Street artist Nathan Murdoch who created a powerful anti-racism mural in a Peterborough underpass has seen renewed interest in his artwork worldwide following George Floyd’s death in Minnesota last week. Nathan Murdoch created the huge piece, depicting two people of different races shaking hands, with their arms forming a heart shape, last year to promote […]
Street artist Nathan Murdoch’s anti-racism mural promoting unity picks up worldwide following George Floyd death — Life & Soul Magazine
Dragons are alive, well and thriving around the world. In the below compilation of dragon-themed stories from around the world, Great Big Story features a 17-storey temple in Thailand with a dragon wrapped around it, a Dungeons & Dragons master who has people worldwide participating in his games, a sweet in Singapore known as dragon’s […]
Great Big Story’s international hunt for dragons — Life & Soul Magazine
Design company Nomadic Resorts have devised a comfortable way to sleep outdoors while reconnecting with nature with their Seedpod – a cocoon-shaped nest that can be hung from trees, rocks, beams or tripods. The organically shaped pod, which is shaped like a seed, is a low impact vessel that can be used for sleeping or […]
Seedpod: Nomadic Resorts create comfortable sleep and dining pods for retreat within nature — Life & Soul Magazine
Acorn ink, derived from the mighty oak tree, can be a wonderful addition to your druid practice or art studio. Inks can be used for all manner of useful things, from drawing and artwork to the creation of sigils, writing in a druid’s journal, or engaging in other magical work. In this post, I’ll share […]
Making Acorn Ink – Instructions and Recipes — The Druid’s Garden — ravenhawks’ magazine — Life & Soul Magazine
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
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