — Find A Way by JWP
How to Use Lighting and Colors to Make Small Rooms Feel Bigger — Find A Way by JWP — Wyndesong Collectibles
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