Category: Window

Daylight entrance

Sunlight has an important role in sustaining life on earth and has shown a positive affect on the mood. Born in Oslo – Norway and currently based Gothenburg – Sweden designer Daniel Rybakken made an installation – Daylight entrance – to “replicate the positive sensation of sunlight” in both the entrance and staircase of an office building in central Stockholm.

Using the technical princples of one of his previous projects Rybakken used over 6000 LED lights over 3 stories to give the visitor or employee the suggestion of multiple windows somewhere in the staircase.

Photography by Kalle Sanner.

→ More images

Rainbow Church by Tokuyin Yoshioka

Here at Minimalissimo, we are fascinated with Japanese designer Tokuyin Yoshioka’s simplicity and poetry. He lets white or transparent materials appear as airy forms closely resembling coincidences.

“In my opinion art is more about grabbing someone’s heart than design,” he claims. As if emotions could be designed, the rainbow church installation encourages transparent thinking.

An 80 foot wall of crystal prisms that captures a moment of sunlight and sparkles. Tokuyin Yoshioka’s experimentation with transparency, using crystal prisms reminds me of an imaginary world – almost invisible.

Growing up, I always thought that invisible = way cool. I mean appreciation for nearly unnoticeable spaces. We are obsessed observers. Maximalists or minimalists? But it’s ultimately not about the label, is it?

→ More images

Vitrocsa

If you’re dreaming of ever designing and building your own minimalist home (like I do), then chances are that you would want those sweet large window panes with almost no visible frame.

In that case you might want to consider contacting the guys at Vitrocsa.

Vitrocsa have developed a window especially with minimalist architecture in mind. In their quest for simplicity, every component, every detail and every junction of the window has been reduced to its bare essentials.

This makes them our friends ;-)

→ More images