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Last night lifeiscarbon® went to the launch party of Holedesign’s superb new interior design store in Oslo. We felt like we’d died and gone to design heaven. Oslo finally has a interior design store that lives up to its promise and deserves to have a place on the global design map. Having said that we had better very quickly point out that there are of course other good design stores in Oslo (see a list of our favorites below) but none of them can match the scale and the style of this new venture.
The new store is based in a converted industrial warehouse. We particularly love the way that they haven’t been tempted to over do the conversion but instead have left original features wherever possible. There are patches of old floor tiles, graffited steel warehouse doors and raw concrete stairways. Whenever they’ve needed to put in a new doorway they’ve literally blasted a hole through the wall and left it untouched apart from adding sheets of sliding glass. It’s a huge space spread over three levels and all that’s missing at the moment is a café or restaurant (we're sure that there are plans in the pipeline).
As well as having the new store, Holedesign is a design company founded by the well known Norwegian designer, Lars Ernst Hole. lifeiscarbon® have long been fans of his furniture designs and we’ll be posting an interview with Lars and profiling his work in the near future.
In addition to selling a great selection of furniture, kitchens, lighting and design objects by a variety of designers, the new store also sells works of art (including graffiti) in collaboration with ICArt.
We apologize if it seems as if we’ve lost our objectivity. Rest assured that lifeiscarbon® is unconnected to any companies, receives no payments for any editorial and does not accept advertising or sponsorship. We only write about the art, design, fashion or music that we like and, as you can tell, we rather like Holedesign’s new store. It’s well worth adding to your list of cool stores to visit around the world. |
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